Youth Education and Leadership Scheme
Aegis Students' Youth Education and Leadership Scheme is designed to equip young people with the knowledge and skills they need in the fight against genocide and mass atrocities.
Educational Visits
Aegis Students' Education Team visit schools around the UK to explore issues around Prejudice & Persecution, Refugees and Asylum Seekers and the history and causes of the genocides in Rwanda and Darfur.
Volunteering Opportunities
Aegis Students provides many volunteering opportunites, encouraging volunteers to engage with their local, national and global community. Aegis Students supports volunteers from all over the world in their volunteering. The organisation also offers UK-based National Volunteering Opportunities:
National campaigns team: Responsible for organising national grass roots campaigns.
National events team: Responsible for organising the Aegis Students’ Annual National Conference and other national grassroots funds and awareness raising events.
Aegis Youth Speakers: Trained in public speaking by the Aegis Students Education Team, these volunteers raise awareness in their own community of Aegis’s work.
Teach English to Darfuris Scheme: Volunteers gain a TESOL qualification and support the Darfuri survivors living in the UK by teaching them English.
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