PANAMA: IAVE World Youth Conference - Youth Volunteering for Solidarity and Equity

The IAVE World Youth Volunteer Conference will create a get-together space dedicated to visualising the volunteer as a factor of human development among young people. 200 participants from all over the world: young volunteers, young representatives of volunteer organisations and young professionals, aged between 15 and 30 years, will have the chance to share their views and experiences, to exchange information and knowledge and to get to know better the situation of youth volunteering world wide.

Participants: 200 Young people, volunteers and professionals from 15 to 30 years old.

Objectives:

- To create a space to exchange experience and information about the situation of youth volunteering world wide.

 

- To strenghten and to promote new programmes and activities of youth volunteering, in Panama and all across the world.

 

- To get to know innovative approaches to answer the actual challenges that young volunteers and volunteer organisations are facing in their communities from a global perspective.

 

Youth Conference will focus on four topics:

  • Youth Volunteering for Solidarity and Equity.
  • Global impact of Youth Volunteering.
  • Features of human development in Youth Volunteering.
  • Innovative programs and new fields of action of Youth Volunteering.

 

Topics will be developed by expert panels and by group discussions led and facilitated by young people with expertise in youth volunteering from all the world regions, according to the needs and expectations of participants and the topics found more relevant by participant themselves.

To participate is necessary to follow next requirements:

To be between 15 and 30 (inclusive).
To be actively involved, as a volunteer or as a profesional, in a volunteer project/ organisation.
To complete the online registration.
To be responsible for getting own VISA.
To take care of arranging health and travel insurance.
Send the application form to: IAVEyouthconference@gmail.com and jcordoba@presidencia.gob.pa  

 

Registration deadline: 29 February 2008. Visit: http://www.iave.org/NewsView.asp?newsID=144  

 

 

 

Organisation: 
International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE)
International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE)
International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE)
International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE)

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