Client: European Voluntary Service trough the Dutch organization
“GoForNature”
The European Union supports non-formal education opportunities for young
people through trans-national voluntary service, which directly and actively
involves young people in activities designed to meet the needs of society
in a wide range of fields. European Voluntary Service (EVS) is one of
these initiatives.
From 1st of July till 1st of November 2007 we hosted an EVS-volunteer
from the Netherlands. The volunteer Mijke Koole worked together with our
team, the Rila National Park Directorate and partners. Mijke Koole was
involved in:
development
of comprehensive data base in English for the Rila NP potential business
partners;
collection
of information and pictures of the providers' facilities, services, tourists,
food, attractions;
provided
personal impressions, recommendations and ideas for new tourist products
development;
help the
tourist services providers-partners of Rila NP and PAN Parks to evaluate
their assets, to analyze and review what should be there next steps in
sustainable tourism services development and to better understand the
expectations and needs of their foreign clients;
helped Rila
NP experts to finalize the information in English presenting the park
on the new PAN Parks web;
development
and the presentation of 4 trips for the participants of the PAN Parks
annual conference “European Wilderness Days 2007”. Development
of a Questionnaire to collect feed back for the trips from the participants
and help in summarizing and analysing the information;
development
of four tourist trips (winter and summer) to Rila National Park for GoForNature
(Dutch sending-organisation).
Our responsibilities included:
Project design,
implementation action planning and budgeting.
Coordination
with the volunteer sending organization, the National EVS Agency (Bulgarian
Youth and Sport Agency), PAN Parks Foundation, Rila NPD, local partners
Development
of list of tasks and work program of the volunteer.
Organization
and supervision of the work of the volunteer.
Organization
of the accommodation of the volunteer in Sofia and the field trips around
Rila NP.
Providing
training to the volunteer on Bulgarian language and Bulgarian culture
and traditions.
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