Service Volontaire International - Vivre Ensemble Ici et Ailleurs (VEIA)

About the local hosting organizationOur NGO promotes citizenship, intercultural dialogue & international mobility for young adults from 16 to 30, regardless of their qualifications & experience.
PRESENTATION OF PARCOURS LE MONDE
Parcours Le Monde Grand Ouest is a non-profit organization which aims to promote international and European mobility and intercultural dialogue and citizenship via formal and informal education methods. This is especially for young adults with fewer opportunities. Our purpose is to help them to create social connections, develop their independence as well as social and professional integration.
In our association, we sensitize, train and accompany young adults before, during and after their mobilities. So, we are looking for partners who are interested in receiving these young people on different programs like “Youth Exchange” and/or “Short-term European volunteering” etc…
Through our “Osez l’international” project, we aim to facilitate European mobility for young adults, regardless of their qualifications. We consider it to be a “structuring” part of their personal development, as well as their social and professional integration.
OUR PUBLIC
The vast majority of the young people accompanied by our organization comes from local community projects and neighborhood associations. Most of them have Level IV qualification or less and face several difficulties in integration (such as educative, social, economic, geographical issues). Many of the young people accompanied by the project live in underprivileged areas.
OUR MOTIVATION
For the young adults of this scheme, mobility abroad can have a leverage effect. It is also a mobilizing and enhancive tool during the personal development, and for social and professional integration. A departure to abroad country alone, without mentoring and for a long period of time, is not possible for everyone. In fact, some young adults are quite reluctant to launch their own projects of mobility without being accompanied. Therefore, they seek a secure and organized structure for their first-time abroad.
International mobility through volunteering is an ideal instrument for this young public. It offers a safe departure and links with an organization which is able to assist and provide them with tutorship. Being engaged in a project which merges citizenship, active involvement, non-formal education and social activities gives to these young adults, who are often in a dynamic of failure, the opportunity to succeed. Discovering new people and a new culture and experiencing another way of life will provide them with a sense of independency, a new open-minded vision, a better understanding of others… This kind of experience is particularly positive for these young people.

Presentation of the programme

“VEIA” aims at hosting international volunteers for long-term mobilities (9 months).

The association "Parcours Le Monde - Grand Ouest" (PLMGO) aims to promote and develop, through formal and non-formal education, European and international mobility, intercultural dialogue and citizenship. PLMGO’s actions particularly target young people (16-25) who are far from mobility, with fewer opportunities, the objectives being their empowerment, as well as their social and professional integration.
The VEIA mission is part of the “hosting organization” projects of PLMGO. The aim is to promote international mobility, education in citizenship and international solidarity, and interculturality directly to young people in the Pays de la Loire region.
The volunteers carry out activities targeting young people of the Pays de la Loire region, in order to encourage civic and solidarity-based commitment, openness to others and to the world around us, and intercultural dialogue, to fight against all forms of discrimination, and to deconstruct prejudices and stereotypes through the organization of workshops, events and other activities in line with the tools of popular education, education for citizenship and international solidarity, and the objectives of sustainable development. All this in the respect of each one and of the differences and of the living together.
The mission consists in the realization of a civic service within the association Parcours le Monde or in intermediation in one of the partner structures (school establishments of the National Education, the territorial communities, the Local Missions, the associations stemming from the City Policy districts, the associations of youth and Popular Education...) on the themes of the international, the interculturality, the Education to the Citizenship and to the International Solidarity (ECSI) and of the commitment and in link with its personal and professional project.
Through this mission, we wish to promote and develop the commitments and citizen actions "here and elsewhere" of the volunteers and the host structures towards the young people of the Loire Valley by encouraging awareness, understanding and the implementation of actions related to international citizenship, the interdependence between different countries, the desire to discover other cultures, to be interested in different ways of life, and to encourage open-mindedness, openness to the world and mutual aid between different cultures.
We will host 25 volunteers between October 2022 and June 2024, we are looking for sending organizations to be our partners

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RequirementsThis project is looking for 10 more partners.