The Objectives to achieve are in our opinion:

• promote understanding, valuation of similarities – understand that background, culture have a role in our life, in shaping young people’s outlook

• to reflect on attitudes, emotions, understating towards our everyday life and to learn the same from peers

• learn to respect and like diversity

• stressing the importance of intercultural learning and tolerance

• promote the understating of respect as a rule for coexistence

• give a chance to practically touch, come in close contact with other culture, use youth work to observe differences in culture of other

We would like to give a young volunteer from a foreign country a chance to learn about our country, culture, youth and our organisation, help the volunteer to form his/her own private opinion about intercultural learning interference, get new knowledge about the concept identity, get more self-confident by analyzing the local heritage.

The project will be run in the capital and in all 10 regions and this will also give chance getting know the specific and identity of culture in different geografical areas even in such a small country as Armenia is. In the same time local young people who will be involved and participated in the project can also expirience intercultural learning.

The volunteer will work with rural and regional young people volunteering in regional youth centers. The volunteer will run a cultural club, where she/he will organize educational workshops on his/her country’s culture, traditions, cuisine, national games, linguistic animations as well as sport activities. The volunteer will also help the local staff of regional youth centers in everyday work with local NGO’s and projects.During a week the volunteer will work 30 hours. The schedule can be flexible, if the volunteer will work on Saturdays and Sundays he/she will have day off on Weekdays. The volunteer will have 2 day holiday during a month.

The volunteer will organize

• Cultural awareness workshop: The volunteer will meet with the local youth and present cultural heritage of his/her country. 30% of work

• Linguistic animations: The volunteer will meet with local youth to communicate, share own knowledge and help youngsters to advance their foreign language and communication skills. As commonly used language can foster intercultural learning and shared values, the volunteer will use the tools of non-formal education to create multicultural and tolerant working environment. 20% of work

• Games and sports activities (indoor and outdoor activities): The volunteer will organize and activate youth participation in sports and games. 20% of work

• Office work. The volunteer will help the local staff with office work. 10%

• Own project: The volunteer will have time for planning and implementing own project. 10%

• Armenian Language classes. 10%

possible schedule

Monday: Cultural awareness workshop, Armenian language classes

Tuesday: Linguistic animation, Office work

Wednesday: Cultural awareness workshop, own project

Thursday: Linguistic animation, Games and sport activities

Friday: Cultural awareness workshop, Armenian language classes

Saturday: Day off

Sunday: Day off