How to support the activities of the volunteers to guarantee efficiency and a positive impact on the community they are serving?
How could the organizations foster the quality of mentoring and improve the quality of the service to the young volunteers?
As a reminder, during the 2 years’ project 2IQM – Initiative for an international qualitative mentoring, the following activities have been done:
- during the experimentation phase, the tools were tested by the partners as part of an exchange between European Voluntary Service (EVS) volunteers. The organisations from Thailand and Vietnam received a worker for a job shadowing experience. We sent 2 EVS volunteers in Hanoi, Vietnam for 6 months, hosted by Vietnam and Friends, and 1 Youth worker for 8 days. You can read Marco and Eleonora’s testimonies through our learning experiences;
- the production of a Guide to tutoring to support youth organisations improving their tutoring in the final fase;
- the development of the Online Mentoring Tool (OMT) available at site.
On the first day of the final seminar in Palermo (Italy) on 10th July 2017, we presented with ADICE the recruitment process and the management of the volunteers before their departure.
Volunteer Spirit Association and Vietnam and Friends introduced the project, the activities and the management of the volunteers during their staying and especially the mentorship. They also discussed their difficulties and how they faced them. They also showed the last version of the website that host the OMT.
On the second day, we shared the Guide to tutoring. Moreover, partners have visited the local volunteering centres in Palermo, such as:
- Centro Astalli, a non-profit organization which offers help for thousands of immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees every year;
- Centro Internazionale delle Culture Ubuntu, an intercultural kindergarten that supports foreign and local minors who live in Palermo city center;
- Mensa Caritas, where hot meals are offered to homeless people, migrants, and families with economic difficulties.
The 2IQM project is co-funded by Erasmus+ Key Activity 2 – Capacity Building in the field of youth with the main aim to improve the access to employment of young people by a volunteering experience.
It brings together six youth organisations involved in volunteering programs, with complementary experience and expertise in the different aspects of volunteers’ tutoring:
- ADICE – Association pour le développement des initiatives citoyennes et européennes (France, coordinator);
- VSA Thailand – Volunteer Spirit Association (Thailand);
- VAF – Supporting Center for disabled children integrate into community Vietnam and Friends (Vietnam);
- Liberty’s Promise (USA);
- CESIE (Italy).
If you are interested in the activities of 2IQM’s project, please contact youth@cesie.org
