📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
kERIC is a non-profit non-governmental organisation
- founded in 2003
- working mainly with children and youth aged 4-30 as well as adults from the Kysuce region
- activities with an extra added international dimension
- our projects involve some sort of education and social/care work.
- our projects include things like working in education in the primary and secondary schools, lead conversation courses in foreign languages for children and young people, caring for elderly people in a senior houses or training to become an activity leader at an summer camps for the children
- all these projects involve working directly with people.
💼 What the programme involves
Workshops with seniors: (12 – 18 hours a week)
The aim of the cooperation is to motivate elderly people to have a active life, to communicate with young people, shared culture. The workshops can be cooking, dancing, sport
Support of seniors (2 – 6 hours a week)
The aim is to help the seniors with disabilities to live active life, to help them to go for the walk, to support them during trips and visit of the town and nature
Office work (2 to 6 hours a week)
Once a week, the volunteer helps in running the KERIC office, and organi-sation as such. This task involves every day office tasks, paper work, pre-paring leaflets about our activities, updating the KERIC website and face-book, cleaning and taking care of the facilities in KERIC, or other little jobs depending on the needs of the organisation
Regular KERIC team meetings and mentor meetings (2 hours a week)
Meetings to evaluate activities, plan the next steps and to discuss any-thing important for a smooth running of the EVS project.
Non-teaching activities - workshops, sports and creative activities (1 to 8 hours a week)
For the first weeks, the volunteer will be actively involved mainly in teaching. Later on during the project, the volunteer might want to bal-ance the education activities and get involved in creative, sport or social work activities. The ideas of the activities and schedule will be discussed with each volunteer individually, support will be offered by KERIC to de-velop these activities. Volunteer’s intiative is required in case of these activities. It is possible to do do activities with disabled children, help out in a senior house, do creative activities with children such as drama, mu-sic and dance, or do sports - hiking, football, swimming or volleyball sports club activities, etc.
The volunteers can also take part in language course upon their own choice.
Preparation of activities4 – 12 hours a week)
The volunteer will prepare his/her activities alone or with the methodo-logical and logistical support of the KERIC stafff. Equipment, reference books and special training are provided by KERIC.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The best sentence to describe this experience in general is "Living together", you share the flat
with people from different parts of the world so as you can imagine it is a "life experience"
with everything that this could mean... good and bad moments...
It helps to increase your tolerance and learning from each other. Something important to try to
understand another ´s person view is listening, also speaking honestly about how you feel in
relation with some situation or episode can help "to clear the water" and start again from a
better point. Respect other people´s space, objects, religion and habits or at least try and you will be happy to live together during your EVS.
📍 About the location
Our organisation is based in the centre of Čadca, a small town with a population of about 30,000 inhabitants. Čadca is situated in the north of Slovakia, near the border with the Czech Republic and Poland. Čadca is the main town of a region called Kysuce, which is known for its beautiful countryside, with lovely mountains and excellent oppor-tunities for skiing, hiking, sailing and moutain bikes trips. The climate is mild but with cold winters and a lot of snow. The summers are usually hot with a lot of sunshine.
The centre of the town is organised in such a way that all important facilities are within walking distance. There is a good train connection with other bigger towns as well as with Poland and the Czech Republic.
⚠️ Requirements
Towels
• Sheets are provided by KERIC, but if you prefer your own ones, bring them
• Sleeping bag - if you have enough space in your suitcase is very convenient to have one for
your traveling and summer camps.
• Mobile phone
• There is wireless internet connection in KERIC, so if you are an internet freak, bring your
notebook
• Materials and items you can use for presentation of your country or region
• Materials you can use in language classes (teaching English or your own
language)
ℹ️ Additional information
The possibility is open to any young aged 18 to 30, motivated for the project. Sending organisation will have information meetings for the interested candi-dates. Those that are interested can apply according to transparent criteria and selection deadline. In pre-selection 2 to 5 candidates will be selected by the pro-ject coordinator, followed by a personal /skype interview with the project coordi-nator and possibly the host organisation.
In this project, the volunteer can learn how to run non-formal education activities for children and youth, as well as adults, and to develop teaching and organisa-tional skills. The volunteer does not need to be a professional teacher. Motivation to work in this field is more important than experience or educational back-ground. KERIC staff offers constant methodological and logistical support during the whole project.
We prefer to host volunteers for a long-term period for this project (10 -12 months)