Description
The project addresses the challenges facing the project promoter related to ensuring its financial and organizational sustainability and the need to boost its capacity. The project aims at boosting the applicant’s capacity by involving young people as volunteers. Volunteers will make up for the lack of full-time staff and will enable the applicant to expand its activities and raise its visibility. First, a campaign to attract volunteers will be launched. Second, the volunteers will set up the Volunteers’ Club. They will adopt the club’s name, rules of work, meetings and accountability. Third, volunteers will attend 3 trainings on the main principles of volunteering (skills, code of conduct, transparency), strategic planning and opportunities for volunteering. Fourth, volunteers will propose and implement initiatives. Finally, the applicant will celebrate the Volunteer’s Day. The project will benefit the volunteers, the applicant’s staff and clients from the local community.
Summary of project results
The project addressed the challenges facing the project promoter related to ensuring its financial and organizational sustainability and the need to boost its capacity. The main project result was that the capacity of Education World Association expanded by attracting young people to work for the community and the third sector. The established under the project Volunteer Club continues to exist and function after the project end. The young people who were trained as volunteers are active beyond project’s completion and 10 initiatives proposed by the volunteers were implemented in practice. They learnt how to identify community issues, generate and discuss ideas for their solution, plan specific steps and set a schedule for the implementation of the initiatives, look for resources in the community to achieve their goals and make contacts with Bulgarian and international organizations supporting volunteers. They made contacts with different institutions and were granted certificates for their participation in the training sessions and events. The other beneficiaries included disadvantaged people with whom the volunteers worked such as children from Penyu and Maria Valkovi Child Care Home in Veliko Tarnovo and elderly disadvantaged people. They benefitted from the activities carried out with the volunteers. As a result of the implemented activities the visibility of the organization in the community was raised through the contacts made with the institutions and joint initiatives that were implemented.
Summary of bilateral results