Bulgária

3139

Data de início: 01-09-2013

Data de fim: 01-09-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-07-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 65 €

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Resumo: Outline the project environment for the suggested voluntary activities, 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.

Since the main voluntary activity is related to the collection and transportation of paper for recycling, the volunteer will spend two full days in circulation in the city. The work will be based on preliminary planned route that includes the collection of paper from participants in Leaf by Leaf campaign and its transportation to the recycling points in the Western Industrial Area. The direct participation in such activity will give practical experience and ideas to the volunteer for the whole cycle of separate collection and recycling of waste and its importance as part of the idea of sustainable development.

The preparation of specific actions and campaigns, and developing the eco-center project in the village of Ezerets, Shabla municipality will take place in the office of the organization where the volunteer will have its own computer workstation. Volunteer's participation in the process of planning, preparation and development of specific actions on administrative level will contribute to the improvement of his/her administrative skills, as well as the development of team work skills and his/her knowledge on different stages of the project development cycle. It will enables him/her to include personal or indirect experience of his/her country and to develop personal project.

In the process of development of the organization project for eco-center, at stage in which is running the actual construction of the center, the organization will be able to include volunteers in eco-camps organized to test various eco-building techniques, organic farming activities and construction of renewable energy sources. The implementation of the activities will be in the village of Ezerets, Municipality of Shabla, which will enable the volunteers to become familiar with various forms of environmentally sustainable lifestyle, to include them in the preparation and organization of youth camps, to work with groups and go deeper into the typical Bulgarian lifestyle in a small village.

The regular campaigns to clean contaminated areas and the tree-planting actions will be carried out in certain urban areas in the municipality, such as polluted beaches for cleaning, or wild and free areas around the city for tree planting, previously indicated by the Main Forestry. The volunteer will be able to get to know different landscapes in the teritory, to be a direct participant in the action, which aims to build a responsible and active citizen participation in the conservation of green areas and to establish contact with Bulgarian active young people - participants in cleaning and tree-planting actions.

A certain volunteer time of the project will be spent in participation in various presentations and discussions on environmental and civic issues in front of children and youngsters. These events will be held in kindergartens, schools, youth centers and other institutions. They will enable the volunteers to share experiences from their country in the field of environmental education activities and environmental protection, to get aware of another educational system and its work mechanisms, and to broaden their contacts in Bulgaria.

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.

Basic requirement for any future long-term volunteer is a motivated desire and will to participate in the organization's activities with environmental focus, to make voluntary work and to demonstrate readiness for an environment-friendly lifestyle.

Organization would watch for key qualities such as interest in Bulgarian culture, curiosity and initiative, without being required as mandatory by the applicants.

To ensure equality in the selection process focuses on the motivation of the volunteer to participate in specific project activities without taking into account discriminating factors such as nationality, religion, education, experience, etc. When initiating the original search process a detailed description of the project and the organization is sent to various youth and partner networks to enable interested bidders to formulate their personal motivation to participate in organization's project. A member of the organization gets in contact with each of the applicants to further clarify their interest in the project activities and to bring maximum information on the organization and the community in which the prospective volunteer would live.

All suitable applications are presented before at least two members of the organization to avoid subjectivity in the selection process. The process ends with the final contact with the volunteer and his/her sending organization, and after finally discussing the option for future project and the volunteer's willingness to engage in it.

The association would prefer to work with environmentally-oriented organizations to exchange experience in sending and hosting volunteers and to look for possibility for future partnerships. However, the main point, to which the orfanization would give priority, is deeper contact of the sending organization with the volunteers and their knowledge to ensure appropriate selection of future EVS volunteers.
age: 18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: " what you can offer to volunteers in terms of Service and learning opportunities,
The organization has extensive experience and well-developed activities in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development. The inclusion of volunteers in such activities will enrich and deepen their environmental knowledge and will allow them to build a sustainable living habits in their everyday life.
The participation in various project activities and actions and the inclusion in their organization will help the volunteer to build his/her general knowledge and skills on project work.

The work of the organization on specific projects with partner organizations expands the opportunities of the volunteer to get in contact with different formal and informal groups with which to enrich his/her knowledge of Bulgarian language, as well as the intercultural understanding and overcoming of intercultural differences. It stimulates his/her personal initiative to develop an independent project and specific skills and ideas.
Formal and informal meetings with various members of the organization will contribute to the integration of the volunteers in the local community, the development of team work skills, the effective communication and the conflict management in a foreign language.

