Lituânia

2055

Data de início: 01-10-2013

Data de fim: 01-08-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 10 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-01-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: Geographically Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania and the fourth in the Baltic States. It is 100 km away from the capital Vilnius and about 300 km away from the seaside. The population in Kaunas is about 415.800 inhabitants. Ethnic composition: 80% Lithuanian, 8,8% Russian, 0,7% Belarusian, 0,7% Ukrainian, 0,6% Polish, 0,1% Latvian, 1,5% others.

Kaunas was a temporary capital of Lithuania between the world wars, so it is still one of the cultural and economical centres. There're 8 universities, a lot of museums, six theatres in Kaunas.
Two biggest rivers of Lithuania meet in the city centre, that's why there's a beautiful park there, where you can have a walk accompanied by Nemunas (the river father) and Neris (the river mother).

The organization is located in the old part of the town. This means on one hand, that the volunteer will work in a very international and active region. On the other hand city centre means that many young people come here to spend their leisure time.

Perfil: The profile of the volunteer we would like to host:
- The main character feature of the volunteer is the motivation for the learning process. We do not identify ourselves as teachers; the main idea about this is to be able to find the positive sense in every experience. When changing the culture you get many challenging things to learn: to understand different cultural codes, the values of special group of people you deal with, how the way of thinking and the lifestyle is influenced by the material norms of the country, the language/
- It would be helpful for the project and for the volunteer, if he or she would be interested in any kind of arts, all these skills can be used in the project and quicken the integration.
- Interested in work with young people.
- It would be great, if the volunteer would read this description before coming.

To these features we will pay attention during the recruitment process. We see it as necessary to have some personal contact before the arrival via internet or phone.

Tarefas: We can offer friendly and open minded team of young people. The motivating and fair work atmosphere we see as a necessary condition for a productive work.
A possibility to learn the language. The workers of the organization can easily communicate in English, German and Russian, that may be useful for the volunteer in the beginning. Later on we expect that the volunteer will improve the skills of Lithuanian language. We are ready to accompany and support this process.

Apart from the language the volunteer will gain team skills, skills in planning, organizing different events, evaluating, leading and certain skills from different workshops, because organization has big experience in working together with the volunteers
We can offer both ways of working: to go solo and with accompanying though the workers. Working solo can be a challenging experience. As well the volunteer will have space to express his or her own ideas.

If the volunteer is interested in the cultural differences, he or she will have an opportunity to gain a view into the reality of the youth situation in Lithuania, the topics and values, which young people are interested in.

What we also offer is the possibility to have a challenge in social work area, by seeing, observing and influencing changes in process that is going while working with young people.

Documentação: CV e Carta de Motivação em inglês