A short-term EVS ptoject "A Friend in Need” is a cooperation between two organizations - Mission Locale Lens Liévin (France) and Center for European Initiatives (Ukraine). It aimes at promotion and enhancing of the active citizenship among European and Ukrainian youth; developing the idea of sustainable lifestyle, promoting human values, understanding of cultural diversity; raising awareness about the opportunities of EVS among youth; fostering of tolerance and sence of entrepreneurship among young people. The project idea is to engage European youth into developing a charity campaign in the city of Sumy which aims at organizing kiosks with donated food for people in need. The volunteers are invited to develop the food banks project from scratch to the stage when it requires minimal coordination and is sustainable. The European volunteers will team up with local volunteers and work jointly at all stages of the project. During the project the volunteers will learn how to organize and manage charity initiatives, promote their campaign among the local community using various means and methods, learn from their peers and also from the local volunteers, meet new culture and get to know the basics of the language, develop and grow as a personality with the sense of initiativeness and compassion.