" what will be the role of EVS volunteers in the Host Organisation,
The volunteer will have a supporting function in most of the activities in which he/she is included. The objective is to help the work of the indicidual responsible for the concrete action as well as to accumulate certain knowledge and practical experience under the mentorship of that person. For example, in the process of collecting paper within the Leaf by Leaf campaign volunteers will work under the direct command of the Chairman of the organization responsible for the collection of paper. The role of the volunteer is to assist in the collection of paper, to build sustainable knowledge, ideas and skills for implementing environment-friendly activities and actions in urban environments, and the full rotation cycle of recycling - from waste disposal to the process of recycling itself.

Organization gives a great importance to the role of the volunteers as generators of new ideas in the development of individual project activities and strongly encourages and assists the individual initiative of volunteers. Specific activities in which the organization is expecting more initiative on the part of the volunteers, are for example meetings, presentations and discussions with children and young people in order to promote specific good practices for natural way of life in their own country. Volunteers are expected to share personal or indirect experience of their country and to give practical ideas for different activities in which the organization is developing activities.

The individual initiative for personal project development is highly encouraged by the organization as such a project would enable the volunteer to participate more actively in the life of the organization, he/she could develop an activity which makes him/her feel committed and competent, as well as to directly share practice and experience of their country, which will contribute to the process of intercultural exchange within the EVS programme.

" the activities in which the volunteers could be involved and the activities the volunteers could create in your organisation. Please give examples of typical activities for the volunteers.
The activities in which the volunteers will be included are:
- Leaf by Leaf Campaign for separate collection of paper;
- Bio-diesel f Campaign or separate collection of waste oil;
- Actions for cleaning contaminated beach areas;
- Actions for tree-planting of local areas;
- Information traveling seminars;
- Collecting information and good practices for designing and developing projects for alternative eco-points, techniques for eco-construction;
- Supporting the English version of the web-site of the organization;
- Organization and participation in eco-youth camps.
The organization is ready to support the ideas of each volunteer on three levels:
- Information - The organization's Resource Center (library and video store) contains numerous expert materials on environmental issues and various NGO topics such as project development, active citizenship, youth initiatives, etc. Each volunteer in the organization has the right of full access and work with the information resources of the organization;
- Expert support - every volunteer has the right and is supported to get consulted with every member of the organization who is an expert in the field, in which he/she has specific ideas. The organization is ready to help the volunteer to find specialists from other organizations that would help with their knowledge in specific activities;
- Funding - when well presented ideas, personal initiative and a clear motivation of the volunteer are present, the organization is prepared to support financially the development of activities / actions / initiatives not only by the EVS funding, but also through other sources (local and national programs partners, etc.) and through the facilities of the organization - supplies, materials, office and car.

Examples of voluntary activities:
Leaf by Leaf Campaign: in accordance to calls made by participants in the campaign, the team collects the paper amount accumulated by each participant and transport it to the recycling paper point at the end of the city - 2 days per week for 9 hours (which covers 3 volunteer days per 6 hours);
- Bio-diesel Project: once every two weeks for 1 hour to collect waste oil from restaurants, which is subsequently processed in a base outside of the city;
- Actions for cleaning contaminated beach areas: an autumn and a spring action (before and after the summer season) to clean the suburban areas and wild beaches as well as the project "Baywatch". The specific contribution of the volunteers consists in preparation of the actions - shaping of information materials (10 hours), disseminating information and recruiting volunteers (7 hours), purchase of materials (4 hours), distributed unevenly in the months before the implementation of the action and participation in the action itself (4 hours). Participation in the project "Baywatch" is within 2 weeks in August, as the specific commitment of the volunteer is limited to participate in demonstrating actions on beach cleaning, distribution of information materials on the beach and the central parts of the city (2 hours per day);
- A tree-planting campaign: in late autumn and early winter are held actions for forestation with trees unplanted areas as volunteers will participate in shaping the information materials (10 hours), disseminating information and recruiting volunteers (7 hours), transporting trees (2 hours), distributed unevenly in the months before the implementation of the action, and participation in the action itself (6 hours);
- Maintenance of the English version of the web-site of the organization: preparation, processing and uploading information (after preconditioning by a person from the organization) - a total of 4 hours per week;
- Presentations in front of various groups: irregular presentations are realized within the project - the average number of volunteer's presentations is between 5 to 7 presentations throughout the project, which includes the development of the material depending on the topic and the target groups (children, youth, adults) - 3 hours; performing presentations and discussion - 1 hour;
- Administrative activities in the office - 2 hours per week;
- Bulgarian classes - 1 hour per week.
As part of the project activities are not carried out weekly and regularly, and are concentrated in certain periods, in case there are additional working hours exceeding the standards of EVS the volunteers will be compensated with extra hours/days off.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês