Estónia

973

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 orphan children and young people in orphan house and local primary school. Developing different activities with them during the free time and support the children in the everyday bases. Project is situated in a very small community in East-Estonia.

Perfil: Young Person with a very strong motivation to work with children and ability to cope with the life in small village away from big centres, strong mental attitude and dynamic, willing to learn Estonian fast.

We would like to receive volunteer, who is friendly, good communicator, helpful, active and should have some basic knowledge of English. Knowledge in music and have a healthy life style is going to be an add value to the candidate.
She/he should be interested of working with children and youth. We are ready to host both- female and male volunteers and age is not important, nevertheless we see that person who is coming to volunteer in our project is mature, since working in a small community with different target groups is not always easy. Also we wait from the volunteer some pro-activity, initiative and creativity to come up with new ideas and suggestions. A capacity of improvisation, dynamism, sense of responsibility to work with disadvantage people will be taking in count. A person who like to play games and do leisure activities (dance, singing, instrument, art, sport, acting) so he /she could teach it to the children.

Tarefas: Sample of activities, where volunteer can participate in the orphanage are following: sending children to school and kindergarten; in the evening picking up children from school/kindergarten; settlement of homework, studying; leisure fitting.
Weekends are the main assignment leisure premises in the yard, where in the room. Sports, hiking, walking outdoors is one of the top priority. We have children go to music schools, learn to dance and take part theatre group.
Though there is a lot of work to do in the orphanage, we have also seen that volunteer will work in the local school in order to have more variety in the tasks. In the school volunteer will help the hobby teacher in preparing the activities, support the teacher in after school activities and study groups etc.
The volunteer will work maximum 36 hours a week having two consecutives days in the weekend as free time. If there are specific weekend activities, the free days can be negotiable. The volunteer will have 2 days per month of voluntary project as vacations either.

Condições: Volunteer will work next to hosting organization members, which helps to solve problems fast when they rise. Maria ja Lapsed is responsible for ensuring a safe living and working environment for the volunteers. They will be supported by a mentor, which will help them where necessary, explaining all their questions or doubts and helping in all its difficulties. Therefore, all volunteers will have adequate supervision and protection.
We can provide adequate training for volunteers, either on the institution, or on the community and the region where intervenes, focusing on prevention of certain risks that may exist. All the working venues already were used to develop work with young people, which work straight with us. Each volunteer will have an Estonian phone card to contact the mentor and the organisation any time they need in any emergency.

Formação: In the organisation, the volunteer has possibility to learn and experience how children from different background behave and act, support their development in everyday bases. The contact with the orphans or to deal with their problems and develop activities for them, is part of the wide range of learning possibilities that the volunteer will pass through. The environment of a small village can also create bonds in the sense of community which helps the volunteer to adapt him/herself easily. The daily work with the children in the orphanage and with the whole community is a great challenge that the volunteer can get various experience, knowledge and skills. There's a possibility to develop activities with the young people in the local school and around the village.

In the orphanage it is possible to learn Estonian and Russian language, as these are the languages children and workers are using mostly. As well, some of the kids in the organisation have disabilities, which the volunteer will be encouraged to develop activities to work with them. This situation can also be an add value for the volunteer which may transform his/her attitude regarding the most fragile members in the society. Different games and exercises will be in the list of the possible activities to develop either.
As the orphanage is situating in rural area, then it is great opportunity for the volunteer to get to know Estonian nature and village life, cultural, traditional music and dances. The aim to host volunteers is to introduce foreign culture and languages to the children, encourage them to be more opened and tolerant. We believe that the contact with the orphans and the community can develop attitudes of tolerance and understating, breaking stereotypes and helping the volunteer and the small community to deal with the difference, but above all to cooperate and understand the similarities.

Documentação: CV e Carta de Motivação