Ubuntu Conference
Conference: International Youth Voluntary Service as a Tool
for Development Education
In the framework of the Ubuntu International Youth Voluntary Service Award 2009, AVSO – Association of Voluntary Service organisations – is organising a conference entitled “International Voluntary Service as a tool for Development Education” which will take place in Brussels on the 25th of June 2009.
The Conference is aimed at investigating how international voluntary service contributes to raising the awareness of development issues amoung young people and their environment; experts in development and volunteering will be asked to discuss if and how volunteering is a tool for educating young people to development through the following core questions:
- What is the added value of hosting an international volunteer?
- How do the young volunteers change during the service?
- What do volunteers learn in terms of awareness of development issues?
- What are the real outcomes of international volunteering projects?
- Do the young volunteers become active citizens?
- What are the impacts of international volunteers on the hosting community?
The conference will be facilitated by Helene Perold, Executive Director of VOSESA (South Africa) and will take place at the European Economic and Social Committee (Room 63), 99 Rue Belliard – 1040 Brussels) next 25th of June.
Please, click here to download the agenda of the Conference and the proper registration form.
If you wish to attend the conference, please return the filled application form by email to Ms Flavia Buiarelli, by fax to +32 2 245 62 97, or by post to AVSO – Rue Henry Stacquet, 61 B-1030 Brussels.
