Vantaan Venäläinen Klubi ry

NGO «Vantaan Venäläinen Klubi ry» is a immigrant-lead non-profit, non-governmental youth organisation established in Vantaa in 2014 and working until now mostly locally. NGO «VVK ry» is the important center for building youth social skills and training leaders of a new generation with migrant background in Finland. Our strategic themes are to link youth ideas, Digital Skills, Entrepreneurship, and other STEAM activities, adopt social and smart technological approaches that help youth immigrants to recognize their skills, and support community cohesion. A crucial element for our organization is non-formal education that turns knowledge into unforgettable experience. In process of non-formal learning young people become an architect of his own development and help to broaden other young people world outlook from different perspectives. Our aims are to involve young people into volunteering, to support youth in creating and implementing their own small-scale community-based projects which will support their ideas. Our mission is in the building of more tolerant, understanding and accepting society in Finland. We focus preliminary on the topics of intercultural interreligious dialogue, cultural diversity, inclusion of minorities, tolerance and diversity, and active citizenship and participation of young people. The organization «VVK ry» regularly provides local and regional seminars, meetings, camps, training courses which base on the principles of non-formal education with an engagement of youth with on ages 10-30. Three the main activities of our projects are: 1. Educational projects : - non-formal education STEAM courses (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) - trainings of leadership, conflict transformation, development of business competencies and unemployment issues 2. Social projects: - projects to support a healthy lifestyle - social activities and participating events - multicultural events and camps 3. Cultural and art projects: - language speaking clubs and film societies - fine art club and projects - food and nutrition project activities - art exibitions