Public institution “Family friendly” (VsI Draugiski seimai) is operating since 18.02.2009
You can find a lot of information and photos about the activities of our institution on our website www.ekodaiktai.lt
Ekodaiktai.lt aims to educate the public, promote healthy living and leisure, use environment-friendly products, protect the environment and energy sources. It encourages companies in establishing socially responsible business models, promotes wide-spread usage of ecological products and toys, encourages creativity and innovations in business.
It is carrying out the following social projects:
“Crane nest” (“Gervių lizdas“) www.gerviulizdas.lt
“Gervių lizdas” is a space for children and youth events and education in Gerviniai village, Trakai district. These events include regular camps, educational programs, handicrafts and other creative workshops: timber, clay, upcycling, oak growing and more. It has 50 summer bunks in several differently created spaces, which were created by upcycling used furniture and other utensils. Most of the work is being carried out by the volunteers. The camp promotes ideas for reduced, responsible and sustainable consumption, teaches recycling, mindfulness and strong connection with nature.
“Grane nest” is a place where we create anything out of nothing. Sustainability is the number one thing that drives us through all kinds of challenges. You’ll find strange buildings made from clay and old windows, swings with tree roots on the top, 4000 oak seedlings and all kinds of other unusual stuff. It is also a place of education and summer camps for children, where we learn together, build together, create together and even make movies together.
Children’s summer camps
Our institution has been organizing therapeutic summer camps for children and teenagers for eleven summers. The goal of our camps is to raise children’s self-esteem and self-confidence, to reveal their talents. We encourage children to reveal their creativity and talents. 120-150 children participate in the camps every year. Some children participate in the camps for free after receiving support. These are children who live in poor or large families, whose parents drink, children from orphanages or children who have had suicide attempts, who are bullied and cannot buy a camp that costs 460 euros. Every year we collect support and 15 – 20 children can participate in the camps for free.
Education for students aged 8 – 18 years
At the campsite “Gervių lizdas” we organize education for students. There are currently three 2-hour interactive lessons:
- “Plastic Road”. It is education about plastic recycling, waste sorting and the problem of plastic pollution in the earth.
- “From acorn to oak”. It is an education to introduce children to how a tree grows from an acorn, we show them the various forms of an oak tree, tell them about the importance of trees and forests in human life, and lead an excursion to an oak tree nursery.
- “Ceramic mushrooms”. This is a pottery workshop where children sculpt mushrooms and talk about friendship, connections and relationships. We introduce children to various forms of mushrooms.
Oaks nursery www.laimesazuolai.lt
There is a shortage of ordinary oak seedlings in Lithuania, therefore in 2018 we sowed 10,000 acorns and are now growing oaks in pots. In three to four years we will be able to distribute these oaks around Lithuania. Recently, five giant oak leaves were formed from the pots with the oak seedlings in the nursery. These leaves are named “Openness”, “Love”, “Wisdom”, “Creativity” and “Peace”. Oak nursery is open for volunteering: weeding, watering, grafting and meditating.
Mushroom park www.grybuparkas.lt
This event our institution started to run 2023 autum. We have 7000 visitors last year.
Mushroom Park will work 13th September – 22th October.
The park of glowing mushrooms is a magical and mystical place for family fun and activities. The strange world of mushrooms will put a spell on everyone. You will want to touch, take pictures, selfies and short films. You will be filled with childish joy as if you found yourself in a kingdom of magic.
Mushrooms will glow, blink, make noises and some of them will even spit out smoke! Their size will make you feel like a small forest creature – while some of them are just little younglings, sprouting their heads through the moss, others reach up to 4 meters.
VsI Draugiski seimai (“Family Friendly”) Company Code is 302307136. It is a non-profit organization: the core team consists of 13 volunteers – none of them receives any reward.
We are constantly looking for funding for our ongoing projects, we organize volunteering and are looking for volunteers.
Our account number is LT077300010114213065,
More information: ekodaiktai@gmail.com +370 618 12181
