COLLECTION OF TOYS FOR CHILDREN IN NEED HAS BEEN FINISHED

THE ASSISTANTS OF THE MEP decided to help children in the town Levice and organize the collection of toys and books for the children who come from poor families or live in orphanages.
They collected a big amount of toys and books and speread happines among these children and made them happy :)

EARTH DAY - A NEW ACTIVITY OF THE MEP PETER SLOVAK

The Earth Day
In 1963, former Senator of the USA Gaylord Nelson began to worry about our planet. He wondered why more people weren't trying to solve these problems. He talked to other lawmakers and to the President. They decided that the President would go around the country and tell people about these concerns. He did, but still not enough people were working on the problem. Then, in 1969, Senator Nelson had another idea. He decided to have a special day to teach everyone about the things that needed changing in our environment. He wrote letters to all of the colleges and put a special article in Scholastic Magazine to tell them about the special day he had planned.
Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment,it was first held on April 22, 1970. While this first Earth Day was focused on the United States, it became international in 1990 and there were organized events in 141 nations. Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year. Numerous communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of activities focused on environmental issues.
People all over the world make promises to help the environment. Everyone got involved and since then, Earth Day has spread all over the planet. People all over the world know that there are problems we need to work on and this is our special day to look at the planet and see what needs changing. Isn't it great?
One person had an idea and kept working until everyone began working together to solve it. See what happens when people care about our world – our planet will be greener and also healthier. A Levice organized on Earth Day ssistants of the MEP Peter Slovák – Michal Adami and Matúš Kotora organized interesting activities for pupils of 4th Elementary school in their home town Levice. There were a lot of various and interesting activities organized for these children.
The pupils were doing activities to clean their environment, they were picking the litter around their school and surroundings, they were learning about separating and reusing the litter, they learnt about the recycling process and much more. They learnt a lot of new information about our planet, fauna, flora, environment issues and what kills our nature. There were a lot of competitions and knowledge quizes organized for pupils, children were painting environmental pictures on the pavements.
Both assistants of the MEP Peter Slovák and Elementary school pupils were glad to organize this great event and it is sure they did something good for their planet, environment they live in. They made first steps to help our planet to become healthier.

THE NEW ARTICLE OF THE MEP PETER SLOVAK."THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE..."

The best things in life are free…
Who pleasure gives, shall joy receive…
Think about being a volunteer! There are several definitions of volunteering and a volunteer itself. Generaly a volunteer (latin - voluntarious – willing) is a person who invests his free time, energy, knowledge and abilities to do some kind of activity without being paid for it. Reward for volunteering is spiritual, what means that a volunteer gets the character and professional growth, good feelings, sometimes new friendships and life experiences.
You can be a volunteer almost everywhere, you can help people in your neighbourhood, the area where you live or work, anywhere. For example, you can help your sick neighbour with shopping, tidying up in front of your flat, house or in the park. Everybody has abilities and energy to do some kind of voluntary activity. It depends only on how willing and able the person is to do a certain service.
Another way of voluntary activities are organized by the non-governmental, public and non- profitable organizations or schools and churches. So that we can divide volunteering into severel categories:
• Volutary activities: various irregular activities of people for various organizations based on verbal agreement.
• Voluntary services: activities with clear time bounds, aim, content, tasks, legislation and social protection based on verbal or written agreement.
• Voluntary self-help: mutual help beetwen neighbours, group of children and youth and interest groups that is based on reciprocal agreement out of the organization.
Voluntary organizations are organizations that are based on voluntary work and cannot operate without volunterees. Voluntary organizations engage various types of areas of voluntering according to aimed groups for example: social culture, ecology tasks and so on. Then they are devided according to local, regional, national and worldwide level and according to time of the activity it could be one-shot, regular longterm or occasional co-operation. Based on the aimed group and area of work they make conditions and rules collaborating with volunteers. Altogether they organize volunteersthemselves and thein activities. The perfect example of voluntary organization is GREENPEACE.
There are barriers of volunteering. Voluntary work and activities are still realized by our public as something special. The main barrier of developing the voluntary work is passivity during searching and gaining volunteers. Some other barriers are:
bad or not sufficient organization of volunteers, no demand for volunteers, concerns from injury, load pattern and much more..
And what supports volunteers? There are a lot of supporting moments:
• They have feeling that they are evaluating
• They have hope for a change and progress
• They gain appreciation from public either personally
• They realize that they help mean something
• They have feeling of fellowship and teamwork

• And much more...
In these times of wars,world hunger,natural disasters etc. necessity for voluntary work is much more noticable than in the past. This is what the EU realizes and set the year 2011 as the European Year of Volunteering. The EU is trying to mobilize people by doing campaigns which inform how to become a volunteer and what advangates the status of the volunteer has. If you are able and have a chance to do some voluntary work – try it. You will see that even the good feeling of helping someone is worth it! The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

