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Data de início: 05-09-2012

Data de fim: 04-06-2013

Vagas: 2

Duração: 9 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 20-01-2012

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: Children's Home "Atzalynas" is located in Kaunas. Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania and the fourth in the Baltic states. It is situated in the center of the country. Kaunas is 100 km away from Vilnius and 200 km from Sea port Klaipeda.
Population - 415.800. Ethnic Composition: 80% Lithuanian, 8,8% Russian, 0,7% Belarusian., 0,7% Ukrainian, 0,6% Polish, 0,1% Latvian, 1,5% others.
In between the two world wars a temporary capital now Kaunas is industry and cultural center of Lithuania: 8 universities, a lot of museums, six theatres.
Kaunas is very green city in summer and the long, tree-lined pedestrian Laisves Aleja (Freedom Avenue) is one of the major attractions for shopping, cafes and restaurants. It's still pleasant to shuffle in and out of shops in winter. Old Town is packed with delightful sights and is a great place for a meandering stroll.
"Atzalynas" is not far from the center of the city (15 min. by bus).
Kaunas city is always ready to offer something interesting for everyone's taste and interests. This city is famous for the "Kaunas Jazz Festival", Pažaislis music festival, Day of Kaunas city, Bike Show Millennium festival, International Hanseatic Days, open-entry student's festivals - VMU Spring festival, RAFES festival at the KTU Student Campus and many other public events going almost every weekend
Atzalynas keeps close relations with city schools, where children study, also with Kaunas college, Kolping college and some universities. Students from these education institutions have their practice in Atzalynas, visit caretakers of the children, student unions actively help in event organization.

Perfil: Kaunas Children's Home "Atzalynas" is open for all young volunteers who love children, are motivated to work, flexible, comunicable, able to adapt to various situations, can work under stress.
The volunteer must be patient working with teenagers, he/she must not have any bad habbits or harmful addictions, a volunteer should be an example to the children. The volunteer must have his own ideas of voluntary work with children.
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.
Kaunas Children's Home "Atzalynas" is open to work with any organization having the status to send EVS.

Tarefas: The general role of the volunteer would be bringing new ideas and "a fresh wind" into the children's home activities, participating, teaching young people and learning new things by doing it.
The main tasks of EVS volunteers will be participation in daily activities, helping the staff to organize workshops, exhibitions, excursions, stimulating the young people to be more active in the local community.
By organizing/helping to organize various events volunteers will acquire valuable orgnaizational skills. Communication in English and later in Lithuanian will contribute to their lingual skills. Taking part in variuos clubs, excursions will help them know the Lithuanian culture, history, traditions. This should foster the volunteer's intercultural learning.
Volunteer activities should provide the following benefits to the organization and local community:
- New ideas;
- Possibility for the children to learn about different cultures without actually traveling;
- Sharing of experience between the staff, the children and the volunteer;
- Increasing interest in volunteerism in the local community;
- Giving an international aspect to the organization;
- Increasing interest of local young people to become more active
- Developing dialog among young people of different nationalities and cultures.

There are many interesting extra-curricular activities at the children's home that are directed to preparing children for independent life and integrating them in the society.
In "Atzalynas" children can find the art studio, discussion, readers', music and drama clubs, puppet theater class. Many children are actively involved in sports and art clubs located in other schools and education centers. Every year the children participate in international sport competitions. During various festivals their works are exposed to Kaunas society.

While working with children the EVS volunteer will be supporting the project personnel in:
- Organizing leisure time for the residents;
- Teaching children songs, games, languages; curative exercises, organizing concerts, meetings, lectures, exhibitions;
- During the weekends organizing excursions, visits to Lithuanian places of interest, museums and etc.
- Escorting younger ones to/from school
- Helping the children with their homework

EVS volunteers will have an opportunity to involve in several of the activities mentioned above and create their own personal daily schedule. According to volunteer skills, priority tasks and more detailed working schedule will be worked out together with the project director and staff. Not all activities are available to EVS volunteers having in mind the non-formal and non-professional profile of the service, therefore assistance would be the main role of EVS volunteers, although some fields of sole responsibility could be found too. All depends on the individual volunteer and his/her willingness to be active and creative. The service will teach young volunteers to be responsible for other people, to be a part of the team and find their own, unique place in the organization.

Volunteers' activities in "Atzalynas" can be organized on three levels:
- Individual level: a volunteer is working with one child assigned to him/her (may also be several kids at different times). Volutneers would try to be friends with the kid(s) and help according to the child's specific needs. This can be help with the homework, escort to school and back, help with foreign language class, free time together.
- Family level: a volunteer is assigned to one family and participates in its life. Together with the social worker of the family plans the activities for the children, helps with the household chores, introduces his/her own culture, traditions, hobbies, food and encourages the kids to be interested in similar things
- Organizational level: volutneers actively participate in organizing events for all the kids of "Atzalynas" as well as events outside the institution. This could be cultural presentations, exhibitions, concerts, competitions etc.
The involvement in the activities mentioned above depends of the individual volunteers and their motivation to participate.

Horário: Monday
13.00-14-00 running through and adjusting the weekly working plan
14.00-16.00 individual help for children
16.00-17.00 assistance to a social worker to bring the kids from kindergarten
17.00-19.00 fine arts, crafts class
19.00-21.00 Informal foreign language lesson
Tuesday
13.00-15-00 Active games, sports in the sports hall or outside
15.00-16.00 Idividual help for the kids doing their homework
16.00-17.00 assistance to a social worker to bring the kids from kindergarten
17-.00-19.00 work in the library
19.00-21.00 discussion evening with 15-17 year old youngsters on different topics
Wednesday
13.00-14-00 Informal foreign language lesson
14.00-16.00 Idividual help for the kids doing their homework
16.00-17.00 assistance to a social worker to bring the kids from kindergarten
17.00-19.00 Cooking time
19.00-21.00 fine arts, crafts class
Thursday
13.00-15-00 Work in the library, Idividual help for the kids doing their homework
15.00-16.00 Escort the children to the dancing class
16.00-17.00 assistance to a social worker to bring the kids from kindergarten
17.00-19.00 Assistance in preparing different activities (sports, singing, dancing competitions, photo exhibitions, newspaper publishing)
19.00-21.00 time devoted to volunteer initiatives (computer classes, commin meetings with EVS volutneers from other organizations, preparation for common events together with the kids)
Friday
13.00-14-00 Evaluation of the week
14.00-16.00 Escort the children to the dancing class
16.00-17.00 assistance to a social worker to bring the kids from kindergarten
17.00-19.00 Time devoted to volunteer's self education (studying the "files" of the children, seeking answers to questions that matter to the volunteer, informal communication with the families and social workers)