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Data de início: 01-09-2013

Data de fim: 30-06-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 10 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-01-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 95 €

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Resumo: The project of Therapeutic Horse Riding will take place in Athens, near Katexaki metro station and the metropolitan park of Goudi. It is established in 1992 as a non-profit, volunteers organisation and it is recognised as sports organisation too.

The infrastructure of the association includes stables for the horses, training court, room for educational and leisure activities, a big yard, the administration office.

Therapeutic riding is an alternative rehabilitation programme, where the horse is the therapeutic medium; it improves the overall health and quality of life of people with physical, mental, or emotional disorders or disabilities.

The horse becomes an extension of their own body; it helps them venture into new experiences and discover unprecedented feelings: the pleasure of a ride or the thrill of a walk in the countryside, or, mainly, that precious sense of movement and personal independence.

The walk of a horse is similar to the human gait; therefore, it transmits to the rider's body that same movement which legs produce in people with no disabilities.

In this way, the torso muscles of people with mobility problems are strengthened significantly; at the same time, sitting in that particular upright posture promotes good respiration.

Therapeutic riding is a unique experience for people with handicaps, who never thought that they could ride; it differs from traditional treatments of gyms, physical therapy, and hydrotherapy.

All the above mentioned are provided by the association in children and adolescents who are coming mainly from low and middle socio-economic strata and because of the voluntary character of the association benefit of an accurate treatment by paying much less.

o All employees and many of the Greek volunteers are experts in the subject area of different disciplines of therapeutic riding (university level horsetherapists, horseriding coaches, grooms, stable officers). Since the first day of the arrival of the volunteers starts, in the form of individual learning, the theoretical and practical approach to therapeutic riding.

Alongside there are courses in the form of seminars by professional staff. The topics are: general principles of therapeutic riding, basic medical training of diseases treated using the therapeutic riding method, first aid, grooming, horse ropeleading). All volunteers at the end of their service, if they want so, can be certified as grooms folowing examinations.

Perfil: The volunteers must:
-Not be afraid of animals and horses in particular
-Not have allergies relavant to animals, dust and pollen
-Must be cooperative and and communicative
-Must be patient and tolerant to every kind of disability (physical, mental)
-Must have been vaccined against tetanus

Tarefas: The volunteers will work supportively to workers of the Centre and participate in various activities related to the therapeutic process and care of horses.
Volunteers will be employed at the center five days a week six hours a day divided into morning and afternoon. The daily schedule includes the following tasks:
-Preparation of horses for the sessions
-Preparation of horses for the stable
-Feeding and watering horses
-Ropeleading of horses
-Side escorts during the session
-Arrange the horse riding material before and after the sessions
Cleaning of the center's areas
The above are daily work. Volunteers will have the opportunity to develop new:
-Occupation of the children, during the hours of waiting for the session
-Participation in organisation of events that TRAG organises on a permanent basis as bazaars, shows, games, volunteers' parties. Volunteers are promoters of the idea of volunteering in the community from which that dozens of volunteers emerge each year.

Condições: The selection of the candidates will be made on the basis of the CV, the motivation letter of the candidate, a talk with the responsible of the sending organization and a phone talk with the candidate him/herself. The criteria will take into consideration the specific activities where the volunteer will be involved and how suitable he/she may be and feel for those activities.
A group of three members of the organization will choose the future volunteer, including the members in charge of the activity and the responsible from the coordination organisation.

Documentação: CV e Carta de Motivação em inglês