GIVE BLOOD - GIVE LIFE

Every minute of every day, someone needs blood. That blood can only come from a volunteer donor, a person like me oryou who makes the choice to donate. There is no substitute for your donation. Blood donations help millions of patients in need. To make the journey from “arm to arm,” every unit goes through series of steps and tests to ensure that it is as safe as can be.
When you make a blood donation, you join a very select group. Currently only 3 out of every 100 people in America donate blood. In Slovakia is the situation a little bit better. Blood donation has a long tradition in Slovakia. From its beginning, the organisation Red Cross has formed a community of service, of generous, strong and decent people bound by beliefs beyond themselves. The Red Cross blood donor embodies this principle.
Benefits of volunteering
• You will feel great knowing you are making a difference.
• You will meet donors and hear why they give blood or how blood transfusions have touched their lives. It may change your own.
• You can do good on your own schedule, volunteer as much as and as often as your schedule permits.
• You will enjoy flexible locations and times.
• You will become part of a 125-year-old tradition of neighbours helping neighbours in need.
We depend on volunteers
Volunteers constitute 96 percent of our total work force to carry on our humanitarian work:
• Every year the Red Cross responds to many disasters—including home fires every day.
• A lot of people turn to us to learn first aid, CPR, swimming, and other health and safety skills. Last year, several hundreds of people volunteered to teach those courses.
• Several volunteers serve as chairs, members of boards of directors, or on advisory boards for local Red Cross units - chapters, Blood Services regions

GIVE BLOOD - GIVE LIFE

This was a great idea of the MEP Peter Slovák´s assistants to otganise donation of their and their schoolmates´blood. Ten of them went to the hosptal and they donated the blood. They are sure their blood will save life several people who need it :)

ASSISTANTS OF MEP PETER SLOVAK WERE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT - SEE THE VIDEO

aLL 3 ASSISTANTS OF PETER SLOVAK VISITED THE EP AND MATÚŠ KOTORA HAS ALSO HAD A SPEECH, watch 2:50 :)

THE NEW ARTICLE - "Continuing avalanche of subversions in Africa "

Winds of change - Protests for change have rocked countries across the region of North Africa and the Middle East
Recently there have been a lot of movements in several countries of North Africa and the Middle East oriented on the changes of the regimes of these countries. There were violent clashes in Cairo between opponents and supporters of the president Hosni Mubarak as the Egyptian government rejected international calls for the leader to end his 30-year-rule immediately. Now Egypt has a temporal government and Egyptian people are trying to constitute more democratic government. The similar situation is also in other North African countries.
The political situation has become the most acute in Libya. Libya was one of the poorest countries in the world until the discovery of huge reservoirs of oil and gas resources in 1958 which ejected Lybia ´ s ecomomy by rocket speed. Now Libya belongs to one of the richest states in Africa and it is the 4th biggest supplier of the oil worldwide.
The state establishment in Libya is unique, it is called džamáhíríja from the arabic word „džumhúríja“ what means republic. The creator of this establishment is a Libyan leader Muammar Kaddáfí who insists that džamáhíríja gives power to people and hinders the dictature in the same time. The most of critics say that Libya is in fact a military dictature under Kaddafi ´s command and Džamahíríja is only a fig leaf to cover the rule of one person. Of course, a lot of common people in Libya who think more democratically, call for new leadership and democratic elections.
The uprising began as a series of protests and confrontations on 15 February 2011. Kaddafi responded with military force and other such measures as censorship and blocking of communications. With his soldiers across the country defecting, Kaddafi recruited foreign volunteers to supplement his forces. Furthermore, many executions of mutinying soldiers have been reported. Although Kaddafi offered talks with opposition leaders through a chief envoy, the rebels clarified that they were unwilling to negotiate with him, and demanded his resignation. The conflict has grown to bloody dimension, there have been hundreds of victims so the world leaders from the EU and NATO have started to act.
The world public has two different points of view on these efforts and it is divided into two opposing groups.
The supporters of the international action say it should be the speedy, decisive international action to protect civilians in Libya. They have hailed the UN Council resolution for its affirmation of the international community’s responsibility to protect civilians when they are being attacked by their own government.
On the other hand, there is the second group of the world´s public who thinks that every country has its own way and development. The situation in Libya seems like the civil war which should be solved by Libya itself. These people realize that situation in Libya is critical but every nation has the right for its own history and future. If they do not want help from other countries, it is their decision. Why do allies help to revolutionaries? Who gave them right for that? Can they quarantee that democracy in Libya will work? The most of Lybian nation acts like one corpus these days only because they fight against one man. Normally they are divided into many tribes that cannot cooperate and fight against each other. What if Muammar Kaddáfí is just a shepherd of the horde and without him would Libya affect anarchy?
The intervention has begun – „cards are passed out“ just time will tell, if it was good or bad for Libyan nation...

Resources:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37885&Cr=Libya&Cr1=
http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=129&Body=North+Africa&Body1=change
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2011/why_libya_2011_is_not_iraq_2003_46854
http://allafrica.com/stories/201102220213.htm
http://hnonline.sk/svet/c1-50967740-rebeli-v-libyi-obratili-hnev-na-zapad
http://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/eye-on-north-africa-january-2011/7339/
http://fpc.state.gov/c43527.htm