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Grow with the Flow
Start date: Jun 18, 2014, End date: Mar 17, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project Grow with the Flow is a voluntary service program, lasting 6 weeks. It involved a number of 10 volunteers coming from Spain, UK and France and the hosting community is in Baia Mare, Romania. The activities are hosted and coordinated by Team for Youth Association. The main focus of the project is develop basic competences of the volunteers in preparing and implementing non-formal education events, by learning and trying out at least 5 methods: human library, social animation, street animation, photo voice and world café. What is more, the project emphasis is on using the new acquired competences to facilitate access of the volunteers in labor market, that is, to offer them an opportunity to concentrate on finding a job in which they can use the things learned in the project. A strong part of the project will be to concentrate on the use of Youth Pass, also as an evaluation tool but, more on how to build it so that it ca bring added value to a future job application. The 10 volunteers involved in the project are young people facing difficulties, either social or economically. Most of them are struggling to find a job for a long time and could not manage to get away from living on social benefits either because of the economic situation in their countries or because they did not manage to finish school and had to drop out. Another barrier the participants are facing is the profile of their families: coming from broken families or foster cares they have difficulties to integrate and have a normal life. The idea of the project came out during a meeting for preparing an event which is opening the year 2015 – Cluj Napoca, European Youth Capital. The event is called CONNECTOR and concentrates on promoting and testing different non-formal methods. The volunteers hosted in the project will also take part in the event happening in September (9-15). The service will last 6 weeks. In the first two weeks the volunteers will receive a training sessions about non-formal education and its characteristics. After that, they will work, in split teams, in implementing one of the 5 methods selected. They will have one coordinator leading the activities of each working team. The coordinator are our local volunteers or ex EVS volunteers that decided to stay in Romania. Their main tasks will be to research about the method and prepare for implementing it, find the proper location, design the promotion materials and promote the event, spread flyers, be in contact with the stakeholders from the community (other NGOs, local institutions, etc.), identify evaluation methods, evaluate the event, prepare a photo material for presenting the method implemented by them. For one week, the volunteers will take part in CONNECTOR. Two days they will be part of the laboratory of non-formal methods, presenting and preparing their methods and, in the next day, they will implement the methods in the city of Cluj. In the end of their service, the volunteers will make plan, together with the coordinator, regarding when and how they will use everything they have learned and establishing specific moments in which they will apply for jobs, using their Youth Pass. After the service, the volunteers will have to implement one method of non-formal education in their community, with the help of sending organization. On a long term, the project aims at creating motivation and self-confidence for the 10 volunteers, therefore to start applying for jobs, finding a way out of their difficult situations.
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