Holanda

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Data de início: 24-06-2014

Data de fim: 22-08-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 2 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 29-01-2014

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 115 €

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Resumo: The Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation. The foundation's main target is working on the awareness of the individual; to stimulate his or her development and improve his or her position in society. The Foundation's target group is mainly youth, youth organisations and specifically youth in a disadvantaged situation. The foundation realises its targets trough development, educational and training activities. The foundation owns two accommodations. The building and the Icebreaker building. The foundation can host 42 people and the Icebreaker can host 20 people.

The Foundation is located 300 metres from the city centre of the city, which is based in the North- Eastern part of Holland. It has approximately 17.000 inhabitants. The city is famous for its natural environment: it is surrounded by woods and farmlands.

Although is a rural area, it is very reachable; the capital of the region, (150.000 inhabitants) is 20 minutes by train.

Amsterdam is approximately 2 hours by train from the city.
The economy of the city mainly depends on tourism. It has numerous family camping's, mostly used by Dutch families. The city is relatively rich city; and although it mainly depends on tourism, nowadays most of the city inhabitants have jobs that does not concern tourism, e.g. office jobs, governmental jobs etc.

The foundation is know by the locale population of the city. The volunteers are actively involved in running the youth centre an on all levels working on the maintains and exploitation of the centre, therefore there is daily contact whit the users of the centre and the local organisations where shopping needs to be done and support needs to be arrange by involving other organisations. In this way there is a constant interaction between locals and the international volunteers.

Perfil: This is a project exclusively for those youngsters who have fewer chances in participating in international events because they face different obstacles/circumstances.
These circumstances are:
 Belonging to a minority
 Having fiscal or mental Handicapped
 Having a chronicle disease
 Youngsters unemployed for more that 3 months
 Dropouts (having no education or dropped out of school);
 Geographical obstacles (living isolated from society);
 Living in a (post)-conflict country;
 Living in poverty (having an income below national average or less);
 Coming from broken families;
 Lack of social skills (missing the ability to interact in a common way with other people);

Age: 18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: To give you an idea of the type of jobs, these were the work places last year:
 Horse farm
 Pet shelter
 Forest company
 Youth camping
 Bird shelter
 Horse farm for autistic children
 Cooking place in tourist industry
 Supporting and maintaining the organization

Participants have the chance to rotate in the workplaces, which gives the opportunity to find out their likes and develop skills. This also creates an awareness of their own strong points.

Horário: The working week is from Monday till Friday, and every working week has 36 hours, including travelling time.

Documentação: CV + carta de motivação em Inglês + Application Form