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From the history of the organization
NGO “Kalegium”
was formed on the Constituent Assembly on December 1,
1998.
It was registered on May 5, 1999.
The registration certificate ¹ 01-0006.
At the beginning of its activity Kalegium worked in the
field of culture and education: organization of
exhibitions, concerts, excursions of historical places
of Pinschina |
Year 1998
March 29, 1998 took place the exhibition called
“Kalegium-Collection” where the works of young artists
of Pinsk the members of the organization Zhanna
Vorobjova, Elena Dikovitskaya, Tatyana Gonzhurova were
presented. The exhibition was sponsored by the Swedish
Educational Union ABF and 75 Swedish citizens
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November-December, 1998 the members of Kalegium
organized the questionnaire for teachers of Pinsk
secondary schools on the problem of drugs. The results
of the questionnaire became the base for choosing the
direction of the project called “Drugbox”
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Year 1999
February 1, 1999 took place “Literary-historical
reading on the history of guitar and lute on
Byelorussian lands” with the participation of Yurij
Dubnovitskij the teacher of Pinsk music-school
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Summer 1999 members and friends of Kalegium
attended courses on computer and English |
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December 18, 1999 was opened the exhibition of
colour photo “Svetapoglyad”, artist Tatyana Gonzhurova.
Yurij Dubnovitskij gave a concert of lute music |
Year 2000
May 12-13, 2000 in Pinsk took place an
international seminar Drugbox for teachers, social
workers, medical workers, and other people who work with
groups of risk regarding drugs (youngsters and teenagers).
The seminar was the start of the project planed for a
year. The participants of the seminar got much new and
useful information and expressed the wish of further co
operation
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June 9-11, 2000 the members of Kalegium visited
Gomel women’s reformatory “UZ-15/4”. The initiative to
go to Gomel “four” arose after reading of the letter
sent by UVD to Byelorussian Helsinki Committee. It was
said in the letter that because of insufficient state
financing appeared problems of providing with equipments
and things of everyday necessity.
The goal of the visit wasn’t just to help financially to
prisoners but also to investigate different aspects of
the problem of keeping of women in reformatories.
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September 14-17, 2000 in Göteburg (Sweden) took
place yearly Book Fair (Bok o’Bibliotek 2000). It’s the
biggest event in the country which influences the
forming of social-cultural and political climate in
Sweden and also outside the country. The work of the
stand “Vitryssland” (“Belarus”) was organized by the
Social Union Association for the Support of Kalegium in
Belarus, Swedish Institution Partnership for Culture and
the fond Forum Syd.
Nadezhda Avsievich (“Kalegium”) made a report
“Byelorussian feminism”. Oksana Dubnovitskaya
(“Kalegium”) told about the co operation with the
Swedish Union “Drug-free society” in the frame of the
project Drugbox dealing with drug prevention in Pinsk.
Stand “Vitryssland” was attended by the Prime-Minister
of Sweden Goran Persson. Underlining the importance of
the process of democratization in Byelorussian society
he added that the policy of security in Europe depends
on the position of Belarus.
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October, 2000 in Luninec was organized the photo
exhibition “Svetapoglyad” of Tatyana Gonzhurova’s works
and Yurij Dubnovitsky’s concert of lute music
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Year 2001
February,
2001 Oksana Dubnovitskaya took part in the seminar
“Leadership in the sphere of social, professional and
private life” which was organized for women from the
countries of the former Soviet Union |
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February, 2001 Maria Söderberg’s reportage about
mass loss of cattle on the pig farm “Yuzhnoe” Pinsk
region.
The beginning of “pigs’ business”
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March, 2001social organizations initiated
the inquiry on the facts of mass loss of pigs on the
farm “Yuzhnoe”.
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April-May, 2001 students of one of Pinsk
school asked Kalegium for the support of publishing the
bulletin “From under the desk”. In the process of
team-work relations became warm and the students began
to work as the volunteers of the organization |
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May 5, 2001 visit of social workers from Sweden
to Pinsk.
