Lituânia

4100

Data de início: 04-03-2014

Data de fim: 04-11-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 8 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 08-02-2014

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: The village has 800 residents, most of them are elderly people. Numbers of youth and young families are small, but hey are all very actively involved in the life of local community, cherish ancient crafts, teach others and engage in eco tourism.

The village is the centre of the elderate, it has a train station, wooden church, elementary school, clinic, three shops, a post office, reacreation and entertainment centre. The village has an ethnographic ensemble which is active more than 30 years already.

The visitors’ centre of The National park and the state strict nature reserve directorate, ethnographical museum in the village. During the summer season the village is visited my many tourists from Lithuania and abroad. There are many palces of interest in the vicinity, many cultural events take place.

Volunteers will live in the house for rent with all the necessary amenities and the kitchen. The accommodation is in the house in the village. Volunteers will work as part of the professional team of the park and they will have all the opportunities for formal and non-formal learning, will feel the importance of team work. Most of the staff speaks English. All the working equipment will be provided (computers, binoculars etc.). Bicycles will be available too. Volunteer will be able to actively participate in the life of the local community, learn traditions of the region, crafts and lifestyles, participate in the activates of the ethnographical ensemble.

Perfil: Administration is waiting for active, self confident able to work independently young people at the same time willing to actively participate in the life of local community. This will be a challenge for volunteers. Most of local people don’t speak English, so misunderstandings are expected. Therefore volunteers should be patient and tolerant.

Candidates will be evaluated based on how well they suit general criteria of EVS and the profile outlined above. Primary selection will be carried out by the sending organizations. Final decision will be made by the host organization in cooperation with the coordinating organization.
Age: 18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: Volunteers will explore the park’s territory, management structure, natural and cultural heritage, expositions at the visitors’ centers, their working methods; feel the working atmosphere of the park’s team. They will be able to understand the importance of environmental protection not only in Lithuania but in the entire world. After having explored the park’s tourism resources, volunteers will the able to guide foreign tourist excursions.

The National park is a very special protected area of the country due to it's peculiar natural conditions and well preserved ethno cultural heritage. People used to farm here just for personal needs and lived mostly from natural forest resources. Such living conditions created the unity between man and nature. Volunteers will have a perfect opportunity to feel the uniqueness of this region, to see the wooden architecture of villages, learn traditional crafts, traditional lifestyles of the region, taste the learn how to prepare local traditional meals.

Reserve are small island of undisturbed nature which people have deliberately chosen to preserve in a wild, natural, “unimproved” condition, as much as that is still possible. It was decided that absolutely no economic (commercial) activity would be carried out in these areas, and that the human presence there would be strictly limited. At present, only scientists and researchers walk the paths of the reservation, carrying out research and performing various observations, and inspectors monitor the area. For other visitors, nature trails have been made.

With the help of Administration specialists volunteers will be able to learn to work in many different fields. Together with cultural heritage specialists volunteers will conducts the registration of objects of cultural heritage, help with the early documentation of wooden architecture in photos. Together with nature specialists volunteers will implement the cartography of protected species, monitoring of landscape, camping grounds, database maintenance. They will also help prepare expositions for the ethnographical museum and visitors’ centres, special event, festivals. Volunteers will help keep the tourist paths and infrastructure in order, conduct tourist flow monitoring; participate in nature management actions in Natura 2000 teritories, collect garbage in the most visited areas of the park. Schools of environmental education, camps, hikes, various actions are organized in the park, so volunteers will be able to share experience or gain more while actively participating and working together with the parks’ staff and event participants. The park is also visited by many specialized tourist groups (ornithology, botany, ethno culture, history).

They are guided by specialized guides. Participating in such excursions will give volunteers a lot of new scientific information, they will be able to meet scientists, students and nature enthusiasts. During the summer season many events are organized together with the local community, so volunteers will have perfect opportunities express and realize their initiatives, ideas, communicate to the local people, learn language, songs, dances, and local traditions.

The park is publishing its own newspaper. Volunteers will be given the opportunity to publish their experience and feeling living and work in the region. The website of the Park and the community will find place to publish news on volunteers’ work and life. This will raise awareness of volunteering and EVS among the local youth.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês