The main goal of the project "International Voiutary Service: An experience for life" is to start a process of aquisition of formal and informal tools in regard to an active citizenship, to an intercultural dialogue and international cooperation to train young people to become motiplicators of a culture of peace.The initiative involves one volunteer for the period of one year to collaborate within the S.V.A.M structures which operate in the periferal suburbans of Turu and Riod in the city of Sao Luis, in the Maranhão State of Brazil. The volunteer will work clb eiy with the association staff and educators, in the activities of coordination of professional training aimed to gradually reinsert minors in the civil society. On this subject, the voluteer will have the opportunity do leam professional competences in regard to the international cooperation field, and above all, she will have the possibility to develop her own capabilities and attitudes thanks to a participative methodology which will incentivize the critic approach of the volunteer in the daily problem solving activities. In this contest, the degree of active citizenship will be incentivized, as well as the idea of the diversity as a resource, thanks to a relationship at the same level with the qualified'personnel and the project's beneficiaries, within a contest totally different from the one from where the volunteer is coming from.