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May 21, 2001 NGO
Kalegium together with 18 NGOs of Belarus signed the
Declaration of unification of Social Organizations to
the network on the struggle with AID |
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June 7-8, 2001 representatives of women’s social
organizations from Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland and Belarus on the conference in Nortelje (Sweden)
discussed the problems of gender equality. Was formed
the initiative group Baltic Fem, the Declaration of the
group Baltic Fem from Byelorussian side signed Nadezhda
Avsievich (Kalegium) |
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June 15-17, 2001 Oksana Dubnovitskaya took part
in the seminar on drug prevention in Sweden |
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June 8-August 2, 2001 Svetlana Govor,
methodologist of Pinsk City Department of Education took
part in the conference organized by YVES (International
Association on Popularization of Healthy Way of Life) in
Sygtuna (Sweden) |
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September 9, 2001 took place the elections of the
resident of the Republic of Belarus |
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September 13-16, 2001 five members of our
organization were the guests of yearly Book Fair in
Göteburg (Sweden). |
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October 10-14, 2001 the
group of social pedagogues from Pinsk visited Carlstadt
(Sweden). The goal of the visit was to see their
colleagues “in action”. Irina Zheleznova, social
pedagogue from Pinsk school 15 planed to use this
experience in her work with “difficult” children |
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October 26, 2001 took place the round table of
Pinsk social organizations. Participants appraise the
work of the third sector as “insufficiently effective” |
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November 17, 2001 took place international
seminar on drug prevention in Svetlogorsk (Belarus) |
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November 23, 2001 Kalegium together with
representatives of Swedish Institute and with their
support organized the seminar “Gender stereotypes in
Swedish and Byelorussian media. Gender stereotypes in
the process of upbringing and education in Byelorussian
and Swedish society”. |
Year 2002
February 18, 2002 in the building of Pinsk
station of junior natural study group was opened the
exhibition of photos Alexej Dubrovsky’s photos “Through
the paths of Polesje”
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February 22-24, 2002 General Secretary of Swedish
National Union “For a Drug-free Society” Par Uhanson,
the representative of the Uppsala Police Department of
struggle against drugs Kenneth Ulson and the leader of
Upsala Social Department on struggle against drugs Yan
Dalman visited Pinsk. Swedish guests and representatives
of Kalegium met with the Head of the City Department of
Internal Affaires Vladimir Tibec and the procurator of
Pinsk Aleksej Andrievich. They talk about Swedish
experience in the field of drug prevention, restrictive
policy in the sphere of drugs and necessity of
international co operation |
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March 4-10, 2002 Elena Golovach and Nadezhda
Avsievich visited Sweden. The programme of the visit
contained the meeting with the representatives of
Swedish Institute on the question of the project of
strengthening girls in the sphere of politics and social
life; work visit to Uppsala on the question of the
continuation of the project on prevention of drug
addiction |
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March 22-25, 2002 Maria Söderberg, Oksana
Dubnovitskaya and Nadezhda Avsievich visited the opening
of the Scandinavian Center of Research in ESU in Minsk,
and also visited Shagal’s Museum in Vitebsk |
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May 19, 2002 on the behalf of Kalegium a group of
ecotourists from Holland visited Pinsk. In the club
“Radagast” they met with Pinsk social organizations and
told about ecological projects which they realized in
their country. The next day the tourists from
Netherlands and representatives of Pinsk public went for
water trip on the rout Pinsk-Turov |
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May 31, 2002 the Evening of Byelorussian and
Swedish Poetry in Pinsk. The support: Kalegium together
with TBM and Association for the Support of Kalegium in
Belarus (Sweden). Poets from Pinsk, Hrodno, Minsk and
Stockholm read their works. |
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June 26-July 1, 2002 ten women from Pinsk took
part in the programme on studying gender equality and
work with group of girls. |
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September-October, 2002 the members and
voluntaries of Kalegium worked by Swedish methodic
“Rubbles and Roses” with five groups of girls in Pinsk
schools. |
October 2-4, 2002 in Pinsk were organized
trainings on the programme “Equal teaches equal”. The
trainers from St.Peterthburg club “Rovesnik” gave
lessons to prepare teachers for the programme “Rovesnik-rovesniku”.
Its base was the forming a group of teenagers who had
the qualities of leaders and took an active position
against drugs. After definite training they started to
change their life position among the people of their age.
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October
15-16, 2002 in Pinsk took part international seminar
“Secondary prevention of drug addiction and early
interference “organized by NGO Kalegium and the Union
“For the Society without Drugs” (Sweden). Only strict
law and mass prevention work can become shield on the
way of spreading drugs in society. To such conclusion
came the participants of the seminar.
