📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The APJC is an association that has been offering activities for all publics for 54 years, especially for young people.
The APJC promotes the values of solidarity, openness to the world, access to rights and culture, democracy and respect for human dignity. It is a place of conviviality and active participation of the members, in particular thanks to thematic commissions, places of participation and decision making.
The team is made up of 18 employees and nearly 40 volunteers who work together for the empowerment of residents.
The APJC concentrates its actions in two poles, the leisure pole and the social action pole.
The leisure sector includes :
- leisure activities, cultural and artistic activities from the age of 3 until 99 (theatre, singing, plastic arts, hip-hop, etc.) run by professionals employees or volunteers ;
- cultural events (shows, concerts, exhibitions, etc.) chosen and organised with the participation of residents and members.
The social action sector includes :
- support for rights and parenthood, specifically for people and families in precarious or fragile situations (individual and collective information and support, socialisation and initiative-taking spaces)
- support for schooling, for children aged 6 to 17;
- support for families for their first holiday resort.
The APJC shares the values of all the structures that make up the networks to which it is affiliated: the Federation of Social Centers of the county of Seine-Saint-Denis and the Regional Federation of Youth and Cultural Centres of Ile de France.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteer's mission is centered around two main axes :
1. Promoting european mobility & citizenship through organizing meetings, facilitating new ECS missions with young people from this structure, organizing cultural events; in cooperation with the coordinator.
2. Participating to the elaboration of cultural, playful, and educational activities towards teenagers on friday evenings and saturday afternoons outside of holiday periods, and from mondays to fridays during holidays.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer will be housed in a house (with a garden), and may be flatmate to 4 to 5 other volunteers.
The volunteer can be lent a bike for transportation.
The monthly allowance includes all food and first necessity expanses, and a subscription to an unlimited transportation card for all of Île-de-France (including Paris)
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteer will be granted access to the OLS platform in order to improve their french skills.
If the volunteer has difficulties to speak basic french, APJC can provide french classes.
The volunteer will discover and experiment the missions of an animator.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: We are looking for a motivated and curious person, who likes human contact, particularly with teenagers and young adults (11 to 25 years old).
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.