Kauno m. Krišnos sąmonės religinė bendruomenė (Lithuania)
"Kauno m. Krisnos samones religine bendruomene" is an NGO with headquarters in Kaunas, Lithuania. Our office is situated in Kaunas center. Because of some of our members who are influencing youth like Ieva Zasimauskaite and others, this center is becoming more and more popular among the youth, and several schools, universities and youth centers are inviting our organization for different seminars and youth programmes.
We have fourteen active members and mentors, assisting an almost 300 youth community, encompassing many students from various EU countries and other parts of the world. We hold regular educational activities, such as seminars, courses, and workshops for all age groups as well as special student evenings by helping to overcome depression and stress.
We place a high value on youth and adult education. We believe it is one of the most important investments and it is critical to reducing economic and spiritual poverty and inequality. One of our main aims is to make a genuine contribution to the learning and teaching process and to emphasize the importance of knowledge and education. We know that this means we have to continually improve the teaching techniques of our associates and to offer people a wide variety of learning opportunities.
The fundamental mission of our organization is to connect the wisdom of the ancient Indian philosophy with people in a way that this wisdom will bridge the gap between different sciences and arts and unite them in practical knowledge in all areas for the well-being of an individual.
We do this by organizing:
There are two main priorities in our organization
To achieve our aims, we organize a wide range of activities, programmes, and events. Our workshops, lectures, and classes are open to everyone and we work closely with persons with fewer opportunities, migrants, different social subcultural groups, persons with special needs, minorities and foreign students in Lithuania.
We also work closely with governmental organizations, for taking care of poverty-stricken people by distributing free food. In these activities, we create opportunities for volunteers to learn how to communicate with people properly.
We highly believe that our work focuses on some of the main objectives and goals of Erasmus+ programme as we will be validate the outcome of our projects with the use of Youthpass and Europass CV, and disseminate the results within the partner organizations and their local communities.
With the newly acquired knowledge and experience in mind, the participants will also have better chances in the employment market. We also promote intercultural experiences by engaging ourselves in working with various European organizations with similar goals and values, and we promote equity and inclusion by inviting individuals with fewer opportunities to join us for our projects.
Activities and experience of the organization
We would like to offer the European youth a free learning experience to help them with their personal development and to acquire new knowledge and provide them with practical experience for the employment market that they will help build in the near future.
In the last 8 years, we had twice a year we had been organizing youth festivals called "Goloka Party fest". Every year we gathering around 1000 youths from different countries. These festival are promoting a healthy and happy lifestyle, without drugs alcohol or other intoxication. At the time when the festival is being held we organize different workshops and seminars to help young people to develop skills and qualities that will help them in the future for getting a dream job. Because all these seminars help them to develop good qualities essential for every aspect of life.
At another time in the year, we organize more than 100 different learning and educational seminar about personal psychology based on ancient wisdom and the latest scientific discoveries.
All around Lithuania we are visiting about 20 schools where we give motivational speeches for students.
Although we don’t have any experience with European youth projects yet, when we found this opportunity we understood, that this is where to want to go, this is the future of youth and of whole Europe. Helping young people to find some friends in other countries so that everyone could feel like part of a wonderful, loving and supporting each other European family. So we hope we can also be a part of this historic event by uniting the whole of Europe.
Kauno m. Krišnos sąmonės religinė bendruomenė
Lithuania
Deividas Irsay is studying social pedagogy is his 3 semester. But at the same time for the last 4 years, he is one of the main organizers of "Goloka party fests". Also, he is working with Adizes methodology which is meant to improve teamwork in all aspects of our projects. Because he is studying at university, he is having a lot of good student connections with international students.
Simas Grabauskas is a professional filmmaker and educator/motivator. He studied all the secrets of video production under the guidance of best filmmakers from Lithuania. So he helps youth to get messages through media channels. For the last 3 years, he is making new motivational seminars and videos to inspire people to follow their dreams.
Ieva Zasimauskaite popular Lithuanian singer and one of the finalist of Eurovision 2019. She gathers big groups of youth and because of her good communication skills, she is helping the youth to regain motivation in life.
Darius Razaukaus has a psychology masters degree. He is also a famous educator and motivator. For the last 6 years, he has been traveling around Europe and the USA to give lectures for youth on various topics such as finding your goals in life, secrets of family relationships, basics of leadership, etc.
He is also working with companies to help their teams to become more efficient and developing novelty Corporate Wellness Programs that effectively improves business and corporations as well. He supports young business entrepreneurs by giving education about team management, and helping them building competence to establish themselves as business owners.