TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Ferah Şenaydın
Young migrant women face challenges every single day. Apart from sharing their communities' struggles, young migrant women systematically face double discrimination simply by virtue of being female and migrants. This includes not only discrimination from non-migrants but also within migrant the communities. Understanding that investing in young migrant women’s inclusion is essential for social changes, for the development of migrant communities and ensuring the rights of migrant women. Women are considered to be people with a high degree of vulnerability not only in the field of training and employment, but also to raise awareness of equal rights, to overcome cultural stereotypes. For this reason, October 15 was the world day of women for 1.5 billion women around the world and over 5 million in our country. For all these reasons, 8 partners from 8 EU and non-EU countries considered that the issue of equal opportunities among migrant women should be debated and promoted by creating new networks and partnerships that in the future can help to promote and know the principles of equality of chances, which will later lead to the awareness of the rights of persons belonging to vulnerable groups in general and to migrant women in particular. The main goal of the project is - Creating and developing networks and partnerships between the 8 partners in order to generate at least 4 projects having as main theme the promotion of the principles of equal opportunities and the elimination of discriminatory barriers based on gender.
Aims & objectives:
sharing the personal, socio-educational and professional experience of 35 youth workers from 8 partner and non-EU partner countries on the social integration of women in rural areas;
promotion of tools and methods of non-formal education in the social integration of migrant women from Turkey and partner countries in the project;
creating partnerships and networks between the partner countries in the project to implement social inclusion projects for women in rural areas.
Improving key competences and promoting active citizenship among young people, social inclusion and solidarity, intercultural dialogue, promoting European cooperation in the youth field, social inclusion, European citizenship.and innovation.
The training course was realized with participation of 8 countries including, Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Romania, and Croatia.
Non-formal methods were uaed including debates, word cafe, buzz group discussions, simulation, role play, forum theatre, and discourse analysis as well as a panel and a living library activity.
The learning outcomes included creating materials and innovative methods and tools to be utilized in the youth field, and thereby contributing to quality improvements of youth work and/or foster youth policy development and cooperation.
As the trainer of the project I was responsible for designing and implementing the training activities as well as providing guidance and mentorship when needed during the project.
I had the chance to work as a co-trainer with Ferah Şenaydın on this project, and I observed her unique talent as a trainer. She managed to implement non-formal methods very skillfully and used a very wide range of informative and fruitful activities during the whole project. I saw how she earned the respect of the entire group through her social skills, as well as being well-versed in both the concepts of the issue and the requirements of the job. Personally, I learnt a great deal from her and would like to work with such a compatible colleague again in the future.