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4677

Data de início: 01-02-2015

Data de fim: 01-08-2015

Vagas: 1

Duração: 6 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 15-08-2014

Financiamento: Financiamento por aprovar

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: The host organization takes care of the education and nursing for children and adults with a moderate, severe or deep mental handicap and also organizes activities for them. Most of the people also are motor disabled persons, they have often health problems and/or sometimes behavioral handicaps. These are people with a multiple handicap. More than 300 people are staying here. The people can stay here on fulltime basis. They stay in groups of 8 to 10 people. Every group has its own apartment. Next to the taking-care, they also get a lot of therapies: occupation therapy, physiotherapy and speech therapy. The volunteers will mostly help with leisure activities and help with the meals.

Perfil: The volunteer should like to work with people and we also think that it is important to have a close relationship between inhabitants and staff/volunteers, and between staff and volunteers. Therefore we ask from a volunteer social skills. The volunteer will need a dose of patience to observe and to listen to the inhabitants. Teamwork is very important. The volunteer should be ready for openness in communication about all topics.
Age: 18-30

Tarefas: The volunteers will mostly help with leisure activities and help with the meals. Some examples are: ‘snoezelen’ (a method to make the people aware of the surroundings and different senses), walking, swimming, horse-riding, cooking, massages, bicycle-riding/go-carts, music : sound bowls, didgeridoo, working with different materials, create some things with guidance, computer,…
Generally speeking volunteers will help with the education and nursing of people with a mental handicap.
- 10%: helping in a group : support giving breakfast and lunch, little household jobs,
- 10 %: entertaining the people in their free time (eg. the moments where disabled people are waiting because the educators have to wash or feed another child/adult.): this can be done with the toys already made by the centre or with little games. The people working in the centre have experience with this and can help out the volunteers with this. The volunteer can also use certain workboxes that the centre developed (working with certain themes, eg. Sound, Touching, etc.). The volunteer can, if he or she is creative, develop own boxes, together with the disabled people from the centre. Helping to create toys, which are easy to handle for people with a motor/mental handicap.
- 15%: helping in a class (children) or activity group (adults). - 10% attending meetings, planning activities (while the people are resting).
- 25 % supporting activities: Snoezelen (Dutch word, non translatable, but means: working on the senses of the people with light, sound, touching, etc. The centre developed an own ‘Snoezel’ room with all sorts of equipment), walking, swimming, horse-riding, riding with bicycles, massages, music (listening to relax, or even playing instruments), cooking, … The organisation has its own activity groups where occupation therapists work with the people with a handicap on a professional basis.
- 30 % General activities: Helping to decorate the living areas and therapy rooms. Going along with day trips (to the coast, woods, luna parks …): About every two weeks there are trips outside of the centre. Attending big happenings inside the institution (Open doors Day, special theme Day, etc.)
Within the last two parts (supporting activities and general activities), the volunteer can develop a personal project. There are occupation therapists and staff members to organize those activities, but when the volunteer feels comfortable after a while, he or she can develop something personal. He or she will get time and space to do this.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês + Formulário

Download: 4677- Application Form.doc