Itália
1398
Data de início: 06-10-2012
Data de fim: 06-07-2013
Vagas: 2
Duração: 9 mes(es)
Data limite de candidatura: 28-04-2012
Financiamento: Candidatura
Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 115 €
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Resumo: The host community is located in Idro. The town of Idro is situated in the middle of Valle Sabbia, 50 km from Brescia, at the southern end of the Lake of Idro. It is located at 368 meters above sea level, and it has a population of 1900 inhabitants.
The mountains surrounding the lake are ideal for hiking or mountain biking. To the north it borders with Trentino and the Dolomites, which have well-known tourist destinations (the best known is Madonna di Campiglio).
The villages of the Valle Sabbia are all medium or small-sized and are not very well connected with one another by public means of transport (the bus line crossing the valley provides a run every hour, and only during the day). The inhabitants of each municipality have developed a strong sense of belonging that is reflected in the organization of festivities, festivals, etc..
The area is mainly industrial, the unemployment rate is near zero, but the school dropout is high due to an early job placement. The high level of employment has led in recent years a migration from the area sub-Saharan Africa.
In Idro there are a library, a chapel, a swimming pool, a sports field with an adjoining football field, two camps, some hotels and many bars, pubs and pizzerias.
The accommodation for volunteers is located in a building about 50 meters from the CDD and the community, just across the street. The apartment has a kitchen, a large living room, two bedrooms, one bathroom and one laundry. It is on the ground floor and has its own garden, where volunteers can spend their free time during summer or spring days. The apartment is about 100 meters from the lake and a from walkway that runs along, giving pleasant views of nature. Not far away there is a swimming pool open to the public, many local shops and church.
In this building, upstairs, the elderly owners live and this is why volunteers must follow these rules:
Perfil: We are looking for a person with the following attitudes:
" Interest in working and motivation to have a relationship with people who have handicap and problems of disabilities
" Availability to put himself/herself in the game in the relationship with the disabled
" Interest in social integration and equal rights
" We would prefer a balance in terms of gender, that is to say it would be preferable to have 2 boys and 2 girls.
the maximum number of volunteers that the organisation is able to host at the same time is 4.
For all the volunteers with fewer opportunities, we can activate additional tutoring activities and reinforced mentorship (thanks to the presence of staff specialised in educational and psychological areas).
Furthermore on our territory we cooperate with organisations specialised in youth work which can be of support for volunteers with specific needs.
We are certified ISO 9001 and we are obliged to follow all the procedures foreseen by the Law in terms of safety and risk prevention.
Tarefas: ALL THE VOLUNTEERS
Assistance on the minibus
There are 4 minibuses which are used to transport guests from their private home to the centre every morning and from the centre to their private home in the afternoon. The volunteer works together with the minibus driver and s/he has to entertain the guests during the way.
Time dedicated by the volunteer to this activity: 15 hours per week, 40% of the whole volunteering time.
VOLUNTEER 1
Cookery group
The cookery workshop takes place once a week; the people belonging to this group have to choose a recipe (an hors d'oeuvre, a sauce for pasta or a cake) and cook it. At the end it's eaten all together (disabled and operators). Involving of volunteers allows to cook meals typical of their countries and which can be prepared with the disabled and then enjoyed all together.
This action arises as the ideal continuation of the themes of traditional and seasonal cuisine whose purpose, in addition to autonomy and self-enhancement pursued in each group kitchen, are nutrition education, by increasing the variety of dishes like user . People who attend a CDD have a cognitive development that does not exceed the actual operating period (Piaget's stages of development), and then providing them with real situations is the most effective method to internalize concept.
Tasting a new recipe typical of another country and experimenting different habits in the field of alimentary education is a good way for the disabled to learn that in the world exist different life-styles.
Time dedicated by the volunteer to this project: one morning a week (more or less 10 hours per week): 26% of the whole volunteering time.
Worshop of expression "artefatti"
The concept of "artefatti" is aimed developing hand-made products through so called "creative doing", based on collecting recycled materials (aluminum, paper, cartoon, plastic bottles and other materials collected in the Centre or in the near environment).
The workshop is focused on the process of "creating", in order to give the possibility to the participants to experience the creative work, according to the fact that there is nothing "right or wrong": the important is to be creative.
Since the aim is to increase of design skills, it's necessary to develop the observation of objects, to try different materials in order to avoid that the participants persist in using the same stuff so, in this point, the presence of the volunteer is crucial.
Development of emotional functions: the ability to modify an object will bring out feelings and emotions to be managed.
Development of perceptual functions: that are specific mental functions of recognizing and interpreting senses. The smells, the contact with the materials and colours in the workshop will be fundamental to identify and try new ways of appropriation of objects, changing them.
Dedicated time by the volunteer to this project: different mornings and afternoons during the week, for about 13 hours weekly: 34%.
VOLUNTEER 2
Sport activities: football training aimed at the participation to tournaments and friendly matches
Some years ago we have started up a project for the realization of a football team with weekly training sessions during the whole year and the participation to a regional football tournament for disabled and to some friendly matches (every year we organize a football match with the local politicians). The purposes of this project are: to improve socialization, motion abilities, but also self-esteem, to teach the respect for rules, the perception of oneself as a capable individual, to increase motivation. The operators involved in the project are: a professional in motor activity who acts as the trainer of the team and an educator whose work is focused on the relational, motivational and psychological aspects. The volunteer has a role of entertainment. As a young man/woman is not perceived by the disabled as an operator hence there are more possibilities that a relation of complicity and a spirit of friendship can grow between them.
The team gathers one afternoon per week for a two-hour training which takes place at the municipal football pitch during summer time and at the municipal gym during winter. During spring and summer the training sessions become more frequent.
Time dedicated by the volunteer to this project (included training and tournaments): about 8 hours per week: 21% of the whole volunteering time.
Motor activities
Besides the football team we organize also other typologies of projects for the development of the motion abilities of our guests: swimming start-up courses, sessions of "sense-stimulation" in swimming-pool for more fragile disabled, and courses of gymnastics. Volunteers support the educator showing the guests how to do the exercises. Sport is a very effective and incisive tool to knock down barriers and mitigate differences. The volunteer and the disabled can be simply two young persons that go together for 2 hours in the same swimming-pool. This experience allows the volunteer to develop an inclusive attitude which combats social exclusion.
The operator of course will be present side by side with the volunteer.
Time dedicated by the volunteer to this project: 15 hours per week 39% of the whole volunteering time.
VOLUNTEER 3
Horticulture
This activity consists of gardening activities in the greenhouse and in the green area around the structure. The volunteer's role is to support guests with his/her contribute about the knowledge of plants coming from his/her place of origin. Time dedicated by the volunteer to this project: 10 hours per week, 26% of the whole volunteering time.
Video
A group of involved guests meets each other twice a week, in order to realize two types of film activities:
1. The first one consists in making a short movie for which, inside this work space, the participants have the possibility to become actors and to express their creativity, acting as different characters, and at the same time to work with the others who play a piece. We are trying to create a funny and involving space which will contribute for their free and spontaneous expression, but also to create a sense of conscience concerning the screenplay of the movie. Beside the reciting part, the activity includes a space where the scenes can be reviewed, compared and modified. After the scene work, there is the phase of editing and of projecting of the movie to external viewers.
2. The second activity of programming some episodes: each guest is responsible for his/her own TV program, managed by the guests with the support of the directors of Baraonda TV. At the end of the morning, the cast will review the film shootings during the day, which will be edited in order to create different episodes in each TV program. Dedicated time by the volunteer to the project (including shooting and settings): 8 hours weekly: 21%
Magazine
A fixed group of guests and educators of the Day Care Centre meets each other once a week in order to create a magazine called "ECO", that goes out each fourth month.
Each guest develops his own column (columns already fixed and tried during the past years), starting with their individual interest. In this activity, the volunteer, has a role of supporting in usage of multimedia instruments and in the manual realization of graphic parts (for example, drawings and coloring).
Dedicated time by the volunteer to this project (including shooting and settings): 5 hours weekly: 13%
VOLUNTEER 4
Activities for integration in the area (going out during the week, festivities, markets)
The Centre makes 3 fixed weekly goings out, where the volunteer is involved near the operators for support of the involved users in while they are out, which generally is realized with a minibus organized from the Centre.
During the year, there is a possibility that the Centre participates in manifestations ED and organized events by the associations in the territory where the Centre has on a disposal exhibition space dedicated for exhibition of the artifacts created during the meetings of the users with the international volunteer in the laboratories of expression activity and kitchen. In this case, also, the volunteer help the educator during accompanies the disabled person, living the experience of party.
Average time for this project: about 10 hours or 26%.
