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Data de início: 01-09-2012

Data de fim: 01-09-2013

Vagas: 2

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 30-04-2012

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 125 €

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Resumo: Foyer La Baraudelle is a day care centre and also specialized accommodation for people suffering of physical or/and cerebral disability. They can suffer of different mix and level of handicap. Residents are adults who can be aged from 18 to 60 years old. The home can host around 40 residents and other support other people during daytime activities.

The aims of Foyer La Baraudelle are to provide residents specific and adapted living conditions (accommodation, frame, medical care...) and to propose activities for leisure and personal development. There is a wide range of activities proposed:
- Sports: horse riding, archery, swimming…
- Familiarization activities: outgoings, thematic trips, celebrations, concerts…
- Leisure activities: pedagogical garden and farm, computer workshop, sensitive activities, painting workshop…
Activities proposed aims to help the residents to get their balance. Every kind of activities can be proposed to achieve it. Pedagogical outlines of the Foyer will encourage to improve relations with others and exchanges with people out of the organisation. This is confirmed by the individual and group outings, and also for all the activities that aims to socialize and enabling residents to live their citizenship.

In order to achieve its objectives, Foyer la Baraudelle employs almost 50 workers in four different departments: administrative department, personal support department, medical and paramedical department, general department.

Foyer La Baraudelle is located in a small town in the Ardennes department in the middle of the main cities of the area: 15 km from Vouziers; 19 km from Rethel; 40 km from Charleville-Mézières. The nearest trainstation is in Rethel.
Ardennes is a French department located in the North-Eastern part of France, close to the Belgian border. This region can be considered like rural department, gaining wealth from agriculture, forestry and old industries (like steal industry, subcontracting car industry…).
Foyer La Baraudelle has got accomodations, activities and medical care rooms and also a pedagogical farm. Considering this and the geographical location of the Foyer, it is important that the future volunteers love Nature and love living close to Nature and animals. If so, volunteers will really enjoy to commit themselves in the activities of the pedagogical farm and they will love to discover the natural diversity of region.

Perfil: It appears necessary that the future volunteer gets and wants to develop human qualities as sense of listening, patience and aptitudes to communicate.

They also will have to want to share and exchange, want to help other people, be ready to overcome some gestures of the everyday life. A minimum of initiative sense will also be required.

An essential skill will be knowledge in French and, most of all, that he shows the willing to express himself in French during his voluntary service.

The chosen volunteers will have to wish living in a rural region and it will be better if they like nature and want to discover nature heritage and animals.

Tarefas: Role of the volunteers

The volunteer will support the staff in in the implementation of the different activites. However the main role of the volunteer will be to offer a special hear to the residents. Indeed the volunteers will enable a better individual support and care of the residents as well as an accompaniement different than the one provide by the institution. The host of the volunteers has to be consiered in a wider citizen approach that aims to work in the inclusion of the residents in the local community life.
Hosting European volunteers opens to other cultures. Indeed residents have rarely the opportunity to meet people living in different countries. That enable also to get them focus on this diversity.

Volunteers activities

Volunteers will support the staff following their skills and interests in the implementation of activities: sports, outings, painting workshops, design, creative workshop, music, singing, computer workshop,…
They will involve themeslves in a progressive way in the accompaniment of the residents in their social activities which are usual for most of people like going to hairdresser, to the bank or going to an activity propose by a local organisation.
Finally, there will be a special focus to involve volunteers in activities related to the pedagogical garden and farm. They will also have the opportunity to develop new activies related to this part of the organisation. Of course, those activities will chang following the seasons.

Condições: The volunteers will live in a house of the Foyer located close to the accomodations and collective equipments but they will have their independence. They will get their own bedroom and will share a kitchen and bathroom. They will also have the possibility to inivite friends or familly because the house have three bedrooms. It is expected that they take good care of the place.
In order to improve their capacity to move in the area, they will have the possibility to borrow a car during their free-time.

Documentação: CV e Carta de Motivação