Sending and hosting organizations have a lot of other options volunteering, maybe a next workcamp, or long-term volunteering, E+ training, one day options or just helping the NGO in their activities. The aim of this session is to inform participants in an informal way about the opportunities, motivate them to participate (buy-in) and even to spread the world in their circle of influence.

Step-by-step IMPLEMENTATION

Raising awareness about the organization (30 mins)

20’ Create an individual challenge about important and fun facts about your organization. If there is a good internet connection and everybody has a phone you may use Kahoot.it. If there is no stable internet, you can do an offline challenge by creating 4 quadrants with the same questions in both. In the questions try to share interesting information about the activities of the organization and try to create ca. 15 questions. Examples

What are the most loved areas for volunteering? – Children, Educational, Refugees, Agriculture

How many volunteers participated in workcamp abroad through us?

How many participants do we have in our workcamps / long-term volunteering programs?

Where do we have volunteering opportunities?

How long is the shortest volunteering opportunity?

What is the max age for EU funded workcamp / long-term volunteering?

Can a 7 days train pass be reimbursed in an ESC workcamp?

What are the main training topics for E+ trainings?

10' Recognise the winners and go through the correct answer in a small slide deck to repeat the most important information.

💻Virtual version: The kahoot can work well in an online event as well.

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Social circus for further opportunities (60 mins)

30’ Create as many teams as many further volunteering opportunities your organization can offer (e.g. next workcamp, long-term ESC, E+ trainings, Internship, etc.). Hand out printed descriptions about each volunteering opportunity for the team and ask them to prepare in the upcoming 30 mins some kind of show about them in an artistic way (stand-up comedy, satire, spoken word, music, street theater, painting, movie…). The aim is to convince the other participants to participate in the presented opportunity and the show should be min. 3 – max. 5 minutes long.

30’ When all teams are ready, run the show as in a circus or street theater, use music between the plays. This could be a challenge again, where every participant 3 votes (e.g. 3 stickers with your organization logo) what they can use for voting at the end. Create a flipchart with all topics / teams as a voting table and after each team finishes start the voting. The winners may receive some gifts from the company.

💻Virtual version: Teams may work as small teams in break-out rooms and finally present their performance in a big circle.

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World café about engagement and motivation (60 mins)

Using the world café methodology facilitates a discussion / brainstorming about “How to boost international volunteering?”

10’ Set the stage

Create a “special” environment, modeled after a café, i.e. small round tables covered with papers (flipchart papers), coloured pens, and some biscuits. There should be four chairs at each table and no more than five. Welcome participants and an introduce to the World Café process, setting the context, sharing the Cafe Etiquette, and putting participants at ease.

40’ Small-group rounds

The process begins with the first fifteen-minute rounds of conversation for small groups. At the end of the twenty minutes, each member except one of the group moves to a different new table. The one person stays in the “table host” for the next round, who welcomes the next group and briefly fills them in on what happened in the previous round. The second round should last for ten minutes. You may initiate a third round (if there are many teams) for 5 minutes.

20’ Harvest: After the small groups, participants are invited to share insights or other results from their conversations with the rest of the large group.

The process has two aims, on one side to collect inspiring ideas on how to motivate more youth for volunteering, on the other side to engage participants of the event to think over awareness raising opportunities and by involving in such discussion they may act later on as ambassadors of volunteering.

💻Virtual version: The world cafe can work in break-out rooms, it’s suggested to prepare Jamboards for each table, where they can make their virtual notes during the discussion.

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Common tale (20 mins)

Ask the participants to sit in a comfortable position in a circle, so everybody can see others. Debrief the team, that “Now we will create together a faire tale about the best volunteering story ever. Anybody can start with a sentence like “Once upon a time….” and say a sentence. The one sitting right next to her/him will continue with the second sentence. The third with the third sentence and we go in the circle. We may take many rounds. Be creative and do not think over how other can continues, just let the story flow.” Encourage the team to think out of the box and may create multiple stories together.

💻Virtual version: Write / tell the story together in an online meeting, but before agreeing in the order. Ask every participant to rename themselves by putting a number before their name or use an ABC order of the first names.

REVIEW & DEBRIEFING

At the end ask two questions from all participants as, “What kind of volunteering would they like to do in the future? Who else they would like to involve in their circle of influence (family, friends, colleagues, etc.)? At the end thanks for all of them the participation and encourage them to further promote international volunteering.

TARGET GROUP size & specifics

10-30 participants workcamp participants, leaders

DURATION

min. 180 minutes

TO DO List

& Deadlines

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