EVS in Portugal!!!

Activating Youth 5 is here to come… Join us!

We are very glad to share, we are applying for the 5th version of our EVS project “Activating Youth”, expecting the results around December. Please read the general information that sets the basis of the hosting project and you can also visit our Facebook Page to check out what we have been doing so far at: https://www.facebook.com/activatingyouthfaro

This call regards 7 EVS volunteers for 3 Organizations in Faro (Algarve – Portugal). All projects start in March 2015 and will last 12 months (unfortunately, we cannot change dates and/or duration).

4 Volunteers for ECOS – Cooperative of Education Cooperation and Development, CRL(Youth participation, mobility & youth initiates)

2 Volunteers for ADS – South Designers Association (Art, handicraft & graphic design)

1 Volunteers for FASL – António Silva Leal Foundation(Roma community, inclusion, youth activities

If you are still motivated to be part of this EVS project, you should express your interest until the 15thof September by email to: Sofia Martins EVS Project Coordinatorevs@ecos.pt Also, please include your CV, motivation letter, recent photo (in case you haven’t done this before) and express to each of the projects you are motivated to participate. Use the above email also if you have any kind of questions or queries. The Call and info about different projects follows attached but you can also download them from dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/azw4ngfzknvxh05/AAACVx8SqSKosqWjl-RfYY_va?dl=0

http://activatingyouthfaro.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/activating-youth-5-is-here-to-come-join-us/

EVS in Sweden!!!

“Adventure, Dreams & Hopes”

Name HO The Organization for Poverty Alleviation & Development (OPAD)

Name SO YouNet

Dates of activities 01-12-2014 / 01-12-2015

Title of the project Adventure, Dreams & Hopes

Number of volunteers and gender 1 Female

Contest and environment The EVS volunteers will be hosted in Botkyrka municipality, Botkyrka is part of Greater Stockholm and is one of Sweden’s most international municipalities with people from about eighty different countries speaking more than hundred languages. Botkyrka is famous municipality for its diversity dimension with 80% of immigrants That helps make Botkyrka Municipality a vibrant cultural and intercultural forge. Botkyrka municipality is very open to youths and it offers a lot in term of personal growth and cultural activities. The social context of Botkyrka municipality is particularly receptive to volunteering activities, hence they find a perfect incubator that creates the ideal conditions for the growth and the informal learning of the EVS volunteers involved in volunteering activities in this area. The volunteers will stay in multi ethnic and stimulating environment by taking advantage of operations and contacts in OPAD. This enables volunteers to approach this context and act as main characters, hence making the most of the unique opportunity of the EVS. This close contact with the local community and active participation in voluntary work, and other activities carry out by OPAD generally reinforce the growing opportunity for the volunteers. Furthermore this will have a positive effect in the process of learning the Swedish language which will be accelerated and facilitated by the close contact with the local community.

Accommodation description OPAD organization will provide the best possible living conditions for the volunteers with all necessary facilities. Furnitured apartment, full equipped kitchen, microwave, wireless internet. TV set, Home Cinema, DVD player. Vacuum Cleaner, Iron, Blankets and Pillows etc. Volunteers will be living in a Single room in an apartment shared with other volunteers in Botkyrka municipality, either at a close proximity to the projects sites.

Volunteer Profile • Ability to work in teams and also individually according to the task at hand,

• Interested in our activity areas: education, youth and art,

• Motivated to meet new people and cultures,

• Interested in sustainable projects,

• Open to learn and share knowledge,

• Basic knowledge of English is essential to have a more efficient volunteer work,

• The ones that have former voluntary Work experience and youngster with limited opportunity will be given priority.

Food allowance Volunteer will have a monthly allocation 100€ per month, to buy food and basic necessities, they will be given a choice to cook their own meals.

Local Transport The costs will be covered by the organization (90€ per month)

Pocket money 115€

Travel cost and travel direction (best airport, airline…) 100% up to 275 €

Emergency number Frank Kanu (+46–700412714) or Quinta Sone (+46 739604757)

Visa information

Country Currency Swedish krona to Euro 1.00 SEK = 0,108107 EUR

Activities/Agenda:

ACTIVITIES FOR THE VOLUNTEERS OPAD organize bigger events such as cultural festivals, entrepreneur fellowship. Conferences, trainings, Youth’s exchanges and seminars etc. The volunteer can be part of a group responsible for making the Programme, contact with media or Support reporting (Media, documentation) organizing housing and food, Organizing transport, organizing the cultural part of an event (such as getting artists there) or being the one giving a lecture or workshop, Support the planning, preparation and organization of international projects or Conferences, Co-operation with other volunteers and Support the implementation of international projects.

For more information about the hosting organisation:

http://europa.eu/youth/vp/vol_organisation/64000708737_en

In case you are interested in taking part on this EVS please send us your motivation letter and CV in English to evs@you-net.eu before 15th of October 2014. The hosting organisation will take care of the selection.

http://youthfacingcrisis.com/2014/09/11/evs-in-sweden/

EVS in Hungary!

International voluteers! Let’s meet in Várpalota!

We would like to invite all international EVS members in Hungary to join our program on 24 Mar 2014 at 10.00 in Youth Center of Várpalota.
The aim of our program is to encourage Hungarian young people to join the EVS program and this will be also a good opportunity for the volunteers from different regions and settlements to discuss their experiences.


Further information and application: makovi.agnes@thuryvarkft.hu;
We look forward to you and wish you a very happy and fruitful time at Youth Center of Várpalota.

EVS in Italy!!

4 EVS vacancies in Italy (NGO Vicolocorto) for long term projects starting in the following dates:

- 1st of june 2014
- 1st of july 2014
- 1st of december 2014

Deadline to apply: 10th of march!

For further information write to: candidates@vicolocorto.org

Miriam, an EVS volunteer in EDRA explains to us "Why you should be an EVS volunteer?"

Why you should be an EVS volunteer? 

ΓΕΙΑ!

I would like to share some feelings with you about why you should live this experience. To be an EVS volunteer is to have an opportunity to improve yourself. You can live your own life, to be really you and if you don´t know how you are…you will know in the end of your project!

It´s true that is not everything easy, some moments you miss your “real life” because you know how is your life in your country and that it is easier to communicate in your mother language when you are speaking about feelings or important things. However, it´s true that in one point you forget all these things and your EVS life became your “real life” and I think that in the end of my project I will miss this. I´ll miss my flat mates, I´ll miss our users, the staffs, our GREAT mentor, our sweet Greek teacher, the others volunteers, in general the life in Athens…

The most common things that you can live if you´ll be a new volunteer can be…

…To smile a lot, to know new people that in a short time they become your small family, to improve your English, to learn Greek, to improve your skills and aptitudes, to travel, to reject stereotypes of a culture, sometimes give the lie to, to value all the things that you have…

If you want to live a new experience like this…you are welcome to EDRA!

Miriam Aragon Mendez

EVS in EDRA !!

Petra is the new EVS volunteer in K.S.D.E.O. EDRA and she gives us her first impressions!

"I arrived in Athens one month ago and I feel in home here! I like the cheese, olive oil and the Greek bread with seeds, I like the tradition of drinking coffee for long hours, I like the small streets and the monuments, and I like the music and the Greek accent. I just don't like the crazy way that people drive here and the bad habit of smoking everywhere. About my project, I work daily with people with mental disabilities what is for me a very rewarding challenge. ΕΔΡΑ, the organization where I do EVS, is one of the Greek organizations that does an excellence work with these people. My project is exceeding my expectations because in addition to promoting the cognitive and motor development of these people, I can do food education. Educational materials, cook workshops and educational games for kids are some of the activities of my personal project in ΕΔΡΑ. I am loving this experience!"

EVS in Spain!

We are glad to inform you that we are looking for two volunteers to join us in our next term project “Volunteering programme to support young people with intellectual disabilities and elderly people” in Madrid, from 1st of October 2014 till 30th of June 2015. We’ll be implementing the selection process next month, so we’ll be glad to receive any application (Cv and motivation letter) before the 15th of February. In case you know someone interested in our project, please, see below a brief description of the project and the activities:

The Office for Solidarity and Co-operation – UAM collaborates with people with intellectual disabilities coming from the hand of PRODIS Foundation and our Disability Area.

The activities to take place and that volunteers will participate in, are the next ones;
- Collaboration with PRODIS Foundation in activities destined to promote and to support the social and labor insertion of young people with intellectual disabilities ( Filing and Organization, New Technologies, English, Culture and Society and so on)

- Participation in daily activities carries out by the Disability Awareness Area from our office; support, accompaniment and adapted transport service for people with sensory disabilities. To benefit the social integration and the labor insertion of people with functional disabilities.

