Letónia

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Data de início: 30-05-2018

Data de fim: 27-07-2018

Vagas: 3

Duração: 2 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 09-04-2018

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: The child and youth union “Liepajas Jaunie Vanagi" (Liepajas Young Falcons) was founded in 1993. Members are between 5 and 30 years old and are mostly young people with fewer opportunities – most of them come from low income families. Our aim is the promotion and protection of rights and interests of children and the encouragement of active and creative youth development.

Liepajas Jaunie Vanagi supports young people in taking initiative and realising their ideas. Together with the different age groups we organise international meetings, sport days, camps, educational activities etc.
We want that young people become empowered to become active in the society, to spend their leisure time as funny and productive as possible, to have an international spirit and to be aware that children have the right to take decisions.

Perfil: - Aged between 18 and 30
- communication skills in English
- Able to commit 2 months to volunteering in another country
- Computer literate
- We are particularly open to young people with fewer opportunities (geographic, economical etc.)
- Basic knowledge of non-formal education
- Open-minded with a good sense of humour
- Familiar with outdoor activities and team building basics

Tarefas: - Living for 2 months in another country
- Working in a child and youth organisation together with local volunteers
- Discovering the host country together with other EVS volunteers or local volunteers
- Gaining intercultural experience and learning the language of your host country
- Implementing your own ideas and organize activities for kids and youngsters
- Teaching your own language
- Prepare and organize practical outdoor and indoor activities for kids and teenagers (It means volunteers must be able to communicate in English, let’s say - average level)
- Working with non-formal education methods by teaching teenagers to become leaders.

Your main task will be prepare, plan, organize and most important - lead indoor and outdoor activities for local kids and new leaders academy for teenagers. What it means in reality? Its max 38 hours of work per week. Its 6 hours per day. Also you will have a chance to teach kids your language. All activities is going to be organized in non-formal way, using a lot of fun and creativity.
So you need to prepare program, run it and support each other! This will be done in first days, during on-arrival training. You will work in team with 12 EVS volunteers from Spain, Greece, France, Portugal and also together with local volunteers.
As this is anniversary year of Liepajas Jaunie Vanagi, then each week will be by topic – 25 in country. Example 25 in Spain, 25 in Greece, 25 in France and 25 in Portugal. And you will have to decide what is in this meaning.
Please note, that you might need some extra time for planning activities.
The work is hard, because there are luck of local volunteers, so prepare for really hard work.
Your project will ends with day of evaluation.
Keep in mind its Latvian summer. And summer in Latvia is very different then summer in your countries  Big chance of rain, cold and almost no sun.

Latvian language courses: As you maybe know, there are no official language courses for short term EVS. Anyway, we are gonna have some obligatory lessons in the beginning and after we are more than open to work with those volunteers who really want to improve their Latvian and want to have at least basic knowledge of local language, which is considered one of most oldest and beautiful languages in Europe! For lessons we will agree concrete time which will be better for all of you.

Free time: Besides that, as a volunteer you will have a chance to have free time to spend in your own way. We can suggest best places to visit and help with arranging transport etc., but you are free on your choice!
As example I should mention that last year we found a time and organized common Baltic trip for all volunteers. And it was amazing!

Condições: 1

Documentação: CV + Motivation Letter