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Constantza
Romania
1 – 3 June 2011
CENTRAS CONSTANTZA – THE VOLUNTEERING CENTRE
Sharing Experience Workshop: "Volunteer Mentoring as an Efficient and Effective
Adult Learning Strategy – Lessons Learned and Best Practice from Romanian Experience"
Grundvig Learning Partnership 2010/111-3.06.2011 participants registration sheet project nr: LLP/AT-430/132/10
Sharing Experience Workshop
• The workshop is a mobility action organised by CENTRAS Constantza within the Grundtvig Partnership Programme which involves staff, organisations and learners from Romania, Austria, UK, Estonia, Greece and Germany.
• The goal of this workshop is to promote volunteer mentoring as an efficient and effective adult learning strategy.
• The seminar will present the mentoring approach of CENTRAS by using young volunteer mentors, and will point out the differences and similarities between the mentoring system used by CENTRAS and other mentoring systems and practices.
European Federation of Mentoring for Girls and Women - Womentor)
• Established in 2008, in Austria
• 13 members from 11 different countries - „Projectoffice for innovative social policy“(Austria), “NGO Öökull” (Estonia), „German Association of Women Engineers“(Germany), “Greek women´s engineering association” (Greece), „International Zonta Jelgava Club (Latvia), „Regional Centre for Sustainable Rural Development” (Romania), „Inova“ (United Kingdom), People to People International – Chapter Plovdiv(Bulgaria), Club Young Scientists ( Bulgaria), Association Filia (Czech Republic), Mädchenzentrum Café Dauerwelle ( Germany), Euro-net (Italy) and Balkaya Youth And Sports Club Associate( Turkey).
• MISSION: Promoting gender equality through mentoring.
NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE ConstantzaCONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE
MissionMissionSupporting development of the civil society in RomaniaSupporting development of the civil society in Romania
ServicesServicesInformation disseminationInformation disseminationTrainingTrainingConsulting and technical assistanceConsulting and technical assistanceNetworkingNetworking
Main target groupsNGO representativesNGO representativesIndividuals and informal groups in communities, including Individuals and informal groups in communities, including youngstersyoungsters
NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE ConstantzaCONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE
WHAT THE VOLUNTEERING CENTRE DOES
Yearly campaigns to promote volunteerism
Recruiting around 100 volunteers each year
Training volunteers
Providing NGOs with volunteer human resource
Supporting volunteers’ initiatives
Youngsters empowerment
-Helping youngsters to acquire a self-confidence, so that they are able to join / to take part / to get involved / to take action in the benefit of the community
-training-counselling-mentoring
NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE ConstantzaCONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE
Our volunteers
Why youngsters want to volunteer
• The desire to help other people • The opportunity of testing their future job• Improving their CV• Achieving experience in a certain field• The opportunity to meet other people and to make new
friends• The opportunity to put in practice their ideas and
values• The opportunity to travel (even abroad)
Male 5%
Female 95%
male5%
female95%
NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE ConstantzaCONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE
the public sector
3%
the business sector
3% other sectors
11%unemployed
2%
retired2%
students in universities
43%
students in high schools
34%
other 2%
The sector from which the volunteers come
NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE ConstantzaCONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERINGCENTRE
1 hour / day72%
2 - 3 hours /
day25%
more time
available3%
Hours available for volunteering
NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE ConstantzaCONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERINGCENTRE
1 to 6 months
34%
6 to12 months
35%
longer term
availability31%
Period of time available for volunteering
NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE ConstantzaCONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE
Volunteering and
philantropy8%
Environment11%
Health and social
services32%
Education / training
14%
Art, entertainment
12%
Religion 4%
Human rights8%
International cooperation
10%Other1%
Field of activity the volunteers are interested in
NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE ConstantzaCONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE
Our volunteers
Other languages: German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Russian
English47%
French31%
Other22%
Foreign language skills
YOUNGSTERS IN ORPHANAGES
Main issue:
Youngsters lack motivation for life
Main problems and needs of girls and young women
64.3%
50% 50%
35.7% 35.7%
21.4%
21.4%
7.1% 7.1%
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7.1%14.3%
14.3%
14.3%14.3%
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CENTRAS’ mentoring system
CENTRAS’ mentoring system is designed to cope with the main issue the youngsters in the orphanages are facing:
Youngsters lack motivation for life because they lack life skils