Alemanha

3859

Data de início: 01-08-2014

Data de fim: 31-07-2015

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-02-2014

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: The day-care center was built in 1967 in Mediterranean bungalow style. It has two floors and a large garden. The capacity is 80 children, of which ten are handicapped. They are cared for by 13 educators and one director. The center is open on Monday to Friday from 6 am to 6 pm and has no closure in the summer vacation. The center is specialised in healthcare. The children do sports over the whole year. Each domain of the center offers physical exercises once a week. The childrens´ musculature is improved by foot gymnastics, coordination, and balance exercises. The aim is to avoid postural deformity. The children learn to know their limits and to accept rules. We also hope to largen the self-confidence. Besides this, nature and environment are a major topic in the center. We spend a lot of time outside, especially through cultivating our vegetable plot, and by planting on the balcony.

Each year we do a autumn project where everything related to the season is talked about. We observe the weather and note it in a calender, we harvest our vegetables, make juice out of our apples, carve our pumpkins for Halloween, collect chestnuts, acorns and nuts and fly our kites. As external offer there is a dancing group and early musical education. The groups are of mixed age. This way we hope they can gain distinctive learning and social experiences. The children are educated to be social and tolerant persons who accept people of all origins. They are supposed to learn to respect different opinions and to accept the difference of some people, such as between handicapped and others, and to consider cultural variety as a positive aspect. The day-care center works according to the "situation principle". We observe the current life situation of each child and arrange our work considering this.

The organization is situted in one of the 16 German states. The Federal Parliament as well as the government have their seats here. Approx. 13,96% are foreigners. The unemployment rate of in the city lies at approx. 15,5%. Our facilities are in the Pankow District, the most populous one with 350,000 people. Pankow is the second largest district with an area of 10,000 hectares. Pankow itself is divided into 13 quarters, lying in the northeast of the city. Played an important role during the East German government - Castle was the residence of the President from 1949 to 1960. Numerous foreign embassies took their offices there during the East German period and some have stayed there even today. Pankow is a very diverse district.

There are industrial zones as well as natural reserves, new as well as old housing, centres of nightlife as well as extensive parks. People from 160 nations live here, the percentage of foreign residents is 7,6% (2008) and the unemployment rate is 10.4% (07.01.09). Pankow has well developed infrastructure for cars as well as public transport. Concerning the economy, diverse branches of trade have establishments in Pankow, e.g. media, IT, railroad construction, a biomedial research facility, and a health-care center. The majority of the companies are small ones with up to five employees active in trade, construction, and services.

Weißensee belongs to the new administrative district Pankow since 2001. It was founded in the 13th century. In those times the ample wealth of fish in the lake provided a major source of income. In the 1920s many housing estates were built which nowadays dominate the district look. In past years more and more families have started builing their own house in this district.

The day-care center was able to gain experience with the European volunteer service by hosting two volunteers - one from Italy and currently one from Great Britain.

Perfil: Volunteers that apply to work with us should mainly be motivated to work a few months in a day-care center in the city. They should be open for the new and unfamiliar, be tolerant, possess empathy and adequate social skills. It is important that they value the work with children and have no difficulty in making contact with people. They should be reliable and responsible. Since the volunteer will share living quarters, we would expect them to be self-reliant. The selection process will proceed according to the applications received. The criterion for acceptance is the suitability for work in a day-care center. We would prefer to concentrate on youths between 18 and 25, respective 30 years of age. Volunteers that apply to work with us should mainly be motivated to work a few months in a day-care center in the city.

They should be open for the new and unfamiliar, be tolerant, possess empathy and adequate social skills. It is important that they value the work with children and have no difficulty in making contact with people. They should be reliable and responsible. Since the volunteer will share living quarters, we would expect them to be self-reliant. The selection process will proceed according to the applications received. The criterion for acceptance is the suitability for work in a day-care center. We would prefer to concentrate on youths between 18 and 25, respective 30 years of age.

Tarefas: The volunteer will aid the work of the present teachers in a child group. Our teacher will have the full responsibility and supervising duty while the volunteer will participate in the child care under the supervision of the teacher. The volunteer will at no time be the sole responsible, let alone replace our teacher.The volunteer's task will be to play with the children and supervise them, sing with them, do handicrafts, carry out experiments, accompany them on excursions, and everything else belonging to the daily routine of a day-care center.We view those volunteers as an enrichment that are able to tell colleagues and children a bit about their home country and language, so that all can marvel about the differences and commonness. The volunteer will be given the opportunity to take a "sneak preview" of one of the domains and find out if he or she enjoys the work with children. From the colleagues he or she will learn didactic concepts of child care and education. He or she will receive ideas on how to manage everyday life with children, in particular children with disabilities, as well as children with a foreign background.The volunteer will be given the possibility to carry out projects and offers independently, about topics that he or she can freely choose. In addition, the volunteer will be given a voice in daily life as well as group meetings (suggesting and organizing excursions, making daily plans, discussing and comparing his or her observations with colleagues). Furthermore he/she will receive a German language course and the possibility to take part in a Team further education.

We wish for the volunteer that he or she will organize and carry out projects on his/her own with regard to the children's knowledge and awareness of Europe. The children should be inspired in the culture of the volunteer, for example by celebrating traditional occasions or by learning things in a workshop on a long-term basis. This means trying typical food, learning new words and to see where this foreign country is located on the globe. To summarize things - we want to know where the volunteer is from and how life works over there. The volunteer can furthermore introduce personal interests to us. We would like to learn about his or her hobbies such as sports, cultural interests or music and like him or her to introduce these to us and let us work things out together.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês