📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Association Alfa Albona is a non-profit and non-political association of young people, established in January 2011. to promote the interests and activities of youth. The objectives of the association are: encouraging the development of creativity of young people, guiding them towards the acquisition of additional skills and knowledge, encouraging them into organized and meaningful use of leisure time, expanding volunteerism, solidarity and communication among young people, encouraging non -institutional education of young people in all areas, integration of youth in international educational and cultural trends, protecting the health of young people and especially the fight against all forms of addiction, IT education of young people, encouraging young people to an active involvement and participation in all spheres of public and social life, building partnerships with non-governmental youth organizations and local governments to achieve goals for the benefit of youth. Our target groups are young people aged 15 till 30 years old who differ in gender, ethnicity, religion, lifestyle, experience and education level, have different cultural and economic background. We are focused on young people with fewer possiblities and we work local, regional, national and international. Our main fields of work are: youth information work, mobility of young people and social entrepreneurship. We are constantly active in promoting volunteerism, non-formal education and EU citizenship.
💼 What the programme involves
Project is focused on non formal education in the context of environmental and cultural education with a combination of different activities in order for participants to gain knowledge and to be able to share and express their views, experiences and opinions related to the project’s theme. Volunteers will be helping from May till August with cleaning Alfa Albona summer camp area (cutting the grass, making more places for the tents), maintaning the field (preparing the field for the camp), putting up the tents, building the outdoor facilities and outdoor activities place,... Apart from that, in days that we have groups of young people, volunteers will be helping with animation of the groups, organizing activities, animation, preparing the meals (cooking) and serving, cleaning, help with hiking trips, water activities, etc. In September, October and November volunteers will be helping in organizing youth activities and workshop, doing photos, help with social media...
🏠 Accommodation on site
Alfa Albona will provide an appropriate accommodation in the town, in the shared flat with other volunteers but when implementing the summer camp then volunteers will be placed in the summer camp Tunarica in their own tent while the other facilities will be shared. Food is provided, pocket money, health insurance, travel, visa, flat and utilities, materials for working,...
🎒 Leisure activities
During the project all the volunteers will have paid visa costs, flat and utilities, and they will be provided by croatian language course, but also other education: such as non formal education, life and social skills and other education / workshops that will be implemented during various projects and activities of the organization. There is a possiblity to have more educations, depending on the organization projects at that time.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: Volunteers should be: *age 18 – 30 *mature to work and to relate to other young people with fewer opportunities and willing to develop activities with sense of responsibility *have good knowledge of english language *be ready to accept challenges *autonomus but also willing to work in the group *be ready for the harder manual work in the summer camp *willing to share the space of living with other volunteers *able to organize his/her own free time *....
Deadline: Application deadline: 22/03/2022
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.