📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Stowarzyszenie Aktywności Obywatelskiej Bona Fides was founded in 2003 in Katowice, Poland, as an independent, non-profit and politically uninvolved non-governmental Association, to release aid, educational and cultural ventures to support kids and youngsters’s development in the city.
We focus our actions in 4 areas:
- We work to promote education in human rights focusing on civil rights, increasing public information access, public spending control and counteracting for corruption in public Institutions. We fight for the presence of reliable authorities acting transparently and building social dialogue to consider local people’s voice in decision making processes.
- We work to fully include people with disabilities in social and public life, monitoring the accessibility of public administration units in Silesia and asking for changes to guarantee full access to people with motor and sensory disabilities. We boast a long cooperation with local Institutes working with kids and youngsters with mental and physical disabilities and facing social, economic and geographic obstacles and supports the integration of migrants and minorities.
- We run activities to increase the interest of residents in participating in public life and a sense of shared responsibility for the community's fate.
- Bona Fides is involved in Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps Programs to promote solidarity, active European citizenship, enable participants to do social work abroad and acquire skills.
💼 What the programme involves
- Katowice Community Building and Organizing
Research the national composition of the society in Katowice, collection of contacts of local foreigners. Identification of the areas that are more populated with foreigners in the city and research for interested local inhabitants of those areas (Polish and other cultures) to create a group to investigate relevant issues connected to that zone.
- Healthification and Beautification of Katowice
Speaking of healthy, clean and eco-friendly cities in Europe, Katowice is a quite bad example. Topics related to the protection and preservation haven’t developed responsible behavior nor environmental friendly approaches. In this negative scenario, we hope to start bringing up change to sensitize people on the need for personal and community action.
- Sensorial inclusive city Campaign
The idea of this activity derives from our inclusive approach to fight all barriers that are still present in Katowice and in Silesia.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation for our volunteers is always chosen on the basis of its proximity to the office and close to tram and/or bus stops. The city is very well connected as regards public transportation and the services of bike sharing are also widely spread. In any case, the volunteers are always provided with a card for public transport for the whole duration of the mobility. The accommodation we always choose is a flat in quiet and safe areas, with kitchen, toilet and bathroom. Bona Fides covers rent, payment of gas, electricity, water, internet. Every volunteer has his/her own bedroom.
🎒 Leisure activities
On-arrival training, mid-term training, other trainings connected to the topics
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: In our projects we aim at involving youngsters aged 18-30 years old with no distinction of ethnicity, religion, gender,
political orientation, nor economic, geographical, physical, social condition. Participants will be selected on the basis of
their legal residency, not nationality. For volunteers of other residence conditions contacting us, we'll address them to
Partners from their country. We will always try to ensure gender balance in every project, but this won’t be a compulsory
requirement for our final selection.
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.