Vivre Ensemble Ici et Ailleurs (VEIA)

The association "Parcours Le Monde - Grand Ouest" (PLMGO) aims to promote and develop, through formal and non-formal education, European and international mobility, intercultural dialogue and citizenship. PLMGO’s actions particularly target young people (16-25) who are far from mobility, with fewer opportunities, the objectives being their empowerment, as well as their social and professional integration.

The VEIA mission is part of the “hosting organization” projects of PLMGO. The aim is to promote international mobility, education in citizenship and international solidarity, and interculturality directly to young people in the Pays de la Loire region.

The volunteers carry out activities targeting young people of the Pays de la Loire region, in order to encourage civic and solidarity-based commitment, openness to others and to the world around us, and intercultural dialogue, to fight against all forms of discrimination, and to deconstruct prejudices and stereotypes through the organization of workshops, events and other activities in line with the tools of popular education, education for citizenship and international solidarity, and the objectives of sustainable development. All this in the respect of each one and of the differences and of the living together.

The mission consists in the realization of a civic service within the association Parcours le Monde or in intermediation in one of the partner structures (school establishments of the National Education, the territorial communities, the Local Missions, the associations stemming from the City Policy districts, the associations of youth and Popular Education...) on the themes of the international, the interculturality, the Education to the Citizenship and to the International Solidarity (ECSI) and of the commitment and in link with its personal and professional project.

Through this mission, we wish to promote and develop the commitments and citizen actions "here and elsewhere" of the volunteers and the host structures towards the young people of the Loire Valley by encouraging awareness, understanding and the implementation of actions related to international citizenship, the interdependence between different countries, the desire to discover other cultures, to be interested in different ways of life, and to encourage open-mindedness, openness to the world and mutual aid between different cultures.

We will host 25 volunteers between October 2022 and June 2024, we are looking for sending organizations to be our partners