Participants

Andrew Sayers

Profile:
Andrew Sayers

Facts:
Age: 48
Nationality: English (lived in Denmark for 23 years)
Divorced
Children: Two boys aged 14 and 16 yrs.
Former career: Football player in England and France. Gardner.

I am vice area manager, for youth clubs and youth schools in area 4, Aarhus, Denmark. Aarhus is split up into 13 areas, in their work with children and youth.
I am very active in youth involvement and with active citizenship in Aarhus.

I have a long leadership career behind me. Initially educated as a “social educator” in 1992, at the Via University of Aarhus (Jysk Paedagog Seminarium). In 1997 I founded and ran the first sports afterschool club in Denmark, for 6 – 11 yr olds in Farum, Denmark (owned by Danish football club, FC Nordsjaelland). I was also an initial founder and creator of the first family school in Denmark.

Before my present job, I was a vice headmaster at a special needs school in Stenvad, Denmark.

I am deeply involved with youth participation and active involvement with they’re own lives and citizenship. In this work, it is imperative that I use communications in forms, which catches the youth’s imagination and attention. My motivation for cooperating in this joint venture is in developing these tools and exchanging ideas for further youth involvement.