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Data de início: 01-09-2012

Data de fim: 31-05-2013

Vagas: 1

Duração: 9 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 30-12-2011

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €

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Resumo: Working with mentally disable people. Work in day care centre with mentally disable adults and in children day care with young people in Tallinn

Perfil: The project is open to everybody who is positive, creative, with good communication skills, friendly and without prejudice towards disabled people. Should be interested in the field of disabled people as volunteer will work everyday directly with severely and profoundly mentally and multiply disabled adults. Former experiences in the field of social work are not needed. Basic English is needed for communicating with the stuff of the Center.

Tarefas: Volunteer will work as an assistant for the staff in the centre. There is 7 different groups working at the same time and each group has professional social pedagogue working with them. In one group there is maximum 10 clients at the same time, groups are both in Estonian and in Russian. The volunteer will work in close relation with the pedagogues.
During the day there are different activities taking place in the centre, where volunteer will be helping:
practising and learning main skills needed for everyday life (clothing, personal hygiene, preparing food, housing works like washing the dishes, cleaning rooms etc)
developing motorical skills (handicraft, walks, dancing, games etc)
developing communication skills (increasing the personal vocabulary, adapted signs for expressing personal needs and wishes)
developing social skills (cooperation, correct behaviour, orientating in local environment, creating a contact etc)
developing cognitive skills (orientating in time and room, table games, writing, drawing, listening music, nature and self observations etc)
Volunteers activities are connected with assisting the pedagogues of the groups. There is possibility for the volunteer also to create new self initiative activities in the Centre for the adults.
Volunteer's activities are connected with assisting the assistants of the groups. There is possibility for the volunteer also to create new self initiative activities in the Centre.
Work in the children centre is to promote and stimulate skills like communication (sign language, system of pictogram) and cognition (colour painting, games, music, orientation in time and space), social (behaviour, cooperation) and motor skills (walking, dancing, taking/grabbing), and skills of perception (recognize differences like cold/warm, heavy/light) by sensible methods as most of the children are mentally and/or multiply disabled, some do not even speak.

Formação: Through the work the volunteers will get very good experience from the disability 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 system. Volunteers creativity and communication skills will develop strongly as volunteers needs to find ways how to get contact with the clients of Käo centre, none of the clients speaks English, and many of them have difficulties to communicate verbally in general.

Documentação: CV e Carta de Motivação