Noruega

3904

Data de início: 01-08-2014

Data de fim: 01-06-2015

Vagas: 1

Duração: 10 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-01-2014

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 145 €

Candidatura: Para te poderes candidatar tens de fazer o teu login. Se ainda não estás registado faz o teu registo primeiro.

Resumo: The organization is situated in the country 12 km from Hamar, a small town (Olympic -94) with about 40.000 people. It is about 100 km north from Oslo (main capital), and 1 hour to drive (train or car) from Norways main airport. The nearest village about 2.5 km from us. The organization also has one car and three busses The volunteers have the possibility of using the car if they have a valid driving liscense, have driven at least 6 months, and have done the necessary driving agreement together with our car responsible person. The organization lies in a very quiet area in the country that is mainly farmland. We offer, amoung other things, visits to museums, concerts, libraries and swimming-pools, trips into nature and culture-evenings at Frenning (usually together with our students). We hope that this will help our volunteers learn to know our local history, geography, culture and language.

To host a volunteer is a fullfilling situation for the volunteer, our students and all our co-workers. The volunteer project is important for all of us, and we all learn from each other. For our students with special needs it is important to meet other people with other backgrounds, and to experience other youngsters (the volunteers) that have greater capacities than themselves, but are also the same age, it is different than just hearing about other people and countries. To host volunteers gives also the organization the possibility to give several various activities to the students (eks. excursions in the local environment and abroad).

The volunteers must be interested in working with mentally handicapped people, and to learn our language. The volunteers should be ready to participate in all the described tasks in relation to the daily functioning of our school (including farm work and assistance to students). They must also help the students and be an example for them, and have initiative to learn and to live in the community.

We have a no -drug policy and an extremely restrictive alcohol policy.

We strive to take care of our students, each other, the land, our animals, and good values and morals.

Perfil: Working with people with mental disabilities is a rewarding and challenging choice for anyone. It is important that everyone has a certain amount of communication possibility. We have values and rules, regulations and goals that we work for. The development of each individual and the community is important. Therefore it is also important that volunteers wanting to come to our project are interested in what and why we do what we do, and have the possibility to communicate and understand, if not norwegian, at least in the english language. We have, through the last approximately 10 years, had many volunteers that have learned and grown enormously through the year they have been here, and that we, as an organisation, have had also grown and learned from, and benefited tremendously from.

People- those wanting to volunteer with us should not have serious physical or mental problems. Our project is on a farm, and, for example, if someone has serious asthma or is allergic to animals of any kind, or hay etc, their stay here would not be particularly rewarding or healthy.

We do not host volunteers with fewer opportunities.
Age: 18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: Living in a community gives an assortment of challenges and joys. Living and working together for the betterment of how and what we offer to our students asks for a certain amount of flexibility both in the day and the week schedule. The school for the students is not open all year round (school holidays), which means that at times there is more to do than the regular 9-4 jobb, at other times less.

Many of the volunteers that have been with us say that working with the students has been more rewarding than they thought, not only did they learn a lot about people with different diagnoses and challenges, but they learned very much about themselves and their own values. They also learned about bio-dynamic farming, a new language, and benefitted greatly from learning how to live together in their own apartment, sharing tasks and social interaction with the other volunteers.

The role of the EVS volunteers will be to join and follow everything we do in our daily tasks and rythmns with the students. For our students, us, the life and dynamics of the place, the volunteers are very important.

Description of a students day :

The day begins normally at 7.00 o'clock. One of the co-workers together with a volunteer wakes the students, and other co-workers do the farm work. The students, co-worker and the volunteer(s) eat breakfast together, and clean up after finished breakfast. School starts at 8.30am with a morning gathering to talk about how the day will be. From 9.00 to 11.00 the students have school. They are in 3 different groups, kitchen, farm/garden and wood-workshop. There are 1-2 co-workers in every group, and the volunteers join the different groups. From 11.00 to 12.10 we eat lunch together and clean up after wards. Afternoon school is from 12.10 to 15.00 (some periods can be different because of diverse projects).The students then go over from the school house to their own living-house. Those students who want can then help with making dinner.

At 17.00 o'clock dinner is eaten in the students-house, and after that the students are free to go to their rooms, help in the stable or the kitchen if they want to. Every evening there are different activities (swimming, club, walking, theatre, drama etc). The students retire to their rooms later in the evening, and at 22.00 o'clock there should be quiet in the student's house.

Every second weekend the students do not go home, but stay here at Frenning. Together we participate in different activities during the weekend (for. example: visit museums, trips into the nature, television, etc.).

The volunteers join the different groups both to learn and to be an instructor for our students. They are also together with the students in the student's house in the evenings and on the weekends.

The volunteers have one free day a week and the whole weekend free when the students are gone (every 2nd weekend). They are together with the students approximately 35 hours a week.

Our students are dependent on co-workers and volunteers being around all the time. None of our students are self-sufficient.

The volunteers participate in the shift work in the residential area with the students 3-4 days a week. Their participation in the different school-groups and in the different residential houses is part of the expected experience we offer. No volunteer is calculated as a main teacher.

Transportation: If the car is free, the volunteers may use it. They can drive 75 km pr. month free of charge pr. person. Kilometres over 75 a month cost 3.- Nkr. pr. km. For longer trips and overnight trips, trains and busses are suggested as transport.
The volunteers have their own telephone that they pay for jointly. A computer with internet is also available although we are restrictive as to what can be downloaded. Most volunteers bring their own laptop. The intention is that volunteers can have e-mail contact with friends and family. They have their own cd-player/radio and they have access to TV and dvd/video. Skiing equipment and bicycles can be borrowed. Working clothes for the farm are available to them.

Holidays/vacations that are taken/given to the volunteer are when the students have school holiday.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês