Free to be You and Me – a living toolkit for group leaders

In 2021, SCI and volunteers from partner organisations in Africa created this Living Toolkit – a resource for organising activities which are safe and inclusive when it comes to gender.
Two main themes of the ongoing project ‘Grassroots Change’ (coordinated by SCI Catalunya) are tackling Gender and Decolonisation in international volunteering. With the work and input of African partner organisations, SCI’s existing gender toolkit ‘Free to be You and Me’ was updated to be useful for African realities. It highlights inspiring past activities on gender in Africa and beyond, new non-formal education methods, and diverse resources.
We call it the Living Toolkit, because it has a flexible format, which means organisations can continue to add or remove the content relevant to their local reality. New contributions are always welcomed!
We thank UNESCO’s Participation Programme for funding the project which made this possible