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Pi Youth Association

Pi Youth Association is a youth association that is established to enable young people in Turkey to develop knowledge, skills, positive attitudes and behaviors and also actualizes the decisions taken by European Union, Council of Europe and the United Nations’s in the field of youth. The Association also maintains its activities by taking into consideration the universal sensitivities, global principles and principles in human rights, participation and environment issues. The main mission topic of Pi Youth Association is youth rights and problems. In addition to this, there are 5 more mission topics we have; volunteering hours for the spread of volunteering, civil society capacity building to support the development of other youth associations, technology-based development to support general development, healthy living for youth to spread the habit of healthy living, and analysis of social media, which is one of the most widely used communication tools of the youth.

Pi Youth Association 's target group contains all individuals and youth workers between the ages of 15-30 living in Turkey. From our target group, women, refugees and disabled people have priority. In addition to carrying out activities to support youngs’ personal development, Pi Youth Association also works on youth rights in order to solve the problems experienced by young people in our country. Pi Youth Association also determines its medium- and long-term strategies according to the European Youth Strategy Document and the current situation of youth in our country. Since 2016, Pi Youth Association has published its annual activities and balance sheets on its website in accordance with the principles of transparency and accountability. It is also a signatory of the donor rights declaration.

Pi Youth Association’s office team consists of 12 people including 4 professional employees, 2 part-time employees, 2 long term trainees and 4 office volunteers. There is also a volunteer team of local youth, with more than 100 active young people. The name of this volunteer team is Pixel Team. Pixel Team voluntarily supports all projects and activities of the Association. It consists of young people between the ages of 15-30 who regularly participate in the activities of the association and are trained in the culture of the association.

Pi Youth Association is also a member of many national and international networks. National networks of which the Association is a member; Youth Organizations Forum (GOFor), National Youth Parliament (UGP) and TechSoup Turkey. International networks of which it is a member of; The Anna Lindh Foundation Euromed, Google for Nonprofits, Microsoft for Nonprofits and AMSED Member Network. Pi Youth Association is also a signatory of the UN Global Compact. Our Association is also an Eurodesk Contact Point.

Pi Youth Association is a member of the PRISMA European Network, a pan-european informal network of organisations active in the youth field and interested to raise the quality of their work through technology. Since 2016, PRISMA European Network adopted EQYP standard of quality in youth work.

Pi Youth Association is a local and non-governmental youth organization that is active in national and international fields and can reach many young people. Social media accounts and website of the association are followed by many youngs. The Association has more than 25,000 followers on Facebook (2 pages both in Turkish and English).