Polónia

13770

Data de início: 07-01-2024

Data de fim: 06-01-2025

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-12-2024

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €

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Resumo: The coordinating organization was founded in 2003 in Poland, as an independent, non-profit and politically uninvolved non-governmental Association, to release aid, educational and cultural ventures to support kids and youngsters’s development in the city.

We focus our actions in 4 areas:
- We work to promote education in human rights focusing on civil rights, increasing public information access, public spending control and counteracting for corruption in public Institutions. We fight for the presence of reliable authorities acting transparently and building social dialogue to consider local people’s voice in decision making processes.
- We work to fully include people with disabilities in social and public life, monitoring the accessibility of public administration units in the other town and asking for changes to guarantee full access to people with motor and sensory disabilities. We boast a long cooperation with local Institutes working with kids and youngsters with mental and physical disabilities and facing social, economic and geographic obstacles and supports the integration of migrants and minorities.
- We run activities to increase the interest of residents in participating in public life and a sense of shared responsibility for the community's fate.
- the organization is involved in Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps Programs to promote solidarity, active European citizenship, enable participants to do social work abroad and acquire skills.

Perfil: Age: 18-30

Tarefas: Community Building and Organizing
– building a network of foreigners, involve them in volunteers actions, such as participating in events organized by the organization, but also, for example, local clean-ups.
– Organization of meetings with local groups to discuss issues, improvements that may be done in their neighbourhoods, ideas of events and others, set clear short-term and long-term goals with the group.
– Identification of relevant issues concerning vulnerable groups (seniors, minorities, people with disabilities, etc).
– Research on local, regional, national NGOs working for local people, including foreigners, to build new partnership and cooperation and explore further possibilities of intervention.
– Organization of local campaigns to take collective actions involving locals to encourage active engagement and local sensitization (cleaning actions, workshops for competencies exchange, etc).
– Organization of the Cultural Year: the volunteers will launch the idea of the dedicating one week a month or every two months to a different culture, and organize the cultural week (with national food, games, dances, events hold in the organization and/or in the market square, if possible) to raise awareness on the variety of cultures in the city and create room for each of them to express their beauty and peculiarities.
– Organization of language exchanges in the city, to give the possibility to those willing to learn to meet and dedicate their time to learn a new language (organization of groups to meet and talk and\or tandem).
– Organization of language lessons at the office, for local communities for the inclusion of foreign minorities

Healthification and Beautification
Speaking of healthy, clean and eco-friendly cities in Europe, the city is trying to improve. However, topics related to the protection and preservation haven’t developed sufficient responsible behavior nor environmental friendly approaches. In this negative scenario, we hope to start bringing up change to sensitize people on the need for personal and community action.

The tasks in which our volunteers will be involved are:

– Cleaning initiatives in public spaces and building up groups of local people that may be active for the environmental benefit of the community. Among these initiatives, we aim to implement trash and litter collection, beautification initiatives (cleaning up of parks, streets, squares), and forest cleanups. Our participants will recruit local volunteers, promote the initiative, lead the teams of interested local people, divide the tasks, collect ideas, set up the calendar of the activities, take pictures and post on social networks.
– Organization of workshops in local schools and libraries for kids, students, seniors and in general local people about different topics such as healthy diets and foods, home planting and gardening, consequences of pollution, recycling, climate change and affection, environmental practices, harmless tourism, alternative energy resources and energy saving, etc.
– Research places offering healthy food, vegetarian and vegan products, and healthy options on the menus.
– Organize sport and game events at local level (such as marathons, treasure hunts, city game…) to spread good sport practices and as a visibility tool to attract people’s attention on environmental issues and healthier lifestyles.
– Organize healthy excursions with and for local people to explore the green places of the region and contribute integrating people of all ages and provenience. This is a combined activity with the running of our Abillity Route website

Sensorial Inclusive City Campaign
The idea of this activity derives from our inclusive approach to fight all barriers that are still present in our town and in other town. The base of this idea was born from the need for intervention identified during a long process of research and action that, in 2017-2019, led us to monitor the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 54 public administration units in our region and to the implementation of the other town Voivodeship friendly to people with sensory disabilities in 2019-2021, consisting in a series of training courses for local authorities and officers together with the monitoring of buildings and public spaces in 36 provinces and cities.

The tasks in which our volunteers will be involved are:

– Organize inclusive events involving people with fewer opportunities and local people not facing barriers, to foster inclusion and mutual understanding (chess tournament, theater improvisation, music concerts, karaoke, etc.).
– Assistance to the informal group of people with sensorial disabilities in their participation in social events: the group of people with which the organization cooperates wants to be active in trips, excursions, events, parties. Unfortunately some of them are not fully independent, even with all tools they have at their disposal. They need someone assisting them, therefore the organization’ members accompany them in their initiatives and we would like our volunteers to join us and the group and learn how to assist them in their needs and enjoy their company and time spent together.
– Organize talent shows and workshops to gather people of any social condition and facing different kinds of barriers to share the talents they have. This task is based on the belief that every person, no matter which barrier s\he may face, has skills, talents, passions that s\he may want to share with other people. The message we want to share is an encouraging message for all those people facing daily barriers in their life. We want them not to give up, stay positive and focus on the things they can do, not on the ones they can’t. We work to enable them to be able to be able.
– Organize a photo exhibition about the concept of barriers, obstacles, accessibility and inaccessibility to sensitize people commonly not facing any problem in the city about all the difficulties we generally don’t see, but that are huge obstacles for our people with fewer opportunities. The concept of barrier is different for every person: a place that is accessible to a person with motor disability isn’t necessarily accessible to a person with motor or mental disability. We need people to understand that every disability implies a certain kind of barrier and a specific need for accessibility.
– Organize one simulation of sensory and motor barriers to sensitize people about the kind of obstacles people with disabilities face daily in the city (mobility, sound, visual obstacles).
– Cooperation and support to local institutions dealing with children and adolescents with mental and physical disabilities and coming from difficult social and economic backgrounds. Our volunteers will support these children in some of their activities and English homework and organize little parties/national days for them as well as presentations and workshops at schools.
– Provide English and other language lessons for people with fewer opportunities (seniors, people with physical disabilities).
– Further developing our interactive digital map concept for people with sensory and motor disabilities.

Condições: Volunteers live in 2 four-bedroom apartments close to the city center. Each volunteer has their own bedroom and shares kitchen, bathrooms and common areas.
The costs of accommodation, rent, bills, internet are covered by the organisation.
Volunteers open Polish bank accounts and receive monthly transfers of food allowance and pocket money.
Volunteers have a free Polish language course, travel card and insurance.

Documentação: CV + Motivation Letter + Application Form (ask to ProAtlântico)