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hello I am Henk I have been asked to

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inform you a bit about short term EVS, maybe to say

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at the moment I am Belgian myself but due to

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to the mobility programs in the past I moved to Slovenia

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and we established a youth centre over there, a youth organisation and focus

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really really on working with young people with
fewer opportunities

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all different kinds of, all different kind of reasons

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we've noticed that sending these young
people

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on an international project can really make
a difference it really helps them

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develop their own confidence, their own capacities

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they really work on their competences

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and that's not the only thing
it is also the context

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in which they are living, the parents, the school,

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the Youth Centre, centres for social work
everybody who is involved

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with these young people believe in that and support it

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and really make like a really strong
efforts of the young person

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to show, hey, you've done something, you see you can do something good which really

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has a big big big impact on them

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So we started like a couple years ago

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between Belgium of course because of the relation and Slovenia

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and this has been growing growing and
I must say at the moment we have quite a big network

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of organizations who focus more on
your

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focus mainly on sending and hosting
young people with fewer opportunities

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and this is very important, very
important to have this network because

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if if you really want to send or host

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receive you need to be sure with your

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that you have the right partner, because this is not like a daily event,

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this is not just like a holiday
this is really something

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it is a hard day working for the organization

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and please do not underestimate the effort that the young person has to do because it's

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real

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a life

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changing activity which means that for a lot
of young people

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they are getting confronted with their own limitations

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these young people when you send them
first of all

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you need to know them, you have to be sure that you know that they're willing to go

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if they're not motivated it's very hard

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You need to prepare them, as I said it's
not a holiday

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it's not a school trip it is really something
which

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has a very very influence on different

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images of their own life on

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also as I said before on
their direct context and so on

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so prepare them very well on

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then during the event itself do not
think they gonna be

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for a long time away and they are going to change, no!

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it's just a small seed which has to grow
because

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every EVS is just a method it's never

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never an aim on itself, there has to be something
following

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as a long-term pathway

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and yeah, why should you do it?

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If you want to host it's different do not expect to have
like

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an extra

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extra pair of hands in your organization
because the service is less important

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than the learning, the development on

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what should you do it? Because it's a
choice it's a mission

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and you help people and in many cases

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it's also the opportunity to be able to
send

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your young people to this organization

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yeah, we have very good results

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young people are very happy lot of them
went back to school for example

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A lot of the found a job afterwards or just

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finally had a positive experience
which they hadn't seen in a long time

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I can also give an example, we had two young
people who are

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quite disabled group and they went only for 2 weeks to a festival in Slovakia

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which was an enormous

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impact what happened to them and
when they came back

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they were able to move out

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from the living group, the living unit and they went to like

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a more a home replacing situation a

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more independent way of living and so on

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Small steps are important small goals
are important

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but it is important that you're
realistic what you're really realistic

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that you do not say

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hey, we are going to change the world. No,
step-by-step

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and don't forget to involve the young persons

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ask them what they want to, do look
together with them look together what is

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the goal they want to achieve

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Yeah, so why should you do it

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well you have to be a bit of a masochist
because it is hard working

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but at the end you have such a reward, such a good
feeling

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and then you see the results so I can

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definitely definitely recommend it and
the good thing is that

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compared with the regular EVS is that there are
also a lot of possibilities financially

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so you can apply for exceptional costs

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you can apply for special costs related
to special needs,

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and this can be very diverse for example
you can

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apply for extra funding to give them a
better

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deeper longer preparation, you could ask
for

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reinforcement mentorship so that they
are always have a monitoring

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on the young person is always somebody
available to give them a hand, to give

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them the push when needed.

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it is
important that

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these young people do have a mentor somebody
who is really

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stand next to them, not above or under them.

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A mentor is more than just a friend a mentor is
also a big shoulder,

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somebody to be to rely on

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a somebody who helps in daily life

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The mentor that doesn't have to be
available 24 hours a day

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but should be aware that he has to be a bit more more flexible

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For some people being a
mentor is as a personal choice a

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and some organization it's a job
depends how you look at

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I can really only say

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be aware that

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when you decide to do with you cannot do
it alone to be in a team

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everybody from the organization has to be behind it

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everybody has to supported it and I think

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that this will be

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something which you have to prepare for
the well in advance

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everything starts the with preparation and

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being aware that's not a regular EVS

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it Is really really a different way

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but with a very good impact

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a couple of a good things with short
term EVS is that a when you apply

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you can apply longer in advance and you can
be more flexible

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because if you really say oh we have the
volunteers then you have to apply, then

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you have to wait for approval, then you have
to wait

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for the preparation, then there is the
starting date

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it can take six months and believe me
these young people with fewer opportunities

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they are not always motivated that long
so when they're motivated

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you to catch them and have to be able to
send them, I can't say as soon as possible but

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within a normal framework you have to put them on
the plane

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this means that your partner
organization has to be ready to be flexible

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also means that you need to be aware
that the preparation of these young people

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should be really scheduled and structured
individual.

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what do we do especially in preparation?

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We inform the context, we work with the
context we go together to the parents

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because they need to support it. We
try to do

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several things together with the young
person for example he doesn't have an identity card

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or a passport we go together. What else
do we do

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give of course a training but everything is on an 
individual base

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as much as possible we work on
self-confidence, sometimes we even have to

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go to back together so that the young
person

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definitely has everything with him what
he needs otherwise they end up with two

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two pairs of underwear for
a whole week for example

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or other problems or they have their
summer clothes going to

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cold country so it is,

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they really need to be held by hand but
at the same time

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you need to give them the possibility to
discover themselves. It is empowering all the time

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and important

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very important but often is forgotten what
is the same as regular EVS

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needs to be follow-up you need to validate

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what's going on with them so and mostly
when you can do it is with this together again

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with this context you have been working in, with the
parents,

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the organizations and so on because alone to
do a follow-up

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alone with these young people needs to
be enforced everyday again

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and be very clear in your goal

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that's where you want to go to. Otherwise
what I would say

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just go for it just do it don't be
scared of it really it's just

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very very it's more easy than you would
think. Start with the network start with

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finding organizations who want to work
with you

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be sure you can trust them and if it's a
failure

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well you should learn out of it and

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and do it again and make clear to the young
person

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that the failure, everybody is allowed to have a failure but you should stand up

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and go again. Once you get the tricks

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you go and you'll see

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it's really worth doing it