Want to go abroad and make the world a better place, while working on your personal development? And are you between 18-30 years old?
CEDE Aruba offers opportunities (via the European Solidarity Corps) to work as a volunteer in Europe.
Want to go abroad and make the world a better place, while working on your personal development? And are you between 18-30 years old?
CEDE Aruba offers opportunities (via the European Solidarity Corps) to work as a volunteer in Europe.
The European Solidarity Corps is an EU initiative which creates opportunities for young people to contribute to projects that benefit communities and people around Europe. By joining a volunteering project, you can effect positive societal change, while improving your skills and competences for personal, educational, social, civic, cultural and professional development. You will also enhance your active citizenship, employability and transition into the labour market. The volunteering projects that we offer you to participate in, are co-funded by the European Solidarity Corps (ESC). The ESC program falls under the European Union. We, Aruba, can make use of this program because we belong to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The most important goal is: LEARN! Continue to develop yourself through “non-formal & informal learning”. You will also be an ambassador for Aruba and all volunteers after you.
Discover, Experience, Inspire, Create & Enjoy
Youth exchanges allow groups of young people from different countries to meet, live together and jointly carry out a work program designed and prepared by them before the exchange. This will take place outside the school environment. The program could be a mix of workshops, exercises, debates, role-plays, simulations and outdoor activities. They allow young people to develop competences; discover new cultures, habits and life-styles through peer-learning; and strengthen values like solidarity, democracy and friendship. The aim is to make participation of youth in society easier and more meaningful, and to allow participants to make a step forward in taking their life and profession in their hands and shaping it in a fulfilling way.
Youth Exchanges are subsidized by the Erasmus+ program, the EU program for youth participation. This program aims to enhance the skills and competences of young people as well as their active citizenship. Erasmus+ promotes mobility within and beyond the EU borders. The youth activities under Erasmus+ are based on non-formal learning and intercultural dialogue, and encourage the inclusion of all young people, regardless of their educational, social or cultural background. CEDE Aruba will soon start organising Youth Exchanges in Aruba. We also are partner in several Youth Exchanges abroad for which we recruit young participants through youth clubs in Aruba.
Learning is a Lifelong Process
CEDE Aruba, with support of Erasmus+, promotes the professional development of youth workers through training or networking periods abroad. Periods abroad can consist of training courses, study visits, job shadowing or observation periods at relevant organisations and more. Youth workers’ mobilities last between 2 days and 2 months, excluding traveling time. CEDE Aruba is partner in several upcoming Youth Worker mobilities in Europe. Recruitment of youth workers will be done through youth clubs in Aruba.