- Participation in local volunteering activities to support elderly people; free time and leisure time activities (crafts, theatre…).

- Collaboration on administrative tasks carry out in the Area of International Volunteering; filing and registration of sending and hosting EVS projects conduct by the office since its origin.

- Collaboration in the Week of Solidarity and other events. The Week of Solidarity involves a series of events (workshops, film forums, conferences, courses ...) for which help is needed with many tasks, for example, promotion, organization and advertising, among other. They will also participate in the initial trainings provided by the office to new volunteers, telling them about their project and helping us with the dissemination of the program.

Please, also note that because of our project needs and the kind of activities we carry out, it is highly recommended that the volunteers are able to communicate in Spanish.

Contact email: voluntariado.europeo@uam.es

EVS projects in Portugal!

These are the available places for the new term:

1. At Centro Social de Palmela (in the village of POCEIRÃO) 2012-PT-1

Jardim de Infância a Cegonha (1 volunteer) Is composed by; nursery (20 children from 3-5 years old). The volunteer will develop the EVS project in pre-school wich main objective is to help the children to developed their global capacities trough different kinds of activities. The Pedagogic Project for the Kindergarten and the class-room project depends on the team and the children needs. The volunteer will support the team and help to develop the project with the guidance of the
Educator responsible (pre-school teacher) together with 2 helpers.


2. At Centro Social de Palmela (in the town of Palmela) 2012-PT-1

The activities of the volunteer depends on the department where the project is developed and also from the personal interests, motivation and objectives of the volunteer, because this project is open to new ideas and ways of being: There are two departments that volunteers can work at CSP Palmela, Jardim de Infância “A Árvore”. (1 volunteer) Kindergarten with 4 rooms with 25 children each, between 3 and 5 years old, open from 7h to 19h. The pre-school main objective is to help the children to develop their global capacities trough different kinds of activities. The Pedagogic Project for the Kindergarten and the class-room project depends on the team and the children needs. The volunteer basically will support the team and help to develop the project with the guidance of the Educator responsible (pre-school teacher) together with 2 helpers.

Pedagogic Play centre for children- CAPIJ: CATL Balão Azul. (1 volunteer) CATLS “Balão Azul” organizes different kinds of free time activities for children from 6 to 15 years old, boys and girls, after school during school holidays, integrated in a socio-cultural animation project where children and youngster can choose and freely participate. The volunteer basically support the team with meals, hygiene and transports and help on the academic activities as school homework. He is also expected to support the different free-time activities (ateliers, games, visits…) and extra currícular activities not only with children but also with parents and for the community.
Momentos Mágicos (1 volunteer)

3. At Okupa- Espaço Juventude (in the town of Palmela) 2012-PT-1

Okupa (1 volunteer), the Youth Department develops international and national youth activities; youth information; training and workshops; youth happenings/meetings; holidays Programs/camps, etc. OKUPA pretends also to promote the issues of youth in the local community, promote the EVS in the local community and to potentials participants, organize activities (cultural, artistic…) to show and promote the local activities organized by the CSP and other organizations. The volunteer will have the opportunity to create and develop the Okupa’s Newsletter, work in the Okupa’s blog, promote youth information and participation, organize activities for the youth and general community in the Youth Month (Março a Partir), spread youth in action potentialities and networking. Basically supports the staff whenever it is needed.

4. At Liga dos Amigos da Escola da Azeda (in the city of SETUBAL) 2013-PT-35

ATL (1 volunteer). Liga da Escola dos Amigos da Azeda organizes free time activities, after school (in the morning or in the afternoon), for 120 children between 6 and 10 years old. The Pedagogic Project depends on the team and the children needs and volunteer will help to develop the proyect with the guidance of the Educator responsible. Please note that this part is just a basic and short summary of working places and tasks of the volunteers. Please refer to your activity agreements to get a specific and detailed information about your working place and activities.


