Snow or Sun
Having hosted 13 volunteers within the period of six years, Glerárkirkja, a small hosting, sending and coordinating organisation in Akureyri, Iceland,
Snow or Sun - Boring or Fun?
Having hosted 13 volunteers within the period of six years, Glerárkirkja, a small hosting, sending and coordinating organisation in Akureyri, Iceland, decided
to use the seventh year to give it a thought how their hosting project(s) could get more quality. Being aware of some of the limits and some of the opportunities within the organisation they felt the
need to know more. Considering their leading position as an EVS organisation within the rural area of Akureyri and neighbourhood, they wanted to focus on the development of one or even more new
hosting projects. This should be done without a current project influencing further decisions, so they skipped hosting volunteers for this winter. At the same time, attention should be paid to the
knowledge of the sending organisations involved so far in sending volunteers to Glerárkirkja. Further the experience and the reflection of former volunteers should play a mayor role in
designing one or more new projects. So they invited all the sending organisation that had sent volunteers in the past six years to Glerarkirkja to join an evaluation meeting with one or two members
of the organisations. Further all 13 former volunteers where invited to participate together with key people from Glerárkirkja and cooperating partners. The evaluation meeting took place on
three full working days in Akureyri and Vestmannsvatn in February 2012.
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