Lituânia

5932

Data de início: 01-10-2016

Data de fim: 01-08-2017

Vagas: 2

Duração: 10 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 20-01-2016

Financiamento: Financiamento por aprovar

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: The Centre is the governmental enterprise. The purpose of the centre is to provide social care, psychological, spiritual and material help for children from socially disadvantaged background (from the families-in need, from the social risk group families, or single-parent families etc.) The tasks of the centre is to educate the child and make him prepared to be a self-independent person who is responsible for his own behaviour; to encourage the family to work on the welfare of the child; to organize cultural, sport, art activities for children; to organize activities for children occupation after school; to organize prevention against drug, alcohol, nicotine abuse etc.

The main activities of the centre are as follow: after school activities (various art, music, sport, cultural workshops) food provision (lunch after school), help doing homework, organise trips and excursions, organizing camps etc.
Nowadays the centre is being attended by 40 children from social risk families. There are 7 staff members in the day centre: the director, two social workers, a psychologist, a cook, a cleaning lady and a driver. Some of them work part
time

Perfil: It would be an advantage if the volunteer was motivated to work in a small town with children. He/she was active, open for learning and new experience, tolerant to national issues etc.
Previous experience in work with children is an advantage as well as possession of creative skills like music, dances, and handicrafts.
Age: 17-30

Tarefas: The main role for the volunteer activities is going to be as follow :
1) to participate in the daily activities of the day centre (to work in the team and with the team, to be a helper of the social worker);
2) to help to organize children free time occupation (different games, workshops, events, organized together with the staff members);
3) presentation about the country of the volunteer,
4) to take part in development and realization of the day centre projects and own initiative projects: volunteer will have a possibility to teach children in an interactive and non formal way, if he or she has specific knowledge in some
kind of sphere (music, art, sport, language skills, etc.)
5) participate in the educational process (participation in the learning
seminars – organized by the hosting and coordinating organization and National Agency.
There are three main stages for the EVS volunteer in the organization:

1. SOCIALIZATION stage.
Cultural program, start of linguistic courses, knowing
Lithuanian social help system, institution structure, preparation seminar for a volunteer, getting acquainted with the staff, target group and local people.

2. SHARING and ACTING stage.
Participation in daily life of the day centre: playing with children, helping with homework; helping with cleaning; attending workshops: art, music, dances, sport etc.

3. INITIATIVE and EVALUATION stage. Possibility to start volunteer own initiatives in a project (any kind of workshop, performance, summer camp, hiking, concert – it will come out of the volunteer abilities and creativity).
Making a plan of the project dissemination. Evaluation of a project in the professional and personal level.
Working in these spheres volunteers will be able to learn many competences from in the non formal education way, especially the ones mentioned in the youth pass: communication in languages, social and civil competence; learning to learn; cultural awareness and expression etc. Planning and realization abilities, public performance and presentation abilities, group leading skills, communication skills, will learn to be open to the new possibilities and challenges. Volunteers learn to be self-dependent and responsible. Volunteer will learn evaluate his/her experience. Cultural awareness is going to play a big part in the learning process. The volunteer will experience the other culture through living and working in the rural aria.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em inglês