14 February 2016 the participants of the Training the Trainers of YMCA Belarus has celebrated several events on one day. Except of St. Valentine’s Day, the trainees enjoyed the Birthday of YMCA Belarus and received the certificates of the course "Training the Trainers"!
The participants were elaborating the programs of their own educational events, discussing the competences and skills of a trainer, thinking about their future development as professionals. Human rights based approach, roles of a trainer, styles of leadership in YMCA were discussed at the seminar.
Now the graduators have the opportunity to practice and deliver seminars for volunteers of local organizations in YMCA Belarus. The seminars will embrace the following topics: "Notion of human rights", "Active citizenship", "Gender", "Equality".
For YMCA Belarus this is a pilot experience to work with these themes. So, we wish to have an amazing experience to a new cohort of trainers and hope that this project will become a new success story in YMCA Belarus!
We want to remind that we run the project together with YMCA-YWCA Sweden, YMCA Ukraine and YWCA of Belarus. It has the goal to inspire our youth and strengthen our movements for the implementation of Human Rights Based Approach. Participation, Accountability, Transparency, Non-discrimination are key values, which we are working with within the project "Youth in Development".