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Data de início: 01-07-2014

Data de fim: 01-07-2015

Vagas: 2

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-02-2014

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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

The organization is located ina city that has about 60.000 inhabitants. The atmosphere is a mixture of tourism and fishing activities.There is an airport, a harbour for fishery, sailors and ferries, and a railway station. An intensive net of train, tram and bus connections makes transport al over the country easy. The local language is dutch (french in the south of Belgium), but most people speak french or english as well.

In winter season, is a moderate city with 70.000 inhabitants. But in summer holidays, this develops into 200.000 people. Most tourist come from other areas in Belgium, but we also have a lot of English, Holland and German tourists. Because of this tourism, june-july and august are the best months to live her.

There is a great atmosfere, with a lot of things to do: local festivals, beachclubs, exhibitions, etc.

Every EVS – volunteer gets Dutch language school here, but in the beginning, the communication language is mostly English. This due to our special work, where we are working with alive animals, and a good and precise communication is the most important thing.

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.

The recruitment of future volunteers, is a simple but organized activity, coordinated by the EVS-coordinator. During several months, data of different candidates are collected and studied. After this, a first selection is made by the coordinator.

Requirements are: mimimum knowledge of English or French (or Dutch), interested in wild animals and the rehabilitation of them, any experience in the working field, general characteristics etc. The selected candidates are then contacted to ask if they are still available for the project. Then, all staffmembers have a meeting together, and make a top 3 of their best candidates and talk about them. Also the EVS that are still here, can give their opinion about the candidates. In the end, the EVS-coordinator makes his selection, and contacts the candidate with the good news.

As a minimum requirement the volunteer must be motivated for the activities carried out at the project, preferably having some previous experience and special interest in the field, e.g. relevant studies, or planning to study in an area where they can use the things they learn during the project. But knowledge about the field is definitely not the most important factor.
Age of the volunteer must suit the challenge they will face at the project – just as much to protect the volunteer and ensure that the ones we select can fulfil the tasks in a positive way, and not feel that the projects and its tasks are too difficult for them – or the opposite that the project do not offer them sufficient challenge.

The volunteer must be willing to work in a team with other volunteers. Details are very important in wildlife care, so the evs-volunteer has to have an ‘eye’ for details. Working with wildlife can never be a routine. An EVS-volunteer has to be always open to learn and improve his/herself.
There is no language standard, but for communication reasons, a minimum of English or French is a good start. As soon as possible (after Dutch lessons), we can talk Dutch.
age: 18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: Every season we can offer different groups of animals and problems. A long-term volunteer will learn all the different techniques to save wildlife casualties.

Overview of different seasons:
Summer: rehabilitation of botulism victims, raising orphaned birds and other wildlife.

Autumn: rehabilitation of migrating birds that flew against a window, sick migrating birds and sick hedgehogs
Winter: rehabilitation of oiled birds
Spring: young orphaned wildlife
Next to that they will learn our safety instructions and our working methods. They will also go to other wildlife hospitals to help for one day.
2 times a week they will have dutch language school (the hours are included in the working hours).

The volunteer will work on a five-days- week- routine on the daily tasks and will work maximum 37 hours a week (language class included). Language school and visiting other wildlife hospitals in Belgium are included. Always, the main tasks in the morning are cleaning the cages and feeding the animals. Later in the day, there is time for scientific follow-up, administration, planning and preparing new activities, learning new skills, … Sometimes also in the weekends. Every patient has its own administration and gets it specific treatment by an experienced person under the supervision of a vet. In no way the end responsibility is for the volunteer.

Just like the other (local) volunteers, next to the basic needs to be done, the volunteer will have the possibility to look for the tasks that fits the best. We are in full development and new initiatives can be a start for new activities. The volunteer will be encouraged to start with an own project, depending on his/her own interests.

More specific, the tasks can be:
Assisting a staff member or local volunteer with catching or picking up an animal, often after a telephone call.
- Assisting with nursing wounded animals or giving medication.
- Helping with the administration and follow-up from the patients or an own project.
- Helping with feeding the animals and cleaning the cages.
- Helping with installing, repairing infrastructure in the hospital or elsewhere.
- Giving explanations to visitors and groups in the languages they know well.

Horário: Example of a timetable
Every day: assistance during intake of a new animal
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
09:00-12:00 Feeding animals and cleaning cages, hand feeding young orphaned wildlife Feeding and cleaning cages animals, tube-feeding dehydrated birds Feeding animals, cleaning cages, hand feeding young birds, tube-feeding... free free Feeding animals, cleaning cages of hedgehogs, weighing all hedgehogs free
13:00-17:30 Assisting during care of the animals, holding while washing a bird Working on an own project, EVS-meeting Cleaning a pool, assistance with medication free free releasing animals, assistance with constructing a new cage free
18:30 - 21:30 language school language school

This timetable is just an example. There are no fixed working shedules. Every month, the coordinator makes a new working schedule, and tries to fulfill all the needs of the volunteers, such as free days, free weekends and holidays. We also make sure that you don’t work more than 5 days in a row. Every volunteer has the chance to change the schedule untill 2 days before.
For the short-term volunteers, this schedule and the different tasks and possbilities are almost the same, except that there are no organized Dutch language lessons in summer holidays. We also don’t have the opportunity to organize this by ourselves.

What we try, is to learn the volunteer some basics, so that the short-term volunteer has an idea of how our language is. The short-term volunteers work together with the long-term volunteers, and this is a chance to cooperate with new people and do some new experiences.
There is also a special mentor who comes ones a week to the Rescue Centre.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês