ALL Rights for ALL TC is granted!

ALL Rights for ALL will take place...

The application for "All Rights for ALL-a training course for multipliers in human rights education" project that is planned to be held between 30th of September and 8th of October 2006 in Izmir is granted by Turkish National Agency.
The training course aims to create a common platform for youth workers and youth leaders to develop their competences and knowledge needed to organise and run European youth projects in human rights education

"NGO's Baltic Meeting" Contact Making Seminar

NGOs Baltic Meeting CMS

Young Society Initiative (a.k.a Youth Services and Training Initiative) is participating the contact making seminar, NGOs Baltic Meeting. The seminar is held in Scezszin, Poland between 14th and 18th of June 2006. CMS is organised by Hart to Hart Foundation. We wish a fruitful event for our member Meltem INELI and we hope there will be many interesting projects born.

CMS is the second contact making seminar of the Young Society Initiative. We had been a participant in Composing European Mosaic II which took place in Greece.

Meetings...

Regular Meetings!

Youth Services and Training Initiative has started to have scheduled regular meetings. We meet every saturday at 17:00 in Alsancak. We do not have a room of our own for the initiative for now, so we meet in one of our members' house located in the heart of Alsancak. As the weather gets better, we will use the esplanade/park in Kordon as well.

We had meetings on 20th and 27th of May. We also supported the street action and stall of Amnesty International Izmir group on 27th of May. The stall was aiming to get support for the campaign "Control Arms!". You can learn more about the campaign via; http://www.controlarms.org

Go for Volunteering!

Youth Services and Training Initiative is promoting EVS and encouraging its members to go for volunteering!
EVS is a once in a lifetime opportunity to interact with European society in another country. Look in the database and find the project that suits you...

European Union YOUTH programme offers European Voluntary Service (a.k.a. Action2).
Why have European Voluntary Service?
The European Union supports non-formal education opportunities for young people through transnational voluntary service which directly and actively involves young people in activities designed to meet the needs of society in a wide range of fields.
The aim of the European Voluntary Service action is based on three fundamental principles:
- To provide a non-formal intercultural learning experience for young people, encouraging their social integration and active participation, improving their employability and giving them opportunities to show solidarity with other people.
- To support the development of local communities.
- To encourage the establishing of new partnerships and the exchange of experience and good practice between the partners.
The YOUTH programme also recognises the value of existing partnerships that have been built up between organisations over the years and have made crucial contributions to the success of voluntary activities.

What is a European Voluntary Service project?
An EVS project allows a young person to be a volunteer in another country for a specified period, normally between 6 and 12 months. Voluntary service activities can take place, for example, in the field of the environment, arts and culture, activities with children, young people or the elderly, heritage, or sports and leisure.
Volunteers will participate in activities that comply with the following general principles. Activities must:
* take place in a country other than where the volunteer lives,
* be non-profit-making and unpaid,
* bring an added value to the local community,
* not involve job substitution,
* last for a limited period (maximum 12 months).
The vast majority of voluntary service projects are on a one-to-one basis, i.e. a volunteer goes from one country to another. These projects involving two countries are dealt with directly by the National Agencies in the Programme countries...

"All Rights For All" training course

“All Rights For All” project is a 7-day long training course for multipliers in human rights education.

Izmir Youth Services and Training Initiative applied Turkish National Agency for "All Rights for ALL" training course that is planned to be held between 30th of September and 8th of October 2006 in Izmir.

The youth workers taking action for human rights and that want to get active in the field of human rights are main target groups of the training course.

The training course aims to create a common platform for youth workers and youth leaders to develop their competences and knowledge needed to organise and run European youth projects in human rights education.

Welcome!

Welcome to the web site of Young Society Initiative!

The experienced youth workers and leaders have realised a need for a regional agency for youth work in Izmir and came together for an initiative to use their experience in youth field in 2005.

The volunteers that worked in World University (UNIVERSIADE) Games 2005 have also gathered to act for a better young social environment in Izmir.

Young Society Initiative believes in empowering the youth for social inclusion. We believe in the universal values of human rights, rule of law, freedom of speech, equality and democracy.

We believe in the importance of using intercultural learning and non-formal education techniques in building future generations. We give our main importance on peace education, human rights education and intercultural education to stimulate the new generations. We try to foster international youth work activities to achieve our aim of a "peaceful world of equality".