A cycle of online training seminars for students and representatives of the volunteer movement of our country is held in Turkmenistan.

Such meetings with youth are organized on the regular basis together with the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan, Ministry of Sport and Youth policy of the country, and the National Red Crescent Society of Turkmenistan. Multifaceted work related to youth volunteering is an important area of implementation of the State Program in the field of youth policy for 2021-2025.

The seminars are held in turn on the basis of one of the country's universities, to which all the participants involved in the event - students, teachers, specialists of the organizing structures - go to a direct video link. These days the seminars are held in the Turkmen State University named after Makhtumkuli, International University of Humanities and Development, Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.

The teachers of the universities serve as the lecturers of the training seminars, whose task is to educate students on topics that comprehensively cover the concept of volunteering and volunteering. These include legal literacy of young people, voluntary work, the role of volunteers in modern society, goals and priorities of volunteering. The thematic range of activities is unusually wide. During the seminars, there is also an exchange of views between the participants - specialists, teachers, students, volunteers - listeners of lectures are also included in the dialogue.

The seminar organizers emphasize that the young, active people are always ready to come to assistance, the representatives of the volunteer movement show sincere keen interest in this this noble work and often become the initiators of new target projects.

Today the participation in the public and charity events, social, ecological, sport volunteering has already become an important part of life of the representatives of volunteer movement. Students, on their own initiative, conduct subject classes for junior high school students, help with their work representatives of the older generation, the elderly, veterans and know how to provide first aid in emergency situations. Activists, by their example, promote a healthy lifestyle - they organize sports competitions, they plant trees and carry out actions to clean up natural areas from garbage. The whole list of good deeds and noble deeds cannot be enumerated. All this is the result of multifaceted work with young people, and, first of all, the desire of the volunteers themselves to make their own contribution to the prosperous life of the country and society.

Anastasiya Kasyanova