The association Förderer und Freunde des Gymnasium Rhauderfehn has taken over the task to support the local high school but also the other schools in our area. We are working to develop the quality together with other involved groups; beside this it is also duty of our association to help young people while growing up. On purpose we focus not only on school but also on social and compensational issues. Together with the medium- and low level school (Realschule, Hauptschule and Förderschule) the highschool is in one school centre which means that the work of our association is also focussed on to the other schools. Rhauderfehn (www.rhauderfehn.de) is a municipality (about 17.000 inhabitants) in the district (Landkreis) Leer in the south of Eastfrisia. Eastfrisia itself is located in the North-West of Germany – the distance to the Duch border is about 25 KM, to the North Sea Shore its about 70 KM. It is a quite rural area with respectable people. The contingent of migrants is still quite low (although it is rising since summer 2015) which means there is almost no chance getting to know other cultures. Wages, but also costs are not very high and the longterm unemployment rate is unfortunately quite high. Rhauderfehn is a small town (17.000 inh.), the next bigger town is Leer (35.000 inh., distance 18 km). There are busses running eat day time – for the evenings and busses there is a bus-by-call-system. The next bigger town is Oldenburg (130.000 inh., distance 60 km) which can be reached by train from Leer. Also the Netherlands with the city of Groningen is not too far away. Young people in the area we live in, quite poor Eastfrisia, do normally not have contact with youngsters from other European countries. The number of immigrants is rather low. This is why the association Freunde und Förderer des Gymnasiums Rhauderfehn e.V. tries to improve the European awareness of young people by organising EVS projects. We consider it a good opportunity to build up relations between young people in our area and these youngsters from foreign countries who would like to spend one year abroad.School is a place where you normally find formal learning. In our point of view its helpful to offer opportunies of informal learning and social learning as well. The way of life for young people should not only consist in learning facts and getting marks. Its also necessary to provide opportunities to get intercultural experiences. Europe is enlarging and growing together and so it is necessary for young people to learn how to deal with peculiarity and culture of other countries. The opportunies for doing this are in the rural area of Eastfrisia quite spare – the contingent of migrants is quite low, as we already mentioned. Since 2006 we are recognized as host organisation and meanwhile there have been 10 young volunteers as guests in our organization. The experiences we made till now are really positive. The number of youngsters interested in this programme is increasing. The schools in which the volunteers will mainly work, have a students population of about 1600 totally. The Gymnasium is the biggest school with almost 1000 students which means that main parts of the work of volunteers will be done here. Nevertheless the volunteers can chosse where they would like to have the main focus in their work. Emmi and Teresa rweally liked to work in Hauptschule and Förderschule. There are about 120 Teachers and staff members in the different schools. The office of the volunteers (2 international ones and 3 German ones) is situated in the building of Gymnasium Rhauderfehn next to the Mensa and the libary. From here to the centre of Rhauderfehn it is about 600 m.