📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Talsi Region Community Foundation`s missin is to develop the traditions of charity activities as well as to promote the development of Talsi and the region while supporting public benefit projects and positive social change of the society. The foundation is the first Community Foundation in Latvia, founded on 24 Febrauary 2003. Community Foundation is an independent organization that serves for a braod public benefit purposes, collecting donations form local contributors to fund the local citizens` projects. The main idea is that funds are donated by our own poeaple to reach the objectives that are important to the local community.
The main reasons why Talsi Region Community Foundation is special is because it attracts funds from local sources – from local citizens and enterprises, as well as it organizes project contests with aim to serve to a broad public benefit purposes.
The Foundation projects are operating in fixed territory – in districts of Talsi, Dundaga, Roja and Mersrags.
Talsi Region Community Foundation is working not only for today's needs but also for our society future. The Foundation is gradually forming the inviolable capital, and from the incomes (which are made from the percent of inviolable capital) Foundation is planning to finance some more finance public benefit projects in the future.
💼 What the programme involves
The Volunteer will work at the children’s daycare center. Their job will be making all kinds of activities, playing with children after school has ended till their bus home, English and their own language lessons, and making cultural exchange evenings. Also helping with some projects at Talsi Region Community Foundation. Volunteers will promote the initiatives that the European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus+ address to young people.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation and Food: volunteer will live in a flat, all included. The volunteers will have pocket money for their food. Transport: outward and return tickets will be reimbursed up to the budget limit according to the Erasmus+ distance calculator. Insurance: volunteers will be insured (Cigna insurance).
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteer will receive on-arrival training with other volunteers doing their project in Latvia as well as mid-term training.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: Volunteers should like the idea of living in a small town. Volunteers should be: aged 18-30; interested in working with children; willing to actively participate in making creative activities, English lessons, and playing games with children; open-minded, sociable, playful, creative, and flexible.
Deadline: Application deadline: 10/02/2023
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.