📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
""Deaf Festival" is a one monthly team volunteering project that will take place in Thessaloniki between 16.06 till 18.07 of 2023.
The project will host 12 youngsters (deaf, hard of hearing and hearing). Together, we will organize a small informal festival
with the help of local citizens who would like to participate in. With the deaf festival we want to give equal opportunities to young people with fewer opportunities in matters relating to art and culture. Through activities related to culture in general, the different social groups get to know each other better and create communication channels aimed at greater their activity and mobility within the community.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Every participant will stay in a fully equiped shared flat with other volunteers. Also, he/she will receive 150 euros for food. Every participant will have the opportunity to use our bikes for his/her daily transportation.
🎒 Leisure activities
The cooperative "Epomeni Stasi" is a social local business coffee bar where youngsters with disabilities have the opportunity to enter into the labor market in a safe and not such competitive environment. We create a colorful and warm cafe bar in the city center where youngsters, citizens, and tourists have the opportunity to order via "signs" and have an experience of learning and using the greek sign language. We support l
Main activities:
Theater, puppet theater, documentary, music
Graffiti and painting workshops
Organization of urban landscape
Artistic interactive performances
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: This is a very special project for the youngsters as deaf and hard of hearing and hearing youngsters that know sign language or are willing to learn. It is not obligatory for hearing participants to know before the sign language. Also, youngsters from the LGBTIQ community are welcome and refugees too that willing to join the project. Volunteers should be highly motivated to collaborate with youngsters with a disability, to be open-minded, and accept multiculturalism too. This project is based on the principles of solidarity and social economy and volunteers should be aware of these topics.
Deadline: Application deadline: 01/05/2023
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.