General info pack for EVS

Akdeniz Üçüncü Göz Eğitim ve Gençlik Derneği (Third Eye Education and Youth Association of Mediterranean) is situated in Kazanlı - Mersin – Turkey.

Our Project “Heal The world”, which will take place in Kazanlı - Mersin – Turkey ,between 20^th October and 20^th December.

The nearest airport is in Adana which is on the east of Mersin and 60km far from Mersin.

Kazanlı is a town which belongs to Mersin and 15 km far from Mersin city centre. It is also one of the important place for sea turtles hatchling.

Akdeniz Üçüncü Göz Eğitim ve Gençlik Derneği(The Third Eye Association of Mediterranean - TEAM) was founded in 2009 in order to protect the wild and natural life with the local community and youth in and around Mersin.Especially We care alot with the Turtles Which leave their eggs on the coast of Mersin and are under the risk of extinction.We act as an EVS coordinating organisation in Mersin (sending and hosting volunteers),give training course to youths ,build up awareness and European citizenship by volunteering.Our organization is promoting inter-national and inter-cultural values,also youth initiatives and projects in the local community.

The turtles season is between May and October so in the rest of the time we give more attention to create awareness about environmental protection, recycling, reusing, reducing among youth and children via theatre play, games, flash mobs depend on our groups’ creativity.

One of the most important priorities for the project will be the promotion of active citizenship spirit, the empowerment of voluntarism and of the spirit of collaboration and solidarity to a young group.

Activities from the weekly program;

-Meeting with mentors and project coordinator discussion-briefing

-Cleaning the coast where turtle lays their eggs

-Preparing media about environmental protection

-Turkish Language support

-Meeting with local people and informative activities about environment

-Informative workshops – creating awareness about environmental protection, recycling, reusing, reducing among youth and children via theatre play, games, flash mobs depend on our groups’ creativity.

The volunteers will be active in the project for 35h per week (language lessons are the part of it. Arrival and departure days do not make the part of volunteering time.The volunteering schedule may also vary with time – some periods will be more busy, and some will be much more flexible. The planning of the activities the volunteer has to build up together with the host organisation.

Accommodation and board will be covered by the Turkish National Agency. %90 of Travel costs are covered by the Turkish National Agency and %10 of it covered by the participants.

Food, accommodation

We will provide food and simple accommodation for the volunteer. The volunteers are responsible to cook their meal 2 by 2 each weekdays.

The volunteer will be accommodated in 2 flats. The volunteer will share the common space and the bedroom mostly four people in one room. The flat is situated near the project area and has 2 double bedrooms, kitchen, living room and all other facilities.There are mainly sufficient materials like internet,fridge, kettle,oven,hot water..etc in theflat.

Language Course

We provide 2 times per week a language lesson training for total 4 hours.

Expected learning outcomes

European Volunteer Service is based on the principals of non-formal education. This gives learning opportunities outside schools, universities, and other similar institutions.

Without doubts, the volunteer will learn a lot during your project, and sometimes about the things he/she could not even expect from the beginning. In order to make the volunteer’s learning as efficient as possible, he/she has to take the responsibility for it, and to put clear aims, about what he/she wishes to learn, and how to achieve it.

The volunteers will be supported in the following and evaluating their learning process that will result in a recognized at European level certificate Youthpass.

We deeply wish to let this EVS place open for young people with a strong motivation to be a volunteer, and to continue after their EVS projects to be volunteers in their life and hopefully keep in touch with our organization and their sending organisation.

If you want further information of Turkey, check the link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrkiye

If you want further information of Mersin, check the link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersin

BE AWARE AND CREATE AN AWARENESS

AKDENİZ ÜÇÜNCÜ GÖZ EĞİTİM VE GENÇLİK DERNEĞİ COORDINATOR

Cumhuriyet Bulvarı Kazanlı Eski Belediye Binası Sağlık Ocağı Üstü M. Seyhan AKDOĞAN

Kazanlı - Akdeniz/MERSİN seyhanakdogan@gmail.com

Tel & Fax : 0090 324 326 33 12

www.3rdeyemed.com E-mail : thirdeye_med@yahoo.com

Date: 2015-01-11; view: 942