📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
YFU Flanders (Belgium) is offering an internship starting September 1st 2022 until August 31st 2023.
YFU Flanders organizes Cultural Games (in Flemish: “Cultuurspelen”) in local communities in the entire Flanders region to promote intercultural awareness among children and youth.
Main task package:
● Planning:
○ Communication with daycare and youth organisations to organize the details with the contact person (date, location, size and age of participant group, preferred game) and book the Cultural Games sessions.
○ Recruit and assign jobstudents to lead the Cultural Games.
○ Prepare the required sets of Cultural Games materials for the jobstudents to pick up at the office and use in the Cultural Games sessions with the children.
● Participation:
○ Sporadically, take part in games.
● Follow-up:
○ Keep track of the filled-in evaluation and registration forms returned by the jobstudents.
○ Help to create new games and improve existing games.
🏠 Accommodation on site
● You will receive a monthly food allowance (225€) and monthly pocket money (125€).
● We will pay for your language course, and you will be able to take part in Online Linguistic Support.
● We will get you a bus pass.
● You will be living in a student accommodation nearby the YFU Flanders office together with other ESC volunteers doing projects in the area.
● YFU Flanders reimburses your transportation costs to travel to locations where Cultural Games take place.
🎒 Leisure activities
Internship will include on-the-job training for Cultural Games task package and language training to master Flemish/Dutch asap.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: ● Mastering the Dutch language quickly is essential for your communication tasks. Of course, we will sponsor your enrolment in a language course on your arrival in Flanders. If you speak Dutch or German already then we are very interested in hearing from you!
● Volunteers having experience with intercultural exchange of any type, and who are experienced in working with children or teenagers, or have teaching abilities, are the ideal candidates.
Deadline: Application deadline: 01/07/2022
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.