Center of social services in Kaunas
Code: 6d3a0a33-4487-11e8-b0fa-0242ac11000f Copied
About the project
Center of social services in Kaunas
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Social day care center for disabled children is working for two years. The center was founded in order to help fulfill the children with disabilities and their family’s needs. Service recipients - children from 7 to 18 years with mental disabilities, physical and complex disabilities, psychological development disorders (except for mental health problems) and their families. Social day care center goal is focus on enriching the childrens' lives, building upon their skills, knowledge, and unique abilities and strengths.We expect that volunteers :Will be empathetic for people with disabilities;Will be creative and well organised in making activities for children with disability; Understand whatever activity is being done, the most important thing is to do it with (not instead of!) a disabled person and to be open to create a personal bonds and friendship with him/her; Will be flexible in communicating with all centre community , and flexible for dealing daily situation.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteering 30-35 h/week ; Meetings with mentor, at least once/month:); You will be part of the group of volunteers at coordinating organization once per/month; Language courses at least 50 academic hours; We provide local transport tickets for public transport in Kaunas; Monthly volunteers’ allowances consists 3eur/day of pocket money and also 110 EUR of food money; Volunteers pay their phone and internet connection fee which may reach ~5.8 EUR/month; One volunteer gets private room in shared apartment/house (3-5 people). Rent and utilities are paid from project money.
⚠️ Requirements
Belgian volunteer required.
We will host any kind of volunteer, but it is very important that the person would be empathetic and tolerant for people with disabilities, also would have motivation to volunteer. Nonetheless it is necessary that the volunteer is sociable, friendly personality, but would be responsible. Creativity and personal hobbies (photography, playing instruments, painting and so on) would be priority but not the main recruitment criterion.
ℹ️ Additional information
This is an European Solidarity Corps project.
You must log in on the ESC portal to join the project.
Any question? Contact the SVI
Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.
Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
SVI_SVE_ESC_KRSP_Lithuania
01/10/2018 → 30/08/2019
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–30 years old
Solidarity donation
0.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Kaunas, Kaunas City Municipality, Lithuania
Lithuania
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
Timezone
Eastern European Standard Time
Local time: 22:11 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken