“Youth Works in Rural Areas”

“Youth Works in Rural Areas” is a training course which has developed by a NGO in Mus, Turkey, that is called Genc Capa Dernegi which is working in rural areas.

Young people in rural areas has a lot of difficulties on healt, education, work, etc. And they need more support to establish their futures. That is why we are working young poeple in rural areas.

The main aim of our training course is to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes of youth workers and youth leaders working with young people in the rural areas combating social exclusion, poverty and other challenges in rural youth work.

Non formal education methods will be used in the training course. At the end of this training course, we aim trained youth workers who has leant new tools to use in their local areas and also has a network within rural organization around Europe and its neighbors.

We are going to organise this project between 1-8 March 2010 in Mus, Turkey with the pathner organisations from Protugal, Latvia, Greece, Slovakia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine and Moldova. We will have 2 participants from each organisations. All together we will be 25 people in the training course; 20 participants, 2 trainers and 3 support staffs.