Alemanha

4936

Data de início: 01-09-2015

Data de fim: 01-09-2016

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 15-02-2015

Financiamento: Financiamento por aprovar

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: The foundation is an ecclesiastical foundation under public law. It performs a charitable mission based on christian-catholic principles, in particular for people of all ages with impaired senses, elderly people in need of care and for children and young people.
The foundation is represented at 10 locations in southwestern Germany, attends and conducts about 1.350 people in need and employs about 1.200 staff members. The Foundation is a registered non-profit organisation for care of the disabled and elderly people as well as youth welfare.

Most of the staff members are trained in vocational fields like: geriatric care, inclusive education, residential care, nursing, special education as well as administration.
On offer are internships for vocational preparation or as part of vocational training, Voluntary Social Year and National Voluntary Service program in diverse fields as well as work shadowing. Collaboration is also possible on a volunteer basis during weekends and holidays; e.g. as additional support in group homes or attendance for holiday camps.
The foundation is an incorporated village of the town located in the southwest of Germany, in the Black Forest.
The town is one of the largest town of the district and has 22.300 inhabitants.
Originally a town of clock and watch industry today it is a modern city that offers culture, sport, leisure time activities and nature, shopping facilities for citizens and tourists.

To ensure regional mobility volunteers get a monthly ticket which is valid for all public transport associations of the administrative district, on weekdays from 14:00 h, during weekend and school holidays the ticket is also valid in the neighbouring administrative districts.

The Franciscan Monastery and the facilities of the foundation take up a bigger part of the surface area. The foundation runs social facilities and services for people with impaired senses, elderly and handicapped people from all over the region.
The foundation take care and supports about 500 people at the location and employs there about 450 staff members. Among other things they are running a school for the Hard of Hearing, a logopedic kindergarten, a boarding school for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a vocational school and vocational training for people with impaired senses, shelterd workshop for blind people, homes for handicapped people and a couselling center.
European Volunteers are expected to keep the rules of our work with handicapped young people:
acceptance of young people in their particular personality ability to cope with strain by challenging behavior
full cooperation with staff members loyal and responsible acting according to the particular objective of our work
to be courageous to act creative and flexible

Perfil: The volunteer should be open-minded to work with young people with impaired senses. It's necessary for the volunteers to be sociable and outgoing, to have enthusiasm, and to be tolerant to foreign cultures. They should be able to interact well with different groups of people. An enthusiastic, responsible and flexible attitude towards the work is very important. Experiences in the care of handicapped people would be helpful, but not a prerequisite.
Volunteers should able to get easily in touch with the staff members as well as the handicapped people.
A basic knowledge of german language would be helpful.
Candidates should describe their motivation for a voluntary service in this project in a detailed motivation letter. Important are neither national or social background, gender, language skills nor level of education, but a convincingly motivation.
Age: 17-30

Tarefas: Volunteers get the opportunity to contribute – under guidance of staff members – to the support and leisure time program of the vocational training department and the sheltered workshop. Volunteers can introduce their own ideas and abilities like handicraft work, computer literacy, graphic design, mechanical skills, music playing etc. In the beginning the volunteer will only assist the groupleaders, later she/he will take on responsibility – as far as admitted by legal liabilities. Emphatically volunteers are invited to bring in their own ideas. Staff members will appreciate all initiatives to develop additional proposals for leisure time activities and will support planning and realization. Volunteers could develop their ideas for new games, activities or stories into a personal project if they so wished - creative ideas are always welcome.
Volunteers are invited to participate in internal vocational training seminars.
Volunteers are expected to accomplish a fulltime voluntary service of 38 hours per week. Overtime doing will be balanced by additional freetime.

Documentação: CV + Carta de motivação em Inglês + Ficha de Inscrição

Download: 4936 - EVS-questionnaire.pdf