Saku Valla Noortekeskus

Saku Municipality Youth Center is administered by Saku Municipality. We have two youth centers in Saku area: situated in Saku and Kiisa. Youth center provides different kinds of opportunities to local youth at ages 7 - 26. Saku Municipality Youth Center has two different houses, bone is located in Saku and the other in Kiisa. Saku youth center is in temporary rooms at the moment and will get a bigger house in September 2020. Kiisa youth center is in a building built in 2015. Both centers are popular among young people. Youth Center is mainly opened from Monday to Friday and offers different kind of activities and hobby clubs for youth. The aim of the Saku Municipality Youth Center is to organize and coordinate youth work in Saku municipality area. Both youth centres include small complex of rooms, where youngsters can spend their free time playing (mini)pool, table tennis, board games, Xbox, listen music, use the kitchen etc. There are also computers, where young people can surf in the Internet, study or play computer games. Each day about 15-30 young people are visiting Youth Center in Saku, because the rooms are very small at the moment. In Kiisa 20-40 young people visit the youth center daily. Both youth centers host regular hobby clubs for youngsters, for example cooking, cosmetics, street art, scooter and BMX bike trainings, roller skates trainings, handicraft etc. Youngsters are full of energy , they like to travel around Estonia or even in the world. We have token part several youth exchanges and training courses. In Saku Municipality Youth center work 3 youth workers with full time, 1 youth worker with half time and 1 manager with full time. People are divided between two youth centers in Saku and Kiisa. During the school brakes and summer we are organizing different type of youth camps. For smaller kids 7 - 9 years we have day camps, five days in week. For older youth 10 - 12 years we have 4-5 nights camp together with, our friendship municipality Ylojärvi, youth from Finland every year. One year in Estonia and one year in Finland. For youngsters 12-16 years we have youth exchanges with our friendship city Saku in Japan twice a year. In the summer youngsters from Japan visit Estonia and youngsters from Saku municipality visit Japan every autumn. Youth between 13 - 17 can participate in work camps where they can get their first payments and work experiences. Youth from 13 - 26 year also participate in different international projects. Saku Municipality youth center is making teamwork with other Saku organisations, mostly with schools. We are visiting schools and making activities for kids between the lessons. Because Saku is not that big it is good to make collabration with different youth organisations and teamwork with local Municipality is very good.