Volunteer mentoring as an efficient and effective adult learning strategy romania

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

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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

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Who are our volunteers?

Survey of 300 young volunteers

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%

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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

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1 hour / day72%

2 - 3 hours /

day25%

more time

available3%

Hours available for volunteering

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1 to 6 months

34%

6 to12 months

35%

longer term

availability31%

Period of time available for volunteering

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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

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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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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