📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Internationaler Bund Polska (IB Polska) is a foundation established in Krakow at the turn of 2004 and 2005. The founder is a German organisation Internationaler Bund Freier Traeger der Jugend-Sozial und Bildungsarbeit e.V. from Frankfurt am Main. The main goals of the foundation are: helping people to develope themselves in different areas and planning their own future life, to integrate with the society, to be responsible for themselves and to be an active citizens whose are helping to develope local communities and society. Foundation tries to stimulate to action for the benefit of the individual as well as the whole society in order to support and build mutual international understanding and cooperation. The target groups are children, teenagers, young adults, seniors, people with disabilities and fewer opportunities.
IB Polska carries out statutory goals by initiation and supporting local and international programmes based on the social, economical, and political phenomena including education, culture, environmental protection, healthcare, social assistance and vocational and social rehabilitation.
As the coordinating organisation Internationaler Bund Polska cooperates with local and foreign organisations as well as local governments. Every year we are trying to extend our activities focusing on actual needs and social problems. This way we are able to develope our local communities and to let them grown and be more active and aware of current possibilities and tools.
💼 What the programme involves
Project "Be Eco-logical" is created for young people between 18 and 30 years old to give them opportunity to participate in the international long-term voluntary experience in Poland. At the moment we are looking for 4 volunteers from EU countries, who would like to join our team of volunteers starting activities in September and stay with us for at least 10 months. They will be working in: the kindergardens, primary school in Krakow and secondary school near Krakow. Their maun tasks will be supporting teachers and assistants during their classes, creating activities for children, sharing knowledge about other cultures. They will also involved in promotion of the ESC programme through events for local communities and activities prepared by volunteers themselves. Important part of the project is cooperation with people with disabilities, lower opporunities, excluded from the society.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Our volunteers live in one of the flat rented by us for this purpose. Those flats are close to the working places and easy to get to the public transport. There are usually 3-5 people in one flat. Rooms are single or with two beds. There is always common bathroom and kitchen, which is equipped in all needed stuff. Volunteers get pocket money which is 4€ per day and additionaly a food allowance. We transfer those money to the bank account. They get also cards for the public transport in Krakow.
🎒 Leisure activities
Before going to Poland, volunteers have to be prepared for the project by the suuporting organisation from the volunteer's country. Volunteers participate in the trainings offered by the Polish National Agency: on-arrival training and mid-term evaluation meeting. There are also trainings offered by the hosting organisations, based on the volunteer's needs in the project, communication, evaluation. As coordinatong organisation we are offering trainings and meetings based on the main topic of the project and also topics choosen by volunteers.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We are looking for young people motivated to take part in the European Solidarity Corps projects and ready to spend 10 monhts in Poland. We are not looking for people with particular skills, just open-minded, communicative, creative and ready to share knowledge about their culture with others.
If you are interested, please fulfil the form:
https://forms.gle/kM2wc1fq75a21aWz6
Deadline: Application deadline: 31/05/2022
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.