Cyprus - Année européenne du bénévolat 2011
The 2009 law establishing the Pan Cyprian Volunteerism Coordinative Council provides definitions for “non-profit purpose” as “every voluntary action or act which tends to alleviate or relieve human suffering, human poverty, illness or need and any physical, mental and psychological malfunction, as well as any action which serves the welfare or the protection of children, teenagers, young people, adults and older people, any action which contributes to the prevention or addresses social problems or needs, and generally any action which contributes to the improvement of the welfare of the people residing, permanently or temporarily, in the Republic of Cyprus”.
Learn more, see the report of the European Commission about volunteering in Cyprus
Cyprus Youth Council for International Cooperation, CYCIC
Cyprus Youth Council for International Co-operation is a voluntary, non profit association open to the youth organizations of Cyprus. CYCIC's aims are :
- to encourage co-operation among young people in Cyprus and other Countries,
- to promote communication among its member organizations and other bodies, particularly other youth organizations on European level,
- to provide a representative framework for its member organizations to develop initiatives and implement projects to further co-operation with other European youth,
- to assist young people in Cyprus in the development of a European consciousness based on mutual respect and understanding through the awareness of the differing traditions of (European) culture ,
- to enforce the efforts to achieve respect of Human rights and secure the basic freedoms and rights all over Cyprus.
Cyprus Youth Council for International Cooperation (CYCIC)
41, Th. Dervi Str., Office 106
CY-1066 Nicosia
Tel.: +357 9 623313
Fax: + 357 2 673523
E-mail: cycic@cyprusyouthboard.org
Web site: http://www.kypros.org/Test/8/7b.html
Other organisations
Youth for Exchange and Understanding Cyprus
Web site: http://www.yeucyprus.netfirms.com
Association for the Protection of the Cypriot Environment
PO box: 3810
1686 Lefkosia
Tel.: +357 05 358632
Federation of the Environmental and Ecological Movements of Cyprus
Liperti 4, Aglantzia
2121 Lefkosia
Tel.: +357 511397
Friends of the Earth
Maroni, Larnaka or PO
Box: 3411,
Lemesos 3302
Tel.: +357 05 347042
Larnaka and Ammochostos Association for the Protection of Animals and Birds
Grigori Afxentiou 35. Pol. Ag. Elenis, Kat. No. 2
6021 Larnaka
Tel.: +357 04 621034
Peace in Cyprus
Web site: http://www.peace-cyprus.org
The Cultural Environmental Federation of Chloraka
Leoforos Eleftherias 77
8220 Chloraka
Tel.: +357 02 305021
The Ecological Movement of Cyprus
PO box: 29682
1722 Lefkosia
Tel.: +357 770008
The Larnaka Committee of Environmental Protection and Development
PO Box: 348
6303 Larnaka
Tel.: +357 04 655538
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