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Volunteer mentoring as an efficient and effective adult learning strategy romania
1. 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"
Constantza Grundvig Learning Partnership 2010/11
Romania 1-3.06.2011 participants registration sheet
1 – 3 June 2011 project nr: LLP/AT-430/132/10
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza
CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE
Mission
Supporting development of the civil society in Romania
Main target groups
NGO representatives
Individuals and informal groups in communities, including
youngsters
Services
Information dissemination
Training
Consulting and technical assistance
Networking
5. NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza
CONSTANTZA 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
6. NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza
CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE
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
7. Who are our volunteers?
Survey of 300 young volunteers
8. 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)
9. NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza
CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE
male
Male 5%
5%
female
Female 95%
95%
10. NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza
CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERINGCENTRE
The sector from which the volunteers come
the business
the public
sector
sector other
3%
other 3% sectors
2% 11%
unemployed
2%
retired
students in 2%
high schools
34%
students in
universities
43%
11. NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza
CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERINGCENTRE
Hours available for volunteering
more
2-3
time
hours /
available
day
3%
25%
1 hour /
day
72%
12. NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza
CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE
Period of time available for
volunteering
longer
term
availability 1 to 6
31% months
34%
6 to12
months
35%
13. NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza
CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE
Field of activity the volunteers are interested in
International Volunteering
cooperation Other and
10% 1% philantropy
8%
Human
rights
Environment
8%
Religion 11%
4%
Art, Health and
Education /
entertainment social
12% training
services
14%
32%
14. Our volunteers
Foreign language skills
Other
22%
English
47%
French
31%
Other languages:
German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Russian
15. YOUNGSTERS IN
ORPHANAGES
Main issue:
Youngsters lack motivation for life
16. No. of organizations
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
lac
we
ac k
of
k inf
for or
m ma
al tio
an n
low d
se inf
l
64.3%
fe or
ma
ste
em l ed
lac uc
k ea at
of nd io n
ma ne
g
50%
te at
ria
l me
ive
se
lac a f
k ns im
of an ag
qu df e
al
50%
if ic ina
at nc
ion ial
an re
d so
pr ur
o ce
fes s
sio
35.7%
na
lac l in
k te
of g ra
inv tio
ol
ve n
m
35.7%
en dis
t in cr
th im
ee ina
co tio
n
Main problems and needs
of girls and young women
no
m
ic
21.4%
life
an
d
po
l itic
s
21.4%
fa
m
ily
vi o
len
ce
7.1%
pe
rs
o n
tra
fic
k ing
7.1%
17. No. of organizations
to
t al
no
.o
fo
la rg
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
ck an
of iz
fin at
an io
ns
c ia
la lr
es
100%
ck
of ou
qu rc
es
al
la if ie
ck la d
ck m
57.1%
of
ed of en
uc su to
pp rs
la at
o
ck io rt
of n p
28.6%
la pr er
ck th og so
e r nn
of in am
m vo s e l
ot lv fo
iv w em rm
at ea
21.4%
io
n k to
en en
fo pr to
r om fp rin
g
pa ot ub
rti io lic
ci n au
pa of
21.4%
tin m th
g en or
iti
in to es
ed r in
uc g
at pr
io og
21.4%
n/ ra
tra m
la in s
la ck in
ck of g
of tra pr
14.3%
a la in
og
or ra
ga ck er
s m
ni of fo s
za in rm
tio te
14.3%
na rs en
ls
ec to
to rin
tr a ria g
te lc
gy oo
th pe
14.3%
at
Problems and needs of the organizations providing mentoring services
ra
in tio
cl
ud n
es
m
14.3%
en
to
rin
g
7.1%
18. No. of organizations
10
12
14
16
0
2
4
6
8
total no. of
organizations
100%
equality
71.4%
promoting girls
and young
women 28.6%
developing the
entrepreneurship
28.6%
personal
development for
85.7%
social integration
by the providing organizations
Principles and values promoted
personal
development for
professional
64.3%
integration
Situation of mentoring
social change
7.1%
19. 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