Developing Youth Programs for Habitat for Humanity..
Developing Youth Programs for Habitat for Humanity
Start date: Sep 19, 2016,
End date: Jan 18, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
Habitat for Humanity is an international non-profit charity organization working to provide decent and affordable housing to those in need. Even though Habitat offices co-operate worldwide, it's employees do not have many structured opportunities to meet and interact in a creative way to develop, expand and improve their programmes for young people.Our Erasmus project described above is aimed to help our European offices in exchanging knowledge and experiences related to working with youth, schools and youth organizations, and to collate best practices and key-learnings for future use and program development.Our schedule contains: site visit to built close relationships with HFH workers; panels and workshops to create the best policies and to create new concepts for the events and programs for youth. based on sharing knowledge and experiences from already exisiting programs. It will involve 12 participants from 6 countries. All participants have extensive experience in NGO sector and working with youth in different fields. They are also very interested in developing their knowledge and skills. Each project activity will involve young volunteers who will be our partners in all dialogues regarding new concepts for youth programs in HFH.To achieve our goals participants will meet in each country at a study visits, workshops and meetings with local youth and each other. Each meeting will help HFH employees (who are focused on youth programs) to verify the need and possibilities for development of our organization in the field of youth.Each workshop will focus on a different program and activity of our NGO and it will tackle the issue how we can involve youth into those activities(for example: fundraising, advocacy, volunteering, working with schools. The project will also involve meetings at schools, meetings with young volunteers.As a result of the project more young people will have the opportunity to engage in the important cause of our organization. Young people will gain access to new opportunities and have the chance to develop and improve their skills which will then continue to help them in education and professional training and also life in general.HFH staff across the region will improve their capacity to develop and manage exceptional international and local youth volunteering programs based on the latest needs of young people. Thanks to this project our organization will have a real opportunity for an international partnership with faster and improved communication lines that will help with future knowledge sharing and problem solving.Internal and external communications of the report, evaluation materials and training materials, will provide Habitat with a framework and knowledge platform to transfer and implement new strategies and a better youth program across Europe and worldwide.
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