The Power of Volunteering
Start date: Aug 1, 2015,
End date: Feb 29, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The project “The Power of Volunteering” is a training course with an induction and a mentoring phase that will involve 24 participants from 8 European countries: Czech Republic, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Slovakia, Belgium and Italy. The training course itself will take place in the Czech Republic in September 2015. The methodology will be within the principles of non-formal and informal educational methods with participants being very actively involved in the induction and mentoring phases and the training course itself. Our project aims to empower youth workers / youth leader / key volunteers to spread volunteering as a means of social cohesion and access to labour market. Europe is currently facing a high rate of unemployment, especially among young people. Unemployment, in combination with financial crisis, inevitably leads to social instability, human rights violation and discrimination. In this context the power of volunteering is in being spread as a means to support social cohesion, inclusion and sustainability. The power of volunteering is also in the fact that it is a self-development process in which volunteers acquire competences that eventually facilitate their transition to labour market. Non-governmental organizations and particularly youth workers can play a significant role in this process by underlining to youth they work with the importance of volunteering and by motivating them to become volunteers und so gain new knowledge, skills and attitudes that will increase their chances on the job market. The training course “The Power of Volunteering” will provide youth workers with tools which develop young people’s self-awareness and self-development. It will also equip them with methods to motivate youth to become volunteers. The training course and its induction and mentoring phases will also aim at self-development of the youth workers to become self-conscious, empowered individuals who discover their power of working with young people. It is expected that by empowering the youth workers the idea of volunteering will be promoted among youth and thus, the impact on social cohesion and personal/professional development of the youth will be strong.
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