Estónia

4987

Data de início: 01-09-2015

Data de fim: 31-05-2016

Vagas: 1

Duração: 9 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-06-2015

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €

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Resumo: The city has around 400 000 inhabitants and is close to big cities. Estonia has temperate climate. We have all four seasons. Autumn, winter, spring and summer. Last years winter are really cold (-20 to -30 even sometimes). But summer is also nice, the city is close to sea and beach.
The organization has three different departments and we host volunteers in two of them. One volunteer activities take place in 24-Care Centre, where the main activities take place in the afternoon, from 2pm to 8pm (6 hours). During the day clients are in the others centres (our organisation centres – Work Centre and Development Centre. This Centre is surrounded by nature even its close to town city centre. Everything what volunteer need –shops, library, cinema, theatre, pubs, sportcentres – all those things can find in that city.

The second volunteer activities take place in Development Centre. The main activities take place in the morning when groups goes to the centre from 9 am to 3 pm (6 hours). This centre is arounded by nature as well. To town town is arounded 20-30 minutes.
Our organisation is celebrateing all legal holidays and the others quarter days what may find written in calender. And its good oppurtunity to volunteer to see estonian traditions/customs.
Both services are independent from each other, but as their own initiatives volunteers can make joint projects to facilitate workshops in both of them.

Perfil: Young person easy going, calm, friendly and not afraid of physical work with people with disabilities. Good communication skills in English and will to do activities for and with people with disabilities. Previous experience with mentally disabled people is taken in good consideration.
Age: 17-30

Tarefas: Development centre - Working as a volunteer with disabled people is a good learning opportunity for the young person. Through the work they will get very good experience from the social field. Work with people with disabilities may be emotionally hard in the beginning without any previous experience, but it also gives very much for the volunteer in terms of personal development and reviewing the values to life. Volunteer will get good understanding of the Estonian social care system. Volunteers creativity and communication skills will develop strongly as volunteers needs to find ways how to get contact with the clients of the centre, none of the clients speaks English, and many of them have difficulties to communicate verbally in general. Also the volunteer will get experience working with different types of disabilities, possibility to gain knowledge about different types of therapy (from therapists who visit place), you can develope 'soft' skills like empathy, raise your sensitivity, openess among others.

Condições: 1

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês + Application Form

Download: 4987 - Application Form.doc