📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Forest School pedagogical activities for children of pre-primary school age support the development process through free play, respectful care and outdoors activities. These activities offer small children regular opportunities to achieve and develop confidence through hands-on learning in a woodland environment.
Development of personal and social skills through the use of artistic tools; support educational activity using free and
empowering integrative artistic expression; cooperation with people with disabilities and socially isolated old people; co-
creation, development of pedagogical and playful strategies using natural materials.
Create a community design of the farm based on permaculture and sociocracy principles. Implement the design on the
farm and in the local community to boost sustainability and resilience. The core of the work is in the area of agroforestry
and organic maintenance of the flora and fauna and includes improving support structures.
🏠 Accommodation on site
- Accommodation: volunteers will be accommodated in a house close to their place of work. They will share the house with the other project volunteers (if there are any). Each of the volunteers will have a private room, and they will share a bathroom, kitchen, and social facilities. Laundry facilities will be provided as well.
- Food: On working days, the volunteers will have lunch with the farm staff. For the other meals (breakfast, dinner, and
non-working days) volunteers will receive a food allowance.
- Transport: We will provide volunteers with a bibicycle.
🎒 Leisure activities
- Knowledge of foreign languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English, as well as other languages they’ll come across during the course of the project.
- Knowledge of Portuguese culture - traditions, heritage, fauna and flora, handicrafts, among other cultural expressions from Portugal and Alto Alentejo region;
- Green attitudes - sustainable consumption choices, ethical cooking, natural building, and gardening.
- Personal skills - participants can develop an ability to deal with an increasingly plural and diverse world, as self-
empowerment, self-esteem, self-knowledge.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: Pleople who has:
- Kindergarden training or experience
- Ourdoors children activities instructors
- Motivation to work with very young children in outdoors activities.
- Motivation to adapt to a rural and inland context;
- Sensitivity to issues of multiculturalism, diversity, inclusion and community work;
- Sensitivity to issues of sustainability, ecological and environmental education;
- Willingness to learn Portuguese, practice English, as well as sharing your own native language, in an informal and peer learning process;
We will give priority to people with fewer opportunities.
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.