YMCA Belarus does remember well series of International Trainings the Trainers of YMCA Europe. They let us prepare outstanding leaders who are still involved in YMCA Belarus with different roles and positions. This is a real impact that caused another effect – National Training the Trainers of YMCA Belarus. Former trainees are now educating new leaders for their organization!
"Youth in Development" project which we run together with YMCA-YWCA Sweden, YMCA Ukraine and YWCA of Belarus 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.
11-13 December 2015 YMCA Belarus organized the second session of Training the Trainers in Volozhyn. The future educators are being taught to develop and run seminars on such topics as "Understanding the notion of human rights", "Active citizenship", "Equality and non-discrimination". At the second session the participants were discussing the logic of developing of an educational event, methods and forms, group dynamics.
The common topic of the whole training is Power Space. As the participants say such events as Training the Trainers and YMCA as a family and a group of best friends really inspires, lets them grow, gives opportunity to think and act, develops and makes lives more meaningful.
As a project coordinator for YMCA Belarus I am happy that we have such an opportunity for changing lives of people for the better. When I read and hear feedbacks from the participants, I understand how important my job in YMCA is.