Polónia

1655

Data de início: 01-10-2012

Data de fim: 30-06-2013

Vagas: 1

Duração: 9 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 06-09-2012

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €

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Resumo: Project environment

We are in the suburbs of Cracow, near the Vistula river. There are a lot of forests and bike paths, which we often use for trips. The organization has a computer room, kitchen (in which we prepare meals for children), "working room" where we can make any easy home made crafts with children. We teach children basic English and how to use a computer. Sometimes we rent a gym room from school, which is next to our organization. We organise many different activities for children: they learn how to swim, they have gym, fitness, climbing walls, we also lead special exercises for children with slight physical problems.

During summer and winter holidays we organize camps and trips. By games and talks we teach children how to live near nature, we build small ecological houses, we prepare meals, we teach them how to take care of nature and respect it. By cooperation with local media we are leading many local events and occasional events like The Day of the Santa Claus, Children Day, Christmas Eve etc. During those events we engage children as much as possible. Thank to that they feel, that those events are created by them, and that they achieved something on their own.

Our children live in a difficult environment and they are in danger of poverty, unemployment, alcoholism of adults and older youth, and many other. Those children don't have any places to meet after school, they don't have people who would listen to them and help to solve their problems. We want to show them that they can be happy, that life can be very interesting among their friends from the Club. This is a huge challenge for our workers and volunteers, that is why, they must like this kind of job.

We hope that thanks to our work children and youth will know how to act in a proper way in their own life, not make any problems, neither for themselves, nor other people. We would like to give them some cues, that they would use in their further life. They will gain some practical knowledge, how to communicate with their environment, realize their interests.

Teachers and students of Krakow's universities work in the organization. We also work with volunteers from Krakow, cause they give us a lot of new, fresh, innovative ideas. They bring new motivation and great atmosphere full of energy.

Perfil: We are looking for people who, most of all, like to work with youth and children.

We would like them to be very open and innovative - cause this is very important in such organisation as our. Each passion or hobby is extremely valuable in work with children! It would be good if they would be patient and understanding, as we are also cooperating with people from difficult family/social environments, and some times with children with small psychical disabilities.

Generally all hobbies, interests and passions would be useful in this work, cause our activities are very diverse.

Tarefas: At the beginning (time when the volunteers won't speak Polish too fluently) we want the volunteers to help teachers, and try to engage children in some sport games, music, theatre e.t.c. Than, when they will feel more comfortable in Polish they will be able to organize more complicated things. They can personally lead some more complicated activities ( swimming, climbing, shooting, gym, fitness, and also realize their own ideas, after consulting with us).

To sum up all possible activities for the volunteers:
1) organizing games ( linguistic, artistic e.t.c.) for children
2) leading computer activities, with special emphasis on the internet subject ( we hope that by using internet children will be able to find some help with their school works and some interesting articles for them, they can also have contact e.x with similar organizations form volunteers hometown).
3) food care - helping teachers and children to prepare some meals for them
4) organizing sport activities
5) organizing competitions, quiz
6) organizing outdoor activities ( bikes, ecological trips, tourist trips e.t.c.)
7) leading activities connected with handicraft, handmade and technical useful basics
8)taking care of children while taking part in our activities, also while going out to other cooperating with us organizations

Maybe, if the volunteers would like, we can make some small weekly meetings connected with each country. On such meetings we would talk about home country of volunteers, customs, we would play some typical games of the country, maybe gain some knowledge about their casual life, see what are the similarities and cultural differences, learn some basic words. This might be a very good motivation for children to learn something more about this particular region of Europe. We think that this can be a very important contact for the children, cause this might be the only contact they ever had, and ever will have with people from abroad.

Generally we deeply hope that the volunteers will create their own, unrepeatable atmosphere of their staying here, by arranging, creating and positive attitude to work. We are looking forward for any volunteers ideas, that will very helpful for us. We think that international volunteers work as a great idea to widen children's horizons, and to leave a feeling, that they have somebody that have interest in them, and cares about them.

Documentação: CV e Carta de Motivação