Estónia
8829
Data de início: 01-11-2019
Data de fim: 01-09-2020
Vagas: 1
Duração: 10 mes(es)
Data limite de candidatura: 07-10-2019
Financiamento: Aprovado
Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €
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Resumo: Tallinn Center for Children at Risk is welfare organization, where children who have bee without parental care or have behavioral or substance abuse problems, get professional help. This organisation has two centers in
Tallinn: Lilleküla Shelter and Männi Shelter.
Children are hosted in these two shelters for various reasons, most common are vagrancy, home negligence, family violence, parental alcoholism or drug abuse, parental unemployment or loss of residence due to family poverty. Most of the children are brought to the shelter by the police or child protection worker.
The staff that works directly with the children consists of the manager of shelter, nine social workers and a nurse who all aim to provide the children a safe environment which helps to foster their personal development.
Approximately 75% of shelter children are sent back home after their stay in the Shelter. If necessary, they remain under the supervision of the welfare worker. The Shelter has hosted EVS volunteers already since 2013 and Männi Shelter has hosted
EVS volunteers since 2006. Both shelters see the great benefit of hosting EVS volunteers. Having a valid experience is a good base to continue working in frame of European Voluntary Service.
Perfil: We will be pleased to get applications from anyone who are:
- ready to work with children and youngsters and have enough patience;
- 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;
- responsible.
Working experience is not required. Most importantly the volunteer should be fond of children and have optimistic and stalwart nature. All sorts of artistic, pedagogical, musical or sports related skills are welcome as they can be implemented in educational and free time activities.
Age: 18-30
Tarefas: Participation of motivated EVS volunteer is seen as an exciting innovative element refreshing the daily routine and bringing additional educational value to the pedagogical process. The main idea is to provide assistance and support local personnel in daily work, particularly in running various educational and free time activities for the children and youth. It is also to provide some experience and practice of foreign languages and intercultural learning both for children and local personnel. At the same time it gives valuable field experience of the
social and youth work to the EVS volunteer accepted to the project.
After on-arrival orientation meeting aimed at the integration of the volunteer to local realities and explanation of aims and activities of the host project, the EVS volunteer will be carrying out the following tasks:
• looking after the children and youth and helping staff in teaching them different useful skills
• running additional educational activities in the house using its own facilities
• teaching children foreign languages through joined games, songs, sport, any other activities indoor and outdoor, which the EVS volunteer will be running
• presenting his/ her home country and its culture as a part of intercultural learning
• arranging children’s outings, e.g. culture visits, excursions, hikes, picnics, etc.
• playing with children
Horário: Typical week day in both shelters looks like follows:
06:45 - children wake up
07:15 - breakfast
07:30 - children go to school
15:00 - children return from the school - time for games, sport, etc.
17:00 - classes, homework, preparation for the next day at school
18:30 - dinner
19:30 - different activities or free time
22:00 - children go to bed
The period spent at the shelter varies from days to a year. To shorten the time spent at the Shelter, we try to improve cooperation with families (briefing parents on the opportunities for receiving legal advice and psychological counseling and the possibilities for receiving family-centred assistance) as well as with guardianship authorities (case discussions in the shelters) with the goal of helping the child return home or to a foster family as quickly as possible.
Documentação: CV + Motivation Letter + Application form
