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Data de início: 06-04-2014

Data de fim: 30-09-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 6 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-08-2013

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: Outline the project environment for the suggested voluntary Service, including the local community where the project will take place (e.g. geographical, social and economical environment). If the host placement is located in a live-in community, please include the rules and conditions that apply also for the volunteer.

The national secretariat is situated in a multi-cultural city of about 1 million inhabitants. It is official bi-lingual (French and Dutch) part of Belgium, but a lot of languages are spoken, thanks to the multi-cultural, European and international dimensions of the city. Thanks to its heterogeneous population, this is one of the places to be in Europe, being the scene of many cultural and social events and the place where many important political decisions are being taken.

Flanders is the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, with about 6 million inhabitants. Flanders has 6 provinces and a lot of places and interesting cities to visit.

The volunteer will stay in the city so that he/she can live close to the project (± 20min by public transport) and experience the life in the capital. The volunteer will have an individual room in a house were local young people are living.

Perfil: Please describe the profiles of volunteers you would like to receive in your organisation. Include information on how you ensure an open and transparent recruitment process as well as the overall accessibility of EVS to all young people. Consider further information about the type of Sending Organisation you want to cooperate with. This information can help the match-making between volunteer candidates, Sending Organisations and your organisation.

The volunteers have to be between 18 and 30 years old (as mentioned in the Youth in Action Programme) at the beginning of their voluntary activity.

Personal interest and motivation, as well for youth health promotion as for youth work will be very important, but no specific knowledge or skill are required.
The volunteer should be interested in working in a youth organisation, in international youth work, in the context of non-formal education, to work with youth and to work in the field of health, as well in the broad sense of the word, as in the specific context of sexual and reproductive health.

We aim to find a multiplication effect in terms of increasing of the motivation to work in the field of international youth work, and specifically in Youth in Action.

How we will foresee the vacant EVS placement:

Besides the database from which we receive spontaneous reactions, the project will also be announced by email lists (in total about 20 email groups), to the people that showed interest in the past and also to our EVS partners.

The volunteer will be selected according to the candidates’ motivation, interest, learning possibilities, intercultural learning aspect.

How we will select the volunteer(s) among the candidates and how we will ensure the openness and transparency of the recruitment process:

To ensure the openness and transparency of the recruitment process, different levels of selection and persons will be involved. Selection will be made by: EVS collaborator, the EVS-coordinator of the hosting organization, the director, the responsible of the CondoTour, and in consultation with the EVS mentors.

First each member of selection team will read all applications and make a selection of the different profiles of the candidate-volunteers.

After that the selection team will organize a meeting where they will discuss upon the selected applications and make a final selection.

The final selection of the volunteer will be made according to the further information and interest that the volunteer will share, as well as the availability of the volunteer (as the procedure is taking time, some of the volunteers have found already another project in the meantime).

With this selection at different levels, we believe we will realise a good matchmaking.

Tarefas: CONDOTOUR
First, we have our CondoTour which will be the main activity: we literally go on the road with our Van and bikes, to places where young people are during the summer (youth houses, festivals,…). There we give information about safe sex and even distribute condoms.
At the CondoTour, the international volunteer comes in contact with our local volunteers. In this way, we think the participation of an international volunteer would be interesting for both parties.
We have 2 condoVans (“condomobiel”).
This project is runned with one of the 2 van’s we have. With this Van, we go to the a festival tour. We have several big festivals in Belgium where the condovan will be present. For the EVS volunteer, the CondoTour gives the possiblity to see quite some places in Flanders since the tour is going where young people are during the summer (on festivals). Going along on this CondoTour also means the volunteer has the opportunity to meet a lot of young Belgians and also quite some of our Belgian volunteers.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
The volunteer will be implicated in the international initiatives. She/he will have the opportunity to help us in the preparation and organization of our training course and youth exchanges where we are sending our volunteers to and to all the different international projects we have.

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL YOUTH HEALTH PROMOTION
Concerning the regional activities, there is a variety of activities and projects that the volunteer will contribute to, like a training activity for the youth health workers, a training course for team leaders for exchanges, the existing health promotion, …


OPTION FOR A PERSONAL PROJECT
Besides this there is space for other activities as well as a personal project. This project can be a national or international activity within the philosophy of youth work and/or youth health promotion.

Condições: 1

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês + Application document

Download: EVS Application document host.doc