Finlândia

12748

Data de início: 01-11-2023

Data de fim: 15-12-2023

Vagas: 1

Duração: 1 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 19-09-2023

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 120 €

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Resumo: (Volunteering team project)
The hosting organization is a National Youth Centre supported and observed by the Ministry of Education. We are specialised in youth work and our function is to develop the methods used in the field of youth work. We work under the Finnish law covering youth work and by the Ministry of Education.
Our goal is to offer youngsters the possibilities of learning in multicultural environment and finding their own strengths and abilities through international activity.
Our work consists of international camps and programs, education, practical training and voluntary work for young people, information and guidance about international programmes, projects and coordination of volunteering projects.

Perfil: Age: 18-30
The participants are young people seeking new possibilities to their lives. The volunteers can be unemployed, face educational, economic, social or physical challenges or have low language skills. We wish that the volunteers are interested in working with children and feel confident to act as an elf. There is no need of previous experiences just the interest to try it out and learn more!

We offer the volunteers:
- a chance to live in a new culture
- possibility to do volunteer work for the local community
- a chance for intercultural learning
- a project were you can use your creativity

Volunteers should be prepared for:
- darkness
- coldness
- listening to Christmas music
- changes
- adventure

We expect from volunteers:
- flexibility
- respect
- ability to follow the rules and schedule

Tarefas: After the on-arrival-training volunteers will work on different tasks related to the theme of the project: Elfs and Christmas. The ESC volunteers are working together with the regular staff.

Volunteers help the staff with Christmas preparations and organizing Elfpath happenings for families and kindergartens and other visitors of the Youth Centre.
Volunteers organize the path for local kindergartens in the forest. In this project volunteers main task isto guide children, families and other visitors in the path. Volunteers will actas an elf and do different kind of activities with the visitors around the path. In the path children can, for example learn important elf skills, like peaking from windows, elf dance, making presents etc. We hope to find volunteers who are interested in acting and performing and working with children, even with out common language. Another big event volunteers will organize and take part in is the Path public event, that is open toeveryone to visit.
Part of the work is also cleaning and takingout Christmas decorations after the events.

Some volunteers will be in charge ofdocumentation of the whole project and will take part in different events, which other volunteers are organizing. The team can use the media equipment that the organization has and use their own creativity for planning the methods of documentation.
We encourage participants to bring their own ideas and competences when planning and realizing the content of the different events and activities organize dduring the project. Planning and preparing the teams tasks will include for example, making elf costumes, making Christmas decorations, planning games for children and planning how top romote intercultural learning.

Condições: During the project, the volunteers will live in Youth Centre. The accommodation is in our warm and cozy cottages. Therefore it requires patience and flexibility, as you will share the cottage with other people during the whole project.
Meals are served in the organization during on arrival training, and during the rest of the project, volunteers will get lunch at the organization on working days but prepare other meals themselves. During the week there is opportunity to go with the staff to buy the food for the meals with couple of the volunteers. The organiation provides bed sheets and towels.

Documentação: CV + Motivation Letter