Alemanha

1019

Data de início: 01-09-2012

Data de fim: 01-08-2013

Vagas: 1

Duração: 11 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-01-2012

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: State School for the Hard of Hearing in Stegen

Perfil: The volunteer should be open-minded to work with hard of hearing youngsters. It's necessary for the volunteers to be sociable and outgoing, to have enthusiasm, and to be tolerant to foreign cul-tures. They should be able to interact well with different groups of people. An enthusiastic, respon-sible and flexible attitude towards the work is very important. Experiences in child care and youth work would be helpful, but not a prerequisite.
To get easily in touch with the staff members as well as the children and their parents, a basic knowledge of german language would be helpful. The volunteer should be able to get involved into the staff and to contribute to the work.
Language learning should not be the first or only motivation to make a voluntary service in this pro-ject.
She/he should be interested to deal with german culture and to learn to manage everyday situations in german language.
The sending organisation should assure a good preparation for an assignment of the volunteer in a foreign country.

Tarefas: Volunteers get the opportunity to contribute - under guidance of staff members - to the support and leisure time program of the school and residential home. Volunteers can introduce their own ideas and abilities like 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 responsibil-ity - as far as admitted by legal liabilities.
Emphatically volunteers are invited to bring in their own ideas. Staff members will appreciate all ini-tiatives to develop additional proposals for leisure time activities and will support planning and reali-zation. Volunteers could develop their own ideas for new games, activities or stories into a personal project if they so wished - creative ideas are always welcome.
Major tasks in which volunteers can be actively involved are:
Assistance and support for virtually impaired and blind pupils and students in school and leisure time
occupational therapy like doing handicraft, singing, playing music
attendance at school field centers and study trips
European Volunteers are expected to keep the rules of our work with young people:
-acceptance of young people in their particular personality
-ability to cope with strain by challenging behaviour
-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
Like all staff members volunteers are expected to carry out some work of routine like:
in assisted living groups: going shopping, housekeeping and support of homeworks
in the field of leisure time activities: support in organisation and realisation of all kinds of activities
service and maintenance of materials and equipments
active participation in lasting several days leisure time activities
Volunteers are invited to participate in internal vocational training seminars.Volunteers are expected to accomplish a fulltime voluntary service of 35 hours per week. Overtime doing will be balanced by additional freetime.At the volunteer's own request can be offered learning opportunities in other departments of the in-stitution like housekeeping, canteen kitchen, caretaker etc. Especially in the beginning the volunteer will pass through all departments of the institution to familiarize himself/herself with the structure and the functioning of the organisation (not longer than 3 weeks). After this introduction the volun-teer will support mainly the work with young people.

Condições: The organization provides continuous monitoring, including easy access to the contact person (Tu-tor), regular dialog with the volunteers, in which the options for personal development and the inter-ests of the volunteer are being discussed.
To prevent crises from occurring in the first place, volunteers will be given any training necessary for them to carry out their tasks.
Volunteers will be informed about their rights, regulations in the host organization, consequences of unacceptable behaviour.
In terms of risk and crisis prevention it is very important to keep all persons involved in the project informed to be able to act immediately in the case of a crisis.
However if problems occur, volunteers have different people to contact and discuss problems with. The different people are pro-active in seeking area of concern and actively finding solutions to the issues arising.
The line manager in the respective working group is on hand daily for problems, the director of the hosting organisation is accessible for volunteers every day and the co-ordinator is available by e-mail and phone at every time but meets the volunteers weekly or biweekly during language training.
Weekly during language training volunteers can meet participants from other EVS-projects from the region to exchange experiences.
Volunteers wil have the opportunity to stay in contact with their family and sending organization via e-mail or telephone at least on a weekly basis.

Formação: The volunteer could find out about his/her abilities and potentialities.
The volunteer could experience herself/himself as a part of a team, where all members are working on an equal footing on the same task.
The volunteer will gain technical and vocational skills in social work with aurally impaired people.
The cooperation in a social project will afford the volunteer a vocational orientation and a perspec-tive for the professional life.
Having sole responsibility for design and realisation of leisure facilities will enhance self-assurance and self-confidence of the volunteer.
Participation in internal professional development activities will provide the volunteer with special-ised knowledge of the educational system.
Integration in a foreign culture and the self-determined life of the local community will afford the vol-unteer a personal orientation and increase the development of future perspectives.

Documentação: CV, Carta de Motivação e Application form.

Download: EVS-questionnaire_Steinbeis.doc