Polónia

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Data de início: 01-05-2012

Data de fim: 31-01-2013

Vagas: 1

Duração: 9 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 15-12-2011

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €

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Resumo: Regionalny Oddział Polskiego Towarzystwa Turystyczno – Krajoznawczego w Białymstoku (RO PTTK w Białymstoku) is a local branch of Polish Tourism Society. The main aims of our organization are: creating and facilitating possibilities of touristic activities, promoting and developing knowledge of our region and the rest of Poland, administering of marked touristic routes in Poland. Our philosophy is to do voluntary activities, particularly of educational and touristic nature, in order to teach people how to respect cultural and environmental heritage of Poland and Europe.
Our activities are based on our voluntary work, our members are working in our office according to a schedule, so that each day there is somebody there. There are about 10 people working frequently in the organisation and for bigger events there are about 20 people more to help.
Our target group are especially pupils of primary and secondary schools from Białystok and the region. We also work with adults in the educational field (workshops for guides etc.)

Description of the organisation
Regionalny Oddział Polskiego Towarzystwa Turystyczno – Krajoznawczego w Białymstoku (RO PTTK w Białymstoku) is a local branch of Polish Tourism Society. The main aims of our organization are: creating and facilitating possibilities of touristic activities, promoting and developing knowledge of our region and the rest of Poland, administering of marked touristic routes in Poland. Our philosophy is to do voluntary activities, particularly of educational and touristic nature, in order to teach people how to respect cultural and environmental heritage of Poland and Europe.
Our activities are based on our voluntary work, our members are working in our office according to a schedule, so that each day there is somebody there. There are about 10 people working frequently in the organisation and for bigger events there are about 20 people more to help.
Our target group are especially pupils of primary and secondary schools from Białystok and the region. We also work with adults in the educational field (workshops for guides etc.)

Project environment:
Podlasie region is located in the northern-eastern part of Poland. The whole area is a part of the Green Lungs of Poland – the territory with multitude of national and regional parks and nature reservations, great wilderness (famous Bialowieza forest, for example), thousands of lakes, the largest swamps in central Europe. Podlasie region is well-known not only for its marvellous environment but also for its multicultural and multireligious values. One can find here Belorussian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian national minorities as well as the traces of Jewish one. The ethnic minorities are represented by Tartars and Gipsies. Bialystok (300 000 inhabitants) is the capital of this region. It is a great administrative, academic and cultural centre. There are two nature reservations and large territory of communal forests and parks within its boundaries. About 50 000 students study in Bialystok. Located in the distance of 50 km to the Belarussian border, the city is the place where several routes and railway lines cross.
The office of our organisation is located in a primary school next to the city centre. Most of the activities are carried out in the city or the surrounding area of the Podlasie region.

Perfil: We expect:
•people who like working with children, teenagers and youth at school
•people who want to learn new cultures
•people who want share their experience and talents
•people who are flexible
•people who offer practical engagement
•people with initiative
•people who are creative
•people wiling to be helpful
We need a person who is avaliable, flexible, have time and want to serve or help young disabled people with special needs.
Your help is needed at school during lessons and other school events, in boarding school to help them in their daily life and
homework, during field trips to support teachers, in the „sekretariat” (school office) to help with office work.

Tarefas: The volunteer is supposed to take a part in various activities of RO PTTK, which are strictly related to the regular work of organization. Because of a special character of some work, volunteer’s working time could be flexible to a certain extent. However, the volunteer is expected to spend about 30 hours at work each week.
Activities of the volunteer will be divided into two groups: 1) work outside the office of organization and 2) office work. The main activities outside office are: a) inventory of monuments of architecture, monuments of nature and other touristic values of our region; b) assisting tourist staff (guides, commanders) during excursions organized by PTTK for its members and other people; c) assisting PTTK activists in educational, cultural and touristy projects, 4) repairing and monitoring marked touristic routes administered by RO PTTK in Bialystok.
During the outside work, such as participating in the practical training for the future tour guides the volunteer will have an exceptional chance to get to know Podlasie region very well. He/she will learn about heritage, national minorities and religions which made Podlasie so multicultural.
Examples of other volunteer activities outside the office: searching and describing objects of tourist interest, taking photos of them, collecting information about these objects from various sources. The outside work depends on the weather.
In the office the volunteer will help, first of all, in simple office work like distributing information materials, translating papers, sending letters etc. Besides, he/she will be responsible for helping in organizing of seminars, courses and meetings.
The role of the volunteer in the organisation will be to support our activities, but also to exchange about his/her culture and heritage of his/her country. Our aim is to integrate the volunteer into the social environment of our organization and to give the volunteer the opportunity to meet people involved in touristy and ecological activities as well as to meet history, culture and tradition of Podlasie region.
During the project the volunteer should acquire especially the following competences:
- the ability to work in a task-oriented team
- the competence of flexible work
- opennes in contacts with clients, partners and PTTK members
- knowledge about the region, especially its cultural, social and natural environment
- competences in the field of tourism, such as organisation, promotion and service of tourist trips and travels, maintaining of track marking works, creating an inventory of tourist attractions of the region.

Condições: In order to guarantee a safe living and working environment for the volunteers we are going to assign them mentors from which
they will get all personal and emotional support as well as from the Centers worker who is responsible for volunteers in the
project. The mentors will be open, empathic and responsible people who also know Centers life. As the voluntary work is
developing in our town and we have more and more EVS volunteers here we find it easier to introduce our guests into the
local community and make them feel comfortable among us. We understand it’s very important to surround the volunteers with
adequate support.

Documentação: Cv e Carta de motivação