Finlândia

11632

Data de início: 13-03-2023

Data de fim: 30-11-2023

Vagas: 1

Duração: 9 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 16-01-2023

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 120 €

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Resumo: The objective of the hosting organization is to vivify the countryside life in many ways, promote holistic ecological lifestyle and global sustainable development, as well as encourage communality and inclusion, and be open for surroundings and cooperate in many local, national and international ways. The fulfilment of these aims is a major part of our routine work in the village, where the association operates and which also acts as a home to some of its members and the volunteers alike. We want to be well known in the town among all citizens and support tolerance, strengthen the local community, enriching the culture inside our village and bring the communities surrounding us close together. Our organization is cooperating with GEN Finland, GEN Europe (Global Ecovillage Network) and Finnish Permaculture Association, bringing us many other understandings and ways of operating in our own community, with nature and with the volunteers. We do our small steps here in our village and surroundings and other ecovillages and permaculture places are doing theirs. We are happy to corporate and embrace collaborations to harmonize our ideas about sustainability around Europe.

Everyone easily gets a lot of information about how bad the situation is on the planet, and we are crossing people that often feel alone, hopeless and stuck in the process of looking for solutions, not knowing what to do. Our organization believes that all the small things can make a big difference. We do our best to live more sustainably, bring life to the countryside, build up communality, be open to new ideas and make our baby steps for a better and safer future. Bringing more awareness to people about these topics and helping them to create concrete actions is our ultimate objective.

Our strategy is to develop a center of sustainable lifestyle and diversity which is open for everyone interested. We will develop and strengthen cooperation between different people, groups and actors and between urban and rural areas. We promote actions based by sustainable development goals like increasing biodiversity by planting large variety of perennial plants, also promoting wellbeing of pollinators and other animals; increasing knowledge of food security and sustainable food production by making reference garden and food forest based on permaculture principles; taking part of the nature conservation projects; increasing inclusion and equality; promoting sustainable consumption and production patterns. We will vivify the countryside by hosting visitors and groups, and organizing happenings, open door days and weekly summer cafeteria. We will bring solidarity, internationality and inclusion by cooperating and organizing things with at Vesilahti municipality, organizations and other actors like Finnish permaculture association, Shero ry, ecovillages, GEN (Global ecovillage network) Finland, cooperating with, organizing things and bringing together different people groups like immigrants, refugees, disabled people, sexual minority, elderly people, youth and children. We are developing our role as an international cooperator and creating good and active partnerships.

Perfil: In this project, there will be 6 volunteers, from different European countries, and of different ages (18-30). We are looking for volunteers with fewer opportunities.

Tarefas: - Solidarity work: visiting, keep workshops and help in the local community for example in schools, youth clubs, scouts, old people's homes, events, etc. (mostly during autumn and winter); giving opportunities to plan and development of other volunteering activities back home.
- Help the community to organize courses, events and cultural happenings like the Permaculture Design Course and open days. Keep company with the children and promote playful activities with them during happenings. Keep every summer Saturday cafeteria and host visitors.
- Seasonal nature work is a long-lasting project from a different point of view: learn the year cycle of nature and what nature and gardens here offer seasonally, how to use it, preserve it and share the surplus. Forest food: berries, mushrooms, wild herbs, etc. Learn the importance of this activity for the Finnish culture. Document the seasonal work tasks and spread the information to visitors, through social media, website, blog, newsletter and other possible ways of reaching people.
- Taking care of the permaculture gardens, which we have to take care of daily (i.e. seeding, weeding, watering, harvesting). Document tasks and spread the information to visitors, through social media, website, blog, newsletter and other possible ways of reaching people.
- Assistance in an ecological building project. Mainly renovation of the old barn as a community center depending on funding
- Cooking healthy ecological lunches for the whole community (from 10 to 40 persons) using seasonal and biological ingredients. About every sixth week one volunteer is responsible for the kitchen. If needed another volunteer will be the kitchen helper and will work with you.
- Simple household tasks like shopping, maintenance of common spaces. Community caretaker tasks, maintenance of the dry toilets, composts and heating the sauna.
- Promotion of ESC/Erasmus+ and the organization. Office Work: blog, social media, website, keeping a diary, evaluation of learning outcomes and cooperation with the supporting organizations. Completion of Youthpass

Horário: There are 5 working days (usually from Tuesday to Saturday). Sunday and Monday are the free days.

Condições: Volunteers live in the ecovillage. The accommodation is simple and all the six volunteers will be sleeping in a small house with a mini-kitchen. There will be 3 beds upstairs and 3 downstairs. As an ecovillage we have dry toilets and we are using nature-friendly and biodegradable products.
The ecovillage consists of about 30 people. The distance to the center from the ecovillage is 4 km. The town is a typical Finnish village, it has about 4500 inhabitants and it spreads in a quite big area.

Documentação: CV + Motivation Letter