Open Youth Center
Start date: May 18, 2016,
End date: Nov 17, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
„Open Youth Centre” is an individual EVS Project. Volunteer from Italy will be staying for 11 months in Belarus working for the NGO YEC Fialta in Minsk that has special open youth centre. Organization provides alternative leisure and educational activities with a main objective to help those who get in touch with Fialta to consciously determine their own life-stand and develop free and flexible way of thinking. Centre does not have paid stuff and it is based by contribution and work of volunteers. Main priorities of organizations is to raise participation of young people and fostering active citizenship. The foreign volunteers will represent another culture and supposed to organize together with local volunteers educational activities and workshops connected with the topic of youth participation and voluntarism.The volunteers will develop personal competences living and working in new environment as well as contribute to local community working with young people from different social, educational, economic backgrounds. Important part of the volunteer’s activities is working out and delivering educational and artistic workshops for young people at the open youth centre. Volunteers will be also involved into working with modern technologies often used in youth work – IT, maintaining blogs and pages in different social networks. As well, as the Youth Centre now works more with young people with less possibilities, volunteer will research local associations which work in this field and will be able to start their integration and inclusion there.
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