Itália

7186

Data de início: 11-10-2017

Data de fim: 10-01-2018

Vagas: 1

Duração: 3 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-09-2017

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 115 €

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Resumo: The host organization was built in 1898 aiming to support and host ill elders coming from other health care centers. Nowadays organization is run by the Valdese church with the help of volunteers and staff members.

The organization is made up by two main structures:

The main one, which hosts 84, most of them non-self sufficient elders or affecyed by dementia, some disabled adults;
The daily centre for 12 people affected by Alzheimer or dementia;

Perfil: Volunteers are demanded to be very flexible, open minded, responsible are really motivated in
volunteering with the target group of the hosting organization.
possibly unemployed
Age: 18-30

Tarefas: Volunteers are never alone in the host organization. They will always support the staff of the organization during the activities. In case of outings with the hosts (in which the volunteers will also participate as a support), he/she will always be assisted by at least one operator.
Volunteers do not have same responsibilities of the workers and they never act as a job-substitution.
The volunteer, after a first period of observation and acquaintance with the Community, will be able to participate actively in the educational activities organized in the different Services and will share part of his/her daily life with the hosted persons.
The role of the volunteer will be of strong help to the management of the activities of the community; the working team will try to provide him/her with the necessary tools and information in order to allow him/her to best experiment himself/herself with relation to the elderly people, offering them additional moments of well-being and emotional responses.

During the first period of adaptation, they will test each activity to understand which one is more suitable according to their skills and attitudes. This phase is very important in order to implement the project’s goals and to overcome possible communication problems with the hosts.

According to this, any of the activities described below will be open to suggestions coming from the volunteers:
• Helping in everyday life
The volunteer will support the operators in preparing meals and the hosts with special needs during the meal by cutting the meat, helping them to drink water and to eat, etc.

• Supporting recreational and rehabilitation activities
The volunteer will be supporting staff members in the recreative and rehabilitation activities run inside and outside the center. These activities are:
-Serve meals
-Gym
-Shopping
-Excursion to the near by zone
-Music-therapy
-Exercises for the maintenance of the cognitive functions
-Workshops with paper and other materials.

The volunteer will have important contacts with the guests, spending with them most of the time talking and listening to their special needs (for example: helping them to walk through the center, playing cards, reading newspaper, telling stories, writing, and so on).

The activities will be done by the volunteer in different times and/or areas of the center in presence of an other EVS volunteer. In this way Italian and international volunteers can better perform their tasks to benefit the hosts.

Condições: 1

Documentação: CV + Motivation Letter + Application Form

Download: 7186 - Application Form HOST 2017.doc