Mediterranean Association For Education and Employment

Mediterranean association for education and employment (MAFEE) was established with common efforts of motivated young people and professionals from different fields who are ready to put their efforts together to make positive changes in their own and lives of other individuals, first of all of young people in their own local community but also to contribute to providing solution for global challenges through active engagement and voluntarily work. Organization was established with the aim of providing quality support and space for young people to develop wide range of competences that contribute to their personal and professional development. All the MAFEE’s activities and projects are developed based on needs of youth or initiated and implemented directly by enthusiastic young people with the support of trained volunteers or professional youth workers. Ensuring safe space for youth to take the initiative and following their needs, aspirations and motivations, organization is acting in different fields: from human rights, intercultural and interreligious dialogue to social inclusion, youth informing and environment. Organization is strongly orientated on promotion and protection of human rights through addressing burning issues, such as breaching the rights of minorities, growing xenophobia and homophobia etc. Through our activities we will keep promoting and creating conditions for society in which inclusion, acceptance, justice, solidarity and non-discrimination prevail. By developing different projects and programs, we will contribute to combating social exclusion and discrimination while promoting peace, equality, respect for diversity and well-being of all people, especially youth. Promotion and protection of human rights will keep being on of our priorities. Organization’s field of special interest refers to the domain of employment and entrepreneurship. Youth unemployment, as a global problem, is significantly present in Turkey too. Our aim in this field is, next to supporting young people in developing much needed skills, especially “soft” ones not provided by formal education, to make a concrete step in linking employers and businesses that need qualified employees with young women and men seeking a job. Another concrete step is supporting young people in becoming entrepreneurs themselves by providing them with all needed knowledge and helping them in search for financial resources to support their entrepreneurial ventures. In these terms, huge emphasis is put on startups and innovation. In this way we are supporting creation of economic opportunities for unemployed young people so that they can create a brighter future for themselves, their families and their communities. Our special mission is to provide equal opportunities for everyone, especially for motivated young people with fewer opportunities whose opportunities for mobility, especially international ones, are otherwise very much restricted due to their social or economic status, geographical position, health or disability. MAFEE is member of following networks: NoHateMakers network and HateFighters network focused on promotion and protection of human rights, especially online; Blue equality network focused on providing learning and mobility opportunities for young people with disability and Euro-Mediterranean youth network focused on cooperation in youth field between Middle East and Northern Africa region and Europe.