GC Introduction Message
The project comprises of an exploration of themes related to Global Citizenship, encouriging young people to carry out their Gaisce in a way to benefit the global development goals.
- – Youth work is based on the voluntary engagement of young people.
- – Young people should be empowered partners in the processes and opportunities that youth organisations provide. Youth work starts at whatever point young people are in their lives, regardless of circumstance, and recognises their potential.
- – Fundamental to youth work are the principles of equality and inclusion.
- – Youth work recognises that young people have rights and seeks to work in a rights-based way.
- – Youth work recognises that young people have responsibilities and requirements placed upon them.
- – Youth work seeks to help them address those responsibilities and requirements.
- – Youth work is essentially focused on activity which is both informal and non-formal. Informal activity seizes opportunities that are not necessarily planned. Non-formal activity provides planned opportunities which lie outside formal systems such as school-based education. Both kinds of activity might lead to accreditation or recognition.
- – The identification of youth work as a partnership with young people outside formal or legal requirements is an important element in securing the voluntary engagement of young people.
- – Youth work has at its core the importance of providing safe environments for young people and of supporting the safety as well as the development and well-being of young people.
