FORMATION OF CIVIL ACTIVITY OF YOUTH IN THE VOLUNTER MOVEMENT PROCESS
The article discusses volunteer activity as a driving force of society, it is a special socio-cultural space for the realization of the individual and the formation of a person’s character and attitude to the world around them. The authors of the article emphasize that the main feature of volunteering is the manifestation of human civic activity, a peculiar form of expressing the activity of society, within which social interests and rights of a citizen are realized, the protection of human rights and freedoms. Taking into account the theoretical and practical justification, the authors of the article revealed a number of contradictions: potential opportunities of social and cultural conditions for the formation of civic activity of young people in the process of volunteer movement and their insufficient use in the practice of cultural institutions; the need to solve the tasks on the formation of civic activity of young people and insufficient scientific and theoretical substantiation of the potential of the volunteer movement. The authors of the article draw attention to the results obtained in the course of the study, that among young people can be identified responsible, initiative, with great potential to realize the creation of the future of our country. Young people are interested in developing and improving their country; many young people are attracted to helping others, taking responsibility for this. The study scientifically substantiated, developed and tested a project aimed at involving young people in volunteer activities in the formation of civic activism in the conditions of cultural institutions. Attention is drawn to the conceptual basis of this project, which is a value-normative basis for the interaction of cultural and leisure institutions with other subjects of socialization - the family, educational institutions, public organizations, institutions of supplementary education, the village administration, the media. The goal of the project is to popularize volunteering among young people, increase socio-cultural activity among young people, and also develop a volunteer (voluntary) movement. The creation of this project allowed the youth to be introduced to social problems, to situations in the world, in the region, in the village. All this together contributes to the formation of civic activity of youth in the process of volunteering.