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ScoutingTrain 2014 - Create Understanding

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25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain we want to connect Europe!

Our vision is a network for young Europeans, a network that is real and alive!

In the summer of 2014, guides and scouts from Germany and former countries of the Mehr anzeigen

Funding period
20.03.14 - 31.05.14
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Minimum amount (Start level)
100,000 €
City
Irkutsk
Category
Education
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What is this project all about?

In 2014, the ScoutingTrain will depart from Berlin with international project teams on board, heading for Irkutsk with stops in Poland, Belarus, and Moscow.

400 scouts and guides will travel on the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway and be an active part of an international educational project. This journey will take us to a scout camp at Lake Baikal. There we will explore the area together, work on our projects, and interact with the locals, thus supporting Mehr anzeigen

What is the project goal and who is the project for?

More than just a train journey - why Lake Baikal is not the end of the journey

For our project to change Europe, it is not enough to take the train and travel to Lake Baikal. We want to develop and communicate as many different aspects of successful youth work as possible. We want to enable many people to organise similar follow-up projects and to remember how they did it on the ScoutingTrain. We pass the contacts and necessary tools to the conductors and iMehr anzeigen

Why would you support this project?

Although the Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, there are still walls in people’s minds. Together, we can tear them down!

  • Fire up the engine so that we can move forward with the project! Even a little donation will keep the train going![*]With our project, we are playing our part in building a network of young Europeans – and to do it we need your help! Together we can encourage and develop mutual understanding between the cultures.[*]Fire up!! With the recent
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How will we use the money if the project is successfully funded?

  1. To enable 100 project leaders to go to Russia this summer and promote our idea there, we need to hit a target of EUR 100.000.[*]If, together, we manage to raise EUR 800.000, we can take 400 scouts and guides to Lake Baikal and tell our stories to the people we meet on the way and at our destination. Every passenger will have to pay for their journey to Moscow and their flight back home from Lake Baikal.[*]Our aim is to raise EUR 1.300.000.With this funding
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Who are the people behind the project?

Executive Board | http://www.scoutingtrain.org/initiators/the-international-executive-board.html
We are volunteer scouts and guides from Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder e.V. and we are an inter-confessional youth association that together with confessional associations (such as Deutsche Pfadfinderschaft Sankt Georg (DPSG), Pfadfinderinnenschaft Sankt Georg (PSG), and Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder (VCP)), are a member both in thMehr anzeigen