April 15, in Mykolayiv was the first meeting of the Advocacy Club. At the meeting were invited community leaders, media representatives and activists of the city.

The format of the club provided representation of local advocacy cases, ie, advocacy projects and performance expert advocacy. As an expert was invited Victor Bobyrenko.

The local cases were presented: the civil campaign “National parks to be!” Protest action “No poison!” Civil campaign “Kinbur SOS”, advocacy campaign “tale about UAH 15.” “We want to see” students protest “SOS” , civil campaign “Screw the nuts on corruption,” advocacy campaign “Youth cast.” Discussion of positives and negatives in the organization of local case studies enabled participants to apply wishes in their future community activities.

The audience is revived performance expert Victor Bobyrenko that all of its theoretical base laid the foundations for practice, for example. The ability to mobilize people to choose a command from the distribution of roles in it, correct approach to the selection problem, its formulation and decision making, all club members carefully taken into consideration and moving in the plane of their own campaigns, discussing options and experience of each. Victor spoke and gave a good analysis of the Revolution, which began to students of Sumy universities. Interesting details of the early course of the revolution and had a great impact.

“When doing a values ​​choice - be ready to opt for deeds, not in personal interests and relationships”, “If you go to war, you know that orders will be others. But if you know this one is doing this business, you win!”- Phrases that have become crucial in a speech expert.

All club meetings broadcast in the social network Facebook, online.

“If you want to power something done - do it yourself.” These words ended his speech Victor Bobyrenko. I disagree with this statement difficult. We're constantly working in this direction.

At the end of the final round was held in which participants shared their experiences regarding the club and expressed wishes.

The next club meeting held on 3 June 2011. So expect a new expert in Mykolayiv, new knowledge, practices and experience sharing.

Info note: event implemented a team of Democratic Alliance in the framework of “National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms’ (UNITER), performed Pact in Ukraine for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Press Center of MkRB “Democratic Alliance”

Translated by Alona Bilokon