Sunny Days Foundation is founded by people who are experts in diversity and inclusion. We also have experience in working with young people, women and other groups from disadvantaged communities.
At Sunny Days, we strive to empower the lives of the social workers through our variety of programs. Our Workshops are designed with all the tools to contribute to society in a meaningful way. We are happy to be the driving force behind the development of our communities and hope to continue making a difference in their lives.
Do you want to take a course from us? Contact us at info@stichtingsunnydays.org.
| Description | Objectives | For whom? | Daily Program | |
| DIVERSITY & INCLUSION FOR NONPROFITS | As civil society organizations devoting to tackle the core problems of our communities, we should emphasise on ‘diversity and inclusion’, reflect on strategies to comfort all our diverse participants, give them enough space and encourage them to express themselves freely. Therefore, with this training, we aim to address the main problems damaging the ‘diversity and inclusion’ ideal and find ways to overcome the challenges in reaching to this ideal. We encourage the participants to ponder the effects and results of D&I and how they can make their communities and organizations more inclusive. | Within the framework drawn above, this training aims to; • create awareness on the themes of diversity and inclusion, • realize biases within our communities, • increase knowledge towards segregation, discrimination and encourage thinking about inclusion, • overcome the judgments and problems arising segregation, • realize the wealth of people’s diversity, • find out how diversity can enrich our communities, • develop strategies and tools to increase inclusion within our communities. | This training is designed for; • volunteers, • youth workers, • civil society staff, professionals and NGO workers, • social workers, • project managers and developers, • community workers and leaders. | 1st Day: What is diversity and inclusion? 2nd Day: Understanding the differences 3rd Day: Types of diversity 4th Day: Social Inclusion 5th Day: Media and Wrap Up |
| WORKING WITH (VULNERABLE) CHILDREN | Having a protection system naturally requires the knowledge to detect how to protect children; from what/who, in which surrounding and using which tools. Since the children are still in the development period and the incidents experienced can cause damage on them, people working with children should be aware of the techniques to approach them and ensure monitoring them in the right way to be able to decrease or completely prevent the remained damage. In addition, creating the safe space where all children can play together, feel free to express themselves and which contributes to their development in a right way is very important. Thus, this training aims to give knowledge to participants on those elements and to increase their efficiency in working with children. | Within the framework drawn above, this training aims; • to increase knowledge and the visibility on the children’s rights, children protection and safeguarding, • to create awareness on that children are different than the grown-ups and more exposed to harm or danger, • to realize the situations which can negatively effect children, • to monitor children and realize the moments when child doesn’t feel included or safe, • that the organizations develop and set their own systems before starting action and use this system during the action, • to offer tools and strategies that can be used in working with children. | • volunteers, • youth workers, • civil society staff, professionals and NGO workers, • social workers, • project managers and developers, • community workers and leaders. | Day 1: Child Rights Day 2: Child Protection Day 3: Child Safeguarding Day 4: Working With Children Day 5: Closure |
| CONSIDERING GENDER BASED VIOLENCE IN PROJECT DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION | Gender Based Violence has been a known theme across the world for the last 50 years. The term is rooted in other subjects like Gender Equality, Human Rights, Women Rights and Equality in general. The dissemination of the theme and becoming a training topic in different learning environments in many places of the world have dramatically increased the awareness and action on this issue. However, gender based violence is still visible and problematic in different contexts notably because of cultural and contextual reasons. Therefore, with this training, we would like to encourage and spread the growing awareness of gender equality, human rights and sexual and gender based violence. In this training, we will talk about the concepts and cases from the field which will make this issue more visible for the people working in civil society, nonprofit environments, local organizations or government bodies. | Within the framework drawn above, this training aims to; • create awareness on the themes of gender equality, women’s rights, human rights and gender based violence, • realize biases within our communities, • detect and monitor the cases of gender based violence, • increase knowledge towards segregation, discrimination and encourage thinking about inclusion, • teach and make participants think about causes and effects of gender based violence, • promote gender equality in community projects and activities, • mainstream gender equality in organizational projects and activities, • create awareness on the gender based violence and gender inequality in refugee context, • how cultural differences can cause gender inequality and violence, • find out how gender equality can prosper our organizations and communities, • develop strategies and tools to increase gender equality within our communities, projects and activities. | • volunteers, • youth workers, • civil society staff, professionals and NGO workers, • social workers, • project managers and developers, • community workers and leaders. | 1st Day: Gender & Gender Inequality 2nd Day: Gender Based Violence (GBV) 3rd Day: SGBV in Refugee Settings 4th Day: Gender Mainstreaming 5th Day: Add-on and Wrap Up |
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