Ayanoğlu Mahallesi, General Hulusi Sayın Caddesi, 36/A
Kepez/Antalya
07070 Antalya/Antalya
Turkey
- Democracy and community development
MAGEND is one of the newest youth associations in the world (founded on the 1st of March 2022) consisting of the young youth-workers who are willing to promote self-awareness among diverse communities. Members of our association have been participating in several seminers and trainings including Erasmus+ and ESC projects. The main objectives of our organization:
- attract them towards active citizenship, active participation in the community`s life,
- provide them intercultural experiences,
- raise awareness on cultural/environmental problems,
- positively change their attitude,
- encourage them to participate in volunteering activities,
- create opportunities where they can express themselves freely,
- make them feel they belong to a community,
- improve their language and social skills,
- make them aware of their capacity and power,
- make them more tolerant and peacemakers,
- widen their horizon on specific different topics,
- show them how to improve their management skills.
MAGEND is mainly working in the field of youth, and inclusion of young people to society to make them active individuals. The main purpose of MAGEND is to support young people to overcome their personal obstacles in order them to be more active and qualified individuals and to express themselves freely in their societies with the European values. MAGEND has a young profile. To make youngsters involved, we use different methods such as art, sports, drama, languages, non-formal education methods, etc. On the national level, MAGEND also aims to promote dialog between local and regional authorities, universities, foundations, and other non-governmental organizations dealing with the enhancement of environment, art, digital learning, training, personal development and social inclusion.
MAGEND has been leading activities such as;
• Drama Workshops
• Psychology & Sociology Workshops
• Language Course
• Theatre Workshops
• English Speaking Club
• Cultural Awareness Activities
• Environmental Awareness Activities
• Leadership Workshops
• Team Building Activities
• Sport Activities
Apart from those activities, we are also actively writing Erasmus+ projects, and also being partners for the projects as the Turkish partner.
Even if we are one of the youngest ngo's in the world (8 months old), we have managed to reach over 3000 followers on Instagram since we are all young people knowing what the youth wants/needs. So, using the social media actively, we believe that we can help a lot to disseminate the Anna Lindh Foundation's goals, activities and results. Also, we have several young leaders, trainers and volunteers who would love to implement the activities of the ALF.
In order to disseminate even better, we can record videos and take photographs during the activities we take part in, and we can edit them to create videos that summarize the activities.
As we have so many partner institutions who are in the ALF Network already, we had several chances to see how important the ALF Network is. By consulting them, we decided to take part in this network as well since we have similar aim and goals, and believe that we can contribute a lot to the common goals. In order to meet and collaborate new individuals and organisations, we believe that joining the network will help us to achieve our goals.