Happy Feet
Start date: Feb 1, 2016,
End date: Dec 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The intention of our project Happy Feet is to enable young people first hand experience in a mulitlayerd environment within a complex youth centre that provides various youth services throughout youth project in different fileds od youth's interest: Regional Youth Info Centre, Youth Club, annual Youth Conference, discrimination, rasicm and violence in youth sport and social entrepreneurship. The volunteer can choose to learn and work in one of five programs and also a possibility to learn and engage in more than one. Volunteers may choose any of the various project activities within our organization divided into five different fields:1. Regional Youth Info Center – Improve skills such as working with youth, social media, learning how to write articles for Youth info portal, and learning about Eurodesk.2. Youth Club – working with computers and other technical equipment (projector, scanner…),learning how to give technical support to other young people and transmitting knowledge about it. Meeting volunteers and participating in workshops and lectures. Gaining practical experience on how the library works, supporting youth events.3. Discrimination within Sports –getting familiar with discriminatory symbols; comparison of football supporters in different countries, gathering additional knowledge about prevention of discrimination and racism in sport, learning useful skills about organizing the Futsal league (20 teams, 5 team members each) and similar sports events on larger scale, becoming a part of aglobal campaign for football people action week in cooperation with FARE, gaining knowledge of how does an international network such as FARE works across Europe.4. Youth policies – participation in the organization of the youth conferences in partnership with local authorities and youth organizations, getting information about needs of young people from our local communities, working in developing local youth policies, conducting structural dialog.5. Social entrepreneurship – inclusion into local community through working with people with disabilities (Multiple Sclerosis). Improving skills in youth work, working with high school students, etc. The volunteer will also have the opportunity to take part in excursions and, develop their own project with our technical and any other support.