Alemanha

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Data de início: 05-09-2011

Data de fim: 04-08-2012

Vagas: 1

Duração: 11 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 30-03-2011

Esta vaga está reservada a voluntários portugueses

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: (Charity organisation for hard hearing children and young people) supports as a non-profit making association primarily pupils of the Vocational Education and Consultation Center for the Hard of Hearing in Stegen. This includes also hard of hearing children and young people, who are cared for in the frame of Early Intervention and Special Needs Education in other institutions or families. At present more than 300 deaf and hard of hearing Students are visiting the supra-regional school. It has about 40 classes and 3 groups in pre-school. More than 50% of the children and students are living from Monday to Friday in the Boarding School, because of the long distance to their homes. In the affiliated pre-school hard of hearing children are cared and supported if they can not attend child care institutions in their home town or village. Until reaching school readiness they get the opportunity to make use of their hearing abilities and to develop their language capacities by selected pre-school education in small groups.

Perfil: The volunteer should be open-minded to work with visually impaired youngsters. It's necessary for the volunteers to be sociable and outgoing, to have enthusiasm, and to be tolerant to foreign cultures. They should be able to interact well with different groups of people. An enthusiastic, responsible and flexible attitude towards the work is very important. Experiences in child care and youth work would be helpful, but not a prerequisite. To get easily in touch with the staff members as well as the children and their parents, a basic knowledge of german language would be helpful. The volunteer should be able to get involved into the staff and to contribute to the work. Language learning should not be the first or only motivation to make a voluntary service in this project. She/he should be interested to deal with german culture and to learn to manage everyday situations in german language. The sending organisation should assure a good preparation for an assignment of the volunteer in a foreign country. A preparatory visit would be helpful.

Tarefas: Volunteers get the opportunity to contribute – under guidance of staff members – to the support and leisure time program of the school and residential home. Volunteers can introduce their own ideas and abilities like computer literacy, graphic design, mechanical skills, music playing etc. In the beginning the volunteer will only assist the groupleaders, later she/he will take on responsibility – as far as admitted by legal liabilities. Emphatically volunteers are invited to bring in their own ideas. Staff members will appreciate all initiatives to develop additional proposals for leisure time activities and will support planning and realization. Volunteers could develop their own ideas for new games, activities or stories into a personal project if they so wished - creative ideas are always welcome. Major tasks in which volunteers can be actively involved are: Assistance and support for hard of hearing pupils and students in school and leisure time occupational therapy like doing handicraft, singing, playing music attendance at school field centers and study trips European Volunteers are expected to keep the rules of our work with young people: acceptance of young people in their particular personality ability to cope with strain by challenging behaviour full cooperation with staff members loyal and responsible acting according to the particular objective of our work loyal and responsible acting according to the particular objective of our work to be courageous to act creative and flexible Like all staff members volunteers are expected to carry out some work of routine like: - in assisted living groups: going shopping, housekeeping and support of homeworks - in the field of leisure time activities: support in organisation and realisation of all kinds of activities - service and maintenance of materials and equipments - active participation in lasting several days leisure time activities Volunteers are invited to participate in internal vocational training seminars.

Documentação: CV e Carta de Motivação