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Data de início: 05-09-2014

Data de fim: 04-07-2015

Vagas: 1

Duração: 10 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 20-07-2014

Financiamento: Reprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: The city region is located in the South country region, which is why the greater part of the territory belongs to the river Regional Park, the aim of which is to preserve scenic valleys, fascinating loops of the river and the surrounding forests.
The city region covers 1141 square kilometers and has a population of 34522 inhabitants.
The town (with population of 11072 inhabitants) covers both sides of the River. The city is at the juncture of very important routes connecting the two mayor towns of the country.

A variety of service organizations, wood or timber processing, sewing, construction enterprises form the main branches of a local economy. 66 780 ha (out of 114 100 ha) is cultivated land. Small farms, dominate in the region. 27% of the region is covered in forests. Hundreds of years of cultural heritage are preserved in the historical and archeological monuments of the region. The municipality of the city has international partnerships with the Municipality (Finland), the Municipality (Poland), the town and the region municipality (Latvia).

Volunteers will live in the city, which is one of the smaller cities in the country. Each volunteer will have a private room in a flat together with other volunteers or in a country family. Local transportation, food, country language course, trainings will be covered as foreseen in EU Youth in Action. Volunteer will be able to visit Kaunas and other major cities, to meet other international and local youth.

For volunteers it is important to understand, that bigger city and smaller city or town life-styles in the country differ from each other very much. While bigger cities are relatively active, life in towns can be quite slow, especially in winter. Out-of-the-city areas are more affected by social problems such as unemployment, alcohol abuse, and poverty. A lot of local youth study in city universities and in the end tends to settle there; much less conventional entertainment; transportation is not as cheap as one would like it to be. These things should be taken into consideration before applying for a countryside project.
Nevertheless, the city has a culture centre, museum, library, a number of sport-clubs, schools, restaurants, aviation club, and active village communities. The connection with all parts of the country is relatively good, because the city is part of the central.

Perfil: The organization would like to host volunteers who are motivated to work, are flexible, communicable, able to adapt to various situations, can work under stress. He/she must be tolerant and emotionally stable. Since a lot depends on efficient communication between the volunteers and the host organization (staff and residents), it is an advantage for a volunteers to have spoken English, Russian, German, French skills.

The recruitment process usually takes place as follows: project description with dates and free places are announced online (website, email) among our sending partners and young people who have contacted us before; the coordinating organization pre-selects candidate applications and forwards them to the host organizations. The final selection is done there. All of the selection participants are informed about the selection results. In case sending organizations are identified prior to specific volunteers the pre-selection takes place in the sending country, and afterwards candidate applications are forwarded to the host organizations. 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.

Age between 17 and 30 years old

Tarefas: Volunteers will work 5 days a week (from 9:00 - 17:00). Tasks cover social, sporting and exercise activities, group work activities, excursions, shopping visits, doctor visits, etc.
Volunteers are encouraged to give their time to the clients. Working with old people one of the most important things is taking time to socialize and to talk with the elderly, through word games or handcrafts in order to help with cognitive recovery, also through informal one-to-one conversations. We think that EVS volunteers are in excellent position to help with this, even if their country skills are rather limited at first. Clients generally enjoy speaking with the volunteers in the language which they studied at universities or schools and they want to use it in practice.

Volunteer's activities could be:
- about 40% of the time - he/she has an active task with the clients in the therapy workshops (in the role of assistant he/she supports/leads activities like handicrafts, arts, cooking, doing pottery and working with wood, knitting).
- about 30% of the time the volunteer proposes games for old people during their leisure time, helps them to do shopping, accompany to doctors.
- about 20% of the time the volunteer takes part in other activities related to their initiatives: teaching them new games, dances, preparing exhibitions, taking part and helping in excursions, art workshops, education trips, administrative work etc., also informal one-to-one conversations.

Volunteers will be involved in social rehabilitation, working with people suffering from diseases of old age, activity therapy programs, assisting in daily household chores, landscaping, catering and other activities, to improve the quality of their life. For example one volunteer can work in age dimension group, where the care home residents are involved in mobility and occupational therapy (exercises with the ball, simple crafts, outdoor activities, art, painting, games). The second volunteer can work with more independent elderly clients assisting with a similar range of activities (sport activities, work in the garden, cleaning the area of the care home, handcraft groups, theatre, songs and dances group, computer classes, language lessons, shopping, excursions etc.). According the volunteers wishes they can work with a different group of old people each week of the month.

Each of the volunteers will be working with different groups, but we will encourage an inter-change of ideas among them and there may be an opportunity for some job-swapping so that one volunteer gets to experience the range of activities on offer at the other two sites.
We are keen to discover and utilise each volunteer's particular interests, experience, cultural background and skills, as far as possible, so there will be some flexibility in the design of the volunteers' timetables to accommodate this.

The volunteers will have possibility to learn about the social care environment and will have the opportunity to gain tolerance, clear communication skills and team-working skills. They will learn it from the day-to-day experience of working alongside some of the most marginalised members of society - the elderly.
Working with an experienced workers volunteers will also learn how to organize various events and workshops (activities in the interests, needs and interests of the calendar of religious holidays and the organization of various courses under the voluntary capacity). Volunteers are able to learn from the experience, wisdom, and receive valuable advice from and elderly people, learning and creativity in adapting to life changes and opportunities for socialization, diversity.

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