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Data de início: 01-02-2014

Data de fim: 01-02-2015

Vagas: 2

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 30-09-2013

Esta vaga está reservada a voluntários portugueses

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 115 €

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Resumo: The volunteer will do his/her service in the cooperative of social solidarity.

The organization is located in a town is also near to famous art cities such as Florence, Ferrara and Venice and it is well connected by the railway service with the rest of Italy and by its international airport with Europe.

Volunteers will stay in two different centres managed by the cooperative, which are all located in the town and quite near to each other. Volunteers will take actively part both in the educational and recreational activities and in general in the daily activities of the centres. In particular, projects are divided in two typologies depending on the users:

1) Daily Centre for children/adolescents:
Educational centres: there are two centres which host 70 children and adolescents form 6 to 15 years of age, some with fewer opportunities, and aim at promoting a better quality of life for young people and their families, at preventing youth problems and sustaining the parents. The activities of the centres are mainly the following:
a) Tutoring: the staff organize small study groups in which young people do their homeworks, search additional information and are helped with eventual learning difficulties. The educators usually create the right situation for the learning activities through a context of signifying relationships between children/adolescents of the same age.
b) Workshops and Atelier: the workshops are places in which young people “learn by doing” and “do in order to learn”. There are different types of workshops from corporal expression to the creation of objects, from reading and writing to music and art.

2) Houses for children/adolescents:
Live-in communities: they represent a protected environment for 20 children and adolescents that ensure a family-like climate, indispensable for the growth of young people with fewer opportunities. In these centres, the professional staff together with a “normal” family offer a point of reference by sharing with the users all aspects of their daily life. The staff of the houses is composed of 8 qualified educators and some volunteers.

Perfil: The volunteers we would like to host may be of both sexes but, given the age of the young people hosted in our structures, it would be better if they are 18 years old until 30 years old. The volunteers will be recruited through direct contact with the sending organizations with which the organization has cooperated in the past or with which it will establish new partnerships; it’s important for the selection that the volunteer satisfies the following requirements:
• to be a good listener;
• to be sensitive to the approach with children and adolescents, in an educative perspective;
• to have some artistic ability that can be shared, because as said above, the volunteer will have the possibiliy to implement his own activities.
Given the particular situation of the centres, where in general the young people cared for have economical, social and cultural problems in general, an ideal volunteer should be someone mature, responsible and tollerant.

The volunteers will share a flat and they’ll receive them all the necessary information regarding security and risk prevention both in the domestic and working environment. Being a live-in community, Villaggio Mafalda, has its own rules listed below:
1. Smoking inside the buildings is forbidden. It is permitted only in the special spaces located in the garden.
2. Hosting people during the night is not allowed.
3. It is possible to receive visits from friends and relatives but room-mates and the reference person from the Village must be informed beforehand.
4. When using common spaces (garden, stairs, laundry) respect must be paid to things and furniture. According to the established duties, everyone contributes to the tidying up and cleaning of such spaces.
5. Privacy of feminine and masculine zones must be respected.
6. Drinking alcohol or using drugs is strictly forbidden.
7. The small appliances - available to all - must be used with the utmost care.
8. Everyone is responsible for cleaning their own flat, the furniture, the cutleries and the linen - which must be kept in good condition.

Tarefas: Each centre will host one volunteer and they will be mainly involved into ricreational and leisure activities but also in supporting the adolescents in their studies (according to competences). Since the centres open in the afternoon, the volunteers’ service will take place in this part of the day except in particular occasions in which activities are organized also during the week-end.

Tasks of the volunteers in the Comunità educative:
Each community will host one volunteer and their tasks will be mainly linked to ricreational and leisure moments but also to assist young people doing their homeworks. Volunteers will also support the educators during transport to their sports activities; moreover, they will help in the tyding up of the houses as it is one of the educative tasks of the adolescents hosted.

Here is an example of a typical day in the centre:
ORE 7: wake up, breakfast and preparation to go to school
ORE 7,45: transports (mini van, bus or bycicle for those whose school is near).
ORE 8,30 - 13: tyding up and planning of the afternoon.
ORE 13,30: lunch.
ORE 14,30: free time and tyding up of the kitchen according to established duties
ORE 15: study and homeworks. In this part of the day, the adolescents are guided by an educator and a volunteer who encourage and support them in the realization of the school work. When extra effort is needed, individual lessons are organized to help the adolescents.
ORE 17,30: sport and leisure activities.
ORE 19: dinner and organization of the evening activities.
ORE 20,30: board and table games, watching movies, telling stories or episodes, going out, etc.

ORE 21,30/22,30: moments of revision and sleep.
This timetable may vary during summer and other holiday periods.
The activities of the volunteer will cross over all the activities of the organisation, but mainly, they will concern the kids: first because when you do not know the language, it is easier to communicate with children, then because one of the goal of the presence of the volunteer in our organisation is open up the mind of the kids to Europe and to its differences.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês