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Data de início: 01-09-2012

Data de fim: 01-07-2013

Vagas: 1

Duração: 10 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 09-01-2012

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: Caritas of Vilnius archdiocese. Mother and child shelter.

Impressions of EVS volunteer Catharina from Austria who was volunteering in this center from the beginning of January 2011 till the beginning of July 2011 (6 months):
"I am working in the center, and I am looking after babies while mothers have to go to lessons or if they have to go to somewhere else. I also cook sometimes with mothers and I am thinking about some little other projects I can do together with mothers to get more contact to them. But it`s a bit difficult, because they are not talking English because of a bad education, and I am not able to communicate in Lithuanian. Sometimes this problem is quite hard for me, because I really want to talk to them, to talk about the babies or just to get to know them better. But sometimes they try to speak some English words, then I am allways really happy, because so I can see, that they also want to talk to me. It would be also nice to communicate with them, to get to know their problems. Most of time I even don't know why the mothers are here, which special problems they had. But when I know it I always feel very sorry for them and have to think about it a lot. I enjoy the work there, I really fell in love with the babies and I hope that I can manage sometime to talk more to the mothers.“

Perfil: At least 18 years old, preferrably older than 22 or more (to have some experience with any babies before);
Feminine gender (because we are working with women and babies);
Open to social risk group clients;
Preferably tolerant to religion (we belong to Vilnius achdiocese);
Interested in working with women and small babies (knowledge is not so necessary,willingness is).

Tarefas: During this time to fulfill a number of different tasks:
- Assisting the staff in developing life skills of the target group
- Help to manage daily activities in the shelter (e.g. to cook for common lunch, keep the Care Home in order etc.)
- Assisting mothers in the daily childcare
- Help to organise promotional events to get a better contact to the local community
- Assistance in fund-raising for different projects
- Creation of a media - for the social skills learning group
- Help to organise leisure time, camps and festivals for the community of Care Home
- Solving of technical problems, or helping with the reparation of the Care Home if needed
- Teaching foreign languages to mothers
- Raise the self-awareness of the mothers and cultural Exchange
- Cooperating with other volunteers

Horário: Our organization starts the work on working days from 9:00 in the morning till 20:00 in the evening, the activities depend on the time of the day - in the morning more help with the childcare is needed, after lunch most group and activities start to take place. Weekends and festivals are not working days.

Formação: The program aims to give shelter for young mothers. Besides that there are educative proposals of parental skills and work therapy, and training work skills for socially weak, unemployed women.
At the beginning of the project a volunteer will have more practical and technical tasks, but when she will get to know how the activities are and how they function, we will inspire volunteer to propose her own activities according to personal gifts.
The week will start from common meeting with volunteer where we will plan week activities. In the beginning of volunteering it will be more practical tasks and later on we hope volunteer will show more initiative and organise activities according to her gifts. These tasks according to the will of volunteer are available at the project:
To help in organizing work therapy proposals for young mother:
Creating postcards
Sewing
Cooking
To assist young mother in taking care of their babies (f.e. while young mother go shopping/arrange documents ) To help mothers to learn other languages
To organize trips for young mothers
To organize art therapy proposals to raise self awareness of women
To lead a sport exercises group
To help in organizing some cultural events for young mothers
To help to organize summer camps for single mothers and their children

Documentação: CV e Carta de Motivação