Ghana 2014 - Global Youth Learning and Youth Living Spaces
TLFHD's biennial Educational and Cultural Exchange Programme 2014 was part of a project, Global Youth Learning and Youth Living Spaces - GYLAYLS, lead by a long time partner organisation of The Lily Foundation for Human Development, UK based community interest company, Share Think and Act.
This EU funded Project promoting Youth Development & Mobility and International Volunteering by Share Think and Act cic - UK was in partnership with the Microfinance and Community Development Organisation - Ghana, The Lily Foundation for Human Development - Tobago, and Untold – Netherlands.
About GYLAYLS:
The project had four main objectives:
a. To improve the mobility of young people and youth workers by bringing together 24 young people and 4 youth workers from 3 continents, 4 countries (UK, The Netherlands, Trinidad & Tobago and Ghana) via an international volunteering programme in Ghana in 2014;
b. To enhance the personal development and life skills of the participating young people through a comprehensive programme of one-to-one coaching/mentoring, transferrable skills and international volunteering which will increase their understanding of their own needs, as well as wider issues on poverty and marginalisation, youth unemployment and employability;
c. To increase young people understanding of inter-cultural dialogue and cultural diversity through the development/production of an artistic piece (with the support of National Theatre of Ghana) which will look at the relationship between young people and the “space around them”. The production will be used as a vehicle to help
them to understand their shared history; and
d. To enable the active participation of young people from disadvantaged communities in South London by delivering a mobility programme where the young people play a key role in the project implementation, both as deliverers of specific activities for their peers and as direct beneficiaries of the programme of activities.
This EU funded Project promoting Youth Development & Mobility and International Volunteering by Share Think and Act cic - UK was in partnership with the Microfinance and Community Development Organisation - Ghana, The Lily Foundation for Human Development - Tobago, and Untold – Netherlands.
About GYLAYLS:
The project had four main objectives:
a. To improve the mobility of young people and youth workers by bringing together 24 young people and 4 youth workers from 3 continents, 4 countries (UK, The Netherlands, Trinidad & Tobago and Ghana) via an international volunteering programme in Ghana in 2014;
b. To enhance the personal development and life skills of the participating young people through a comprehensive programme of one-to-one coaching/mentoring, transferrable skills and international volunteering which will increase their understanding of their own needs, as well as wider issues on poverty and marginalisation, youth unemployment and employability;
c. To increase young people understanding of inter-cultural dialogue and cultural diversity through the development/production of an artistic piece (with the support of National Theatre of Ghana) which will look at the relationship between young people and the “space around them”. The production will be used as a vehicle to help
them to understand their shared history; and
d. To enable the active participation of young people from disadvantaged communities in South London by delivering a mobility programme where the young people play a key role in the project implementation, both as deliverers of specific activities for their peers and as direct beneficiaries of the programme of activities.
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