Learning Outcomes

EVS in STAND International Ltd.

As an organisation we support young people who have alcohol/drugs issues, experience of homelessness and low level criminality to participate in volunteering which benefits both themselves, their local communities and the individual recipients of the volunteering. This project wants to provide 6 long term placements of 6 months to 2 participants from disadvantaged backgrounds from each of the three countries that have been represented in our Exchanges, mainly Georgia, Belarus and Ukraine. After these volunteers return to their own countries another set of 6 volunteers will then come to Scotland ensuring that within the year we have 4 participants each from Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia.

The project will assist the young people to explore the options of developing volunteering ideas in their own country and using this as a basis to assist those children who are still in the state systems back in their own country. The project will also explore different volunteering models and and expose the young people to different ways they can make a more positive contribution to their own local and global communities.

The project will explore the concept of coaching and mentoring and will seek to equip the young people with coaching and mentoring skills that they could use when working within their defined volunteering project. For those who have an interest in peer mentoring we would organise sessions which would explore the methodology of peer education and through informal learning deliver some ideas which the young people can develop whilst with the exchange.

Learning Outcomes

- To widen participants perspectives and challenge their attitudes and perceptions to civic society through critical thinking methodology and activities

- To educate participants in techniques and skills which will help them to engage a wide range of young people, especially those with fewer opportunities, to make sense of a rapidly globalising world and their place as global citizens within it

- To reaffirm participants’ competences in adapting activities related to global youth work and global issues to different situations and youth groups

- Young people with fewer opportunities take more responsibility for their own actions and decisions and work with others from disadvantaged groups in other countries to bring about positive change that will reduce poverty.

- Young people’s awareness of volunteering, peer mentoring and community engagement with socially and economically disadvantaged young people is improved

- Those working with Young people with fewer opportunities become more aware that they and have an important part to play in European citizenship.

- Young people develop skills in coaching and mentoring which will assist them to contribute more to their own communities.

- Young people will have a greater awareness of LGBT issues and equality.

- Disadvantaged young people are supported to volunteer in their community

As the host country we will be responsible for:

- Designing the volunteer programme to ensure maximum benefit to all participants.

- Arranging food, accommodation and internal travel within Scotland

- Ensuring all supplies, tools and equipment are supplied

- Ensuring all tasks are risk assessed and approved

- Ensuring staff trainers have the requisite skills and experience to train/coach the young people

- Adapting the programme to meet the unexpected challenges that may arise.

- Ensuring all expenditure is properly accounted and receipted for.

- Contributing to the final evaluation and final recommendations.

- Communicating concerns when they arise so that they can be addressed timeously and proportionally.

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