ESC: Communication in a youth NGO

Egyesek Youth Association is a community of active youth and young professionals. We contribute to creating communities based on solidarity, where people are aware of their own freedom of choice, they do what they love and connect with each other peacefully. The aim of our activities is to explore our own strengths and resources and to learn how to use them consciously to fulfill our personal and professional life. Our activities, youth work, training courses, and organizational development serve this aim. We work together with the following target groups: youth from all walks of life with a special focus on youth at risk; diverse stakeholders working with youth (schools, youth-clubs, experts); youth organizations. Most of our activities are based in Nógrád-county, a socially and economically disadvantaged part of Hungary, where young people have very few opportunities to meet their peers from other European countries, to engage in multicultural, non-formal learning, or to take part in creative activities during their free time. Working closely with local stakeholders (schools, youth clubs, youth workers, experts) we aim to fill this gap by creating meaningful educational and self-development opportunities locally while involving international youngsters in these programs.
Egyesek appoints an Executive Committee member in CCIVS (Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Services) and is a full member of the Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations.
Achievements:
- award on the 1st European Youth Convention
- Award of Excellence for Changemaker project by the Hungarian National Agency, 2018
- reaching around 300 local children and youth annually
- 4-10 long-term ESC (EVS) volunteers annually
- Inclusion Ambassadors EVS project officially recognized as ’Good Practice Example’ by EACEA
- 4-6 short-term international voluntary camps annually - 2-4 Mid- and Long-term volunteers
- 250-400 participants from all over the world on our courses annually