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Fundació Catalunya Voluntària Award

December 2011

A team of online volunteers, coordinated by the Fundació Catalunya Voluntària, received the UNV Online Volunteering Award 2011 for their work on 'Peace Bag for EuroMed Youth'. The project was granted by the Anna Lindh Foundation through its call for proposals programme, and involved a wide range of organisations across the two shores of the Mediterranean.

70 online volunteers have contributed extensively, during several months, to the Peace Bag for EuroMed Youth toolkit, drafting, reviewing and translating the 191 page publication into 12 languages, as well as creating the layout and a web version. The Peace Bag, which offers practical tools to promote a culture of peace at the local and regional level across the Mediterranean, has been developed in a participatory process that involved 18 youth-led and youth-serving organizations from 14 countries in the region, coordinated by the Fundació Catalunya Voluntària.

The volunteers team was awarded for their contribution to the achievement of the Millenium Development Goals, specifically for the goal number 8: the establishment of a Global

DNB is congratulating all Fundació Catalunya Voluntària members specially ( Meg & LLuc )
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