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Data de início: 01-09-2011

Data de fim: 30-07-2012

Vagas: 1

Duração: 11 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 02-03-2011

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 95 €

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Resumo: You will work in the center of Bratislava, mainly in the evenings (till 18:00). You will teach our clients how to deal with daily tasks (cooking, needling, public transport,..) and you will also have arttherapies with them. You are welcome to develop your own project durring your EVS. You will work in a team with other EVS volunteers. You will have to learn Slovak language as quick as possible, because many of our clients doesnt speak foreign languages. is a parental, non - governmental organisation in Slovakia. It is a society of citizens joined together with the objective to represent the intents of children, youth and adults suffering from autistic syndrome. The organization was established in 1994. Nowadays, the organization consists of 17 regional organisations throughout Slovakia. Today, we offer therapies for autistic children every afternoon after school. Basic philosophy of our organisation is to promote and support all measures in order to enforce and improve the quality of life of people who are suffering from autism and their families. Our aim is to help them to integrate them in society and increase the level of their independence. Our organisation generates the promotion activities about autism dedicated mainly to family members, professionals as well as to the public. We organize regular family meetings, various social, cultural and sport events. There is always an opportunity to exchange experiences. In addition, the organization arranges counselling activities, therapies and rehabilitation for autistic people and their families. Our organization offers summer and winter camps for children with autism and their families. This is an opportunity for social integration for children with autism. The organisation consists of the following member staff: - Garant (guarantee) for social counselling and social prevention; - Project Coordinator and Organizer; - 5 active part-time workers supervising the therapies for the children with autism. Regular activities of the organisation are counselling for families and children with autism and social prevention. It is mainly made up of the following components: a) Therapy for children with autism: 5 times a week in the afternoon (music therapy, art therapy) b) Social rehabilitation - self-service; c) Social counselling

Perfil: We would like to have volunteers with these characteristics: - patient, prepared for new situations - having at least bachelor degree from university - at least intermediate english skills - having artisitc skills. Hosting a volunteer means an enriching and inspiring experience for us as his/her young spirit, energy, ideas and creativity will influence our and the childrens´everyday life. The volunteer is seen as a valuable part of our organisation and the services we provide for children with autism. He/she can always involve his/her point of view, opinions, remarks and further his/her experiencies and knowledge. We are grateful to get a chance to get to know more about his/her country habits, culture and language and further we are keen to host a volunteer as he/she can bring an Intercultural and European dimension. A volunteer from abroad adds an international perspective to our service users' lives. Perhaps many of them may never have had the opportunity to travel due to social, financial or political reasons and so they were not able to experience a inter-cultural service programme and all the benefits that brings to the individual and the host community. On the other hand we also hope that the volunteer will gain from the unique environment that project offers. The volunteer gets the opportunity to discover and get in touch with our country. We look forward to introduce and encourage the volunteer to our skills and praxis.

Tarefas: lead therapies (mostly with individuals). Participation in afternoon activities (therapies), irregular activities such as St. Nicolas, winter and summer cams, the National Children´s Day, preparing the programme, taking photos during the activities. >Our intent is to integrate the volunteer to all of our daily activities, especially in the afternoon hours. In that period, there are various therapies, which are led by experienced persons. Each autistic child has its own session according to the level of disorder, as it is important to have it alone. The volunteer will be involved in those sessions and assist during the activities. Consequently, there will be activities, which support the autistic client's training of the self-service activities in the kitchen. The volunteer will also have the possibility to cook his/ her national food or preferable food, bake cakes typical for his / her region. - We would welcome a volunteer who is creative in art. We would be happy to provide a space for him or her to create something new and useful for interaction with children with autism. - Our organization needs to spread knowledge of autism among people. We would need help and new ideas to get more effective with public events and awareness of autism. - help with administrative work and the work that need to be done on occasionally basis - make photos and videos from events - prepare summer camp for kids with their families. Administrative work, going to the Post Office. >Even if there are employees responsible for the administration, there is always a helping hand needed in the office for copying documents, sorting the files and documents as well as checking our post box at the post office. We welcome any kind of initiative of the volunteer. Other activities which are suitable for the volunteer are: - Taking photographs and making videos during various activities (therapies, community sessions with the families, St. Nicolaus event, winter and summer camps, the National Children´s Day); - After being trained, the volunteer has the chance to help uploading files on the internet website of SPOSA. In addition, the volunteer can give his/her creativity full scope by contributing new ideas to refresh or improve the website, its graphic design and layout; - Attending trips with families and healthy sibling