We are looking for participants from following countries for the project below:
2 Participants From Russia
2 Participants From Poland
Dear Partners, friends & coleagues,
Municipality of Sumbas is planning to organize European Union Youth In Action Program Action 3.1 Project (Training Course) on24-31 May 2013 in Sumbas (Osmaniye), Turkiye (You can find necessary information about project venue below) about volunteering, active citizenship, European Citizenship, and strenghtening civil society, participation of young people and democracy understandment.
Where is Sumbas? What is going on there?
Project will be hosted in Sumbas/Osmaniye (Turkiye) which is small but cosy town by its high hospitality and rural culture through 15000-20000 inhabitants in Eastern Mediterranean Region, between Hatay(Queen of East), which is one of the most historical and interreligious city in Turkiye, Kahramanmaraş (Homeland of Ice Cream), Adana; 4th biggest city in Turkiye by its cosmopolitan structure & Gaziantep; center of production and history (you can find one of the first human settlements there). We don’t have an airport in Osmaniye but it is possible to reach Osmaniye via Adana, Hatay & Gaziantep Airports which are busy and working airports of region. You can find flights via western metropols of Turkiye to these cities easily. (For example there are more than 5 flights from Istanbul to just Hatay) Of course if you don’t want to have 15 hours bus trip.
What else about the location??
Osmaniye is very ancient city even if it is under shadow of historical and important cities around; which hosted; Hittite Empire, Assyrians, Persians, Alexander the Macedonian, Roman Empire, Arabs, Seljuks, Ottomans, etc.
Osmaniye is not industrial city because of agricultural lifestyle heritage in area; specially landlords who are producing cotton. On the other hand it is one of the most important production center for peanuts and %75-90 of reddish is from Osmaniye
Osmaniye; also produced very important intellectuals and bureaucrats for Republic of Turkiye during 20th century, you will be able to know more about all these characters when you will have chance to participate in our training ;)
*You can find one of the most important national park of Karatas-Aslantepe National Park with a lot of settlements and open air museum in Osmaniye. Most of the remains you will face will be from very ancient civilizations such as Hittites, Romans, etc
Osmaniye has nice climate for all participants who likes sun which is on city for 8 months of year.
* A lot of historical and touristic attractions are waiting for you during your free times and during our excursions in city. Don’t forget that Osmaniye is the province of castles from crusaders. There are remains of over 20 castles just in our province. You will also have chance to see different castles during our Project excursions and activities.
Information About Project
We as Fortuna Youth Union work on youth field with a lot of other fields since 2007. During all activities in where we had problem of participation and interest, we could not stop thinking about why it was so hard to make young people more active? Why we could not collect volunteers as much as we can? What is the thing that is keeping young people far from volunteering? We are sure more or less all organizations specially who are working with young people faced with similar problems and they asked similar questions as we asked to ourselves. Yes, volunteering is not popular between young people as much as we need. Young people does not see volunteering as good reference or career background for theirselves in the future. But on the other hand volunteering and volunteer has charisma and personality. Volunteering understandment is an image for person.
What is so interesting? Even if it is so hard to find volunteers for our domestic and local activities, projects or actions, lately international volunteering and volunteering projects, work camps became more popular between young people. Young people is trying so hard to be volunteer for EVS Projects specially in touristic and historical places which is charming for them, and they create wonderful outputs for societies even if they did not have volunteering experiences in their home countries. Young people are paying fees for taking part in work camps.
What do we want? By this project we want to share problems, and difficulties which exist about volunteering in different countries with our partner organizations. How can we encourage young people about volunteering in domestic actions and activities? How can we make young people to see volunteering as part of their image and identity? How volunteering in local level can be more popular and productive? We will try to create new tools to collect volunteers for future actions of our partners. We will learn more about volunteering, its effects on us, on our society and we will experience things which are visible in other countries while we are not aware of them about volunteering in organizations.
If you want to find out more about what we will do, then you are free to join us…
Financial Conditions:
*We will reimburse %70 of your transportation costs from your home to Sumbas by cheapest mean of transportation.
*We will reimburse %100 of your visa.
Timofey Medvedev is No Participation Fee
*We will NOT insurance costs
*We will reimburse %100 of your accomodation, and food (3 meals per day) during the project.
*All partners should pay their own costs for their presentations, materials for intercultural night, etc
If all these conditions are ok and if you liked our ideas for project, we gladly would like to cooperate with you so you can contact with us as soon as possible.
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any ideas, suggestions or questions connected with our project and planned activities…
For application process and further questions please contact with us by:
sfsoydemir@yahoo.com.tr