📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
„Wiatrak” Foundation is a public benefit organisation hiring around 30 employees. Its main idea is implementing the teaching of John Paul II, treating about human's development in four dimensions: physical, mental, intelectual and spiritual. Here every person, no matter what age, health condition or life situation, can broaden their knowledge, develop their talents and discover the joy of being a gift for others. „Wiatrak” is an interdyscyplinar, prodevelopment education-cultural institution, which, empowered by the values coming from St. John Paul II's life and its team's engagement, brings it to the good and enables living the fuller life, thanks to the conscious, effective education, spiritual and psychological support, caring about each dimension of a man's development.
There are around 3 thousand people annualy using the Foundation's offer:
a) disabled - rehab sessions, art therapy, social therapy, physiotherapy, support group - Workshop Therapy Centre and day care centre Interart by „Wiatrak”
b) people in need - using volunteer's help, material support and „Wiatrak” counseling
c) children and youth - afterschool classes (language, science, sport, art, dance and music classes); summer and winter camps; „Pinokio” day care centre (care'advisory classes, social therapy, educational and integration classes)
d) seniors - Third Age University and Senior's Club „Wiatrak” - workshops, culture trips, themed lectures etc.
e) kindergarteners - „U Karolka” kindergarten
f) adults- sport, dance and music classes, nutritional consultations
g) families- meetings and workshops on family topics
The local community participates also in festivals, contests, lectures, shows, concerts and film sessions organised in the Foundation.
European Solidarity Corps' volunteers will help in organising activities for the local community and in integrating and supporting the target groups.
💼 What the programme involves
The theme of the project is a series of cultural and educational activiites conducted in the open air by European volunteers along with national volunteers. The task of volunteers is to organize and conduct gatherings with children and teenagers in the backyards of Bydgoszcz. Groups of volunteers will animate games and activities, they'll also prepare presentations about their culture. During activities with children and young people "Wiatrak" Foundation wants to promote different cultures.
Other goal of the project is also to reduce language and cultural barriers, combat stereotypes relations with foreign culture, promote active recreation and volunteering, especially international.
Watch a short clip from previous edition of the project “Eurobackyards 9 and 10”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbMDv_XIbVk&t=20s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcB5CTYHMjk
🏠 Accommodation on site
"Wiatrak" Foundation provides the volunteers with the living place
Volunteers will have the chance to integrate while sharing rooms with each other in the same building. The kitchen and bathrooms will also be shared.
The pocket-money, boarding money, transportation card, accommodation and travel costs will be provided by Foundation.
🎒 Leisure activities
"Wiatrak" Foundation organizes an introductory workshop for the volunteers as they arrive (introduction to the Foundation, meet the whole team, know of the role of participants, coordinators and mentors etc.). Facilitators and mentor prepare city game to get to know Bydgoszcz.
Lessons of Polish can be organized for the volunteers, to make their everyday life in Poland easier.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: • Volunteers who are MOTIVATED, open-minded and creative,
• Volunteers who would like to teach children and young people about their culture,
• Volunteers who are open to other people and for new experiences,
• Volunteers who shows initiative and helps others when they need it, SUPPORTIVE is the quality we appreciate very much,
• Volunteers who can dance and play with polish children
• All the points mentioned above are appreciated.
Deadline: Application deadline: 31/05/2022
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.