Finlândia

14100

Data de início: 12-08-2025

Data de fim: 11-08-2026

Vagas: 2

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 16-03-2025

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 120 €

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Resumo: Village Community is a vibrant living and working community for adults with special needs. Tapola is a private social service provider. Our task is to maintain and improve our resident’s well-being. We offer both sheltered housing and supported housing. We have 50 residents and all together we are about 100 people including also co-workers and volunteers.

Community consists of:
- three homes for our residents
- biodynamic farm (taking care of animals and fieldwork)
- weavery (weaving rugs and tablecloths and other crafts)
- maintaining and firewood group (working in the forests, making firewood, shoveling snow, and mowing the lawn)
- garden and herb workshop (taking care of plants and harvesting and making products such as tea and herbal mixtures)
- daytime activity group (crafts, art, and music)
- small village shop where we sell our workshop products

We have a rich cultural life with different festivals and activities. Our aims and values are the well-being of all residents, enabling an individual life, supporting self-determination, and developing a balanced work and community life. In our community, everyone is special and deserves acceptance, respect, and meaningful life content. In addition, we are very aware of the surrounding environment and take care of nature.

Perfil: Age: 18-30
Essential:

Willingness to adapt and enthusiasm to learn
Motivation to learn Finnish and get familiar with the residents, community life, and the Finnish culture
Motivation to live in a countryside community and meet everyone as an individual
No specific previous experience required
We appreciate these skills:

Ability to take care of others
Basic knowledge of housework such as cleaning and cooking
The Community offers opportunities where the volunteers are free to create something new and bring in their own skills and abilities (music, sports, hobby groups, and events).

Tarefas: Every year we welcome 4 volunteers from all over the world to become integrated into all aspects of life in Tapola. We have four decades of experience in voluntary work, and everyone is happy about new people who become new friends and are in the end like family members. We collaborate with international organizations that provide seminars and training for volunteers who join our community.

As a volunteer, you will become a part of a one house family. You will provide support and friendship to the residents. Volunteers support together with the co-workers the well-being of the residents. Each volunteer participates in a workshop to assist the residents. Training is implemented through work, and more responsibility is given to each volunteer as they show themselves ready for new challenges. Everything is about doing together and supporting, not seeing the residents as an object of treatment.

Volunteers are responsible for a variety of tasks such as participating in our workshops, organizing cultural and free time activities. A typical day consists of common meals, morning and afternoon workshops, cultural and social activities, and house chores activities throughout the day and in the evening. The weekends are more relaxed. The volunteers are involved in social and leisure activities depending on what the residents want to do.

Horário: Every volunteer has 2 days off per week and is entitled to 2 holiday days a month. It is important to regularly take a rest and gather new strength for this rewarding but also difficult task. A volunteer can gather holiday days for longer periods. We encourage you to explore Finland, its beautiful nature and interesting history. Guests are welcomed into the community but we hope for discretion while being around the residents.

Condições: The volunteers live in the guest rooms. Everyone has their own room; other facilities are shared. The necessities for living are provided. Living in the community is a great opportunity to learn about others and yourself. All the houses and workshops are within walking distance of each other. Ten kilometers away is the lakeside cabin, which can be used together or if available also with friends and families during the summer months.

Documentação: Application Form

Download: 14100_Application_European_Solidarity_Corps (3).docx