Düzce Alfa Youth Association

NGO mission is to design and carry out projects that contribute to achieve a sustainable and inclusive development through education, culture and innovation. We try to respond to current social and economic challenges and enable to anticipate and drive the changes needed to achieve future goals and objectives in society. it is a dynamic non-profit youth organization that initiates and implements local projects of the positive social impact, particularly in the field of social inclusion and whereas young people have a central role. As a fruitful outcome, DAGDER, creates local initiatives aiming to bypass the urban division and provide a fulfilling and productive life for the youngsters. Moreover DAGDER has a comprehensive list of local collaborators from municipalities, professional schools, agricultural cooperative, universities with the potential of developing socio-educational activities. In addition, it aims to support the youth and disadvantaged groups in taking local initiatives. Those initiatives includes, but not only, social inclusion, sustainable environment, lifelong learning, social entrepreneurship, active citizenship, rural development, gender equality, empowerment, multiculturalism and arts. We also strongly believe in the mutual learning process, which takes place when people from different cultural backgrounds meet as well for the youths as for our organization. Through international cooperation we can support and strengthen all disadvantaged groups of our society , and also benefit from their experiences and knowledge in our own projects and organization so that we can affect more people to find their way across the borders, geographical as well as mental borders. The NGO was established in Düzce in 2020 and operates in the country and abroad. The Association prepares and conducts all kinds of social, educational, cultural and professional projects and activities that will ensure the active participation of individuals of all ages and cooperates with other institutions and organizations in these fields. It has very experienced staff in it. There are 17 active members and more than 100 volunteers who are working for the NGO. We write projects with our volunteers. NGO aims to do social, educational, cultural and vocational projects and activities in which people in all ages can take part actively in it. NGO has good relations not only with the authorities in Düzce province but also with organizations in all Europea. We work with the educational local authority in Düzce. We have a network of the organizations who works for youth. To achieve this aim following activities are aimed to conduct: -Organizing courses and seminars for inclusion of young people especially disadvantaged ones. -Cooperation with authorities and organizations for solving problems of young people. -Organizing events for diadvantaged people. - Organizing international activities and projects to contribute European Citizenship. We developed many initiatives and projects under the National Programme for Youth. We have participated different kind of projects – involvement of creative thinking in schools, Social inclusion, Active citizenship, entrepreneurship, sport and health, Intercultural Dialogue, disability, Youth empowerment etc. We would like to expand our experience in Erasms+ projects for youth workers and also benefit from other partners’ experiences and knowledge.