We are very happy to become associate members of YEE, and for us it is a great opportunity. We trust the team of YEE because the team is professional and efficient and we are sure that it will open many opportunities for our organisation.
Libertas International is a youth organisation based in Spain, with branches in Alicante, Moscow and Amsterdam. Our goals are to create environmental awareness, empower young people through different activities and to create sustainable development in different communities.

One of our main topics is environment and sustainable development. We have organised in the previous summers activities related to environment (voluntary project for cleaning polluted fields in our town, and promoting recycling in different high schools). This summer we are very active with our campaign OCEAN2012. We have organised a ocean awareness event where we will show the documentary movie THE END OF THE LINE in a club in the centre of the city of Alicante on Thursday 16th August 2012. Additionally we have prepared two flashmobs in the cities of Elche and Alicante that will take place on the 17th August, and also the same day we will do a fish shape with 50 people. For this we count with the cooperation of a theatre group.

We have organised training courses, youth exchanges, seminars, conferences and voluntary projects in Spain, Russia and Morocco. For instance this summer we have a summer school with 200 children in the city of Ait Melloul in the Southern Morocco. There we teach languages, sports, dance and handcrafts with children and youngsters from 4 to 19 years old. Some children never went to school so this new experience is encouraging them to come start going to school.

In Senegal we have a project related to sustainable development, environment and migration. Louga is the emigration city for excellence in Senegal and there is a high level of unemployment, and because of the low level of education young entrepreneurs lack the necessary competences for taking the initiative in new economical activities. We teach them how to prepare a market research, business plan, how to get micro credits and work with banks, learn to use intelligently natural resources and respecting environment. This seems to be very easy actually it is a difficult task. Migrating seems to be the only option of success in life, and for many youngsters environment is a "no matter" issue, being in one of their last priorities.

A new project related sustainable development and women empowerment is coming up. Women who transform fishes into dried or smoked products are taking the central role in small business management. We are providing them with the necessary tools to keep growing up teaching them to respect the valued resources from the Atlantic Ocean.

It is great to see how this very young organisation is gathering more and more young people willing to improve the situation in their towns, cities or countries. During the last two years our organisation has been present as organiser or partner in more than 35 activities in a European or intercontinental sphere.

We are now preparing two EVS projects. One is related to sustainable development (environmental awareness, recycling, sports in the nature, etc.) and the other one is related to urban art as a tool for social inclusion (graffiti, hip hop dance, bit box music). This is for us a very challenging view of the coming future, and we are very excited to host international volunteers in our organisation.