Estónia

4043

Data de início: 01-09-2014

Data de fim: 31-05-2015

Vagas: 1

Duração: 9 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 16-01-2014

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €

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

Resumo: The project will take place in Estonia. The village, total area is 103,4 km2 and population is about 2211 inhabitans. During the summer, the population increases up to 2800 people, when people come to their summerhouses.

In the village there are an elementary school, two small grocery stores, post office, kindergarten, library, culture and sport centre, office, youth centre, local doctor`s office, gas station and a hairdresser.

The organisation is about 200 m away from the volunteer`s apartment and was situated in 1998.

The village are situated in a naturally beautiful place, eastern shore of the Liivi bay. We have beautiful beaches and pinewoods. Popular health and sport and skiing centre is ~9 km away. Skiing and horseback riding are very popular sport activities.
Main employers in the parish are agriculture, wood handling and fishing.

The volunteers main activities will take place in the Culture and Sport Centre, in the youth centre and in the local schools.

The open youth centre was situated at the beginning of 2007. It is open from Monday to Friday (13.00.-19.00.) In the youth centre youngsters can play different kind of board games, billiard, table football and table tennis. They can watch tv, listen to music or make music with band instruments. There are many handbills, newsletters and advertisements to watch. If they have any questions or problems they can talk to youth worker. There are several hobbycourses every week and we arrange different kind of events for youngsters.

Last years biggest events: valentine`s day disco, treasure hunting, birthday party, road trips to other youth centres, cooking and film project, summer camps, canoeing trip, children protect day, Austrian culture evenings, training courses and so on.

Perfil: Volunteer should have good English communication skills, s/he should want to work with young people and to be ready to work in a small community.
Age:18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: We can offer the volunteer to work in a friendly and co-operative team. To work in a small community with youngsters and grownups with different backgrounds. Learn and practise Estonian and English. Be in a management team of different events and put himself to test by organising for example culture evening. Introduce his own culture and learn ours. The volunteer can use The Culture and Sport Centre`s gym in his free time for free. He can learn to work in a team and improve his leader, planning and organising skills. The volunteer has an opportunity to learn how to manage independently in a small community and in a strange culture. He can also help to get youngsters out of their homes and make them more active in the community by helping to organise and organising activities, events.
The volunteer will mainly be in the organisation as an helper and partner of the youth work coordinator. Together they will communicate with youngsters in a youth centre and arrange events. The volunteer will also be as a representative of European voluntary service and his culture. Through that he will increase tolerance and understanding and through different activities he will encourage more local people and youngsters. Youth worker will always be by his side and will support him during his voluntary service.
The main task for the volunteer is to be and communicate with youngsters in a youth centre. Help youth worker in organising different events like for example youth centre`s birthday party, children protect day, meetings with other youth centre`s, Christmas party, training courses, treasure hunting, information days, Estonian traditional events and so on. Show initiative and organise something of his own. Also helping to organise other events of culture and sport centre. Help to arrange the work of different hobby courses – handycraft, acting, dj training, different instrument learning, disco dancing, gymnastics.
The activities the volunteer could create in our organisation: trainings, seminars about different subjects, culture evenings, cooking traditional food, traditional events of his homeland teaching kids some skills, language or hobbies, different workshops or etc.
Weekly plan:
Monday – meeting – to discuss about weekly plans, problems or some intended activitis; being in a youth centre, communicating with kids, helping to organise some hobby course.
Tuesday – being in a youth centre, communicating with kids, language course, helping in some hobby course work.
Wednesday – helping with the handycraft course, being in a youth centre, communicating with kids
Thursday – being in a youth centre, communicating with kids, arranging his homeland culture evening
Friday – In the daytime the volunteer can take part in open youth centre`s everyday life and in the evening he can take part in helping to organise an event or being in an event with youth worker.
This plan doesn`t count if there is any event or festive. In that case the volunteer will have to help to organise or take part in that event.
The volunteer will get his food money into his hand every week and he has to deal with it by himself. It is also possible to eat lunch in the culture and sport centre in local`s school diner.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês + Application Form

Download: 4043 - Application Form.doc