Name of the organization – Bioetika means studies of Bioethics.
The aim of the organization Bioetika is to aware people about social and ecological issues.
Educate people in carrying and respect each other, supporting, empathy, tolerance in social life and taking care about animals and nature.
Our methodology includes: informative actions,volunteering, workshops, role games, non-formal education methods, visual materials.
Finding solutions by using many keys: media, art, non-formal education and ethical studies.

Initial group of activists / volunteers was formed in 2007 and lead by Alexandra Saveljeva.
NGO “Bioetika” officially registered in March, 2015.
With the help of our group of volunteers / activists various actions and events have been organized:
charity events, exhibitions, help for animal shelters and orphan houses, including organizing social events there; 
collecting clothes and things for shelters; visiting elderly people; cleaning forests and green zones from the garbage.

The main idea is autonomy. This is a way of life, not waiting for someone to save the world for you, but act yourself! Since everyone can do something. “If you can, help others, if you cannot, at least do not harm them” Dalai Lama. 

The organizers are people who took the initiative and a thousand troubles, but also remember that everyone can do it. 

The founder of the organisation, Alexandra is a girl who cares no matter what. Activist from her 15 y.o and meeting amazing people who share the same values. 

• It’s a girl who just passing by an uprooted tree, takes a shovel from a nearby construction site, gathers neighbors, who watch her from the window and plants the tree together. 
• Collecting warm and necessary things and goes and helping animal shelters, shelters for the homeless,
• Considers the educational program need changes, gathers like-minded people, going to schools, organises contests, showing educational films, set topics in the classroom.
• Organize thematic exhibitions and posting informative posters in public places.
• Publishes udregraund zin “face the truth”.
• Considers that there are too many clothes and things, organizes the Free Market for people to exchange, and after the event things are going to charity.
• Bringing not only toys and things, to orphan children, but organizes a team and everyone goes to the orphanage with a program, games, information about education and opportunities.
• Want’s to rise up topic about people with special needsand help, makes a social film about it and shares it with others.
• Wants to organize a project to rise up topic of ecology, looking for grant and does it.
• Does things not for show, but because feels it’s needed. (For long time didn’t registered official organisation, because believes that everything should be made by will, not status).

It is normal not to wait that something will change by itself, but stand and do it. By o organizing social events, Alexandra met many like-minded people who shared the same values, many became friends. 

All these wonderful people have done a lot of good and continue to do, as this is their lifestyle.

 The main thing is not to stay indifferent.

• Meeting with representatives from organization VITA in Moscow, receiving examples of Bioetika scholar program and have the rights to develop and spread it.
• Bioethics program was taken as additional subject for one semester in 5-8 grades of a local school No 92, Riga.
• Within the Bioethics school program children art and presentations contest with topic “animals and people” was announced. Throughout the contest three works-presentations were awarded.
• Alexanra Berliner took part in “Youth Riga Council”, (youth depute in committee of environment).
• Organized Project “Re-ART”  sponsored by Erasmus+, The main idea to show ecology issue trough the art, this project united 28 youngsters from 4 different countries – Spain, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Latvia. (Filmmaking, eco-workshops, photography).
• Bioetics program presented to a teachers in University of Psychology.
• Organizing and supervising a group of volunteers for Music Festival “Tallinn Star Weekend” which involved about 20 000 guests (Day 1 – Rock Music: Offspring, 2 Cellos, Lordi, Day 2 – Classical Music: Andrea Bocelli, Charisma and Orchestra)
• Organised charity event “Free Market” involved over 300 people.
• Provided informative program about possibilities of education in orphan house “Dzeguzite”.
• Pilot episode of “Bioetika Life“
• Pilot episode of cooking show “V for Vitamins“
• Taking part in Emerging Leaders Conference in European Parliament panel discussion, with the topic of Population and Environment: Building a Sustainable World.
• Environmental project “Get New Habits”, gathered together groups of people from France, Serbia, Georgia, Latvia. Together we created draft of educational eco kit “Get New Habits”, created city map of Recycling trash beans, which are needed to be placed in the city of Daugavpils, went to the city council with proposal, build bird houses, took part in the big clean up and cleaned nature from trash, created local flash mob, wrote eco song and performed it on stage on the local event.
• Constant social and environmental activities by the lifestyle of activists.

You also can read/hear/see about us in media.

If you want to join or support us, feel free to contact us.

Currently our main project is developing bioethics education program for schoolchildren and youth.
We are currently working on art, social and charity programs as well.

You can take part in our creative and charity projects, help us with organization events, be a volunteer who involved in social fields (shelters,children,elderly people, e.t.c) and art fields (exhibitions, concerts, films).

We are seeking for partners in EU projects, for details see:
http://otlas-org.salto-youth.net/9300