HINTERLAND Vitality Check

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HINTERLAND Vitality Check Examples from typology
type Nr. 3 Eržvilkas
Name of Locality Eržvilkas Number of
inhabitants 3200 Name of Municipality
Jurbarkas Name of County Lithuania Vorderland
dist. (region center) 32 km to East from
Taurage 25 km to North from Jurbarkas.
A voice from name of village
Škaplierna feast such a fiesta of Eržvilkas,
that each inhabitant of Eržvilkiškas preparing
for it, thinking how to make fiesta more
memorable, atractive decorate and tiding houses,
environment, discuss each part of that Big day.
Monitor of Eržvilkas lokality - J. Aleksiejus
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• We are type Nr. 3 !
• What does it mean for our village and what do we
  have to do?

Strengthen the strengths! Demography Ther
e are about 130 inhabitants in Locality who has
university and 70 of total inhabitants has
professional preparation Economics Acting 4
specialized enterprises, there are 8 shops,
coffee, service, barber, lumbermill acting
specialized milk and growing farms (3 farms)
farmers use EU support Social life Acting 2
KBO, witch connect about 100 people, 2 sport
clubs, Shots and Scouts organizations good
conditions for children education (secondary
school and two primary schools) acting family
crisis center acting computer-bases courses,
few public internet approach Reduce the
risks! Demographic risk? Death rate two and a
half times overtop than birth. In last 3 year
almost nobody came to live in Locality, coming
just to work here Big part oh inhabitants left
to foreign countries to work (about 200 people)
Economic risk? Placement is quite problematic in
Locality, it effects non creating working
places farmer are older ones, there are just 4
young farmers Social risk? Vanishing art amateur
(bandonijai ensemble), just one children art
collective is left not small part of
inhabitants going to town for their work
Pavadinimas
Memories from community life
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We got type Nr. 3! Look what we have achieved
so far
Calendar of activities in the last 10 years and
Picture Gallery
Year
Activities description
Meeting of community center members
Title
2004 established Eržvilkiškai community
center association 2005 - established
Lybiškes community center in locality 2006 - 30
year jubilee of Eržvilkas bandonija 2006
pursued project, supported from EU Taurage
district Jurbarkas area village and outer first
health care institutions modernization realized
in Eržvilkas 2007 Professional art evenings
Return to Lithuania village". G.Pierne,
C.Debussy, R.Wagner and lithuanian folk
creations.
Ensemble Eržvilkas bandonija
In 2006 LR Prezident V.Adamkus visited Varlaukis
base school, where participated school year start
selebration ceremony (Varlaukis village,
Eržvilkas locality, Jurbarkas dis.)
EU support reach Eržvilkas
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We got type Nr. 3 ! Our vision for the future
Presentation of Eržvilkas town advantage
represented cultural house director Gintare
Stirbiene

• Vizija Eržvilkas all time ourselves teaching,
  health community, developing traditional and non
  traditional agriculture, nurturance local
  culture, creating modern life and working
  conditions, especially attractive for youth.
• Other future projects
• creation of four new KBO
• distant family crisis center development
• Old Lybiškiai village kinder garden building
  fitting for local community demand.

Problems and weaknesses summarized Jolita
Mockaitiene, Eržvilkas Scholl social worker
Future vision how our town might look in our
imagination. Idea for vision spread teacher Ona
Puišiene.