Ankara Eğitim Gönüllüleri Derneği

Ankara Education Volunteers Association with the shorten name ANDER is an active civil society organization which is working on education, youth and life-long learning since 2014. Youth based organization is working in Ankara in order to enhance social, cultural and personal skills of people. Our main objectives are the followings; considering social issues, producing ideas to solve the issues and create awareness, to contribute the interaction between societies with different cultures and different aspects, to cooperate with organizations to solve current issues, to support relations, dialog and cooperation between Turkey and European Union, to support youngsters to be an active citizen and to get them into the society easily, to generate employment for potential and disadvantaged people; also, to build projects, activities, and improvement activities which are supported with modern education methods considering their opinion and suggestion also current issues and their perspectives, and finally using the results of whole these activities, to contribute popularization the results on the intended population and to contribute sustainability of the results. As Ankara Education Volunteers Association, we appreciate Erasmus+ Program because of their support to unite global issues and to improve organizational capacity. Furthermore, we know that Erasmus+ Program is really advantageous for individuals and organizations. Ankara Education Volunteers Association especially supports projects and activities like Youth Exchange and European Voluntary Service under Erasmus+. Our association has organized several meetings to inform people about Erasmus+, and with these meetings ANDER has achieved to inform lots of people and organizations. In addition, has applied for grant for our projects under Erasmus+. Our association matters the participation of disadvantaged people to social, cultural and economic life. We aim to better support and make our volunteers disadvantaged people more active thanks to Erasmus+ Programs. We also know that European Voluntary Service is a great chance for people to improve their being abroad experiences, to have new opportunities, to know foreign people and different cultures and improving the social skills. Furthermore, we plan to better our relations with other Turkish-based organizations and organizations from other countries. Ankara Education Volunteers Association maintain its works in Yenimahalle, Ankara. There are lots of disadvantageous people in our neighborhood. That is why we generally focus on disadvantageous people in our works. Our association cooperate with student clubs in universities, youth clubs, and youth centers. So we can reach lots of people. We organize lots of activities such as, English speaking clubs, debates about social and cultural topics, awareness studies and socially being active. Ankara Education Volunteers Association has cooperated with student clubs in universities and organizations in recent times. In this manner, we want to emphasize that our association has participated in lots of local and international young-oriented activities. Also we support our volunteers to take part in these activities. We present the details of our works in the website, which is www.anderstk.org , of our association.