EIL have been hosting a group of American students visiting the UK for the past month to learn about film and to make a short film about young people in Britain and about their lives and culture.

The video is called 'Some Days...Some Lives...Somewhere in England' and follows the group from Malvern, to Bradford, Liverpool and Derby.

“Red Shirts are burning government buildings in Ubon- violence could spread, so please stay at your project, avoid town centres and crowds"

Laura Clayson, an EIL sponsored volunteer to Thailand, has sent a newsletter about her experiences and the volunteer work she is doing.

Read her newsletter here

Read the latest news from EIL here.

• New projects in Gloucester and Worcester. 
• 2 new medical / health programmes added
• American groups in the UK
• Host family information

EIL UK is hosting an EVS (European Voluntary Service) Short Term Creative Arts Project from 8^th – 28^th July 2010 in Gloucester. 

The aim of the project is to give disadvantaged young people the opportunity to build up their basic / social / life skills in an informal way through a short volunteering experience. It also enables the participants to learn about life in another culture.

Following the success of the ‘Changing Minds’ project run by EIL in Gloucester last year, a similar project will be run in Worcester during August this year.

The aim of the project is to bring together young people from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds in Worcester to work together on an Identity Project, looking at issues that affect them and their communities.

We would like to welcome Angelina to the UK. Angelina is from Germany and is here for 5 months on the Youth in Action EVS programme. She will be volunteering in Gloucester, Worcester and Hereford on various youth work projects, including a 3 week project for international young people and a summer project for young people from different backgrounds.

We hope you enjoy your time here!

We have a group of 8 adult volunteers (18 – 25) and 2 leaders coming to work in Gloucester City on a cultural youth project with ‘Increase the Peace’ 8^th to 28^th July. The volunteers come from Italy, Sweden and France.

We had arranged a student house to accommodate them but this has just fallen through and we are desperately looking for somewhere for them to stay. The volunteers are willing to share rooms, dormitory style. As we are a charity, there is a modest budget (£80 per person per week) to provide for their needs.

In an extension to the partnership between EIL UK and GeoVisions, EIL are now offering volunteering programmes specifically related to health projects. Although some of the programmes require training in or knowledge of medicine and health care, many are open to anybody who would like to volunteer in this area of work. If you would be interested in these programmes visit the medical/health programmes pages of our website.

The May Edition of the newsletter from EIL features articles about Safer Travel, Vodafone Grant, Volunteering in Morocco, Charitable donation, Chile Earthquake programme and new Medical and Helath programmes.

Read the newsletter .

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