Short introduction about my organization
24 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
Hi folks,
my name is Tamara and I work for ONO -Omladinska Nevladina Organizacija in Novi Sad, Serbia. For the next two weeks I’ll be doing a Job Shadowing in In Petto organization, here in Antwerp, Belgium. This would be my blogg.
To beggin with, I have to present my organization but in shortest posseble way. So, ONO is nongovernmental, independent, nonprofit organization, which started its work in year 2005, with the aim to realize activities for young people and improve the quality of youth work.
MISSION of ONO organization is improvement of youth work and realization of activities for young people that will answer to their needs.
VISION of ONO organization is the society in which young people are active participants with equal rights, who can show their potentials, whose human rights are completely respected, and who can be independent decision makers in decisions that are concerning their life and education. Our basic VALUES are equal opportunities for young people, tolerance, respect of human rights, and possibility for education for all people. ACTIVITIES of ONO organization:
- nonformal education of young people (youth work and youth info work);
- profesional empowering of people which are directly or indirectly working with young people.
More about us you can find on our webpage http://www.ono.org.rs/index1.html
More about In Petto I will post soon.
The reason that I am here, in In Petto, is that youth information work in Serbia is still in very basic and developing phase (nicer way to say undeveloped and unstructural, at least so far), and as we want to work in this area we need to use the knowledge and experiences of our experienced European partners. In Petto is known for it’s youth-friendly, modern and interesting ways of attracing young people and providing information to them. So, this is what I’ll be doing in next 14 days: learning how to sense the needs of young people and then how to respond to those needs by using methodology that is interesting and appealing to young people, such as games, online tools, magazines, social networks and so on. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to learn with me. So, read you soon… it’s now time for belgian chocolate…or wafel… or…. 
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