📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
With our Slovenian partner, you will do many different activities aiming at helping the local community. Amongst others, here are some tasks you could do with them: help people in need, help local eco farmers, organize workshops for kids, help in an animal shelters, help local charities, participate in local cultural events, clean overgrown terraces and paths, organize clean-up actions and much more…
You will work 5 hours a day, 5 days a week. Sundays and Mondays are free.
We regularly have vacancies for this project. If you want to know if this partner is currently looking for volunteers, please get in touch with us.
More generally, with the BOost project, Eastpackers can send you abroad for an enriching ESC experience in one of the 7000 approved organizations spread across all EU Member States and the EU's neighboring countries (helping you before, during and after your mobility).
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation: You will stay in a volunteer center in Kastelec village. There are simple shared rooms with 22 beds (3 rooms for 2 volunteers, 1 for 4 volunteers and 2 for 6 volunteers), 3 shared toilets and showers, big kitchen, living room, relaxation room and beautiful surroundings. Behind the house, there is a basketball court, a fireplace, a slackline...
Food: There are three vegetarian meals per day and a fridge where you can get snacks anytime.
Transport: Your transport to different locations during your volunteering hours will be taken care of by your hosting organization.
🎒 Leisure activities
With us, before departure:
- We make sure that you participate in a preparatory training day in the Netherlands (free of charge: we pay for your travel costs for this training).
- If you want, we can also help you write a convincing motivation letter and a good resume in English.
With the hosting organization:
- As a volunteer, you will get mandatory training courses organized by the National Agency of your hosting country (on arrival and mid-term training).
- Depending on the organization, you may also get extra trainings during your project.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: You are between 18 and 30 years old // You are available for at least five months (in exceptional cases, shorter placements are also possible; ask for the options available) // ESC is not an internship or part of a formal training, hence you cannot do an ESC project to comply with an obligation from your study program // You live in the Netherlands // You have never done another long term ESC volunteering project (more than 2 months) // You are motivated and curious to meet new people and discover another country, another culture // You are interested in non-formal education.
Deadline: Application deadline: 20/02/2023
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.