VOLUNTEERING GAVE ME A JOB! by YOUTH@WORK Connecting the Dots Forum

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connectingdotsesc — 2022-12-08 05:23:13 UTC

Explain your experience, or the one(s) of the young people you have worked with, and 1) why and 2) how it helped you/them to get a job or start a (social) business.
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connectingdotsesc — 2022-12-08 05:25:42 UTC

Explain your experience, or the one(s) of the young people you have worked with, and 1) why and 2) how it helped you/them to get a job or start a (social) business.
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To share your experience from other european youth projects just go at the end of this column, click the + and follow this instructions. No need to login in padlet but recommendable if you wish to edit later what you may write now.

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Atilla Han Özcan/ Kırşehir

2022-12-08 15:41:13 UTC

I participated in the 1 month EVS program in 2014. Within the scope of volunteering, we introduced our culture to the elderly people at the community center in Madeira/ Funchal. We did various activities with them. We prepared and presented our traditional dishes. I also introduced our traditional musical instrument, the baglama, and our folk dances.

Thanks to the volunteering program, I increased my cultural diversity and improved my effective communication skills. I increased my networking opportunities by getting to know different people.

Zeynep Çınar/ İstanbul

zeynepcinar954 — 2022-12-08 18:54:42 UTC

When I was a 15 , I went to Romania Bucharest . I went to with my high school. A project to was. This project name is ERASMUS+. I passed exams. And I was succesful. I won. I was very excited. Me and my teacher and friends prepared about 1 months. We went to in December. When we arrived in Romania my roommates came my plane and we met. We went to our room after we met. I gained very experience with this way. I stayed a stronger first time. I changed my country first time. I travelled country, I met new people, I learnt different country, I had new friends, I participated ınternational form, I learnt different tradition and I improved my language. Even, I talk still my Roman friends. I hope, I will participated again...

Danıyal DANISH

2022-12-08 20:40:38 UTC

My community volunteering story started with the Community Volunteers Foundation. I had the chance to take part in many small/large volunteer activities such as environmental cleaning events, visiting nursing homes and having a pleasant time with old people. Thanks to these, a Volunteering culture was formed in me.

Danıyal DANISH

2022-12-08 20:48:11 UTC

With the advantage of knowing a foreign language, I started voluntarily translating in Turkish language for the first time in the neighborhood, through neighbors… Simple daily work or individual volunteering, which started at the hospital, progressed and I met with different associations. .

Ayşen Demir Aygün

2022-12-11 14:53:46 UTC

As a member of LÖSEV we re trying to raise awareness about Cancer Disease and the behaviors the way we see the sick who had leukemia disease in community.
So during the year, our students from different schools do some activities for them and also we cooperate with LOSEV and they give seminars at schools. Thanks to LÖSEV we are aware that not the disease kills but the lack of medical opportunities caused the death of little kids in the past. So we should learn about the disease more and be thoughtful towards those kids who suffer from it for years. They are not alone.
With LOSEV especially youngsters develop emphaty and become kinder and more thoughtful people in their lives.

Rima Kabbarah

2022-12-12 11:04:39 UTC

Anna Mazzetto, a young lady from Italy, had a short term EVS at the YWCA-Beirut, she wrote about her experience and how the EVS project improved her competences, linked her to her occupational profile via helping in teaching English through non formal education at the Y technical college. She also gained a better understanding of interconnections between formal, non-formal education and responsiveness to all kinds of diversity. This experience opened to her a window that increased her sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, gave her self-confidence and an added value to her CV.

Rima Kabbarah

2022-12-12 11:22:24 UTC

Milena Kruczyk , a young lady from Poland said about her long term EVS experience: "Volunteering at the YWCA technical college offered various activities that aimed at my personal development through inter-cultural learning, youth empowerment and other life issues. I experienced the everyday life of Lebanese people, the use of local currency, transportations, Arabic language, cultural expressions and get new social and civic competencies like witnessed religious diversity, tolerance, and acceptance. Moreover, I developed competencies in cooperating in teams by contributing actively to team tasks and being willing to take on responsibility. I learned how to encourage and involve other team members by learning with and from others, being aware of team processes and how they affect the team’s effectiveness and how to manage disagreements constructively. I am pretty sure that this experience will help me a lot in my future Carrere and it's an added value to my CV.

Rima Kabbarah

2022-12-12 11:32:42 UTC

Agnieszka Nowakowska, from Poland wrote about her VS Long term experience at the YWCA saying " I learned how to communicate meaningfully with others and the ability to listen actively, to be empathetic and to clearly express thoughts and emotions by being diversity aware. Moreover, I increased my intercultural competence by reflecting acceptance of ambiguity and change, maintaining awareness of one’s own identity, showing a willingness and ability to look at identity, culture and related aspects and dimensions from different perspectives. This will help me a lot in my future job because I may have to deal with people from different backgrounds. Also, I was able to use different digital tools the dissemination of the activities as communicating via e mail, using internet, mobiles phones, digital cameras and other IT means for realizing and documenting the project and also for disseminating its outcomes. That will increase my ability to do it easily in the future."

Emrullah SUVAR, Hakkâri

190417040 — 2022-12-16 09:43:58 UTC

Hello, I am Emrullah, I just graduated from high school, I was looking for a job where I could work without knowing everything and everyone. I started working in the ministry of youth and sports in 2018. One day, I met young people who came to our institution, they came to do a volunteering activity called drip volunteering project, which was the director of our association, and this impressed me a lot. After that day, I applied to the young volunteers platform and became a volunteer. I was selected for the project in Manisa, I had friends from many different cities and countries, we went to a primary school with these friends, we entertained the students and gave them small gifts, then in nursing homes. We met people at the rehabilitation center and had a lot of fun with them, we set up a library from the publications of our ministry and gave books as gifts, we visited martyrdoms and cemeteries, they smelled history, we were very touched here, then we cleaned the environment in the forest. It was a very important practice in terms of raising awareness for both us and the society. Those who saw it appreciated us and said that this project was a very good one. We visited the museums, historical and spiritual places of the city where the project was made. We chatted with the local people and listened to the problems of the people and tradesmen. and family visits, families and we were very pleased with this situation, we participated in the sapling planting activities and this project left very good memories for me, I think it is a project that everyone should experience.