ABS team is looking for 2 participants for long term EVS in Torun, Poland.
Project description:
The Volunteer will work with children from poor or dysfunctional families, who often spend time after school and weekends on streets (including courtyards and playgrounds). The activity consists in organizing active forms of spending time. Examples of working methods: help with homework, conversations in a foreign language, artistic activities (e.g. theater, drawing, handicraft, street art); sports activities (eg. football, volleyball, table tennis, table football); organization of games (eg. board games, outdoor games, competitions, trips), proposing by the Volunteer new forms of non-formal education, talks about the customs of other countries and the diversity of culture European; responding to the current needs of children. Kids need people with creativity, full of ideas how to spend time and sensible for their problems.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements:
Accommodation: One-person or two-person room in one of students’ house in Toruń, with a joint bathroom.
Alimentation: The Volunteer will receive in cash a sum of 375,00 PLN per every two weeks to cover food costs, which he will buy on his own. The Volunteer will have free access to a full equipped kitchen located in accommodation place.
Travel costs: Tickets to Poland are bought by a volunteer. Travel costs will be returned to the volunteer in cash immediately upon arrival. The return ticket will be bought in consultation with the volunteer by the Coordinating Organization.
Training during the project:
The educational effects of the Volunteer’s activity:
(1) social and civic competences (taking initiatives, supporting others, working in a team, the ability to see and understand different points of view);
(2) learning to learn (awareness of your own learning style, your strengths and weaknesses, critical thinking skills, discipline, perseverance, the ability to name your own motivations and the goal you want);
(3) communication in foreign languages (knowledge of vocabulary and grammar of a polish language, awareness of the presence of various customs in a polish community).
Volunteer profile:
We need people full of ideas and sensible for needs for love and problems of children. Working with young people from dysfunctional families requires self-confidence and creativity. The Volunteer needs to be disciplined, but it is worth to get kids' hearts by offering them common activities and willingness to help. The advantage of working with us is creativity and the search for new forms of inspiring youth. Working with street children requires also patience (children can be loud and difficult to discipline).
The Volunteer will receive in cash 270 euro per one month (pocket money 91,50 euro + alimentation costs 128,50 euro).
Deadline for applying is: 03.07.2018
There is also administration fee: €25 for sending organization prior departure.
If you have any questions just contact us : absociety.info@gmail.com
