Bulgária

1900

Data de início: 01-02-2013

Data de fim: 01-02-2014

Vagas: 2

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-09-2012

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 65 €

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Resumo: Our Social Center is looking for two long-term EVS volunteers for its daycare center for mothers in disadvantaged situation.

The volunteer is supposed to start their service at the beginning of February or March 2013 and stay for a year.

The center was established some 12 years ago in order to financially and morally support women at risk. The priority group are women who raise their children on their own and the assistance provided to them is aimed at preventing the abandonment of their children in institutions. Besides them, there are mothers who have many childred, adoptive mothers, mothers lacking support because of domestic violence, mothers with sick children, mothers with mental and physical disabilities and girls who have grown up in orphanages.

The goal of the center is to empower women to cope on their own. It offers personalized social programs that deal with the specific problems of each individual.

There are craft workshops where the women can work according to their interests. The workshops function as both work therapy and a source of some, albeit modest, additional income. The center also assists women in finding employment. It supports young women from institutions to transition into leading an independent life by providing temporary accommodation and work. The center works closely with the regional state administration, employment bureaus, and social services institutions.

Throughout the years the center has helped more than 300 mothers in need. More than 60 of them achieved and maintain a stable material and social status, 6 of them were hired as full-time employees at the center itself.

The center has 3 workshops - a ceramic, a textile, and a felt one, where the staff and the mothers work daily and make different dolls, ornaments, pottery, etc. to be sold at charity bazaars and for export.

Perfil: - responsible,
- punctual,
- has the need to help people in vulnerable situations.
- mutually-beneficial relationship.
- needs to know English at an intermediate level in order to be able to communicate with the staff at the center.

Tarefas: The volunteers will work closely with the staff and the other volunteers at the center. The staff is open to new suggestions and activities if the volunteers want to organize such.

A list of activities volunteers can do:

• work in the workshops
• spend time with the mothers at the center – keep
them company, encourage and motivate them in their efforts and pursuits
• up-keep (cleaning, cooking, gardening, grocery shopping, laundry, etc.
• interview new mothers coming to the center
• meet and visit beneficiaries at their homes if necessary
• work with children who sometimes come to the center
• organize an activity of their own with the mothers
• maintenance of the web page of the center

Condições: The plan is for the volunteers to share an apartment.

At least one meal a day is provided at the center (lunch).

The volunteers will get monthly passes for the public transport.

The volunteers will be able to socialize with other volunteers who work on various other projects.

Formação: The volunteers will be enrolled in a Bulgarian language course

Documentação: CV e Carta de Motivação em Inglês