Vision
Avrasya Community enables people to act as responsible global citizens working for peace and understanding in a diverse world. Avrasya Community seeks to affirm faith in the dignity and worth of every human being and of all nations and cultures.
Mission
Avrasya Community is to enhance international understanding and friendship through educational, cultural and humanitarian activities involving the exchange of ideas and experiences directly among people of different countries and diverse cultures.
Description
Avrasya Community is an international youth organisation. It is non-governmental, politically independent and non-profit organization open to youth from different backgrounds. Avrasya Community aims to remove the psychological barriers between different cultures, give a chance to mutual conversation, encourage youth participation and confirm strength in youth to express their opinions freely. It encourages respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms without distinction as to race, gender, language, religion or social status. The members of Avrasya Community are from different countries, religions and ethnic backgrounds.
Avrasya Community helps to create a space where young people are able to work together having common aims, to show solidarity, to learn from each other, to accept and respect cultural differences, empowering young people to be more autonomous and to have more responsibility in the social and economical development of our communities.
Fields of Action
- Cultural exchange
- Active citizenship
- Peace and Solidarity
Our Believes
- International educational and cultural exchange among youth further ensures long-term friendship and understanding.
- If people can better understand other cultures, they are more tolerant and accepting of differences.
- Citizens of all countries need personal contacts with other peoples and cultures.
Objectives
- To promote Informal education
- To raise public awareness on the benefits from informal educational activities
- Active youth participation
- To encourage youth cooperation and mutual aid in cultural, social and educational aspects at an international level
- Intercultural learning
- Youth mobility
- Learning by doing
- To attract, prepare and motivate young people to participate in international youth activities that make us more aware about the outdoor world
- Promoting an understanding between young people across borders through international youth exchanges
- To promote the idea of volunteering
- To learn through having fun
- To encourage participation of young people, giving priority to the people with fewer opportunities
- To assure quality of international youth projects
- To help build a society that is based on knowledge
- To promote solidarity and peace
- To support Freedom and Democracy
- To provide equal opportunities for activities
