Polónia
873
Data de início: 01-10-2012
Data de fim: 01-08-2013
Vagas: 2
Duração: 10 mes(es)
Data limite de candidatura: 15-01-2012
Financiamento: Candidatura
Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €
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Resumo: Work with children and youth in a day care centre
Perfil: A volunteer should be interested in the work with children and youth. S/he should be an open person, willing to share with his/her culture. A volunteer should like to develop and improve his/her skills and abilities, be open for experiments, have some hobbies/interests and like to share with them when organizing some activities for children.
The volunteer should be interested and open-minded to contribute with his/her own creativity in the organization's work and willingly develop his/her personality.
It is welcome if the volunteer has basic English and/or Russian language skills and is willing to study Polish, which would help a lot in the daily live of a volunteer.
Both male and female volunteers are wanted.
Tarefas: EVS volunteers will be working with the professional staff of the Association helping with everyday activities as well as helping in organizing free-time activities for children and thematic workshops. For the volunteers it will be a great possiblity to get to know the Polish culture while working directly with people. They will get an experience on how to deal with children and youth with problems and improve their skills in group work of people of different personalitites, age and background (charges, employees and Polish volunteers of the Association, other EVS volunteers from different countries). Besides, volunteers will have possibility to learn about other countries while living together with other EVS volunteers in one flat.
Volunteers will develop their interests and work on it together with children and youth from the Centre. They will get a teaching experience when helping children with their homeworks (eg. on English lessons or other) or when running thematic workshops. Moreover while working with professional psycholigists and pedagogues volunteers will have a possibility learn from their everyday work and to gain from their experience. Volunteers will also obtain experience in organizing workshops and events for children and youth.
The main role of the volunteers is to assist the employes in work and to give support to the children in every day activities of the Association.
Everyday duties of volunteers are:
- help in preparing a snack
- help with homework
- help in organizing and running recreational and interpersonal games
- help in cleaning up rooms when activities finished
Whole year of voluntary service will be divided as follows:
1. First month- observation of the work, getting to know the children and rules of the day-care centre.
2. Next 3-4 months- participation in all everyday activities.
3. After around 5 months (depends on personal skills and interests of volunteer and on Polish language skills achieved till that time as well) we encourage volunteers to organize about 40 minutes workshops by themselves (always with a help of regular employees).
4. During winter vacation we organize one week mountain trip. During summer vacation (July-August) we run 10 days lake camp and 3 weeks of daily activities in the Centre.
Horário: 1. Every day (from Monday to Friday)- four hours of work with children one of the day-care centres and about 30 minutes of cleaning up after workshops (together with the employees).
2. Twice or three times a week- three hours in the evening (after 18.00) - work with children in our Social Club.
3. Participation in winter and summer camps and also in summer activities placed in the Centre and in occasional events organized by the Association.
Condições: On the next working day after the volunteers' arrival there is an on-arrival meeting with the project coordinator. All the rules of the flats, where volunteers live and other information enabling the volunteer to be independent are explained. Volunteers get the all the emergency contacts -addresses of host and coordinating organization, telephone numbers to coordinators, alarm telephones to police, fire-brigade etc.
In the second month of the volunteers' arrival coordinating organization organizes extra on-arrival training for the volunteers. It is a complement to on-arrival trainings organized by Polish National Agency. The aim of the training is to get to know other volunteers, mentors and the coordinating organization, to rise the awareness about situation of Polish organization and discuss philosophy of voluntary service.
Coordinating organization organizes regular meetings with volunteers -once a month. The aim of the meetings is to discuss some current issues, to evaluate and prevent the crises. Volunteers stay also in telephone contact with the coordinator.
Coordinating organization stays in a regular contact with the host and sending organization.
Due to the great responsibility issues the host place is open only for youth over 18 years old.
Formação: Every day we meet children and youth that come from dysfunctional families afflicted with difficulties, that have educational problems and that is in a risk of addictions. We can ask whether we are able to teach children how to live right, how to behave properly, how to love themselves and others just during few hours a day. We suppose that even 500 hours is not enough to show them way of achieving precious values. It is not enough to teach them how to deny when they feel they should. It is not enough to teach them respect to other people. So we do not expect immediate results. We know that is necessary to wait even a couple of years to see if they succeed with another school, if they can establish families.
During the workshops our pupils get to know themselves, work on interpersonal relationships, on communication, on calling and expressing emotions. We are concerned about teaching children how to make good choices and to be aware of consequences of premature and rash decisions. But to achieve the goal we do not create artificial situations. Usually we do not place children in the circle and we do not ask what they should do and what they should not. We try to work showing them as an example our own lives and our own behavior while we perform ordinary, everyday tasks (such as cooking together, cleaning up, playing in a group or just with educator, small talks when walking on the sea side or after movies watching). All these moments create a great opportunity to show them how to live, grow up and not to hurt anybody at the same time.
We are aware it is not possible to protect everyone against evil or wrong-doing. They live in the ambient that forces them in some measure to choose wrong way. Children and youth want to be popular and accepted, they want to take a part in a group and on the street only those who curse, smoke, steal and don't let adults to control them are respected. In these lamentable circumstances they are trying to find themselves and their own place. Our pupils have many problems. They come very often to talk about their dad, who drinks and makes scenes, about poverty in the family, about drug addicted colleagues, about thefts that are supposed to solve problems. They tell about their failures, confess they feel to be worse and lonely. Child will tell all these things when he or she feels safe and comfortable with someone, when knows there is a person to listen him/her. That's why we do not create "imaginary" frames. We just try to be with child during his/her everyday activities. Thanks to this approach kids learn making right choices and fighting adversities in a health, natural way. They gain a power to solve problems and not just to forget about them for a while running away. Listening to the children we learn how to understand what they think- whether they say it or not. All of them say about one thing- they just need to be loved, to be special and important for someone.
In a place like the daycare Centre it must be realized that all things we teach the children have positive impact, even though the results can be noticed many years later.
That's what our work looks like.
Documentação: CV, Carta de Motivação e Application form.
