Organizacijos aprašas

We are a youth centre in the city of Waidhofen/Ybbs in Lower-Austria, Austria. Our organization is a part of the local government. The local government is financing our youth centre. We are a non-profit organization.

Our opening hours are Wednesday to Thursday from 15.30 until 20.00 pm and Friday to Saturday from 15.30 until 21.00 pm, these hours are our main working hours. At this time the youth centre is open for all young people from 13 to 21 years to spend their leisure time there. Within these hours we offer different activities like games, internet, music, sports, art-workshops, etc. We are a counselling centre for young people. We provide information on several topics, like laws, sexuality, drugs, school etc.. If needed we accompany our clients to different authorities. Our services are for free.

We are two social workers and one pedagogue employed for the youth centre, along the opening ours two of us are present. Once a week we meet for a team conference to exchange ideas and arrange new things. Other works we do off the opening time are make plans, budget, organise, advertise, reflect etc..

The volunteer supports the team members in their daily work during the opening hours. They are invited to organize little projects by them self, for example presentations about their home country, special cultural things or political topics, or cooking special dishes with our youth visitors.

The aim of the EVS project is to increase our activities for young people, to bring in an “intercultural dimension” to our daily work, to broaden the horizon of the team and our visitors and to support our clients on their way to become adults.