Come in Lithuania with the Arche Community ! (EVS/ESC)

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Lithuania Culture People with disabilities European Voluntary Service Culture People with disabilities +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The project #glocal invites you to explore the interconnectedness between the local and the global, to promote solidarity and active citizenship by volunteering in a specific hosting organization, participating in and organizing solidarity events, creating eco-postcards, etc. Join!

Kaunas L’Arche community is a small faith-based community of friendship and mutuality between people with intellectual disability and those who assist them. Community life, spirituality and professionalism are the desired basis of our organization. The community operates as a day center and living home. You would mainly volunteer in the day center.

💼 What the programme involves

Main Aims :

To reveal the gifts of people with or without disabilities through close and communal relationships

To help people with disabilities to be a valued part of the community and wide society

Volunteer's tasks :

To assist persons with intellectual disabilities in daily routine and tasks, in the kitchen, garden, home works, handcrafts, sports, trips, celebrations, journeys, talks, games

To communicate and discover the person and his/her personality and let yourself to be discovered

To collaborate with the team of assistants

According to your skills, desires and the need of the community – to participate in the outreach, fundraising, creating promoting videos, making photos, decorating.