AzBuki was founded in 2011. as a non profit, non governamental organization. The mission of the organization is to develop democratic values, culture and tradition. The objectives are: promotion of youth, development of their potential, knowledge, skills, abilities and creativity, respect for human rights, dignity and equal opportunities for young people; promotion of understanding and tolerance between young people from different countries and cultures, intercultural dialogue and cooperation; promotion of European integration, Erasmus+ Programme etc.
The association AzBuki has strong cooperation with the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Serbia, who funded three volunteering projects: E- volunteers in 2013. (trough this project young people were engaged in training to teach and support old people and children with special needs adopting the proper use of internet), ecological project in 2015. (children with disabilities and children without parental care participated in promotion of the healthy life style and importance of environmental protection and recycling) and Want to live in Serbia in 2016.
All local activities are inclusive and give the opportunity to all people and groups from the community to participate. We have partners on local, national and international level, like elementary and secondary schools, Universities, local government, Regional Chamber of Commerce, National Employment Service, other Institutions and organizations. Membership in National Youth Umbrella as well as organizing local activities gives opportunity to our young members and volunteers to improve their personal skills and rise capacity of organization and local community through participation in trainings, conferences, round tables, etc.
We have about 50 active members and more than 80 volunteers.
Since 2016. we have been organizing a festival of fairy tales called Elf kids. We are promoters of world’s Global Bubble Fest from 2016 – a special performance for kids with a lot of soap bubbles, sport, live music and dance – created with aim to strength families and the local community.
Our organization is recognized and accredited for youth work and youth policy. AzBuki is full member of two national umbrellas for youth organizations: NAPOR and KOMS. This is Accreditations for achieving standards in a field of youth work. Those standards are: youth equality and inclusion, youth involvement in decision-making, partnership with youth, cross-sectoral cooperation, voluntary youth participation, youth as a resource, and not as a problem. Providing quality youth work we have launched a series of TV shows “Turn on live” indicating to problems of vulnerable groups: LGBT population, young people with AIDS, young people with autism, young people with disabilities, …
With a lot of local projects like: Young Debaters, Elf kids, We are working for better homes, Informative portal for youth, Turn on live (national), etc, we are one of the most active youth organization in our city.
Youth portal Re(d)action gives chance to young people to improve their skills for journalism, communication and authors’ texts and share valuable information to all youth in Serbia about EU programs, calls, education, job, etc.
Since 2014 we are partner in Erasmus+ program and have been realized a lot of projects within mobility for youth workers and young people as well as KA2 strategic partnership projects. KA2 project Acs2Youth coordinating by Azbuki is declared as good practice example.
AzBuki is active in ESC Programme as supporting organization from 2018. Volunteers have been sent in several EU countries – Portugal, Bulgaria, Italy, France, UK, Spain…