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Data de início: 05-05-2012

Data de fim: 30-04-2013

Vagas: 2

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 13-01-2012

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 125 €

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Resumo: We need volunteers to be interested in the projects they're applying to and to be aware that they are based on manual work
and collective life and that they are in isolated rural areas, far from cities.
We will only accept one volunteer of a nationality per project and we will try to have as many men and women.

The dates are not flexible.

The association has a double goal here: to revive a place in a rural environment and to allow people of different ages and different social and cultural horizons to meet around a project of collective interest.

Throughout the various actions that are implemented, different groups of people meet and learn how to live and cooperate with each other: young and adults victims of exclusions, local and international volunteers, holiday makers, families...

Tarefas: Actions held in the organization:

- Reception of groups and individuals:

The reception activity is one of the most important ones, especially in the summer. Many groups, schools, families and hikers stay at the centre, either to take part in renovation and construction activities or simply to take a holiday. Some other people also come for specific projects such as seminars, training courses and intercultural exchanges.

The centre is open during the year; however, the activities of the centre are concentrated to the high season (May to October) and the school holidays.

- Inclusion through economical activity:

Every year, this action targets ten to twelve local people confronted with social and professional difficulties. The people who take part in this action are salaried on a part time basis, they come to work 3 days a week. They contribute to the renovation work of the centre and help us with the reception of groups.

- International workcamps

At the centre and in the villages nearby, the association organises international youth workcamps in the period between April and October. Every year, these workcamps involve numerous volunteers coming from all over the world.

The activities will be:

- Preservation of the environment and renovation work: painting, plumbery, electricity, construction work, landscaping, wood work.
- Cultural activities: concerts and music festivals organised in cooperation with local associations. Intercultural meals, thematic days.
- Discovery of the natural environment: hikes, fauna and flora, geology.

Condições: The European volunteers are accommodated at l'Hôtellerie, which is the main house of the centre. In the house, there is a "private area" reserved for the staff and the long term volunteers. The volunteers are accommodated in rooms of 2 to 3 people and have their own lavatories (showers and toilets), separated from the other residents.

Collective life is a key issue in the project. It is a support for meetings and exchanges between everyone. For this reason, everybody is supposed to act responsibly and to take part actively in everyday tasks (permanent staff, salaried people, volunteers, holiday makers, groups). Meals, household, washing up and all the efforts to keep the area clean and tidy are carried out in turns and by small groups. The meals are taken all together between all the residents of the centre.

Formação: For the European volunteers, the hosting centre offers:

- A support for personal discoveries: collective life, the rural and mountain environment, cultures from all over the world, new social realities (exclusion, social and physical handicap), the life of an non profit organisation.
- A support to gain new technical and social skills: team work, responsibilities, social and cultural activities, manual work.

On the point of view of the association, the active participation of European volunteers helps to enrich the project. The presence of "foreign volunteers" provokes interrogations and interactions with our "target groups" since the majority of them are unaware of European programmes. This enables us to apprehend concepts such as volunteering, citizen action, cultural exchange, tolerance…

Last but not least, the participation of the European volunteers strongly contributes to the effort of cultural exchange and social transformation sought after by our association.

Documentação: CV, Carta de Motivação E Application form.

Download: Volunteer Exchange Form SJ.doc