Rússia

3003

Data de início: 01-11-2013

Data de fim: 01-09-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 10 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-05-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 90 €

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Resumo: The hosting city was founded in 1221 and has
a population of about 1 500 000 people nowadays. This one of the largest city in Russia situated at the intersection of 2 huge rivers. A lot of traditional Russian arts were born here.

In the soviet times the city was a closed city, so people still don’t have many chances to communicate with foreigners. Foreign languages are not very prevailing here, and you have to know Russian a little bit at least to be able to communicate with locals. But people are very friendly to those who re
spect local culture and inhabitants, and ready to communicate
and cooperate with foreigners. In terest of youth to foreign cultu res is growing every day. The town has quite strong relations with Germans, because of the twin city – Essen. There are some cultural centers– Allia
nce Françoise, Japanese center, Swedish center, Czech center etc. So foreigners can find people speaking in thei
r mother tongues there.

Inhabitants in the town lead a measur ed mode of life, their life’s temp is not so intensive like in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. But, in the same time, there is a lot of opportunity for self- realization and emotional life here – extreme s
ports, night clubs, museums, theatres, parks, fitness centers, libraries etc.
Everybody can find a way to be sa tisfied in his interests and
hobbies.

Perfil: All the candidates will be selected through the selection process for participation on the project. The selection process involves a written CV, motivation letter and possibly of an interview. All received applications will be considered.

Volunteer candidate has to be, first of all, interested in making social service in Russia and has to be ready to face a difficult social adaptation in the country with very big cultural difficulties. The volunteer has to be ready to learn how to work with wide audience and how to find contact with young people and children with different background (invalids, orphans, broken families, and poor families).

All the candidatures are discussed and selected on the following criteria:
- motivation to work with youth, children, adults and old people;
- readiness to work hard, because it's not so easy to work in the different conditions, with international - team, with other educational system and in the other language;
- readiness to learn Russian and to communicate in Russian;
- readiness to promote his\her own national culture.

The most important criteria is strong motivation to do voluntary service and learn a lot from the project!

EVS volunteers always realize only project activities, and if they still have a motivation to do more they have a possibility to lead their own mini-project, like workshops for orphans or individual caring on child, so this is additional service for local children or youth.

Type of the Sending Organization could be any. We would prefer to have volunteer, strongly supported not only by us and another organization, but also by Sending Organization.

age: 18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: During the activity the volunteers will practice, first of all, living in the unusual conditions (in other country) and will develop their skills in social integration and independent life. Moreover tolerance to people from different countries and with different background will be developed because of the communication of the volunteers with Russian volunteers as well as because of staying on the same city and flat with other EVS volunteers from other countries and communication with them. Because of work together with Russian volunteers EVS volunteers will develop their skills of work in international team. From the introductory training and following project activities the volunteer will take knowledge and skills about project planning and management (related with the life planning at all), crisis management, team spirit building and other skills which can be very useful in the further life. From the project the volunteer will be able to research Russian working system, working methods for social integration and specifics of Russian mentality. So if the future career of the volunteers will be related with Russia, they will be already experienced in such topics and, as the result, well-qualified after getting the higher education.

The coordinator and mentor will follow the learning process of the volunteers and assist and help the volunteers in their self-assessment process. The mentor will help with social integration and adaptation of the volunteers, and will follow the level of progress in Russian language. At the end of the project they will create Youthpass certificate together. The coordinator and the mentor together will help the volunteers to realise their voluntary activities providing them with necessary information, advices and technical support if such kind of help will be asked from the volunteer's side.

The projects are realised on the base Voluntary Service and aim at the development of voluntary movement in school, universities, and commercial organizations. Also the development of Time Bank program, which addresses help of one person to the other with following opportunities to get the service from other people as well.

Meeting with foreign volunteers will help members of NNVS to find new interesting ideas, to increase motivation for realization of different programmes and events. With help of the EVS volunteers more people will manage to get the facilities which they need but can't obtain without support. The volunteers will organize different meetings, trainings, promotion actions.

Volunteers will have a chance to organize activities for staff of NNVS, explaining them about the experience of work with participants at the same organizations all around the Europe (if they would like and have capacity). Optionally the volunteers will have an opportunity to organize and lead their own mini-project which can take place on the base of any EVS hosting organisation supported by the organization.

Possible tasks for the volunteers are divided in 4 groups:
1. Support and help with Time Bank program. The idea of Time Bank is exchange of help between people in the city. For example, if you walk with the dog of the old lady during 3 hours you can ask about 3 hours of English classes from the Time Bank. The approx tasks of the volunteers are: making presentations of the Time Bank for the local community in Universities, different organizations especially in non-profit-making ones and in the centre of employment of the population; working with computer database of participants, individual supervising of people during their first service; administrative and creative help to Time Bank staff during seminars, events, conferences; telephone consulting and interviewing of new clients of the Time Bank.

2. Help in the program "Volunteer Agency". The idea of the project is recruiting Russian volunteers for NGOs. Volunteer will help with creation of database of NGOs, which need volunteers to help. EVS volunteer will help with agitation campaigns in schools, Universities and other places of the town to involve as much as possible Russian volunteers to participate in our program.

3. Participation in organization of events with Youth Volunteering, Corporation Volunteering and Social Adaptation of orphans. The EVS volunteer will help with: work with children in orphanages, making presentations in commercial organizations about volunteering, involve Russian youth to work with orphans, visit different orphanages with celebrations, events, actions. The volunteer can be active with involvement foreigners in to work with children with fewer opportunities.

4. Office work and working with other small projects: paper work, phone calls, take part in events within all the projects of the town Volunteer Service, work with elderly people, with youth, ecological events, games for children in hospitals, photo contests and sports festivals.

Horário: Example of typical week of EVS volunteer in our organization:*
Monday
11:00 - 13:00 meetings with Russian volunteers in the office, discussion abut future activities and evaluation of events, which were done already.
13:00 - 14:00 lunch time
14:00 - 18:00 helping with Time Bank program
18:30 - 20:00 Russian language course

Tuesday
10:00 - 11:00 trip from home to the school\University
11:00 - 14:00 presentations for "Volunteering Agency"
14:00 - 15:00 lunch
15:00 - 17:00 working evaluation meeting in the office

Wednesday
11:00 - 12:00 presentations for "Corporation Volunteering"
12:00 - 14:00 preparation of event
14:00 - 15:00 lunch
15:00 - 17:00 event with "Corporation Volunteering" or "Youth Volunteering"

Thursday
11:00 - 13:00 preparation for action in the orphanage.
13:00 - 14:00 lunch time
14:00 - 18:00 time in office for phone calls, Internet, meetings with mentor, talks with coordinator, solving problems
18:30 - 20:00 Russian language course

Friday
11:00 - 15:00 action in the orphanage

Saturday and Sunday - weekend
* It is just an example of week. Concrete plan of work will be discussed together with volunteer depending on his\her interests and specific of work. Volunteer can be asked to work on Saturday and be given second weekend on Monday.

Documentação: CV+ Carta de Motivação em Inglês + Formulário

Download: Formulário.doc