In the frame of the project “Skillful youth worker: the best motivation for your volunteers”, where the Albanian Organization of the Order of Malta takes part as a partner of Erasmus+, an educational programme of the European Union, which aims the modernization of the educational systems and their adaption with the needs of the market work, the third study visit was held in Ukraine, on September 13-20.
Its aim is to improve the (young) social workers’ competences and the motivation of young volunteers in their engagement in social activities.
The project “Skillful youth worker: the best motivation for your volunteers” is addressing to the youth workers from Order of Malta Organizations in Albania, Czech Republic, Romania and Ukraine, which are working with volunteers engaged in social work. The project is leaded by the Czechs partners, it ends at the end of this year and is financed by Erasmus+/agency of EU. The study visit in Ukraine was held at the offices of the organization Malteser Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv.
During this study tour the work was done on several topics such as assessment, supervision, motivation, etc.
All these themes were developed by mixed groups of participants, according to the activities that the youth teams of Malteser in Albania, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine have. These topics will be published in a brochure, as a help to young people who volunteer in various social projects.During the stay, visits were planned in the social projects where the volunteers of Malteser Ukraine offer their contribute.
One visit was a project for abandoned children in Ivano-Frankivsk, a center which was leaded and supported by the Catholic Church and the other visit at the schools for children with hearing and speech problems in Lviv, a school which was supported by the state.
During their stay, five volunteers of the Albanian Organization of the Order of Malta had the opportunity to visit the cities of Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk, as well as churches and museum centers.