TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for SARA MANDOZZI
The aim of the project, long one year and that involved Italy, France, Kenya and Uganda, was to analyse the different backgrounds of the EU and African countries involved with a specific regard to the situation in suburbs and slums, to encourage the development of local and international partnerships and the creation of a network composed by youth and organizations active on local and international level in order to realize new concrete actions and to develop in the future new cooperative synergies. Theme of the project, the oral tradition and the story telling as a way to preserve the past and to describe and better understand the present, as a way to encourage youth in becoming multiplier actors on local and national level, able to realize networking actions and grass roots based projects.
The group was composed by youth workers and peer educators active in the local youth centres and associations that daily work in less privileged areas such as suburbs, cités and slum. The aim is to give them the possibility to share working methods and to develop new ones which could be used in their daily work in order to involve a bigger amount of youth and beneficiaries.
The interactive methodologies proposed come from the non formal education and the story telling in order to foresee the active involvement of participants in each stage of the laboratories. The decision to use the Story Telling it’s related to its expressive power and its capability to facilitate the interaction between generations. In this scenario the Story telling, delivered through non formal education techniques, can become the privileged communicative channel among different generations, be the operative ground where knowledge and experience meet each others and where new proposal take a concrete and a participative.
The training course for youth workers stimulated the exchange of working methods among youth workers and peer educators and make them experimenting, practically, innovative methodologies targeted to less privileged backgrounds such as suburbs, cités and slums. These methodlogies were afterwards adapted by participants on the needs of their local background in order to enlarge the participation of young people with fewer opportunities.
Setting up of the activity programme and content's development;
Trainer on social inclusion and story telling workshop