On December 20th, 2014 the associations’ "Independence Balt." team went to the orphanage to meet the children and spend some fun time together.
Driving for 120 km in a sunny and very slippery road, we finally arrived in the village, which was the long-awaited journeys destination. Children greeted us with a smile and waited curious what surprises we have prepared. It can be noticed that by participating in such charity events, both children and team members become happier. Our visit was accompanied by laugh, fun and development of a closer friendship. The way how children every time await us is a sign of a grateful result.
As acknowledged the representatives of the association, "such visits are a positive drive that motivates not to stop and move on forward. Thank you all, all, all those who were involved in the event and helped to implement it."
On October 12th 2014 in the Balvu district, rural municipality of Lazdukalns the association’s "Independence Balt." members and volunteers organized environmental clean-up campaign "Pure heart - clean city".
Such activities have become a tradition of our NGO since its beginning. It was an ordinary October day of autumn, when the earth is covered by red and yellow foliage layer. Volunteers armed with rakes went to clean up the local school territory. Clean and beautiful surroundings - it is each person's wish. It is possible to fulfil it only if in the heart there is order and purity.
At the end of activity the school administration expressed gratitude for the assistance provided by the school territory cleaning. So the campaign is a successful!
On September 27th 2014 we again visited the orphanage, where we go with a joy, because there we are very much welcomed and children are waiting for our visits.
The fact that the children are happy for our visits is thanks to all our efforts, dedicated to children's attention and love. We are saying a big "thank you" to all volunteers in whose hearts there is a genuine desire to do good and who does not stop at the achieved and wishes to continue!
On September 10th, in the Riga city elementary school of Valdis Avotins, the association "Independence Balt." volunteers organized the activity "School without drugs". Its aim was to inform students about the consequences of drug use and how to step-by-step addiction affects young people and their relatives lives.
The new school year has started and after the summer holidays the children again go to school to get new knowledge. The NGO believes that young people should be informed about the existing problems in our society and their consequences. Nowadays, drug abuse has reached epidemic levels. It spreads much faster than we manage to implement appropriate preventive measures to stop this terrible phenomenon. Therefore, drug prevention is very important in our society. NGOs volunteers regularly carry out preventive work in schools and plans to continue to organize educational seminars in Latvian schools.
The more we talk about it, the greater will be the possibility that young people in the future will be able to refrain from the frantic action as drug use. The event lasted two hours and there participated 9th grade students. During the activity our volunteers shared their life experiences. We hope that this preventive measure will encourage young people to make the right decisions in the future. At the end of the seminar the school administrations thanked the association and together planned for a similar seminar this year in mid-December, for 7th, 8th and 9th grade students.
This publication is prepared with financial support of the Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway and Latvian state through the EEA Grants. It is part of the project “The development of work of NGO Independence. Balt. for increasing the quality of life of addicted and co-addicted people in Latvia” which is implemented by the association “Independence Balt. ". The association “Independence Balt is responsible for the content of this publication.
