Founded 1994 Area served Ukraine | Origins Kherson, Ukraine | |
Founder Valentyna Sazonova, Anton Sazonov Type Non-profit organization Focus Social enterprise development, educational and social programs for orphans, children from poor families, cultural projects for talented youth |
Association "Peace. Beauty. Culture." (Ukrainian: Асоціація "Мир. Краса. Культура.") is a Ukrainian public non-profit organization created by Valentyna Sazonova and Anton Sazonov in 1994, and registered in May 1996 Since then, the organization is actively working on the field for implementation of various community service programs aimed at solving social problems of children, youth, women and local communities in Ukraine.
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The organization's mission
Promoting cultural and social development of society through the provision of information services, consulting, implementation of educational and creative programs that help all-round development of children, youth and women, creativity, increased social activity and awareness of personal significance.
Territoriality programs
The central office of the Association is located in Kherson. Program activities of the organization is distributed mainly in Kiev Kherson Mykolayiv Odessa Lviv, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia field as well as the city of Kiev and Autonomous Republic of Crimea (but in the implementation of individual programs is not limited to these regions).
Fundamentals and principles of
For employees of the organization important factors in the implementation of these programs is the professionalism, accountability and transparency to the community, as well as the impact of programs on a comprehensive solution. For their effectiveness and usefulness to the community association is actively cooperating with other civic and charitable organizations, local and international level, local authorities, media and social responsibility.
Priorities for action
To date, the Association focuses on the following activities:
Programs
Academic Programs Schools, which operates in the status of non-formal training and educational institutions, aimed at ensuring the intellectual, cultural, chaste, moral and physical development of pupils. The course of study, students of School of Fashion and Design to study art, music, dance, painting, origami, acting, fashion shows, ethics and aesthetics. Educational process the School aims at optimizing the potential of students, expanding their horizons and understanding of their own individuality.
Now the Association is working on a portal-oriented socio-information systems of Ukraine on the Internet.
In Kherson was founded (the project) instructional development center student government to improve the model of student self-government based on the summer recreation area agencies, schools, colleges, dissemination of experience of civic education to children through counseling and training programs, as well as the growing influence of pupil autonomy on the activities of educational institutions and the formation of local youth policy. Create a practical center helps develop pupil autonomy in 7 schools, Kherson region (the total number of students referred Schools 12000, about 1400 students are actively involved in school events and activities of municipalities).
The activities of social enterprise of the Association can learn more at website.
Social entrepreneurship
In the structure of the organization of social entrepreneurship is one of the key places. Most of the programs the organization is constructed in such a way as to provide services or manufacture and sale of goods covered the cost of social and educational programs of the Association.
For example, in the School of Fashion and Design, working with the Association, thanks to the students who pay tuition fees, there is the opportunity to teach gifted children from low-income or single parent families on preferential terms (for free or partial payment). Computer courses for orphans and children from poor families (learning which has already passed more than 2000 students) are taught free of beneficiaries through groups of students to pay conditions.
In the creative workshop of the Association are copyright textile dolls, clothes made of natural materials and accessories, sale of which helps to involve single mothers, women with good hands from small towns and villages, as well as retirees. In addition, income from the workshop provide an opportunity to create collectible dolls and clothes, which appear in exhibitions, festivals and fairs in Ukraine and abroad.
Social entrepreneurship is helping the Association achieve its mission through the funding of social and educational programs, as well as through the involvement of women-seamstresses to crafts social enterprise contributes to the disclosure of their creative potential.
In 2009, about 90% of the income of the Association consisted of the proceeds from the social entrepreneurship.