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November 9, 2002 Kalegium receive guests Swedish
journalist Monika Gunner and photojournalist Maria
Söderberg
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On November 14, 2002 at the Museum of Belarusian Polesye there was an opening ceremony of the personal exhibition of Zhanna Vorobyova, the member of NGO Kalegium
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Year 2003
From September, 2002 till January, 2003 ten
members and volunteers of NGO Kalegium worked with five
groups of girls in Pinsk schools. The participants of
the project tells
about their work |
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From January, 2003 members and volunteers of our
organization read the elective course “Popularization of
Healthy Lifestile and Drug Prevention” in Pinsk
Pedagogical College.
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January 20-22, 2003 in Pinsk and Brest took place
seminars on secondary drug prevention among teenagers
and early interference. On both seminars took part
representatives of the Office of Public Prosecutor,
police and social services of Uppsala (Sweden) Thomas
Belter-Nordeman, Kenneth Ulson and Yan Dalman. |
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March 11, 2003 in Pinsk school ¹8 took place the
round table on the question of secondary drug prevention.
In the work of it took part social pedagogues from the
schools of our city, representat6ives of the Office of
Public Prosecutor, the Inspection of Affairs of Miners,
NGO Kalegium and also representatives of police and
social services of Uppsala (Sweden) and the deputy of
the Parliament of Republic of Belarus Ivan Kibak. |
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March 27-28, 2003 in Minsk took place
Byelorussian-Swedish seminar on the problem of
non-medical drug addiction, ACID and people trade, in
the work took part members and volunteers of Kalegium.
Material by Ruslan Gagua on hr_minsk7 |
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April 11-12, 2003 in Minsk took place the meeting
of Byelorussian Network on ACID (BSS), Kalegium was
represented by Cheslava Dudareva and Ruslan Gogua. In
the meeting took part cief-doctor of the Republican
Center of ACID prevention Ljudmila Meleshko, coordinator
of international projects of Canadian Society Against
AID (CAS) Mark-Andre LeBlanc, the chief of the
representation of UNO in Belarus Nil Bune,
representatives of NGOs which are parts of BSS. During
the meeting they corrected the plan of the work of the
Network for 2002-2003, discussed the forms of
registration and steady development of the Network, work
out the regulations of membership of BSS, the base of
communication plan and other questions |
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May 29-31, 2003 in Pinsk, Luninec, Mikashevichy
took place traditional Days of Byelorussian and Swedish
poetry. The programme included meetings with poets,
literary men, presentation of popular scientific book
“Swedes in the history of Belarus by Andrej Katlerchuk
and the Cup of Young Poets |
The end of May-the beginning of June, 2003
Swedish Social-Democratic Party and the redaction of
web-site www.vytryssland.nu organized
Byelorussian-Swedish seminars in Pinsk, Brest and Hrodno
on the problem of people trading. During the seminars
was shown the film “Lilya forever” by Swedish director
Lucas Mudisson.
In Pinsk the film was shown on May 26-27. In discussion
on the film took an active part Maria Söderberg, the
redactor of the web-site www.vitryssland.nu, members of
Kalegium, students and teachers of Pinsk Pedagogical
College, represantat6ives of the Office of Public
Prosecutor, the Inspection of Affairs of Miners and
social-psychological service of the city
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July, 2003 on the initiative of Pinsk City
Organization “Francisk Scaryna Association of
Byelorussian Language” and Adaptation-Teaching Center
“Mroya” NGO Kalegium organized a series of social
trainings (Leto_gendere). They took place in NGO
Kalegium and the club “Rovesnik” (Pinsk). It was used
methodic “Rubbles and Roses” of Swedish organization
WOCAD |
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September 6-7, 2003 in Luninec and
Mikashevichi were organized trainings for teachers on
the methodic of interaction for work with groups of
teenagers. They were conducted by the members of
Kalegium and active workers form the club “Luninec Muse”.
