Lituânia

2277

Data de início: 01-10-2013

Data de fim: 01-10-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-03-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: The organisation is based in a city of Lithuania (750 000 inhabitants) just 20 minutes by bus from the city centre and 40 minutes by bus from main railway and couch station. Bus links are wonderful. Bus stops next to organisation and there are 4 different busses going to the centre. There is big shopping centre 7 minutes walk. There are a lot of leisure activities and some marvellous parks in the city.

Our organisation is in sleeping areawhere most people live. There are a lot of schools around but not so many places where pupils can go after the school. So they spend time in the streets, begin to use alcohol or drugs. Also there are no community centres where people could come and communicate with each other.

Perfil: In our organisation all volunteers are welcome who are highly motivated to commit concrete period of their lives for the sake of help to weaker members of society. The most important is that the volunteer wouldn't be afraid of the target group they are going to work with (kids and youth with challenging behaviour and disabled people). We are able to host volunteers older than 18 years.

We are ready to cooperate with all responsible organisations, especially with NGO's working with disadvantaged youth.

Our organisation is ready to provide the youth with fewer opportunities with special support for the volunteer in terms of psychological, counselling or individual personal support which would be provided by the social centre's staff. The volunteers with fewer opportunities will have professional tutor who has been the volunteer herself and now works as social worker in the centre. That should be helpful to empathise with the volunteer's needs.

Tarefas: The social centre runs the following projects and is ready to host up till 4 volunteers at time:

DAY HOME CHILDREN TO CHILDREN (1 volunteer) assistance to the disadvantaged children (up to the age of 12) and their families:
- Training of social skills;
- Individual consultation of children and their parents;
- Material, social and psychological support for the families facing difficulties;
- Organizing outings and summer camps;
- Help in preparation of homework;
- Feeding children.

THE SPRING-BOARD (1 volunteer) - offering assistance to young people (13 - 16 year old) encountering various difficulties at school, having behavior and emotional problems, psychological and life crises.
- Assistance in finding a place of study or in pursuing an occupation;
- Representing interests and interceding (at school, in police and court);
- Serving as an intermediary while the accused communicates with the victim;
- Individual social-psychological consultations (their aim - strengthening of an individual);
- Help for the parents (material, consultative, intermediary);
- Objective group meetings (listening, expressing opinion, presenting oneself, knowing oneself, solving conflicts and training the other social skills);
- Organizing actions pertaining towards meeting the needs of the society;
- Informing about the other opportunities of social assistance.

In these projects main tasks for volunteer will be:
1. To organize free time activities for youngsters in day care centre;
2. To spend some time with youngsters individually (chatting, playing, being the volunteer in the Big brother/sister program …);
3. To help youngsters in doing homework in day care centre;
4. To visit some events in the city with some youngsters;
5. Once in two months go with youngsters to weekend trips in Lithuania;
6. To help to organize some evening or other events;
7. To help organize winter, summer other holiday camps for youngsters;
8. To participate in Big brother's or Big sister's program;
9. To help staff in administrative work.

The schedule of the day care center:
Day center begins at 3 p.m. from homework. Volunteers help teenagers to do their homework and after we have lunch.
Then, at 4.30 p.m. begins some activities: sports, educational, social skills developing, etc. For these activities volunteers are responsible.
Weekends are free (except those, when we have some kind of trips or camps. But it happens rarely). When volunteer goes with target group outside for a weekend it is possible to have some free days after.

THE OPEN COMMUNITY (2 volunteers) group dedicated to integrate and assist mentally challenged and disabled people and their families. Also there are organized educating and leisure activities for children with complex disability in one of the projects called The yard.

In the project THE OPEN COMMUNITY EVS volunteers would closely work and plan activities with young Lithuanian volunteers, who are helping to work with disable clients in day care center:
1. To help to organize with young Lithuanian volunteers cultural events in the city and community, with the aim to give people opportunity to accept disable person;
2. With professionals create drama and / or music peaces and show them for local community;
3.To show example and teach ways of self occupations for clients of day care center organizing for them free time occupation activities;
4. To organize various handicraft workshops for clients of day care center (candles, postcards, drawings, work with tone, making things from wood, ecological workshops...);
5. Together with disabled people take care of garden;
6. To assist in making exhibitions of disable people in local community;
7. To organize with Lithuanian volunteers weekend trips for disable children and clients of day care center.

The volunteer participates in all activities with disabled, helps individually, goes together to shop, assists in cooking, helps in a work sessions. After disabled people leave, the volunteer has a day evaluation together with worker. Volunteers participate in a city events, retreats, summer camps, work camps, are leading person for disabled when they go to basketball match, concerts, theatres, cafe in the city.

All tasks will be discussed with volunteers to find the best way for volunteers and organization. Any initiative of volunteers will be encouraged and supported to help our organization to develop.

Our organization during a year period has about 3 weekends seminars where we are preparing Lithuanian volunteers for working in our organization. So most of these seminars will be available for EVS volunteers as well.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês