Polónia

4225

Data de início: 01-12-2014

Data de fim: 01-07-2015

Vagas: 1

Duração: 7 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 23-02-2014

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €

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Resumo: The kindergarten is placed in a residential district, known for
being peaceful and quiet. One can find all necessary public
institutions (e.g. hospital, medical centers, libraries) as well as popular entertainment facilities such as shopping complex or
cinema in Bielany. Buses, trams and the underground make very reachable and well connected in the city.

The kindergarten has a very good location, as the building is situated next to the metro station. The kindergarten is a low one-storey building. All playrooms for children, big hall, bathrooms, specialists’ offices, director's office and the kitchen are all located in the ground floor. The cloakrooms, the oculist's office and then orthoptist's office are located on the –1 level. The kindergarten has a big, beautiful garden with a lot of equipment and accessories.

Smoking is banned on the premises of the kindergarten and we would expect the volunteers to follow the rule.
The kindergarten is open from Monday to Friday, from 7:00 am until 5:30 pm.
The plan of the day is the following:
07:00 - 08:00 am – children come to the kindergarten.
08:30 - 09:00 am – breakfast
09:00 - 12:00 – educational activities
12:00 - 12:30 pm – dinner
01:00 - 03:30 pm – non-compulsory activities and teatime
01:00 - 02:15 pm – rest for the youngest children
03:30 - 05:30 pm – play time, children go home.

Perfil: Since the volunteers would be working with a little child that is blind or whose eyesight is impaired to the point in which verbal
communication becomes the basic form of contact available to them, it would be good for the volunteer to have basic knowledge
of Polish. It is not, however, a demand from our side. At the same time, it is important that volunteers would be eager to learn
Polish, at least the basics that are necessary for communication.

The Polish Robert Schuman Foundation as the support organization would organize the recruitment process. We are opened
to cooperation with different sending organizations, volunteers from different countries and of different backgrounds. Nationality, religious or political beliefs, social origin, sexual orientation, gender or economical circumstances will not be a defining factor in our selection of volunteers. The most important characteristics that we would be looking for are the following:
-Age: 18 until 30 years old;
-that the volunteers like children and working with children
-can easily establish contact with small children (3-4 years old)
-openness and open-mindedness.
- declaration to learn at least basic Polish before starting their Service (volunteers are going to work with blind or visually
impaired child, who is able to comunicatemostly by speaking. Our experience shows that there is a need of verbal comunication
to begin any relation with visually impaired children. Therefore volunteers’ motivation and help from sending organization are
necessary. Of course we will provide guidance for language learning before arrival and also support organization, Polish
Robert Schuman Foudnation, will provide additional materials and suggestion. Sending organization must also declare to help
the volutneer in the preparation phase - with guidance, tips and language learning materials or possibilities.)
Pedagogical experience and/or explicit pedagogical predisposition/skills/carrier aspirations would also be welcome but are definitely not a requirement.

Selection would be carried out on the basis of CVs and motivation letters sent by the candidates or their sending organizations.
Sometimes short interviews would be conducted with the candidates over the phone or instant communicator.

Tarefas: The main role of the volunteer that we would like to invite to our daily-care place would be based on direct work with a blind
child and assisting the child during its stay in the kindergarten. Our kindergarten is addressed to visually impaired children.
However, due to the current social needs, we do admit blind children. They practically require full-time assistance in performing most of their daily activities. Work with a blind child includes getting the child to know the world around him/her, moving within the kindergarten spaces, teaching the child to use the equipment available on the premises, assistance during the teachermanaged classes, additional activities, as well as helping the child with typical self-care activities, such as personal hygiene, help at eating (assisted eating), dressing and undressing. The work during the classes is connected with preparing under the
direct teacher's supervision special aid materials that may be necessary for tasks to be performed. Such aid materials need to
be adjusted to the specific child's visual abilities. The volunteer would strictly cooperate with the teachers working in particular groups as far as the work with a given child is concerned and would also exchange his/her observations and reflections, while at the same time complying with the teacher’s requirements in connection with group activities.
The volunteers would have an opportunity to take part in all cultural and social events organised in the kindergarten, such as
theatre performances, concerts, balls and other holiday-related events (Family's Day, Grandmother's Day, Grandfather's Day),
as well as in trips outside the kindergarten.
Considering the described activities in which the volunteers would be participating in we believe that they would have the
possibility to develop their pedagogical skills in the area of working with children with special needs, as well as participating in various workshops and trainings organised by and/or in the kindergarten. We are confident that volunteers can gain a lot of knowledge and practical skills they will be able to use in the future.

Furthermore, we hope volunteers will also suggest their own ideas for activities and we wil provide mentorship and supervision
for them to inmplement them. They will be able to count on the support of our staff. We are also aware of the fact that working
with visually impaired or blind children is very demanding and that volunteers would need specific guidelines and training to
prepare them and help them with their work. The working and learning process of the volunteers would be monitored on a
regular basis.

Verbal communication between the volunteers and the children is very important, especially that our children due to their visual
impairment cannot rely on non-verbal communication so much. It is for this reason as well that we would put special attention
on the knowledge of Polish language of the volunteers. Polish language support would be provided with the mentioned goal
as well as the aim to make the interaction and communication between the volunteers and the kindergarten staff easier. We
would also like to introduce voluneers to the Polish culture, history and tradition and we believe that we can all achieve this by volunteers' involvement in our kindergarten.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês