AIESEC Jyväskylä's iGCDP team has spent spring 2014 working on Active YOUth, a project geared towards activating marginalized youth to give them positive experiences regarding work skills and education. Right now we are at the stage of putting out our TN forms and starting to do interviews for possible interns! As the project is starting to become reality it's a good time to write a few words about the process.
The planning of Active YOUth began in our Local AIESEC Seminar, autumn 2013. The newly formed iGCDP team wanted to influence the high youth unemployment rates in Jyväskylä and the planning started with a project where a diverse, international team of interns would work at local youth centers, helping young people with plans for their future and careers.
First things to take into account while planning a project were costs, a timeline for planning and implementation of the project, possible partners and possible funding. The team sent out applications to different funding partners, and during February the project was granted financial support. Together with Jyväskylän Kaupungin Nuorisopalvelut (youth services) the team started to plan the concrete implementation of the project project and deepen our co-operation. Nuorisopalvelut's side is to provide the project with the locations and help advertise and recruit youth, the rest falls on AIESEC Jyväskylä.
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| iGCDP team at Toukofest 2014 |
Up next was the planning of promotional materials and visual outlook for the project. The name Active YOUth was decided on, and after some logo designing the project got it's own website and a Facebook page. Promotional work was started off at Toukofest 2014, an event for 12-16 year old school children.
At the moment the project resources go to recruiting youth, starting to accept applications from possible interns and finding host families for the interns to get to know Finnish culture while working for the project. During the next months the team will start contacting possible sponsors for the project.
If you're from the Jyväskylä area and would be willing to help out - either as a team member or a host family, contact our iGCDP Executive Marianne at marianne.peltola@aiesec.net! If you're from outside Finland and you'd want to work as an intern in this project stay tuned for the TN form at myaiesec.net! Jyväskylä is waiting!
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