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Data de início: 05-05-2012

Data de fim: 12-04-2013

Vagas: 2

Duração: 11 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 20-01-2012

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: Volunteers will live in Prienai, which is one of the smaller cities in Lithuania. Each volunteer will have a private room in a flat together with other volunteers or in a Lithuanian family. Local transportation, food, Lithuanian language course, trainings will be covered as foreseen in EU "Youth in Action". Volunteer will be able to visit Kaunas and other major cities, to meet other international and local youth.

For volunteers it is important to understand, that bigger city and smaller city or town life-styles in Lithuania differ from each other very much. While bigger cities are relatively active, life in towns can be quite slow, especially in winter. Out-of-the-city areas are more affected by social problems such as unemployment, alcohol abuse, and poverty. A lot of local youth study in city universities and in the end tends to settle there; much less conventional entertainment; transportation is not as cheap as one would like it to be. These things should be taken into consideration before applying for a countryside project.
Nevertheless, Prienai has a culture centre, museum, library, a number of sport-clubs, schools, restaurants, aviation club, and active village communities. The connection with all parts of Lithuania is relatively good, because Prienai is part of the central Kaunas district.

Volunteers will be involved in social rehabilitation, working with people suffering from diseases of old age, activity therapy programs, assisting in daily household chores, landscaping, catering and other activities, to improve the quality of their life. For example one volunteer can work in age dimension group, where the care home residents are involved in mobility and occupational therapy (exercises with the ball, simple crafts, outdoor activities, art, painting, games). The second volunteer can work with more independent elderly clients assisting with a similar range of activities (sport activities, work in the garden, cleaning the area of the care home, handcraft groups, theatre, songs and dances group, computer classes, language lessons, shopping, excursions etc.). According the volunteers wishes they can work with a different group of old people each week of the month.

Each of the volunteers will be working with different groups, but we will encourage an inter-change of ideas among them and there may be an opportunity for some "job-swapping" so that one volunteer gets to experience the range of activities on offer at the other two sites.
We are keen to discover and utilise each volunteer's particular interests, experience, cultural background and skills, as far as possible, so there will be some flexibility in the design of the volunteers' timetables to accommodate this.

The volunteers will have possibility to learn about the social care environment and will have the opportunity to gain tolerance, clear communication skills and team-working skills. They will learn it from the day-to-day experience of working alongside some of the most marginalised members of society - the elderly.
Working with an experienced workers volunteers will also learn how to organize various events and workshops (activities in the interests, needs and interests of the calendar of religious holidays and the organization of various courses under the voluntary capacity). Volunteers are able to learn from the experience, wisdom, and receive valuable advice from and elderly people, learning and creativity in adapting to life changes and opportunities for socialization, diversity.

The EVS volunteers will be considered as a full team members with the same rights and responsibilities similar to those of the employees. As such s/he will assist to the weekly team meetings and can influence the development of the activities and projects s/he will be involved in but also to accomplish the tasks for which s/he took responsibility. Together with the supervisor a work plan will be established and followed-up in regular talks also in terms of learning outcomes for the volunteer.

Perfil: Prienai care home would like to host volunteers who are motivated to work, are flexible, communicable, able to adapt to various situations, can work under stress. He/she must be tolerant and emotionally stable. Since a lot depends on efficient communication between the volunteers and the host organization (staff and residents), it is an advantage for a volunteers to have spoken English, Russian, German, French skills.

The recruitment process usually takes place as follows: project description with dates and free places are announced online (website, email) among our sending partners and young people who have contacted us before; the coordinating organization pre-selects candidate applications and forwards them to the host organizations. The final selection is done there. All of the selection participants are informed about the selection results. In case sending organizations are identified prior to specific volunteers the pre-selection takes place in the sending country, and afterwards candidate applications are forwarded to the host organizations. All applications will be considered and evaluated based on how well they suit the general profile of an EVS volunteer and the requirements of the host placement in particular.

Prienai care home is open to work with any organization accredited to send EVS volunteers (programme countries) and other organizations from other regions which have experience and are able to follow EU "Youth in Action" philosophy in practice.

Tarefas: Volunteers will work 5 days a week (from 9:00 - 17:00). Tasks cover social, sporting and exercise activities, group work activities, excursions, shopping visits, doctor visits, etc.
Volunteers are encouraged to give their time to the clients. Working with old people one of the most important things is taking time to socialize and to talk with the elderly, through word games or handcrafts in order to help with cognitive recovery, also through informal one-to-one conversations. We think that EVS volunteers are in excellent position to help with this, even if their Lithuanian skills are rather limited at first. Clients generally enjoy speaking with the volunteers in the language which they studied at universities or schools and they want to use it in practice.

Volunteer's activities could be:
- about 40% of the time - he/she has an active task with the clients in the therapy workshops (in the role of assistant he/she supports/leads activities like handicrafts, arts, cooking, doing pottery and working with wood, knitting).
- about 30% of the time the volunteer proposes games for old people during their leisure time, helps them to do shopping, accompany to doctors.
- about 20% of the time the volunteer takes part in other activities related to their initiatives: teaching them new games, dances, preparing exhibitions, taking part and helping in excursions, art workshops, education trips, administrative work etc., also informal one-to-one conversations.

Documentação: CV e Carta de Motivação