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Helping Others Participate and be Engaged in Society
Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The Helping Others Participate and be Engaged in Society - HOPES – is a project within the framework of the European Voluntary Service that involves 10 young volunteers from Youth in Action Programme Countries who will spend 9 months working with non-formal education methods in social institutions form the city of Craiova in South West Romania. The project general objective is to promote social inclusion, solidarity, social awareness and tolerance for youth with fewer opportunities while also contributing to the personal and professional development and life-long learning process of both the target group and the volunteers through a non-formal working methods. The volunteers of the HOPES Project will be directly involved in the planning, organization and implementation of non-formal activities in social institutions that deal with socially disadvantaged groups and with youth with psychical and psychological disabilities. The project will be structured in 3 phases: - Preparation, Adaptation and Training Phase(PAT) – a programe designed prepare the volunteer for implementing the project helping them better understand project objectives, roles and responsibilities, tasks and working methods as well as developin concrete skills such as non-formal working methods, team work, communication, social work and other relevant skills that will be usefull in the project implementation. - Community Action for Social Inclusion Phase This project activity will be the core of the project and consists of a 9 months EVS stage for 10 volunteers who will be working on social inclusion in 3 social assistance institutions in Craiova. The volunteers’ tasks will be diverse and focused both on social and personal development of the volunteers as well as improving the target groups (socially assisted persons) situation/status (cotributing to social inclusion, developing personal confidence and socialization, etc). - Evaluation and follow-up phase. This will be take place in the last month of the project and will be orientated towards evaluating together with the volunteers, project partners, beneficiaries and other stakeholders the degree to which the project achieved its objectives, the impact of the activities and planning the follow-up activities to the project.
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