Estónia

7525

Data de início: 01-02-2018

Data de fim: 01-02-2019

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 26-09-2017

Financiamento: Financiamento por aprovar

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €

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Resumo: Our organization is an orphanage in Estonia. Currently we have 23 children and young people in total, ages from 7-21. We have a family system where each “family” has about 7 children. At the second floor there is a "family" from youngest children, then we have the "family" where children are mostly 12-16 years old and the "youth family" is located on the first floor and most of them are 17 years old.

Children are taken from their real families mostly because of their parents’ drinking problems or drug addictions due to the fact that they are unable to care for their offspring. Kids are under constant supervision - there is always at least one orphanage care worker in every family. Every "family" has their own certain orphanage care workers, whose schedule is rotating with others. This way kids feel more safely and are more stable to cultivate trust with adults.
Also, every kid has their own support care worker or mentor, who takes care of child’s medical needs, goes to school when needed, buys clothes etc.

Perfil: We are looking for somebody very active and creative and who is not too shy around some
unstable children. Active male volunteer would be great, but female volunteers are also welcome. Volunteer should not be too sensitive and scared of outspoken children and youth.
We will be pleased to get applications from anyone who are:
- ready to work with children and have enough patience;
- willing to be involved in youth work and youth activities;
- ready to understand and accept that the children/youngsters often come from difficult family and social background;
- friendly and open-minded;
- aged between 18 and 30 years;
- optimistic and cheerful.

Tarefas: Since educators have many responsibilities, then mostly we would like the volunteer to spend time with our children. They like to spend too much time with TV, phones and computers. Of course, as normal children, they need to spend time in physical activities which they also enjoy.

We would like the volunteer to play ball games with kids, to help the educators to take the kids for a swim and to help the staff to take kids outside the house to different events. Indoors it would be great if the volunteer can take time to play games with kids and help them with school lessons (English). On some weekends we would like the volunteer to organize dancing events. Once every week a volunteer should organize artistic or creative lessons for kids. At Christmas time we take part from fairs and kids will sell their self-made Christmas cards, jewelry and other goods. Sometimes we may need help with clean and running errands. At weekends we make food ourselves and it would be nice if the volunteer could cook and teach the children his or her own native food. We need a friend for our kids, somebody who kids can rely on and who is free to play and help out.
Definitely, volunteer would learn here to be very tolerant and see, that even when children have their issues, everybody needs love and attention for healing from past traumas. Every human being, even mentally disabled children can have very bright moments. Those moments multiply when someone is not judging and putting them down.

Documentação: CV + Motivation Letter + Application Form

Download: Application-for-EVS-in-Estonia-3.doc