5. At Letra Cooperativa Cultural in Espaço Fortuna Artes e Ofícios ( in the village Quinta do Anjo) 2013-PT-46

Letra’s headquarters- Páteo da Fonte, Saberes e Sabores (1 volunteer) supporting the development of communicational, cultural and artistic activities. The volunteer will have the opportunity to create and develop the Letra’s Newsletter and Facebook, organize activities for the youth and general community together with the other volunteers in the coordinating organization, including spreading youth in action potentialities, promote local artists and traditions, help the organization and development of concerts, jam sessions, exhibitions and other cultural and artistics activities. The volunteer will work together with the Letra’s responsible and other staff members and volunteers from the organization, creating, planning, developing and evaluating the activities.
At the Arts an Crafts Center and regional products Shop (1 volunteer). The volunteer will learn, developed and support activities with the 3 painters and the pottery markers, creating, paiting, producing the traditional “Azulejos” (tiles) and Craft, using traditional and modern methods. Also the volunteer will support the workshops developed with children, youth, the community and tourist; organize the guide tours to Fortuna Artes e Ofícios (explaining the traditional pottery methods) and support the shop with the traditional products (cheese, wine, craft, pottery, sweets, etc).
1 volunteer with fewer opportunities. The volunteer will renovate and built a new room for artistic indoor performance and storage and reorganize the gardens around Espaço Fortuna Artes e Ofícios, using traditional materials and keeping the heritage of the main creator of the space- Mr Sebastião Fortuna. They will work as mason, carpenter or gardener, according with the interest and profile of the volunteer.

EVS in Slovenia!

Το Youth Center Krško αναζητά έναν EVS volunteer για το πρόγραμμα «Get spotted 4» από 3.3.2014 έως 1.9.2014, εγκεκριμένο πρόγραμμα EVS στη Slovenia, MUŠTER.

Krško spreads aut in the end of the Sava gorge before Krško field, on the right and on the left bank of the Sava River. It is a cenral location of Posavje region and accessible via Ljubljana – Zagreb highway and via regional roads from Celje, Maribor and Novo mesto. It is 98 km away from the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana and 51 km from Croatian capital of Zagreb.

YOUTH CENTRE KRSKO is a public institution founded by municipality of Krsko in April 2002. We are working with and for young people in Krsko and region Posavje. Our approach to reach these youngsters is youth culture work (projects with dance, photo, concerts, and theatre) as well as project work: drug- and alcohol prevention projects, informal-learning project (language courses, other courses), the annual Youth Culture Festival, leisure and holiday activities (workshops), as well as intercultural work (youth exchanges, EVS projects). Our newest acquisition is Multimedia Centre Posavje.

Sample of volunteer tasks:

• help to organize prevention programs (Life without drugs and alcohol; prevention workshops Bright head; youth workshops, Camp for youth with criminal record)

• help to organize debate evenings

• organize (with the support of the employees in the youth center) children holiday activities (June one week), August one week and October one week)

• help to organize Halloween party with other EVS volunteers

• organize volunter evening

• make own project (20-30% volunter own program)

• 1 day a week working in our reception (with the help of our informers)

• present her own country, language and culture and EVS to children in kindergarden, primary school and high school

• help to organize multimedia programs (multimedia workshops, LAN parties, creative workshops, video and music workshops)

• help to organize VJ evenings

• make own project (20-30% volunter own program)

• organize (with the support of the employees in the youth center) Geek fest 2013, multimedia festival for young people

• 1 day a week working in our reception (with the help of our informers)

• help to organize debate evenings

• help to organize Halloween party with other EVS volunteers

• help to organize EVS weekend for all volunteers in Slovenia

• organize volunter evening

• present his own country, language and culture and EVS to children in kindergarden, primary school and high school

• assistance in organizing and implementing activities program manager:

• Geek festival 2013 (festival of the development of computers over the years)

• help to organize debate eveningshelp to organize Halloween party with other EVS volunteers

• make own project (20-30% volunter own program)

• 1 day a week working in our reception (with the help of our informers)

• volunter evening

• stand up nights

• evenings of amateur theater groups

• organize children holiday activities (February  one week)

• help to organize Halloween party with other EVS volunteers

• organize and perform EVS weekend (all volunteers form abroat, 2 days)

• exchange of experience and knowledge between individuals and organization,

• share and promote common European values,

• promote Youth in action programmes and EVS

• exchange cultural backgrounds of individuals and organizations included in project,

• share common working methods regarding to non formal education in the youth field,

§ attend Slovenia language course

§ share her experience about EVS and living in her country with young visitors in our youth center

§ share her experience about EVS and living in her country with pupils and students on information hours in local primary and high school

§ attending pre-term training in your country

§ attending on-arrival training in Slovenia

§ attending mid-term training in Slovenia

§ after arrival attending evaluation in your country

§ write final report in Slovenia

§ finish Youthpass in Slovenia

or

§  work in multimedia (workshops, support aur program managers)

§ attend Slovenia language course

§ share his experience about EVS and living in her country with young visitors in our youth center

§ share his experience about EVS and living in her country with pupils and students on information hours in local primary and high school

§ attending pre-term training in your country

§ attending on-arrival training in Slovenia

§ attending mid-term training in Slovenia

§ after arrival attending evaluation in your country

§ write final report in Slovenia

§ finish Youthpass in Slovenia

or

regular monthly concerts of different musical genres

help to organize  closing party of volunteers and young visitors in the Centre in 2013  

§ attend Slovenia language course

§ share her experience about EVS and living in her country with young visitors in our youth center

§ share her experience about EVS and living in her country with pupils and students on information hours in local primary and high school

§ attending pre-term training in your country

§ attending on-arrival training in Slovenia

§ attending mid-term training in Slovenia

§ after arrival attending evaluation in your country

§ write final report in Slovenia

§ finish Youthpass in Slovenia

The tasks we will adjust during your time here!

SAMPLE OF STANDARD VOLUNTEERS WEEKLY PROGRAM

Monday:

09.00     preparations for the day

09.30     meeting with the coordinator

10.30     organizing existing programs and helping program leaders

11.00     lunch break

11.30     organizing existing programs and helping program leaders

16.00     the end of work

Tuesday:

08.30       preparation for the day

09.00       employees meeting

10.30       lunch break

11.00       slovenian language course

12.30       organizing own events

15.30       the end of work

Wednesday:

15.00       work in info točka (aur reception)

17.30       lunch break

22.00       the end of work

Thursday:

09.00       preparations for making own project

11.00       lunch break

11.30       preparations for making own project

15.00       meeting with the mentor

16.00       the end of work

Friday:

14.00       preparations for making own project

17.30       lunch break

18.00       working in the club space/hanging out with young people

 22.00      the end of work

Saturday, Sunday: free days

The hosting organisation will monthly prepare working schedule for the volunteer and will hang it in office and the appartment.

Roles of volunteers in the project thought the whole duration of the project:

Working hours and days off:  7 hours per day, 5 days per week, two consecutive days off per week and 12 days holiday for the duration of the project. The volunteer should ask for the days off at least 3 days before vacation.

Food and Accommodation:  The volunteer will live in Youth hostel Krško; in the apartment in which will have her own room and will share a kitchen, bathroom and living room (TV, computer and free internet). Volunter will have a free access to laundry room. A monthly food allowance is provided (170 €/ month).

Local Transport:  A monthly allowance for local transport is not necessary, because the youth center is located in the city center. If they will help on the events outside the center, we will provide them a transportation. The volunteers will have the possibility to get 2 paid travels to go sightseeing Slovenia.

Volunteer Allowance:  The volunteer will receive a monthly allowance of 85 €

Language training: Language course will be organized 1 time per week and will last 90 min per a course. Language course will last as long as the volunteer will be making progress in her/his grammar. After she/he will get to know the grammar she/he will use Slovenian language.

Learning Outcomes: 

Gain basic knowledge of Slovenian language

Learn basic level of Slovenian language for normal communication.

Gain as much knowledge and experience as possible

Learn as much as possible (especially about Youth work and Slovenian culture) and gain competences for life long learning.

Interpersonal and social competence

Adaptability and coping with new challenges, team-working with colleagues, sharing responsibility for living together with another volunteer, gain and spread awareness of European citizenship.

Cultural expression

Developing cultural awareness of each other’s needs in a multi-cultural setting, learn to accept other cultures, improve tolerance.

Communication in foreign languages

Communicating, socialising and negotiating in a second language (English)

In addition to ensuring effective mentoring for each volunteer, the hosting organisation will take full responsibility for monitoring the whole learning process – explaining it fully at the on-arrival training, conducting a thorough mid-term evaluation and issuing the Youthpass on completion of each volunteer’s service.

Vacancy for EVS Volunteer in Bulgaria!

• Contact person: Infinite Opportunities Association
• Organisation: Infinite Opportunities Association
• Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
• Deadline: 15/10/2013
• Start: 06/12/2013
• End: 05/12/2014
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  Love&Hate: Youth for On-line Tolerance is a project in protection of human rights and European values in the web space. It will last twelve months. Within the activities young people will seek answers to the hate speech manifestations in the Internet, due to racism, xenophobia, and all other differences stemming form gender, ethno-social, religious and cultural character.
  
  The project will be part of the large-scale international campaign “Young people against hate speech in the Internet” and will include three main aspects – youth online activity, creation of informational and awareness rising interactive materials and conduction of presentations and conversations with students and youth, which will enhance the attention towards the dangers of the hate speech in the online space.
  To ensure the teaching process of the volunteers we will use the methods of non-formal education, through which to increase the knowledge and skills in prevention of and dealing with the negative effects from the use of hate massages in the online environment.
  
  The activities will be held on the territory of Sofia and its surroundings and in the case of trainings and seminars in the coutryside, the participants in the project will travel with the team of the association, and will be part of the campaign in the whole country.

Tasks

The main responsibilities of the volunteers will include monitoring of the online social media, design of on-line brochures and materials, as well as research and organization of presentation in local schools. The set of non-formal educational activities will boost their intercultural confidence and ability to recognize and act against xenophobia, racism. The volunteers will be part of our day to day initiatives and youth projects and will have the chance to meet and work with lots of Bulgarian youth as well as other young people coming for our different EU projects.

Criteria

Only candidates willing to take action against online hate speech practices and interested in human rights protection will be invited to take part in the project. Basic knowledge in English as well as knowledge of online social media is required. Interest in web design and journalism will be taken as advantage in the application process.

Procedure

1.Fill in personal CV and send it to office@infopass.eu before 15th October 2013. IMPORTANT: When applying, please include the name and reference number of your Sending organization! 2. All applicants will receive feedback on their applications until 15th October 2013! 3. Approved applicants will be invited to sent the official partnership letters from their sending organizations!

Library:

• volunteers_application form.docx 
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Vacancy for EVS Volunteer in India!

• Contact person: Ravi Sebastian
• Organisation: NewBeginnings Charitable Trust
• Location: Vijayawada, India
• Deadline: 30/10/2013
• Start: 30/10/2013
• End: 30/09/2014
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  This gives us great happiness to introduce NewBeginnings Charitable Trust (NCT) to you. NewBeginnings was formed with a coming together of five professional social workers who have been in this field for more than 10 years. The Vision of the Organisation is "Together for a better world”. This is our spirit behind making everything possible and gives meaning and the purpose to our existence.
  
  Volunteering and NCT (Hosting Organisation): It has been one of the persistent requests from the partner organizations to have volunteers to assist them in their works. We have been receiving volunteers from various European countries for the last 5 years and as of now, there are 19 volunteers working in 14 partner ngos across India. Since we work with a large number of partner ngos locally, the need for placing volunteers with our partner ngos is also at increase. Though we place volunteers with our local partner ngos, NCT remains the primary hosting organisation for the volunteers.
  
  Our networking programmes in India covers almost any part of the country except Jammu and Kashmir. If a volunteer wants to work with any voluntary Organisation on any particular issues, we have our partner ngos to suit the need of the volunteer. The volunteer programme is so flexible that the visiting volunteer plan such a way that makes his/her stay a memorable and exciting one. The volunteer can choose to work in cities, in small towns or remote villages, or even with tribal communities on the hilly areas.
  
  Programmes are available year round and start dates are entirely flexible. The volunteers are provided with accommodation and meals within the organisation. However, if the volunteer or Sending Organisation wishes to the accommodation to be outside the project, NCT will be happy to provide.
  
  NCT provides volunteering opportunities every youth irrespective of nationalities/ gender/ religions etc. We provide volunteering opportunities within the evs or outside the evs, however, we strongly recommend the volunteers to be part of evs programme so that he/she may avoid the huge expenses. However, if any volunteer wants to volunteer outside the evs, you are always welcome to contact us. We will provide you the best possible opportunities.
  
  NCT gives top priority to the safety and privacy to our volunteers and all our partners are carefully chosen after screening them for safety.

Tasks

I. Rescued Children from Child Labour: 1.Help them learn basic education 2.Teach them games/crafts 3.Counsel the children on the importance of education 4.Participation in Surveys on child labourers 5. Assistance in conducting trainings /workshops / seminars etc to stake holders 6. Be a companion to every child II. Girl Children rescued from Human Trafficking and Preventing Second Generations (Children of sex workers) 1. A Councillor/ listener to the children and help them live a respected life 2. Teach them basic education and help them in their education 3. Assistance in workshops/ seminars to stake holders 4. Play with them, teach them crafts, games, sports etc or any other skills III. Teaching English 1. Teaching English to children from rural areas 2. Help children in children's home 3. Teaching/assisting in rural schools 4.Preparing a specialised syllabus to children in homes IV. Working with Sex Workers 1. Being a Councillor 2. Help and listen to the target groups 3. participation in surveys, condom distributions 4. Assistance/ presenting seminars and workshops on sexual rights

Criteria

At the time of application, the volunteer should be at least 18years of age - a must(because, according to the Indian law, anyone below 18 yrs is considered a child and a child is not allowed to become a volunteer and work) We might ask for a reference letter from your university/School, etc, if you are outside evs project where a Sending Organisation is not involved

Procedure

Selection is made on the basis of vacancy. Since Newbeginngs works with a large number of partners, you always have vacancy to volunteer with us

Details:

Themes: Art and culture, Environment, Rural development, Health, Social exclusion (in general), Youth leisure, European awareness

Targets: Youth and children, Homeless, Local Community

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EVS project in Italy!

EVS project in Italy starting in 2014…Go for it!

Want to discover more of Italy and you’d like to participate to a social project? This European Voluntary Project might be the one for you…

General information

Host Organisation: Misericordia di Firenze

Location: Florence, Italy
Deadline: 15/09/2013
Start: 01/03/2014
End: 28/02/2015

Context

The Mosaici Project 2014 will take place for the 2nd time in Florence in the Head Office of Misericordia di Firenze and in its branches, ambulatories, rest homes and disability centers. All the structures are situated in different areas of the city except for Villa Alessandro, a ‘Disabled Center’ ina suburban area between Florence and Prato.
It will run from March 2014 to February 2015, there will be six Volunteers from European countries.
Volunteers will be closely followed by our staff although they will be free to contribute with their personality, ideas and personal competence.

Tasks

The volunteers will be involved in the following tasks: Health and social transport, welcoming services: Activities: Escort service of sick, elderly and disabled people; Drawing up documentation; Assistance and reassuring of the user’s relatives At the consulting rooms, volunteers will welcome the users giving information and helping the staff in their daily work, these structures are situated inside the branches of the Association. Personal care: Reading books or newspapers for some hours a day; Little errands, shopping, small payments in public offices, etc.; Phone assistance; Escort service for walks, company to overcome loneliness and social isolation. Activities in Disability Centers and Rest Homes: Company and animation during the day and for vacations, holidays and recreational events; Staging of performances, assistance/teaching at the computer labs; Listening and communication with the guests and especially with their families; Cooking Labs, Craft Labs, Drawing, Photography, etc.;Volunteers will follow a course on how to interact with disabled people; Solidarity markets organized at Christmas and Easter and sometimes for special events during the year and Food Aid. Besides the volunteers are welcome on activities regarding Volunteering Promotion and European Awareness such as Design of information and illustrative materials, brochures, in English or in the language of the volunteers; the main topics will be: Voluntary Service, European awareness and young people; Drafting of the history of our Museum and promotion of it; the welcoming of groups who want to visit Misericordia and the Museum, in English or in their own language. Contacting Schools, Volunteer Organizations, in Italy and abroad, for affiliations and to promote free visits to our Museum; Promotion of the Volunteering World as a way to spend time with and for other people, especially for young people. Involving the young Volunteers of the Association in new activities. Each of these activities will be documented by written/audio/video materials; these will remain in the Association for the realization of “A Mosaic of Lore, Customs and Testimonies from Europe” for subsequent EVS volunteers, for our volunteers, Florentine citizens and for the many tourists who visit Florence. For more information please have a look on EVS data base, Ei reference 2011-IT-150.

Criteria

Positive, passionate and creative young person ready to offer his/her time for learning a lot in cooperation with the other volunteers and offer his/her time in Social and cultural project. It is important that you are open minded, show initiative, communicate easy with very different people and are flexible, so you can adapt to different circumstances. You also find it a challenge to work with people with limitations, socially, emotionally or physically elderly people. You don’t mind working outside.

Procedure

CV and a specific motivation letter sent to evs@misericordia.firenze.it and a filled Questionaire sent back by the Hosting Organization. After a pre-selection, it will follow a skype interview with various candidates.

Good luck!

EVS experience in Spain!

Γεια σας!

Με λένε Έρη και είμαι εθελόντρια EVS στην οργάνωση νέων Asociación Juvenil Intercambia, στην Μάλαγα στον τομέα της ενημέρωσης νέων/επικοινωνίας και μέσων μαζικής ενημέρωσης. Η οργάνωσή μου είναι πολύ δραστήρια: οργανώνουμε πολλές ανταλλαγές νέων και προγράμματα ευρωπαϊκής εθελοντικής υπηρεσίας στα πλαίσια του προγράμματος, τόσο ως οργανισμός υποδοχής όσο και ως οργανισμός αποστολής. Επίσης διοργανώνουμε διαπολιτισμικά events, στα οποία οι EVS εθελοντές μοιραζόμαστε τον πολιτισμό μας με τους νέους της τοπικής κοινωνίας.

Κάθε μέρα περνούν νέοι από το γραφείο μας και τους ενημερώνουμε για τις ευκαιρίες κινητικότητας στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση: εθελοντισμός, υποτροφίες, προγράμματα, εργασία… Είναι πολύ όμορφο να μοιράζεσαι πληροφορίες με νέους που θέλουν να ταξιδέψουν και να ζήσουν την όμορφη πλευρά της Ευρώπης.

Επίσης, βοηθώ με την ιστοσελίδα και τα κοινωνικά δίκτυα της οργάνωσης, europaerestu.eu, η οποία γίνεται όλο και πιο δημοφιλής και συγκεντρώνουμε φίλους από όλο τον κόσμο, δημοσιεύοντας ενδιαφέροντα νέα για τους νέους της Μάλαγα.

Αυτό που μου αρέσει περισσότερο στο project μου είναι ότι είμαι συνεχώς σε επαφή με πολλές πληροφορίες και νέα από όλες τις πλευρές της Ευρώπης, τις οποίες μπορώ να μοιραστώ με τους νέους στην Μάλαγα και με τους φίλους μας από όλον τον κόσμο μέσω της ιστοσελίδας μας.

Το EVS είναι μια πολύ όμορφη προσωπική εμπειρία που συνιστώ ανεπιφύλακτα σε όλους τους νέους και ευχαριστώ πολύ τη ΜΚΟ "ΕΔΡΑ" που με βοήθησε να το πραγματοποιήσω! 

Έρη

EVS in EDRA!

EVS in Athens in Times of Crisis

When I was looking for an EVS program to participate in, I wasn’t looking for a specific country or a specific city. My decision was based on the program’s description itself and the idea behind the certain experience. However, my EVS experience happens to take place in Athens, Greece.

I didn’t know what to expect of this city, I had never been to Greece in my life before.

Now that I have already spent almost five months here, I can say that going to Athens was the best thing that could have happened to me. Not only is Greece a beautiful country with unique landscapes, beautiful islands, very nice weather conditions and Athens a very lively city which is offering so many events, festivals, concerts and has an appealing bar scene, but it is also a country which is deep into a process of changing and finding its identity as a nation and as a part of Europe. Being here has taught me so much about what it means to be European, what it means to live in times of crisis and fear, frustration and hope. I have met people who were/are very open for discussions, interaction and exchanges of opinions; I have also made “bad” experiences with very closed and narrow-minded people.

To be in Greece also means to perceive the whole situation from a different angle, to get another or, at least, a broadened view on the incidences.

I feel way more European and am also able to define my nationality and identity with new aspects.

Besides all of this, the work in my EVS itself is wonderful and gives me way more than I have to give. I work with people who suffer from mental retardation or psychological problems. These people who are often kept away from public have so much to give to society and demand so little. I enjoy going to work every day and will miss it once I will have to go back to my country.

In summer, I also had the chance to visit other places in Greece. Together with friends I made here I have visited Volos and surrounding area, the temple of Sounio, we have also travelled Crete by car which was by far the most impressive journey I have ever made. We were greeted and welcomed by all the people we met during these 10 special days. Amazing beaches, a stunning valley, many goats and a lot of Raki accompanied us on this trip.

EVS is a huge chance for everyone who wants to experience the spirit of Europe!

Cora