SCI Austria | The Power Behind Good Intentions

🗣️ International training, 1-7 December 2022 in Innsbruck,
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👉A lot of young people in Europe approach volunteering organizations with a well-intended “white savior” motivation: They want to “help” the Global South by doing a voluntary service in the Global South, often wanting to work with children. Many potential volunteers don’t understand the global power relations that stand behind such a motivation: European colonialism for centuries has exploited people, land, and resources in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania and the consequences of this are more than visible until today. Also today, European governments and companies are contributing to and driving global injustices.

✅With this training, we expect you to be able to start institutional changes in order to make your organization more ethical, antiracist and anticolonial. We also expect you to do follow-up workshops with the contents you learn in this training in your sending organisation, e.g. by taking over the preparation of volunteers or by doing a workshop on white savior complex.

⭕ The project aims to gather 30 participants. Our main target group is people who are actively involved in sending, preparing, or promoting voluntary services of Europeans going to the Global South. All participants selected for this project should meet the following criteria:

🔹Be 18 years old or older
🔹Live in one of the countries of our partner organizations: Albania, Austria, Czech Republic, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, North Macedonia, Portugal, Slovenia, Tunisia, Ukraine
🔹Be able to work in English
🔹Be interested in the topics of the training and have a strong motivation to act as a multiplier
🔹Able to attend for the full duration of the training
🔹If somehow possible and feasible, be committed to coming to the training without flying, and to
travel instead by overland route.
🔹We explicitly encourage participants of all classes, educational backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and ethnic backgrounds to apply.

Follow the link to read more and apply: https://www.sciaustria.org/2022/10/03/the-power-behind-good-intentions/

SCI Austria | The Power Behind Good Intentions