Youth Center Livno

MISSION – Youth Center Livno (YCL) is a non-governmental, non-party and non-profit organization established at the beginning of the year 2000. Through its actions YCL gives opportunities to young people to actively participate in the development of social life of the community via:

Protection and preservation of the environment
Culture and sport
Informal education
Promotion of voluntarism

VISION – the World without:

Wars
Terrorism
Poverty
Famine and disease
Ignorance
Boundaries
Racial, national and religious animosity
Terror over nature

GOALS – Organizational goals are: representation of young people and their interests in the development of civil society, protection of environment, promotion of human rights, multiculturalism, tolerance, sustainable development and voluntarism.

Provide information to young people regarding the organizational goals:
Organize workshops, trainings, seminars and tribunes for values we promote,
Organize work and study, local and international caps in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Issue brochures and other printed materials
Inform about volunteer projects and activities in Bosnia and abroad
Promote organizational goals and activities through media, public gatherings
Coordinate volunteer exchange on the local and international level
Cooperate with other local and international organizations that promote the same values.

Some of our projects are:

“Who is afraid of wolf yet? – truths and lies”
in co-operation with WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund) YCL has started co-operation with the world leading environmental organization WWF trough project “Who is afraid of wolf yet? – “truths and lies”. Lack of scientific data about wolf in Bosnia and Herzegovina, missing law protection, poaching and uncontrolled hunt on wolfes, general situation regarding conservation of this species in BiH, post war ”explosion” of hunters as well as myths and legends about wolfs are the reason why YCL's Eco-Group started to work on this project. The main goal of the project is to preserve wolfs and their habitats in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Planned project:

In co-operation with WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund) YCL is currently involved in a project developing phase of a project proposal for nature conservation and sustainable development (temporally named Bosnia-Herzegovina Green Belt), covering a wide region spanning through BiH (10% of the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina), and including the Livno area and the Medium-Upper Neretva basin, till the border with Montenegro, which will approximately becoming more concretely at the end of 2004.

Information project for South East Europe

Supported by EC (European Comission) Youth Programme. In cooperation with Intercultural Youth Exchange (ICYE), South Eastern European Youth Network (SEEYN), EASTLINKS, EURODESK Italy, SEE Resource Center, (partners: Youth Communication Centre/BiH, Volunteers Centre Zagreb/HR, Youth Forum – EYE/MK, Young Researchers of Serbia/SCG, ADP-ZID/SCG)
The main aim of the project is to increase the knowledge of youth from South East Europe and their organisations about the YOUTH programme of the European Comission, its aims and procedures and their involvement in the actions available for the SEE region.

Volunteers exchange

In co-operation with South Eastern European Youth Network (SEEYN)
& in co-operation with ICYE (International Cultural Youth Exchange) and the European Comission.

EKOMrezaBiH

In co-operation with the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe EkoMrezaBiH (EcoNetB&H) was established from the need to have better and stronger connection of NGOs from different areas of BiH, to improve communication between them and coordination of their activities, with the aim of more efficient acting within the common goal of environment protection. EkoMrezaBiH is open for all organizations and individuals from all around BiH who can and wish to contribute to the better communication and coordination of future joint activities. EkoMrezaBiH project and the action plan were designed by the working team consisting of the members of NGO Young Researchers of Banja Luka in cooperation with the NGOs EkoTim (Eco Team) Sarajevo and Centar mladih Livno (Youth Center Livno), initiated by the Executive board EkoMrezaBiH. For more information please visit http://www.ekomrezabih.net

EDA Network

YCL participated in establishing a network of organisations from Croatia, Slovenia and BiH which are involved in environmental issues, and which was initiated by the Danish organisation «Severin».
The main task is promotion of Aarhus convention in this countries.

Executive board members:

Ineska Kaic- president
Andrija Vrdoljak - vice president
Mato Gotovac
Zoran Seremet
Ismar Milak

Contacts:

Centar mladih Livno
Fra. Andela Kaica 9b, 34 000 Livno, Bosna i Hercegovina
Tel./Fax:++ 387 34 20 40 46

cmlivno@cmlivno.org
www.cmlivno.org
http://www.seeyouth.info/cml