Alemanha

2088

Data de início: 01-09-2013

Data de fim: 01-09-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-01-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: The child care center e.V. is placed in the district Lindenthal in the west of cologne. The facility is located in a large multi-level house with a garden and is centrally located in a residential area of Cologne. Each group has its own floor in the house with direct access to the garden. In the attic is a large room that is used for gymnastics and during the lunchtime as a resting room. The tram stop is about 5 minutes away.

Lindenthal is a very green district, with close parks around the University of Cologne. Mostly wealthier families and students live there.

With 1 million inhabitants Cologne is one of the largest cities in Germany. It is located in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's state with the largest population. Belgium and the Netherlands can be reached in an hour by car. Cologne as an industrial city attracted workers from all over Europe. This is why today people from many different countries and cultures live here. Cologne is a university city with more than 50,000 students and offers culturally rich and various leisure activities. The inhabitants are known for their openness and good sense of humor, carnival is one of the biggest local festivals.

Perfil: We are open to hosting volunteers from all international partners. We think it is important that the volunteers are interested and very motivated to work with children and it would be helpful if they had had experience or knowledge in working with children. The sending organizations with whom we want to work together should give us information about needs of the volunteers in advance, so we can decide whether we can offer this support at the appropriate time. Language knowledge would be helpful as well, but is not necessarily required, since in the team some languages, such as English, Polish and French are spoken. But it has proved as helpful for a good and fast integration if the volunteers already build up first basic knowledge of German before they arrive. We therefore encourage candidates to prepare themselves, and support them with helpful utilities. We don't expect this from young people with fewer opportunities.

Interested candidates apply by sending an application via e-mail first and then we do an interview via phone or Skype. For young people with fewer opportunities, we rely on the selection and preparation procedure of the sending partner on the first place, who meets the candidates personally.

Tarefas: The volunteers are additional in the facility. They support the work as good as they can.

For the children they are additional contacts and playmates. The children are curious to get in contact with the volunteers and easily ask them to play with them.

Basically, it is important for us to strengthen every European volunteer in his own abilities and to consider their personal interests. Therefore tasks can be personalized and flexible. The volunteers can participate in all functional areas. Volunteers can work either in the younger groups of 2-3 year old children as well as with the older, 4-6 year old children. Main tasks will be in the child care. This includes for example individual games and plays, take care of the children and organizing different group activities. The volunteers can implement own projects and get help with this. We organize also excursions and sport activities in the gym (Our preschool children go one time per week in the gym of a nearby elementary school for an extra-movement program with lots of games and fun experience) as well as a 3-day children's camp once per year. In the group with the younger children, smaller nursing tasks (swaddling, dressing, etc.) are part of the work. Housekeeping tasks such as cooking, cleaning, washing and dish washing are also part of everyday work and will be taken care of by all employees and volunteers.

The volunteers get to know the pedagogical work with children, learn to solve conflicts and to be consistent in their behavior.

They also learn to impart basic skills and values, to work in a team as well as many everyday social and job related skills. They learn to plan, organize and implement trips and activities.

So they get to know their own abilities better, for example their own creativity. By their activity and the new experiences they develop more self-confidence. They get always feedback from the children and the team. Through educational questions, every day rhythm and the celebration of traditional holydays they get to know customs and values that are important for German families. The fact that they eat lunch in the facility is a way to get to know German cuisine. Our goal is also that the volunteers learn more about different backgrounds and living conditions of children and their families. Through the children and parent- evenings they get insights into how (differently) the family life is. They get practice in dealing with children and with colleagues. They learn to develop activities and to inspire and motivate the children. Of course the volunteers learn the German language as well. We always have many volunteers from different countries in other projects. Through contact with them they get to know other countries and fields of work.

The volunteer has a competent guiding person especially for them, which together with other employees helps with all questions or difficulties. By bringing in their cultural background they can show culturally specific traditions and contribute their ideas for activities and group games, workshops for older children, for example about their country, about European countries or they could offer such as a French fairy tale groups etc. Volunteers should enrich the team and bring in new perspectives or methods through their cultural background and their motivation. At the same time they should offer a European perspective to the children for to support openness to the world by their way of living and acting as a model for positive intercultural exchange.

We find it very important that volunteers feel as an equal member of the team, but they do not have to take full responsibility, according to their skills and abilities and must never work alone. To achieve this there are weekly team meetings and two training days per year, in which volunteers can and should participate occasionally.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em inglês