AU-YVC is a continental development program that recruits and works with youth volunteers, to work in all 54 countries across the African Union.
AU-YVC promotes volunteering to deepen the status of young people in Africa as key participants in the delivery of Africa’s human development targets and goals. It brings people together to share skills, knowledge, creativity and learning to build a more integrated Continent and by implication strengthen Africa’s relevance in the globalized world.
WORTH
- As a volunteer, apart from applying your skills and knowledge to solve everyday challenges, you would gain crucial international work experience and acquire a great deal of leadership and soft skills, develop your self reliance and acquire new professional skills.
- Most of all however, you would gain a life changing experience of learning a new culture, experience a new lifestyle, and get to know a new African country and its people outside your own. This experience would guaranteed shape your life and remain in your memory for the rest of your life.
ELIGIBILITY
In order to apply, applicant must:
- Be an African Citizen or you are of African Decent (African Diaspora with non African Citizenship)
- Be age 18 – 34
- Have at least a post secondary certified training and qualifications (Bachelor equivalent) with above average performance
- Be available to dedicate minimum of 12 (twelve) months to 24 (twenty-four) months for volunteer work
- Have good knowledge of at least one official AU languages (Arabic, English, French, Portuguese) and willing to learn others
- Have minimum of one year of volunteer and one year of work experience
- Have an up to date and chronologically complete Curriculum Vitae (please click on Sample CV for reference)
DEADLINE: Ongoing
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