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Data de início: 05-09-2011

Data de fim: 05-03-2012

Vagas: 1

Duração: 6 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 30-04-2011

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 95 €

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Resumo: "Velo is situated on the coast of the Corinthinan Gulf, 15 km West from Corinth, in the Peloponnese (South Greece). Velo is a municipality with 8200 inhabitants and 7 villages around. The surroundings are vet green and most of the locals are employed working in fields (vineyards, citrus fruits). Some small tourist enterprises are also in the region.The county of Corinthia is situated only 50 km west of Athens and it is very easy and comfortable to travel back and forth.
The volunteers will stay in a full-equipped flat and with all the facilities for cooking.

The EVS volunteers role will be to provide additional support to the instructors and other stall at the centre, working closely with qualified staff who will provide support and superv,sion at all time. This provides the opportunity to the EVS volunteers to share their own culture within their projects and with the local community. This will bring a new, international dimension which will benefit evei'yone
The aim of hosting international volunteers is to establish an exchange of knowledge and to let young people know about this opportunity that the Youth in Action program provides. International volunteering is good to bring different cultures together, to diffuse the existence of development projects and to exchange experiences and knowledge. A volunteer from a foreign country could be an excellent opportunity for our local community, mainly for the youngsters to overcome language and cultural difficulties and to learn from each other Moreover this project gives great opportunity for cooperation with the stall and the members of the organization and will be benefit for our local volunteers, because by working together with someone who comes from a foreign country: will learn the values of tolerance, equality and acceptance.

Kindergarten proiect:
The voluntary work takes place in the kindergarten of Municipality of Velo. Éç our school åáç participate children in between 2- 5 years old. Our motivation to host EVS volunteers is the support and help in the every day work of the kindergarten. This includes helping in the fine-art workshop, painting lessons, theatrical workshop, playing games with the children, join trips, excursions and helping in the kitchen of the kindergarten. The volunteers will assist the staff in the daily childcare and organise his/her ïùç small project depending ïç his/her skills and ideas (e.g. music, handicraft, theatre, games etc). Á further important aspect of the project is to give the volunteer the opportunity to put into the practice his/her ideas and to reflect õñïç this with experienced staff of our school. Our main aims are the introduction of new activities taken by the volunteers for the daily life of the children, the promotion and contact with new cultures, especially from the volunteer origin, moreover to develop the artistic abilities of the children and to help the teachers in their activities.

1. Participating in the fine-art workshop (the volunteers will work in the field of handcraft using materials such as pastel, paper, different kind of nuts, collage, clay...etc. and they will help to make constructions. The staff of the school welcome new ideas and initiatives from the volunteers)
2. Taking part and help in the painting lessons (the volunteers will help the children to use pencil, water- color. This lesson has
the goal to prepare the children for writing, to give the motion of writing in their hands and fingers.)
3. Theatrical workshop (they will help to organize theatrical games from fairy tales, puppet shows, they åáç give their ideas for
the best materialization of the pertormance)
4. Music- kinetic workshop (the volunteers will help the staff to realize games in order to develop the motion culture of the children.)
5. Games with the children (these games are organized by the teachers and the volunteers and have the role of non-formal learning experiences and acquire everyday attitudes by processing situations taken from the everyday life appropriated to the child's age.)
6. Take part in trips, excursions (these trips and excursions are leaded in zoo, theatre)
7.Helping in the kitchen of the kindergarten (this task includes helping to share the breakfast and the lunch for the kids)
8. The volunteers will participate in the work of the Youth Inforrréation office in Velo, which provides inforrréation about the Youth in Action Program. The volunteers with the staff will give inforrnation about the Program, make the voluntary service more attractive for the Greek youngsters giving live example with their participation.
Our goal is to develop the international understanding of the children, we would like to give them the ùáã of thinking from this early age when they åáç adopt new things easier that they åáç cooperate and communicate with people from other countries by overcoming language difficulties and cultural differences. Éç this ùáã we can fight against racism, xenophobia and discrimination. We would like to encourage the volunteers to come õñ with ideas and carry out in cooperation with the staff of the school for the benefit of the children, the teachers as well as the volunteers themselves and we would appreciate if the volunteers brought games, music, short movies, pictures from their countries, about their countries.
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Perfil: "The host organisation gives special support for volunteer through the supervisor, to encourage the volunteers by developing of ïùç project and continual support of volunteer during the project.
From the staff the volunteers will get á high standard support and training, they will prepare them for the activities, tasks. The volunteers will follow training courses with the social worker about how to support and work with disadvantaged elderly, and people with special needs. The assistants give support to their work in the home of the elderly people. The volunteers will work in teams with the staff and the ÉïåáÉ volunteers. Éç order to facilitate their work and integration, volunteers will have áç obligatory Greek language course from the beginning of their voluntary service by á private teacher (50 hours).
The tasks for each volunteer will be adjusted to his personal abilities and needs. We would like to stress that none of the tasks åáç be
seen as employment substitution.
The volunteers will be taken by car of the organization to the elderly people's house. The detailed tasks of the volunteers are:
1. The volunteers will help the social worker in checking the elderly people's living conditions (they will visit them and check their economy conditions, how they eat, if they need something for their eveçday life, their living standard if it is right, or they don't have anything from the first needs, assess their problems, and try to solve them etc.)
2. The volunteers will follow training courses about how to support and work with disadvantaged elderly, and people with special needs.
3. The volunteers will help in the assistants' work (the role of the volunteer consist of supporting the assistants in the carrying out of the services, bringing the food for the elderly people, if it's necessary cooking, help in cleaning their home, dishing, washing their clothes, arrange their beddings, put new bedding, ironing, give them help if they are bedridden etc.)
4. The volunteers will participate in the work of the Youth Information office in Velo, which provides information about the Youth in Action Program. The volunteers with the staff will give information about the Youth in Action Program, make the voluntary service more attractive for the Greek youngsters giving live example with their participation.


Athletic centre proIect
The voluntary work takes place in the Athletic centre of the Municipality of Velo.
EVS volunteer will provide additional support to the educational staff team, which includes qualified and trainee teaching staff and activity instructors- such as basketball trainer, volleyball trainer, mini-soccer trainer, tennis trainer and á secretary - and will be involved extensively with the groups who visit the centre.
The centre has been successfully running for years with áÉÉ the departments like:
-basket: 3 departments, participating from 6 years old to adult, there are two teams; - volleyball: 2 departments for women; mini-soccer: 2 departments, participating from 6 years old to 14 years old; -tennis: 6 departments, participating from 6 years old to adult.
The centre staff will welcome the opportunity to support international volunteers at the centre as á ùáã of broadening the horizons of their work as well as of the local community and the members.

Activities that the volunteers could be involved:

The volunteers will work directly with the groups who visit the centre for most of their working time. - They will help and support the trainers' work
- They will take part in the training sessions
- Helping to organize competitions in basket
- The volunteers will help in the promotion of the centre in the schools, community
- They will make presentations and join the activities of the Youth Information Office
The volunteers should be really interested and motivated to participate in the activities. Communicative and creative skills would be an advantage. He/She should be able to work independently (under supervision from our staff), ready to take responsibility and take initiatives, to be flexible and to have adaptation skills. The volunteers have to be able to share the apartment and their rooms with other volunteers.

Our organization would like to host 2 volunteers in the kindergarden project, 1 volunteer in the Help at home project and 2 volunteers in the Athletic centre project.
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Tarefas: "The tasks for each volunteer will be adjusted to his/her personal abilities and needs. We would like to stress that none of the tasks can be seen as employment substitution, moreover we would like to stress the importance of giving ideas, taking initiatives by the volunteer. The host and the coordinating organization is open for new ideas and support the initiatives.
Help at home proiect

Help at home' is á social service program that aims to provide organized and systematic support to elderly and people with special needs
The profile of the program is like the 'home care' of UK and the Scandinavian countries by giving á new form of social care of the citizens
We provide advice and psychological support to elderly, nursing, housekeeping support, company, shopping, paying bills, medical support and other services
These services are provided with regular visits in the home of the elderly according to their needs The program addressed in particular elderly people and people with special needs with priorities:
• they cannot support themselves totally
• They need special treatment
• they live lonely and isolated
• they don't have enough economical sources
The main goal of'Help at home' program is that these people to be able to stay in their everyday life in their environment and to increase their quality of life.
We are absolutely convinced that especially the work of volunteers makes áç important contribution to public efforts for the solution of problems of socially discriminated and disabled people.
We aim the volunteer and our patients to learn from each other, to get á mutual enrichment, in the same time to build bridges between the young and the former generation, and between nationalities, cultures and to develop the volunteers' understanding of different cultures and situations, which takes to á personal growth of the volunteers themselves.
Our objective is not ïçÉã to help the staff but also to enrich the life of the elderly people, who are often lonely, develop the work through the volunteer's different perspective, to develop áç intercultural dialogue and tolerance, to make the youngsters responsible for other people.
Furthermore the volunteers will receive knowledge and skills in the social field, which they could eventually use in the future in á professional ùáã. The EVS young volunteers will be encouraged to get nearer the old people's world and share the experiences of living in uncomfortable situations thus growing and developing their ïùç capabilities in listening and taking care of the elderly people. The volunteers will have experience in practice how to show solidarity with other people through their helping and assisting the elderly in áÉÉ practical tasks. Á social, cultural and á personal process of learning will give the volunteer the opportunity to see their ïùç situation in á new perspective. Through the service the volunteers will get to know both the national characteristics of care system and the common European values. For these elderly people the value of the solidarity, the respect, the taking care is more significant in their life than for
other people.
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Horário: "The volunteers will work every day (Monday to Friday) from 8:00 to 14:00. During the íïÉõçtáç service the volunteers have twelve days vacation that should be matched to the vacation timetable of the kindergarten, and the Saturdays and Sundays are free as well. The working hours are from Monday to Friday at 15:00 - 21:00. Saturday and Sunday are free; moreover the volunteers can take two weeks vacation during the voluntary service.

The volunteers would be involved in á wide range of outdoor activities, spending much of their time working directly with the members, under supervision of qualified staff. This is á great informal learning opportunity for the volunteer to develop their interpersonal skill and also their knowledge of sport activities issues.

Timetable of the athletic centre and the volunteer:
Monday: 15.00 preparation work, 17.00-18.00 junior basket class, 18.00-19.30 'mini' basket class, 20.00-21.00 adult basket class Tuesday: 15.00 preparation for the activities 17.00-18.00 'mini' basket class, 18.00-19.00 junior basket class, 20.00-21.00 adult basket class
Wednesday: 15.00 preparation for the activities 16.30-18.00 volley class, 19.00-20.00 adult basket class
Thursday: 15.00 preparation for the activities 16.00-17.00 volley class, 18.00-19.00 junior basket class, 20.00-21.00 adult basket class Friday: 15.00 preparation for the activities, 16.00-17.00 junior volley, 17.00-19.00 volley class, 19.00-21.00 basket
Monday-Wednesday- Friday: 18.00-19.00 soccer (age 6-10 years old) Tuesday-Thursday- Friday: 19.00-20.00 soccer (age 10-14 years old) Tennis: every day from 15.00-19.00

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Documentação: CV e Carta de Motivação