📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
LYVS is a non-governmental organisation, founded in Minsk in 1994. The full member of the Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations since 1998. Our central objective is to assist young people in the implementation of their ideas on the basis of voluntary service and through the methods of non-formal education.Belarusian Association of UNESCO Clubs is an NGO, founded in Minsk in 1989, our constant partner. The organisation unites 62 UNESCO Clubs in schools and at universities from all over Belarus.
💼 What the programme involves
Participants will be teachers of English for youngsters (13-18 years old) from all over Belarus, Russia and Latvia who study it as the first foreign language. Through the methods of non-formal education, games and creative and sport activities the volunteers will encourage school students to speak English all day long. The aim of the camp is not only to learn new vocabulary and grammar, but to help the children feel more at ease while speaking to the foreigners. The international volunteers will work only in the morning (9 am - 1 pm), but they are free to join afternoon and evening activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The camp will take place at the local boarding school. The volunteers can use all the territory of the school. The volunteers will live separately from the children, 3-4 people in a room. Showers are available. No washing machine.Food: 5 meals a day, the volunteers don t need to cook or to help the cooks.
📍 About the location
The camp will take place in a small town Uzda (10000 inhabitants), which is 75 km away from Minsk. There are regular marshrutkas (mini-buses) to and from Minsk. The town itself is known since the 15th century and has several tourist attractions. The volunteers will have free time to explore Uzda and to visit Minsk.
⚠️ Requirements
We re looking for highly motivated volunteers for this camp, ones, who are eager to work with children and have a very good level of the English language, that s why we d like to have a CV and motivation letter from the applicants. The total number of the volunteers is 20 (10 i foreign, 10 i local). The organization will host 3 foreign volunteers through LYVS.