Information for New Organizations

Following are the requirements for establishing a new YAN space:

• Selection of a community
• Organization of introductory meetings and info sessions to identify local schools and youth movements in the city.Get in touch with local teachers and youth leaders to explain what YAN is and recruit young people
• Carry out short presentations in classrooms
• Distribute posters and flyers in the community
• At the info session, make a presentation about YAN, show projects developed by other communties, explain how people can collaborate, give dates of next meeting, pass around an interest form
• Organize the orientation session for facilitators- a meeting for all who filled out the interest form. This meeting should discuss in detail the attributes of the projects, talk about the support materials available,the monthly meetings and journals
• From the workshops, plan interaction with the community, sessions with activists, get more info on community
• Then start the project

Essentials for the working of YAN space:

• 1 or 2 weeklysessions wth young people of 2 hours each
• Celebration at the end of each project
• Meetings/conferences once every six months with other young activists from other sites
• Frequent meetings to talk about how things are going