Project environment:
Outline the project environment for the suggested voluntary activities, including the local community where the project will take place (e.g. geographical, social and economical environment). If the host placement is located in a live-in community, please include the rules and conditions that apply also for the volunteer.
The volunteer will be hosted according to the project he has chosen as there are six different projects taking place in six different cities.
Istanbul is a metropolis with over 12 million inhabitants it is full of plenty of shops, festivals, nightlife, and other opportunities. Istanbul has been a conjunction of different religions, ethnicities, languages, political stands and so forth. It has some problems due to being a metropolis such as traffic, higher prices, higher rate of crime, great slums and so on. However, it is one of the most worth-seeing cities of the world.
Izmir is the third most populous city of Turkey and the country's largest port after Ýstanbul. It is located in the Gulf of Ýzmir, by the Aegean Sea. Izmir is the inheritor of almost 3,500 years of urban past, and possibly up to that much more in terms of advanced human settlement patterns. The city hosts an international arts festival during June and July, and the Ýzmir International Fair, one among the city's many fair and exhibition events, is held in the beginning of September every year.
Izmir Coordination Center has just been established in the center of Alsancak, a very busy district of Izmir. It has two rooms and a hall. One of the rooms is used as the room of the coordinator. The other room and the hall are used for the activities. University Student TOG Clubs are organising their activities in the coordination center. Because that the coordination center has just established,it needs to be activated so the volunteers should be very motivated to organise activities or workshops.
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a population of 4,319,167. Centrally located in Anatolia, Ankara is an important commercial and industrial city. It is the center of the Turkish Government, and houses all foreign embassies. It is an important crossroads of trade, strategically located at the center of Turkey's highway and railway networks, and serves as the marketing center for the surrounding agricultural area.
Ankara Coordination Centre: The centre is located in Kizilay, the centre of the city.In the centre, there are three rooms and a hall where the meetings of the projects,work or university groups take place. Besides activities like movie showing, workshops, conversation clubs etc... are provided.
Diyarbakýr is a major city in the Southeast of the Republic of Turkey. Situated on the banks of the River Tigris it has a population of 800,000. It is the second largest city in Turkey's South-eastern Anatolia region. Within Turkey, Diyarbakýr is famed for its culture and folklore. From Hurris 3000 B.C. to Ottomans, Diyarbakir has hosted more than 26 different nations in its land.
Diyarbakir Coordination Center is in the center of the city and easy to reach by public transportation. It has two rooms provided for the use of the volunteers. The coordination center is the place for the volunteers and the local people to meet and share. University student TOG Clubs organise activities like movie showing, courses and projects.
Samsun is a city in northern Turkey, on the coast of the Black Sea, with a population of 439,000. It is an important port. Samsun is situated between two river deltas which jut into the Black Sea. It is located at the end of an ancient route from Cappadocia: the Amisos of antiquity lay on the headland northwest of the modern city. Samsun has a humid, temperate, marine climate with cool winters and warm summers and high rainfall throughout the year. In Samsun, there are two youth service centres;
Samsun Atakum Youth Service Center has been established by the cooperation of the local administration, the university and TOG in 2002. It is a prefabricated building that includes a computer class, four classes, a multipurpose class, a room for the volunteers and a room for the coordinator. The amphitheatre in the youth service centre is used for outdoor activities. The volunteers (most of them are university students) are doing voluntary work, and also receive trainings and courses in order to develop themselves. The Youth Service Centre also provides service to local people.

Samsun 19 Mayis Youth Service Centre has been established in a town 25 kms far from the centre of Samsun city. The centre includes a computer class, a hall for drama activities, a conference hall, three classes, a guestroom for 26 persons and a room for volunteers. Besides providing language and computer courses, in the centre also young people are supported in order to increase their succes at school. The centre organises art activities like inviting theatre groups and opening exhibitions. Also thematic conferences for the local people are organised by the centre.
Van is a city in eastern Turkey and is located on the plain extending from the Lake Van, at a distance of 5 kilometers from the lake shore. It has often been called "The Pearl of the East" because of the beauty of its surrounding landscape. The city is home to Van Yüzüncü Yýl Üniversitesi (Van 100th Year University). The history of the city Van has an extensive inherit of culture and social structure. Being lastly the capital of Urartu civilization, Van had hosted various civilisations. Named as Tuspa before, Van owes the Lake Van much for its beauty. The Lake Van is the largest lake of the entire country. The local people call it "sea" due to its wideness. On the lake, there is the Island Akdamar and the church where was the birthplace of the Grogarian Doctrine. The Van Castle, the Hosap Castle, the Waterfall Muradiye are the other historical and natural beauties of the city.
Van Youth Service Center is a 3 storeyed building settled on a 1000 m2 area in the city center of Van. In the center, all the activities are organised and run by the volunteers. Neither politic or commercial activities are allowed. In the center, there is a library, a hall used for theatre-drama activities and movie showings, a hall for embroidery, a computer class, a room for directors, a room for volunteers, a unit for creating the projects and four classes used for various courses and activities. In the center, various courses are provided like traditional folklore dances, drama, theatre, computer skills, English, marbling art, embroidery, baðlama (a plucked instrument with three double strings and a long neck), guitar, violin, flageolet, salsa and cha cha dance. Besides, the trainings for volunteers to increase the personal development are provided. Van Youth Service Center recently has 40 active volunteers doing voluntary work and renders service to 500 persons.
In the project there will be some field visits to all parts of Turkey. Turkey is a big country with various regions with different cultural, political, economical and social statuses. Therefore, volunteer can experience very different atmospheres (western, conservative, culturally lively, undeveloped etc.)

Regular Activities of Pembe Ev
- Helping secondary and high school students with their preparation to exams
- Art and Self-Expressing workshops
- Thematic cultural nights of different countries, groups,subcultures etc...
- Democracy and Rights, Health Literacy, Reproductive Health trainings of TOG and other workshops from different NGOs
- Nature Camps and cultural-thematic daily trips
- Summer Projects and international youth exchanges
- Language Courses

Tasks and Activities of the volunteers:

• Helping the daily tasks of Youth Center
• Taking part in local and national projects in different cities.
• Participating to the TOG Youth Council which happens twice a year.
• Taking part in international projects.
• Helping to promote European Voluntary Service among young local volunteers.
• S/he may come up with his/her idea of a project/workshop and tasks according to his/her interests and skills.

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:

The EVS volunteers should have at least basic level of English and computer skills.

They are better to tend to create new ideas and break the routine.

The EVS volunteers should be motivated and patient to learn about TOG as it has a complex structure.

They are also expected to like travelling and tend to learn other cities in Turkey.

Since they will work together with university students, we prefer volunteers having experience on university life.

We prefer to work with established sending organisations that we can exchange our knowledge on Youth Work.

Risk prevention, protection and safety: