!!ONLY FOR BULGARIANS!!

📌PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Project partners offer their users space where they feel comfortable and safe, where they can develop their social skills and where they can get quality support in their behavioural, emotional, learning and other needs. The programmes aim to provide support to the widest circle of users, as well as to those with special needs and other problems. Support is provided at an individual level (work with each individual), as well as in cooperation with their families. 

The idea of the project is to involve 5 volunteers from different European countries in the everyday work of various local organizations active in the field of youth, education and social care (4-day care centres for children and youth, project learning for young adults, primary school for children with learning difficulties and special needs) for one year, from November 2021 until October 2022.  Each volunteer has his/her basic working organization, where most of the work is done, but during the project, they also get familiar with all the organizations involved in the project and also with the other local organizations. The experiences are extremely good, so the Slovene national agency considers our project as an example of good practice and volunteers enjoy it (their experiences you can find here)

Four volunteers from Belgium, France, Latvia and Spain are already chosen, but we still need to find a volunteer, who would primarily work in the Day Care Center for Children and Youth DC Om. The volunteer should have an interest in working with kids and he/she should be able to speak English.

📌AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

• To enable volunteers to improve their skills, abilities and knowledge and to learn to work successfully within a team and better their initiative.
• All volunteers will gain new skills and experiences that will help increase their understanding and respect of others, along with increasing individual tolerance and mutual acceptance. They will do this through the aforementioned activities but also through a personal project that will aim to strengthen their involvement in local society and help promote a European vision of solidarity in places where it is needed.

- To provide support to those with special needs and other problems to help them develop their social skills and to allow them to get quality support with their behavioural, emotional, and learning problems.

📌PARTICIPANT PROFILE

• We are looking for one participant from Bulgaria (18-30) 
• Volunteers should be motivated, flexible, patient, and interested to work with children and adolescents. They should be able to communicate well in English.
• Future volunteers should bring their ideas into the project and be prepared to create, plan and execute their projects. Those with experience in creative fields such as dance, music, sport etc. would be preferred, with their skills well-suited to this valued opportunity.

Candidates should show: self-initiative, motivation, patience, flexibility, open-mindedness, creativity, good communication skills, interest in working with children, youth (and adolescents) and they should be able to speak English. Experience in education and youth work is welcomed.

📌VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION:

• The venue will be a day-care centre in Škofja Loka.
• Škofja Loka has located 25km from Ljubljana and is an old historical town with 13000 inhabitants. It is a regional centre with a library, restaurants, pubs and various administrative and entertainment establishments, such as banks, a cinema, a theatre and many other activity centres.
• The volunteers will be accommodated in one fully furnished apartment (including gas, water, electricity and Wi-Fi) on the main square of Škofja Loka. Each volunteer will stay in a private bedroom with shared cooking, washing, laundry and social facilities.

📌TRAVEL BUDGET:

• A travel budget of 275€ is provided for each volunteer to cover the cost of flights.
• Each volunteer will have a monthly food allowance of 176€ and a spending allowance of 120€. 
• A bike and tickets for public transportation will be provided for each volunteer. (if required for the project).

📌FREE TIME:

Škofja Loka is a regional centre with all the infrastructure that comes with it. We have a library, post office, banks, numerous restaurants, pubs, four sports halls and other recreational facilities, a cinema hall, theatre and many different clubs such as skateboarding, paintball, shooting, beekeeping, climbing, mountaineering society, mushroom picking society, animal welfare society, yoga, dance, basketball, soccer, knitting, orchestra and folklore. Volunteers can join all of these activities, and many more.

📌FEE: There is no administrative fee.