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Data de início: 01-09-2011

Data de fim: 01-09-2012

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 28-02-2011

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 125 €

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Resumo: is the only institution which welcomes children and teenagers with educational and social difficulties in this part of the Department. Several similar institutions are distributed in other towns, but mainly in AGEN, the country town. Most of children and teenagers come from the Department but also from the neighbouring Gironde county. The boarders live in four separated houses in the town. Each one has a capacity of 7 children who are gathered according to their age and /or their level of self-sufficiency. Each group is supervised by a team of 4 special educationists who daily accompany them in accordance with their individual orientations. Our institution is open all year long.

Tarefas: The voluntary youth will be included in one of the four educational teams after talking to him/ her about his/her project and affinities. Added to the team of 4, his / her presence will be a freshness of mind opened to a new language and another culture. he volunteer will able to initiate and set up a personnel project in concordance with the target group and the context he/she will belong in the project. His/ her working hours will be ?35 weekly. This will leave him / her time for his/ her private and social life. The volunteer will also work in the coordinating organisation during some hours in the week. This work will be based on youth information, meaning the work on information tools, punctual interventions (information days, mission Locale, schools, etc.) that is also a work on the visibility of the YiA program. He /she will take an active part in the daily life of the group, assisting each educationist and acting on his advices and under his responsibility. He / she will be able to lead specific actions according to his / her abilities, such as homework, sport, and manual activities or in an artistic, educational, musical aim.

Condições: We guarantee a secure hosting environment. The volunteer will benefit of an accompaniment that prevents crises risks and conflict resolution in particular. Accompaniment of his mentor that is exterior to his hosting structure, accompaniment of a project responsible, regular team meetings. The volunteer also has emergency numbers for major problems, such as national agency and regional correspondent. Working with a target group in difficulties is a challenge for the volunteer. Added to the cultural shock, he or she will se him (her) self confronted to a target group with specific needs, which will ask for him (her) a big support to be able to understand these needs and to find tools to be able to answer to them in his (her) proper way, within his (her) competences. For this the hosting staff is prepared to support the volunteer in these constructive approach that will permit him (her) to the children and youngsters: propose a walk in town, go to the cinema, to the museum, do homework, prepare an exhibition: live the intercultural and find there tools to answer to the children's need to share and give the volunteer the opportunity to live an intercultural experience very rich. To foster this, the team will encourage the volunteer by giving him (her) the human or material tools he (she) might need: to go with if necessary, to have at his disposal a car (if he (she) has the driving license of course) or give him (her) access to reduced prices like to the children for leisure in Marmande to foster cultural discovery in rural area. We already hosted volunteers, and one of our objectives is to bring the group of children in the volunteers' country: show them that distance, language, nationality, culture are not obstacles to an intercultural and profound relation. A follow-up is wished and answers to the children's needs as to the request of the volunteer that is part of the local and cultural integrations process. Some languages courses are provided during the first two mo