A mentor now – a friend for life
The European project PROUD is currently recruiting volunteers who wish to become mentors for unaccompanied minors and youth. These volunteers will have the opportunity to attend a brief training seminar on the mentoring process and then, as mentors, will support unaccompanied minors to facilitate their transition to adulthood and independent life.
Who can become a mentor?
Any volunteer who:
25 years old
Is above 25 years old, regardless of his/ her educational and professional background
life experience
Has got significant life experience and knowledge he/she would like to share
languages
Speaks English and/or the languages which unaccompanied minors speak
committed
Is committed to implement all steps of the mentoring process (application, interview process, training and meetings with his / her mentee, supervision meetings, etc)
Knowledge
Has experience in similar activities and interventions
migrants
Mentors who are third country nationals and who are/ have been migrants, refugees or asylum seekers themselves will be preferred.
How can you become a mentor?
Mentors’ participation is voluntary. In order to become a mentor for the PROUD project, the following steps need to be taken:
1. Application stage
potential mentors should fill in an application form, requesting data on their educational and professional level, as well as some information on their personal interests in order to facilitate the matching process.
3. Training stage
2. Selection stage
4. After the training
After the training, mentors will be matched with mentees and then a series of mentoring sessions will commence. During an eight month period, the mentoring pairs will meet for at least twelve (12) times, in order to jointly develop the mentees’ Action Plans.