Eslovénia

13692

Data de início: 01-03-2025

Data de fim: 01-05-2025

Vagas: 1

Duração: 2 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 20-01-2025

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €

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Resumo: The hosting organization is a small NGO with many years of experiences in international volunteering for young people.
We‘ve been an accredited hosting & sendingorganisation from 2008 and so far we‘ve hosted more than 200 volunteers from
many different countries.
Solidarity activities in our organization are focused on different topics - we support charity organizations, help in local community, support environmental organisations, NGOs for animals in need, we help elderly and families in need and organize workshops for youth and people with special needs.
Next to the international volunteering projects we offer trainings for youth workers, trainings for parents, experiential learning projects, psychological counselling and psychotherapy.

ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
+ free time activities for children during school holidays
+ activities for the local kindergarten
+ workshops, games and sport activities for young people
+ sport days for youth every autumn

ACTIVITIES FOR PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
Once a week we visit the local day centre or the residential institution for people with intelectual and physical disabilities. We socialise with them, play games and go for walks.

HELPING AND LEARNING ON ECOLOGICAL FARMS
We help different ecological farms with their work.
Volunteers learn about ecology, nature friendly and sustainable food production.

SOLIDARITY ACTIVITIES FOR ANIMALS
Our volunteers take care of our cat, guinea pigs and budgies and we regularly help in the sanctuary for horses and other animals and on the farm for rescued domestic animals.

HELPING ELDERLY AND FAMILIES IN NEED
We help older people and foster families with practical work like cleaning, mowing grass, preparing wood, renovations, with work on the fields and on the farms.

SOLIDARITY ACTIONS IN CHARITY ORGANIZATIONS
We support Karitas and other charity organizations during different charity actions:
- packing food and school items
- packing promotion materials for fund raising
- reparing old wheelchairs etc.

INCLUSION WALKS WITH SLOVENE MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION
Volunteers assist people with special needs during the mountatin walks, for inclusion hikes.
Assistance consits of pushing the wheelcairs, guiding blind people and socializing with them.

SOLIDARITY WORK IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
We take care of the surroundings of the local church, and castle ruins. We help with cleaning actions and
different non-profit events in our community: Celebration of the Liberation Day, Carnival for children, Midsummer's
Eve Bonfire, Christmas programme for children, Day of Volunteering.

HANDICRAFTS AND PRACTICAL WORK IN OUR CENTER
+ construction work in the new house
+ work in the garden
+ preparing wood for the winter
+ wood & natural materials handicrafts

Perfil: Age: 18-30
Young people with fewer opportunities (https://sve.proatlantico.com/faqs)

Tarefas: We prepared a programme for young people who are eager to meet new friends from different countries, are
ready to accept the challenge of living together, who want to get experiences with different groups and topics and enjoy our beautiful and peaceful environment. The programme consist of different solidarity activities, workshops for youth, handicrafts, practical work and educational workshops for volunteers.

The working week starts on Tuesday and ends on Saturday. Depending on the activity, we start at 8.30h or at 9.h and finish around 14.h. If we have a solidarity action in another city, we need to leave a bit earlier.
Tuesdays are usually reserved for a workshop for volunteers, handicrafts and practical work (construction work in the house, preparing wood for the winter, work in the garden, handicrafts with wood, cleaning the house after the weekend etc.).
On Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays we do one of the following activities:
+ workshops for youth in different organizations, especially for the local support programme for school drop-outs
+ activities for people with intelectual disabilities
+ playing with children in kindergarten
+ helping environmental NGOs and ecological farmers
+ helping in the shelters for wild and domestic animals
+ helping elderly with practical work
+ helping families, especially foster families with practical work
+ taking care of the local castle ruins and the surrondings of the church.
+ helping Karitas when needed.

Next to this we help mountain association with inclusion hikes in the mountains (pushing wheelchairs). The inclusion hikes are organized on average once a month, mostly on Saturdays and we need to leave early in the morning, sometimes at 5. a.m. On Sundays we sometimes help in the shelter for horses with special needs.

At least twice a year we organize an event for children and youth and we help with other events in local community.

Inbetween we have non-formal languagge lessons, intercultural learning and other interesting workshops for our volunteers.

Condições: Our new house is situated in the village, it's still work in progress and there is a lot of practical work around the house.
The flat for the volunteers has 5 bedrooms, kitchen with living room, 2 bathrooms with toilets and 2 separate toilets. Each bedroom is for 2 or 3 volunteers. The bus station, the shop and the pub are 15 minutes away.

To ensure that everybody feels good, all of us follow some BASIC RULES:
+ respect for each other, the house and environment
+ smoking only outside
+ no drugs
+ no alcohol in the house
+ respecting night silence and the neighbours.

FOOD MONEY: 7 EUR PER DAY
POCKET MONEY: 5 EUR PER DAY
BED LINEN IS PROVIDED
WE RECOMMEND TO BRING YOUR OWN TOWELS

WHAT TO DO IN YOUR FREE TIME
Our place is perfect for the volunteers who like nature. You can walk in the forests, hike in the mountains, bike, swim in the famous lake Bled which is less than 15km away, visit the Vintgar gorge...
And for the ones who prefere city life there is Radovljica and also Kranj and the capital Ljubljana is not far away.

Documentação: CV + Motivation Letter