Polónia

1440

Data de início: 01-09-2012

Data de fim: 31-07-2013

Vagas: 4

Duração: 11 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 15-04-2012

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €

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Resumo: Main task of the project is equal opportunities and roma communities. Project is aimed at developing solidarity and promoting mutual understanding among young people. Volunteers will work in community centers for youth and children, including the one integrating for polish and Romani group, in You are not alone- a club for people with mental disorder and their families, sometimes in the office helping by ongoing project in the frame of Governmental Romani Programme.

Four hours a week will be dedicated to polish lessons. Methods that will be used in the project (workshops, observations, exchange of ideas, cooperation process, group dynamics, multimedia presentations, integrational meetings) assume that volunteers will actively take part in every stage. Through participation in the project four young people will get acquainted with Polish culture and the Roma minority, will increase their interpersonal, intercultural and language skills, learn interesting ways to work with groups at risk of exclusion, increase self-reliance and responsibility through a confrontation with another culture.

Perfil: We would like to invite all the people to take part in the project who are:
-interested in psychology, educational science studies, social work in a big city,
- interested in Roma culture, history and current problems of Roma community,
- creative,
- optimistic, outgoing and honest,
- flexible, friendly and helpful,
- independent, with ability to show initiative,
- responsible and trustworthy,
- interested and experienced in work with children, youth, people with mental problems and minorities,
- interested and experienced in working in NGO’s office, helping with international projects, Volunteers are not required to have qualifications necessary to work with children, young people or people with mental problems, but some experience in working with this group is essential.

It will be great when they have also interesting skills and hobby: sport, painting, drawing, hand crafts, dancing, circus skills, playing instruments or singing – very popular with our beneficiaries. Good computer skills will help in work by the projects in the Foundation office.

Tarefas: Volunteers will be working in the Club for people with mental problems three times a week, in the morning. In the afternoon in different community centres for children and youngsters: one of which integrates Roma and Polish children and another is based in neighbourhood with various social problems. Sometimes they will be asked to work in the office helping by on going projects, especially those in frame of Governmental Programme for the Roma community in Poland. Proposed activities:
- participation and help in the activities for children and persons with mental problems
- participation and help in the activities for persons with mental problems
- participation in educational projects organised by the foundation - helping in organization of important events exe. Christmas Eve with Prom Foundation.
- preparation of volunteers´ own activities under the supervision of Prom’s educational workers
- organisation of meetings with the representatives of other community centres and non-governmental organisations from Wroclaw promoting volunteering within the Roma Association
-Romani Bacht.
- meetings promoting volunteers’ cultural background
- organisation of international meetings and conferences within Governmental Programme for the Roma community in Poland.
- searching for potential partners interested in project with Roma communities, creating data bases,
- searching for recent information about Roma communities in volunteers country
- making contacts with foreign publishing houses willing to published pictures story about Romani History or other publications made by Foundation Prom.
- helping by food distribution for Roma community and the poorest families from our beneficiaries.
- organisation and participation in winter or summer holidays for children from community centres
- promotion of the European Voluntarism within the young people from the community centres contributing to the increase of knowledge about different countries and their cultural tradition Volunteers will have a chance to observe different specialist at work: teachers, psychologists, dance teachers, language teachers, music therapy and art therapy teachers.

Horário: Typical volunteer’s day will be structured as follows:
10:00-13.00 work in the Nie Jestes Sam club (You Are Not Alone club) for people with mental problems and their families –
three times a week.
11:00- 13:00 Polish language course twice a week. (4 hours)
13:00 lunch
15:00 – 19:00 work in the community centres for children: “Zakatek Krasnoludka” (Dwarf’s Corner) – community centre
integrating Polish and Roma children, “Promyki” (Rays) community centre and “Muchoborki” community center.
Sometimes when there is need working in the Foundation office helping with on going projects.

Volunteers will have 2 days off during a week, mainly at the weekend. If their assistance is required at the weekend (during
trips with the children from community centres) then they get those two days back during the week. Volunteers will work about
35 hours per week, half of this time they are going to spend with the children and young people from community centres. They
are entitled to holidays, in the time suitable for the Foundation and volunteers.

Condições: Accommodation: Volunteers will be living in student apartments or with other EVS volunteers working in different organisations
in Wroclaw.

Alimentation: Volunteers will be provided with money to buy food. And begging of each month has to present invoice to proof
expenses. While working in the community centres for children and Nie Jestes Sam club (You Are Not Alone club) volunteers
will be served coffee, tea, biscuits or other snacks.

Pocket money: Volunteer will be provided with pocket money.

Local transport: volunteers will be provided with monthly pass for local transport: regular bus, night link, fast bus and trams.

Volunteers participating in the EVS project will increase their interpersonal and intercultural competencies and will learn Polish language. They will gain valuable professional and interpersonal experience. They will learn how to work within the group and solve the conflicts if necessary. Moreover, after such a long stay out of their country they will become more flexible and more adaptable to the changes in their environment, more tolerant to the cultural difference between people.
They will learn different teaching methods necessary to work with children and people with mental problems. They will get to
know Roma minority in Wroclaw and the characteristics of work for non-government organisation in Poland. They will learn
decision taking and time management.

Formação: Linguistic support: Volunteers will have four hours of individual Polish lessons once a week.

Documentação: CV e Carta de Motivação