In the work were used elements from Swedish methodic
“Rubble and Roses” |
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September 27-29, 2003 in Göteburg (Sweden) took
place International Book Fair where participated also
representatives from Pinsk. |
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The end of October, 2003 in Pinsk had begun the
work the programme on secondary drug prevention in which
took part the Office of Public Prosecutor, the
Inspection of Affairs of Minors, cultural-sport
institution “Rovesnik”, NGO Kalegium and other state and
social organizations of the city |
In October 2003 Seminars on sexual violence and HIV/AIDS in Belarus
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December 10-12, 2003 in Pinsk took place next
stage of the programme “Girls in the centre of attention”
organized by NGO Kalegium and Swedish Women’s
Organizations Committee on Alcohol and Drugs (WOCAD). In
the international seminar-training organized with
support of the Swedish Institution took part
representatives from WOCAD Inger Lundmark, Erika
Marklund, members and volunteers from Kalegium and more
than 40 girls from senior classes |
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Year 2004
February 21,
2004 representatives from Kalegium took part in the
seminar on the problem of forbidden drugs which took
place in Hrodno. The seminar was organized by the
administration of education of Hrodno Regional Executive
Committee, Ulolf Palme International Centre (Stockholm,
Sweden), Hrodno Regional Union of Practical
Psychologists, Hrodno NGO of social-psychological
assistance “Stupeni”
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March 13-14, 2004 in Mogiljov with support of
Ulof Palme International Centre (Sweden) took place the
seminar on the problem of violence against women and
women’s rights in the society |
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March 16, 2004 Kalegium together with social
pedagogues from the cultural-sport institution
“Rovesnik’ and representatives from the Inspection of
Affaires of Minors organized the seminar (sem_diviant)
for teenagers of |
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April 23-25, 2004 in Pinsk took place on the
organization of the work with the groups of girls using
methodic “Rubble and Roses”.
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May 27-28, 2004 in Brest took place international
seminar on the problem of non-medical drug addiction and
sexual slavery organized by Ulof Palme Centre, Swedish
Social-Democratic Party and Brest Regional Office of
Public Prosecutor. |
May 27-28, 2004 in Pinsk took place regular
Days of Byelorussian and Swedish Poetry. Support: the
Swedish Institution (Stockholm), the administrations of
culture and education of Pinsk Regional Executive
Committee, Kalegium. The programme included literary
reading and the Cup of Young People’s Poetry.
The winner of the Cup of Young People Poetry Evgeniya
Getmanchuk visited Sweden. She made excursions on
history-cultural places of Stockholm and visited
Swedish Writers’ Union |
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June 21-22, 2004
NGO Kalegium from Pinsk together with Polish lyceum#25 organized the exhibition of female paintings in Warsaw.
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August 22-27, 2004 the members of NGO Kalegium
together with the representatives from social
organizations from Russia, Moldova and Armenia working
on the drug prevention took part in the seminar “Methods
of investigation of alcohol, tobacco and drugs using
level among young people” in Stockholm (Sweden) |
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September 22-23, 2004 10 women from Belarus
including members of Kalegium Zhanna Dolzhenko, Anastsia
Gulak, Nadezhda Seredich took part in the international
seminar (Estonia) “Women in
Politics” which was organized by the women’s
administration of Swedish Social-Democratic Party and
representatives of “round table” of Estonian women’s
organizations in Pyarnu (Estonia) |
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October, 2004 pupils from senior classes of Pinsk
school ¹15, members of the club “Rovesnik-rovesniku”
visited their Swedish pen-friends.
Impressions
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The end of October, 2004 in Pinsk had begun to
work the complex programme on secondary drug prevention.
Materials on pres_rel
December, 2004 Nadezhda Avsievich took part in the 6th
Yearly Forum of NGOs on the Human Rights organized by
the Ireland Department of International Affairs in
Dublin.
Speech
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Year 2005
January26-25, 2005 in St.Petersburg in the frame
of the programme of Anti-drug Politics International
Centre ESPAD took place the seminar. The participants of
the seminar shared experience in the field of drug
prevention. Maria Söderberg’s photo-exhibition called
“Drug –killer” was timed to the seminar. The exhibition
represented the example of new active approach to drug
prevention. |
2005 Creative initiative of Kalegium’s friends:
photos by Alexej Dubrovsky, design by Nadezhda Seredich
and Cheslava Dudareva made a calendar “Polesje: the
Water and the Sky”. There is unique colour of Polesje:
mysterious music of winter, restrained beauty of spring
landscape, expression of summer colours and reverie of
autumn scenery. And the most important thing - love of
the native place. |
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March 24-25, 2005 In Borisov region took place
Byelorussia-Swedish seminar on the problem of sexual
slavery and drugs. Participants discussed the reasons of
drugs and prostitution spreading, and the main
question-methods of prevention. |
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