Letónia

6474

Data de início: 01-10-2016

Data de fim: 01-10-2017

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 28-08-2016

Financiamento: Financiamento por aprovar

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: This project will be a 12 months EVS project with 4 volunteers from different countries hosted by 2 project partner organizations

 Two volunteers will participate in everyday activities at the kindergarten. They will change places in the middle of the year between two mixedage groups of children and have a chance to learn about alternative pedagogy by watching and participating in all kindergarten activities.

 The other two volunteers will do their EVS work in the local municipality institution
- Creativity Center, which offers non-formal education activities for preschool and school age children and youngster in 3 different sections. They will work in shifts. Below you will find more information about bouth hosting organizations and proposed activities for volunteers. The project objectives are:
1) to involve young people in a meaningful voluntary work, provide them with opportunities for personal growth and development of competences, as well as encouraging their creative expression and intercultural dialogue within local community;
2) to develop and strengthen cooperation between project partner organizations in the field of non-formal education and youth mobility.

The main topics of the project will be:
1) creativity and culture,
2) Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy).

Perfil: be avaliable for the whole duration of the volunteering period and pre-departure training;
- strong motivation for work in selected area (! not required to have a previous experience in a working with small kids or youngsters);
- work (with children) requires psychological and physical resistance, compassionate, and good health;
- volunteers must be non-smoker and have no substance abuse or criminal history;
- volunteers must be active, flexible, creative, responsible, with good communication skills, sense of adventure and desire to work with and learn from local people; ! Creative Centre is expecting young people with experience in photography, video creation and editing.
- Age: 17-30

Tarefas: Activities or tasks of volunteers will be split in the 3 parts:
1) assistance to kindergarten staff in their daily work with the children and have a chance to learn Waldorf pedagogy by watching and participating in all kindergarten activities. The man task will be: participate in classes (painting, music, crafts, theatre, gymnastics, etc.), prepare materials for activities, help to kids during meals, dress up, dishwashing, making beds, doing different outdoor activities, etc., prepare festivals or holidays (Christmas, Easter, etc.). They are welcome to bring songs, games and introduce their own culture and traditions as part of intercultural learning;

2) participation in the work of non-governmental organization as valuable team member, for example, helping to organize different events such as seminars, workshops, charity fairs depending on interests and abilities etc..

Volunteers will be involved in all processes – planning and organizing of activities, evaluation and feedback. The organization has developed close cooperation with the parents and they actively participate in work of kindergarten and the host organization. The organization has well equipped room for seminars and handicrafts, that could be used for volunteer’s creative and learning activities. There they can organize some events as well as learn handicrafts such as sewing, knitting, weaving and toy-crafting.

3) volunteers’ creative activities for kindergarten and local community: each of both volunteers during the project have to offer and realize (with help from the staff) 2 new activities, for example, photo exhibition, excursion, some event according to his/her skills / wishes / national traditions, etc. It gives a wide opportunity to show volunteers talents, creativity, entrepreneurship and communication skills in order to invent new traditions, games, workshops suitable for kindergarten or local community. We are expecting that the results of volunteer’s activities will be also tangible things such as calendars, postcards, videos ect.

Condições: 1

Documentação: CV + Motivation Letter