📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The mission takes place at Unis-Cité Loire in the city of Saint-Etienne.
You will be part of a youth (16-25yo) group of 8 volunteers (working in pairs) for a project called Solidarité Sénior.
On Mondays, you will work on your personal project and from Tuesday to Friday you will either be working with isolated elderly people at home or in retirement homes.
You main mission is to create social bonding, and you will not be required to perform professional acts.
The project is imagined as follows :
Organizing events, games, short outdoor trips
Collect memories and testimonials in order to keep track and share the life experience of the users.
Organize digital workshops (eg. learn and help on how to use a tablet)
Develop social life between the elderly people.
Additionnaly, the volunteer can be proactive and develop the content of his mission by creating animations from scratch.
The project is supervized by a staff member during the whole per
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer will share the flat with 3 others volunteers and he/she will have his own room. The flat is in Saint-Etienne. It is equipped with a fridge, a gas stove, a washing machine, a microwave and internet. The money will be given at the beginning of each month for the purchase of food in addition of pocket money. We will provide to the volunteer a credit phone. And he will have an unlimited transit pass to move in Saint-Etienne.
🎒 Leisure activities
During the first month, the volunteer will have intensive French class with other volunteer. The volunteer will participate to the on-arrival an midterm training organized by National Agency. All project long, the volunteer will particiapte to differents trainings, as SDG's training, as Education for Citizenship and International Solidarity's trainng, etc...
For this project especially the volunteer will have trainings about elder people.
During his project the volunteer will participate to 3 weeks of integration with all other volunteers hosted by Unis-Cité
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: Our project is deliberately general so that the volunteer can appropriate, adapt it to his own person, bring his ideas and flourish fully. It is crucial that the volunteer is interested in working with elder people, but also in teamwork. The volunteer will be immersed with a team of professional and will have to participate or even animate a group of elder people. He must be open-minded and adaptable.
Deadline: No application deadline
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.