Lituânia

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Data de início: 01-11-2014

Data de fim: 01-09-2015

Vagas: 2

Duração: 10 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 30-10-2014

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: The city is the second largest city of the country and the fourth in the Baltic states. It is situated in the center of the country. The town is 100 km away from Vilnius and 200 km from Sea port Klaipeda.
Population - 415.800. Ethnic Composition: 80% Lithuanian, 8,8% Russian, 0,7% Belarusian., 0,7% Ukrainian, 0,6% Polish, 0,1% Latvian, 1,5% others. In between the two world wars a temporary capital now the city is industry and cultural center of the country: 8 universities, a lot of museums, six theatres.
The town is one of the most significant cities of the country. It is not only a city of old traditions, but also a large centre of business and industry. It can also lay claim to be a city of young people with over 35,000 students studying at one of the seven universities here.
Hundreds of years of cultural heritage are preserved in the historical and architectural monuments, museums, theatres, art galleries and churches of the city. In the city we are proud of the importance that our people have played in contributing towards making the rich cultural, historical, and academic tapestry.

Volunteers who do their EVS in local host organizations coordinated by Deineta have all the possibilities to daily enjoy a full scale city life (cafes, pubs, cinemas, night clubs, shopping centers, parks and so on) and also volunteers' community. Volunteers from other places of the country are able to visit the city on a regular basis.

The organization is a state organization (established in 1927), providing stationary care for children (6-18 years old) and youth (19-29) with mental (and physical) handicap. There are 215 working places in our institution. 80 percent of them work directly with the clients: social workers, social worker's assistances, social pedagogues, special pedagogues, nurses, etc.
The volunteer is attached to the care group (6-8 clients in each) which has 1 social worker and 2 social workers assistances. Social worker becomes the one who is planning the volunteer's activities and reflections.

The aims of the organization are:

- To provide the inmates with social, pedagogical, personal health care services;
- To provide safe and human dignity ensuring living conditions of the inmates;
- To help ensure the principal needs of the inmates, to educate them, to protect their rights and interests, to seek for their integration to the society.

The mission of the organization is to form personnel having a humanistic attitude towards people with mental handicap. To search for various forms of services and guarantee their quality. To prepare mentally handicapped people for social integration. To teach them to communicate and cooperate.
The vision of the organization is learning and working society, providing for safe and dignified environment for people with mental disabilities and equal services.

Perfil: The organization is open for all young volunteers who are motivated to work, are flexible, comunicable, able to adapt to various situations, can work under stress. As the volunteer will interact a lot with mentally and physically handicapped children/youth, he/she must be tolerant and emotionaly stable.

All applications will be considered and evaluated based on how well they suit the general profile of an EVS volunteer and the requirements of the host placement in particular.

The organization is open to work with every organization having the status to send EVS.

Age between 18 and 30 years old

Tarefas: The organization provides a number of services and activities for the clients:
- nursing and medical rehabilitation,
- material provision,
- social rehabilitation and leisure time organization,
- specialized educational programmes,
- work therapy,
- supplementary educational services.

Not all activities are available to EVS volunteers having in mind the non-formal and non-professional profile of the service. Assistance would be the main role of EVS volunteers in the organization, although some fields of sole responsibility could be found as well. All depends on the individual volunteer and his/her willingness to be active and creative.

A number of activities are open for assistance from EVS volunteers:
- Nursing severe disabled children and youth: feeding, washing, changing diapers, exercisizing, lifting, etc.
- Teaching self service and household chores.
- Social rehabilitation and leisure time: assisting in organizing excursions, shopping, or simply walking outside.
- Assistance in work therapy groups: sewing, textile ware, knitting, embroidering, bouquet making, technical work (wood, metal works, simple appliance repairs), ceramics, cleaning the surroundings, work in the greenhouse.
- Assistance in sporting activities (general trainings, aerobics, basketball, sport festivals, etc)
- Asistance in groups of self expression in arts (art, music, theatre).

Proposed composition of volunteer tasks:
- nursing and medical rehabilitation - 60 %
- social rehabilitation and leisure time organization - 10 %
- volunteers initiatives - 15 %
- specialized educational programmes - 5 %
- work therapy - 5 %
- material provision - 5 %.

EVS volunteers will have an opportunity to involve in several of the activities mentioned above and create their own personal daily schedule. The activities in the organization will teach young volunteers to take care of the ones in need, to be responsible for other people, to become more tolerant towards the disabled, to see, learn and apply methods of working with such people, to find and test ways to integrate them in the society. Apart from that volunteers will have to learn to be a part of the team and find their own, unique place in the organization. In general working with the local sta...

Documentação: CV + Motivation Letter in English