Domestic activity
This activity consists that the volunteer helps some guests, those with major skills in the activity of setting the tables in the canteen, where it gathers with the lunch and the cleaning of some places of the Centre, together with the operator responsible for the hygiene of the environment.
Dedicate time by the volunteer to this project: 7 hours weekly or 18%.
Activity of valorisation of the body:
This activity realizes once a week in group with 7 users. Its place is in the relax room, because this environment facilitates to create a climate of involvement of women, made of talking, gossips, make up and styling. Drinking tea, together with sweets, the space will look like a real beauty salon. The goal is to work with attention about the aspect of the femininity. In the specific intervention the activity proposes to operate in scope of perception and valorization of the self conscience through comparison and sharing this moment with the companions. From this year, once a week, the group will go in the school SCAR, where the girls can benefit the beauty treatments and hairstyle.
Dedicated time by the volunteer to this project: 6 hours weekly or 16%.
3. How the project can be modelled around the volunteer
Following volunteer's preferences, after the first 2 weeks, he/she will choose among profiles 1, 2, 3, 4. Eventually, the possibility to make changes or improvements to the project, is given to the volunteer. Volunteers are not requested to do personal care nor administration work. The volunteers will work no more than 32 hours per week in accordance with the needs of the service and the volunteer's availability; timetable will be agreed directly with the volunteers.
The centre is open from Monday to Friday. Saturdays and Sundays are rest-days.
It may happen that the volunteers will be required to work also during week-ends or holidays on occasion of special events (normally, 4 times in a year).
Horário: A typical day at the CDD is organised as follows:
7.30-9.00: service of transport of the disabled from home to the CDD
9.00-10.00: welcoming of the guests
10.00-12.00: support to the educators for the activities described above
12.00-13.00: lunch with the educators and with the guests
13.00-14.00: break
14.30-16.00: support to the educators in the organisation of the activities
16.00-17.30: service of transport of the disabled from the CDD to their homes.
Every Saturday and Sunday is dedicated, as usually is in the families, to the free time and relations. The activity of the volunteer will be the support which is specficially organized for the proper week-end.
In particular, except the exceptions, every Saturday morning will be dedicated for the activities of cleaning and making order in the room, stimulating as much as possible the capacities of the guests in managing the house and the acquiring for the community and for the individual quests.
The Saturday afternoons will be dedicated to the preferences of the individuals: sport activities, walkings, attending the near swimming pool, taking care of the garden and the flowers in the community, going in bar and confectionaries…
Sunday is dedicated to receive guests or to going out in order to participate in events or manifestations in the territory (parties and village festivals, markets,exibitions…) or to meeto other groups.
The total number of hours expected for the volunteer is 38 hours weekly. They can be divided like this: presence during the Saturdays and Sundays plus three days during the week and two free days, or presence during the 5 days during the weeks plus optional or Saturday or Sunday and one day free. The shifts will be defined with the tutor and the volunteer.
Condições: RULES AND CONDITIONS
Flat
o the keys for the Centre's gate and for the flat are withdrawn on arrival and returned upon departure;
o it's necessary to follow the rules of good cohabitation: please do not play and not listen to loud music, because one the first floor live seniors owners of the apartment;
o please make good use of water, electricity and heat and not damage the furniture of the apartment has;
o the cleaning is in charge of the EVS volunteers living there: it is the responsibility of each volunteer to keep the apartment clean and tidy;
o for maintenance works it's necessary to get in touch with the manager;
o it's possible to host 1 or 2 people to sleep, but first it's necessary to notify the person who is in charge of giving a permission;
o the apartment has no a telephone, nor can you use the phone of the CDD;
o it's allowed to use the internet at the Centre during opening hours of service.
CDD
o Access to property is prohibited outside hours of service;
o CDD has vans which cannot be driven by the EVS volunteers.
At work
o EVS tasks include participation in educational-assistance activities addressed to the guests of CDD and to the Community and coaching the hosts of CDD in the morning to reach the CDD and in the afternoon to return home
o it's necessary to follow the contact person's instructions for the activities
o it's necessary to maintain a professional confidentiality.
Formação: Language Course
Depending on the time, the language course will be provided as follows:
- Language course for foreigners at schools for foreigners on the territory;
- Language course at the Fondazione Angelo Passerini's of Nozza di Vestone.
In addition, Tempo Libero will provide a periodic language course during the monitoring meetings.
Documentação: CV, Carta de Motivação e application form
