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ESC: EMPOWER TOGETHER: Support to people with disabilities (Mora de Rubielos village)

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About the project

ESC: EMPOWER TOGETHER: Support to people with disabilities (Mora de Rubielos village)

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

ATADI (Agrupación Turolense de Asociaciones de personas con Discapacidad Intelectual) is a non-profit entity and is the result of the union of different associations of families with disabled children. This organization was born in 2005 with the aim of create a servicies network to fullfit the neccesities of intelectual disabled people when they become adults. ATADI's mission is to contribute, from it's ethical commitment, with support and opportunities to promote quality of life and inclusion to each person with an intellectual or developmental disability and their families, in a fair and caring society. ATADI's servicies are located in the entire province of Teruel respecting the principle of territoriality, tending to the maintenance of users in their family and social environment, being located as close as possible to their place of residence, avoiding long trips or unnecessary internments. Services are provided throughout the ATADI's centers located in different towns in Teruel province: Teruel, Mora de Rubielos, Cantavieja, Orihuela del Tremedal, Utrillas, Monreal del Campo, Alcorisa, Alcañiz, Andorra and Valderrobres. Services and programs that ATADI develops are: - Sheltered housing: for intellectual disabillity people which good autonomy level who count with the dialy support of professionals. - Day-care centers: day care service aimed at disabled people who require specific support from another person to carry out a large part of the activities of daily living. - Occupational center: day care service whose objective is for users to acquire skills and abilities that enable their social and work integration. - Residences: Temporary or permanent living space within a family environment for disabled people in a situation of dependency, with or without personal autonomy, who for social, family or economic reasons cannot remain in their usual home. - Employment: employment agency, special employment center, employment support servicies. - Adult school. - Other servicies: social work and psycology care. Now a days the organization serves more than 250 adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities mainly, and those other people with disability, dependency, risk of social exclusion or socially disadvantaged that may share our projects and services.

💼 What the programme involves

The objective of the program "Empower together: Disability support volunteering" is to make a contribution to the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities and promote their social inclusion. Volunteers participate in leisure and care activities in different areas: OCCUPATIONAL CENTRE AND DAY CARE CENTRE: Contribute to develop different activities related to therapeutic work, art and crafts, manual labour or healthy lifestyle habits. ASSITED LIVING RESIDENCE: help people taking care of themselves and implement leisure activities. COMMUNITY: participate in events, parties, sports, excursions.... Besides, volunteers will be orientated and supported in order to develop their own leisure initiatives in ATADI. By participating in this program, European volunteers will learn about other realities, about social justice, about barriers and about something exceptional: the diversity of humanity. Note: ATADI will provide days off so volunteers can go on Christmas vacation.

🏠 Accommodation on site

- Accomodation: a shared and rented flat in Mora de Rubielos. - Food: it will be provided by ATADI cook staff or you will receive cash to buy it . - Pocket money: volunteers receive a monthly amount for their private expenses. - Transportation to here and back: ATADI covers the round trip guided by the amounts established by the Program. - Local transport: it is not necessary. However, if transport were necessary for participatation in any volunteer's activity, it would be provided by ATADI and free of charge for the volunteers.

🎒 Leisure activities

- Training: Reception and initial training by the Program Coordinator - Presentation of your ATADI center by the director - Initial training by the Spanish Youth Institute - Intermediate training by the Spanish Youth Institute. - Language course: volunteers will be enrolled at the Public Adult Education center in Spanish lessons. - Follow up: daily accompaniment of your ATADI center by the Director and Staff + availability of assistance and follow-up from the Program Coordinator.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: Person motivated by the work with adult people with intellectual disabilities. - With basic/medium Spanish language knowledge. - Person with social conscience, who promotes equality. Open minded. - Person with initiative to design and lead leisure activities. - With a good attitude towards learning. - Good at team working.
Deadline: 07/08/2024 13:00

ℹ️ Additional information

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?
  • Training before and after the project
  • Health insurance during your project
  • round-trip travel reimbursement
  • accommodation and food
  • pocket money
  • language course
  • Return Week-end
  • Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

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📅 Available sessions

ES41148

04/09/2024 → 01/03/2025

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
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Deadline: 07/08/2024

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

44400 Mora de Rubielos, Teruel, Spain

Spain

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 22:01 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Spanish