Employment and Life Skills through Volunteerism

A youngster without job opportunities has few chances to join the social and political life of his country and in Europe and has no possibility to make experience and develop his skills. This situation affects a lot participation of young people to social and political life. For youngsters in transition, volunteering is the perfect alternative to develop their competencies to remain committed at working at socio-cultural and political level. Volunteering does not come free, as it requires proper management. Volunteering done properly is not a system of employing cheap labour. It is estimated that it requires one skilled person to manage every 10 volunteers.

Participating in volunteering activities assure more possibilities for youngsters to improve their life skills and have much more opportunity to find a job then youngsters who never engaged in volunteering actions. Values and benefits associated to volunteerism are recognized from association nowadays but concepts such as “Structured Volunteering” is still a new and unexplored. Promotion of the active youth participation and the European awareness can best be done by educating youth workers and their raising their NGOs with capacities to multiply them with the youth and other stakeholders.
The training course aims to support the professional development of youth workers and youth leaders who work in inclusion on their critical understanding of volunteerism and active youth participation for being active citizens in each local community. It explores and makes participants experience its potential by enabling them to recognize and integrate structured volunteerism and other forms of youth participation in their youth work. The training will improve the competencies of youth workers about how to work with structured volunteerism technique and its elements. Beside this, training will offer information for opportunities and programmes offered by EC and other donor in order to empower young people to take action in every day work. Volunteers Hub methodology will be innovative tool for youth workers to connect volunteering and employment of young people.

Pedagogical approach
Methodology of the project will be mainly based in non formal education approach. Concrete methods to be used are: brainstorming, role plays, simulation exercises, debate, open group discussion, questions and answers, theatre, buzz groups, presentation of short videos, collage, creative workshops etc. By the end of each workshop, debriefing will be done from trainers/facilitators in order to take out the learning points from each activity and how to put in practice in daily life.
Logical frame of the training: Introduction, Get to know each other, group building, exploring the topic, Going deep in topic, lessons learned, tools to be used in practice, Follow up and dissemination, Final evaluation and closure.

Please send your PİF ( be sure you have 2 different contact people) in this email address by 10 September 2024: hamid_gasimov@yahoo.com