Cyprus

 

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”

 

For further information, 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

 

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