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Data de início: 01-01-2014

Data de fim: 01-01-2015

Vagas: 2

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-05-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

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 hosting organization is the head organization of the five youth welfare organizations that work with socially disadvantaged children and youngsters. The town(now about 64 000 inhabitants) was only a small country village hundred year from now with no more than 2 000 inhabitants. Until André Dumont discovered the black gold of the 20th century: coal. This resulted in a new industry which changed this part of Belgium forever. No less than 6 coal mines were built in the middle of which 3 in the town. it changed the twon from a rural area into an important industrial town. With a lot of problems: first the coal mines needed a lot of employees. But working in the mine was hard labor and very unhealthy. Belgian people were not fond of working 'down under'. So the coal mines had to look for people in other parts of Belgium and even Europe. Before World War II they were found in the Eastern part of Europe: Poland, Eastern Germany, Russia,... Later the Belgian government made a deal with Italy, Spain and Greece. There were a lot of poor people without a job in these countries and they got a lot of benefits if they were willing to come to Belgium to work in the mines. From 1968 to 1975 the same was done with Turkey and Morocco. This resulted in an enormous population of 'strangers' in the town. As long as the mines were open, this was no problem because under the ground everybody was 'black'. Above the ground, this 'fellowship' continued. Until 1985-1987: all mines were closed at this moment and suddenly there was no future for a lot of families in the town.

Living together suddenly seemed more difficult than before because everything till then was organized by the mine company: shops, cafés, cinema, theater, fanfare, school,... it was all controlled by the coal mines. But now this was all history. And because of the unemployment which was a result of this, problems accumulated. But more, it became clear that no one had ever done any effort to integrate people from the other countries because in the mines there was no need to. Now however the differences between the cultures became very clear. Even children in these families, born in Belgium didn't speak Dutch and had a lot of problems at school...

But the most recent problem in the town has to face is the future closure of a factory (2014) what will have a big impact on the economy of limburg. There will be more then 10000 people without a job and a future prospective.

Information :
" 64.000 inhabitants
" 89 nationalities, multicultural environment
" Close by the Netherlands (Maastricht), Germany (Aachen)
" Train station and very good public transport connecting it to the main city's in Belgium
" Shopping Centres, cinema, cultural activities like museums and ...
" Nature park
" Close to university Hasselt

Perfil: To do all these tasks, no special skills are required. The most important things we expect from the volunteer is that she/he is flexible, social, responsible, open minded to all other cultures (also non-European) and likes to work and play with children, youngsters or youth. Experience in working with children or youngsters can be a surplus but is not required. Of course it is an advantage when he/she learns another languages easy, but this is not a necessary condition because we will let him/her participate in Dutch lessons. Beside these trainings, the volunteer will have the possibility to participate in other training courses, depending on her/his interests and of course in the EVS-trainings organized by our National Agency (Jint).

Volunteers who like to aplly for working in our organization can send us their cv and motivation letter. If the responsible of evs likes to know more after reading these documents the volunteer will get a questionnaire.

She will discuss together with the coordinator and colleagues of the youth center who is the most suitable candidate for the youth center.
Then the volunteer will be contacted by phone by the responsible for evs.

age: 18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: We offer voluntary work for 4 volunteers, devided individual in the 5 different youth centers. The choice of youth center will be in communication between the volunteer and the responsible of evs.
The EVS volunteer will work with children,teens and youngsters.The choice of group will be in consulation between the volunteer and the evs responsible. Activities can be handycraft, indoor or outdoor games, educational activities, …
He/she will help in preparing, implementing and evaluate activities with the chosen groups.
So he/she can get to know the group and the staff. Beside these “basic” activities the volunteer will be involved with the projects running and volunteers can decide to create an own project.
We also offer social, artistic and cultural workshops, for example: photography, video editing, streettheater, dance, creative processes, … In the past they were a part of the different youth centers but from last year on they are a individual team and working more closely together. And we are still working on making it more concretely.

We believe that working with children,teens and youngsters is an ideal way of learning more about the way of living of the local people and the difficulites they have to face getting accepted by the society.
While a lot of our work with the children and the youngsters has 'learning Dutch' as an objective, it will be an extra support for the volunteer to learn our language to. Volunteers will be provided with Dutch lessons 5 days a week 2 hours a day. Dutch lessons will only be the first months of the project. We are convinced that the volunteer after these course has the basic knowledge of the Dutch language.

Horário: The working schedule will contain max. 35 hours a week including the language lessons. The workingdays will be between Tuesday and Saturday. On Sunday and Monday they will have two days off.

A week schedule can be:
Monday morning: Dutch lessons
Opportunity to meet your mentor
Tuesday morning: Dutch lessons
Afternoon: Working with the children, teens, youngsters
Wednesday morning: Dutch lessons
Afternoon: Working with the children, teens, youngsters
Thursday morning: Dutch lessons
Afternoon: Working with the children, teens, youngsters
Friday morning: Dutch lessons
Afternoon: Working with the children, teens, youngsters
Saturday afternoon: Working with the children, teens, youngsters

When Dutch lessons are finished it will be:
Monday: Opportunity to meet your mentor
Tuesday(morning-afternoon): Working with the children, teens, youngsters
Wednesday(morning-afternoon): Working with the children, teens, youngsters
Thursday(morning-afternoon): Working with the children, teens, youngsters
Friday(morning-afternoon): Working with the children, teens, youngsters
Saturday(afternoon): Working with the children, teens, youngsters

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês