Volunteering for Everyone
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The main aim of the project was to involve young people with fewer opportunities into specific short-term and long-term volunteer opportunities in organisations and communities they live in. Another project objective was to raise awareness of volunteering opportunities among these young people and naturally, through good examples also to inspire similar activities. In order to fulfil these aims, the Platform cooperated with volunteer centres, volunteer involving organisations as well as advocacy organisations working with people with fewer opportunities.
The main target group of the project was the group of young people with fewer opportunities – young people with disabilities, with a mental illness, unemployed, young people with educational difficulties, orphans, ex-offenders, etc. These people do not have many opportunities to get involved into volunteering today in Slovakia. If they are involved, they usually volunteer for organisations that care for them as clients of self-help groups and that is something the project would like to change. Within the project 69 young people were active in volunteering.
Project activities:
- Campaign focused on the increasing of participation of young people with fewer opportunities in volunteering – www.blbypocit.sk
- Trainings for organisations willing to involve young people with fewer opportunities in volunteering (carried out in cooperation with cooperating volunteer centres) done in cooperation with experts active in the field of work with different groups (visually impaired people, people with hearing problems, people with mental illness, Roma community, etc.).
- Actual volunteering (ad-hoc or long-term) of young people with fewer opportunities in various organisations done thanks to the help and support of partner volunteer centres.
- Evaluation and analysis of benefits of the project done through a publication and a half-day workshop.
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Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak republic
Platform of Volunteer Centers and Organizations
Hviezdoslavova 119, 900 31 Stupava, Slovakia
E-mail: platforma@dobrovolnickecentra.sk
www.dobrovolnickecentra.sk
Phone: +421/904/368 693



















