Training of Mentors and ROPs - Lebanon

Aims & objectives

The training course aims to help EVS mentors and RoP’s to understand more about their roles in an EVS project, as thought to answer their questions and develop their abilities about creating and managing EVS projects and mentoring volunteers; it also aims to help the participants develop tools for engaging volunteers, local communities and organizations in an educational and learning experience.

The training course is part of the EVS accreditation process in Meda Countries. Each NGO who would like to became accredited for sending or hosting volunteers should send 2 participants to the trainings organised at national level (dates are decided on basis of accreditations' request)

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

Team composed of:
Federica Demicheli - Italian - Project Officer SALTO Euromed

Aytac Uzunlas - Turkish - Trainer
Lama Tabet - Lebanese - Trainer
Justine Abi Saad - Lebanese - Trainer

Training methods used & main activities

Non Formal Workshops
Role Plays
Group Work and Group Exercises

Outcomes of the activity

A TV Ad about EVS
A newspaper article about EVS
A blog for volunteers coming to Lebanon
Documents desribing the roles of the mentors and responsible of projects of the Sending and Hosting organizations in Arabic and in English

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Designing the Training Program
Trained for the 5 days
Organized the visits of accreditors to the Lebanese NGOs after the training

I worked on this training for 5 days days as a full time trainer.