ESC: Gender Specialist Volunteer in Peru (Abancay) -- Humanitarian Vol.

Name: ESC: Gender Specialist Volunteer in Peru (Abancay) -- Humanitarian Vol.
Start: 2025-01-06
End: 2025-07-01
Location: Abancay, Peru

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Peru European Voluntary Service Social work European Voluntary Service Social work Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

The volunteer will support healing activities from a community, decolonial & feminist approach, promoting the network of healers & self-managed replicas carried out by APRODEH in the Southern Andes. He/she will also have the opportunity to participate in the processes of strategic & political strengthening of popular women's organizations, communities, feminist collectives and LGBTIQ+ collectives, favouring the intersectional articulation of agendas at the macro-regional level. The volunteer will support actions that seek to: Care for the emotional health of women (rural women defenders, urban feminists, survivors of violence and LBTIQ+ people) from processes of healing and community care. / Accompanying the construction of a network of women healers based on the appropriation of the process. / Systematising the healing and care proposal in order to reflect on it in academic and institutional spaces and influence mental health and care policies in the country.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Abancay has all the basic services: internet, medical care, markets, good restaurants, discotheques, sports facilities... The volunteer will live in secure accommodation identified by APRODEH with all the basic requirements and will receive a monthly subsistence allowance of 650 € to cover food expenses. The working hours are from 9:00am - 1:00pm and from 3:00pm - 6:00 pm (40 hours per week). The volunteer will participate in the preparation and execution of some activities that involve travel for 2 to 3 days to some provinces of both Cusco and Apurimac.

🎒 Leisure activities

Volunteers will improve their professional knowledge through training in humanitarian action, and specific issues on security, gender, psychosocial support and will be provided with training resources to continue their learning. Those selected will receive briefings/training at MdM headquarters in Madrid with the different departments related to the mission and the position, as well as mandatory online training on environmental issues before they start their field work. Training sessions will take place both in the countries of the supporting organisations and in of the host organisations.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: Minimum requirements: Professional in psychology / Knowledge of the gender and intersectional approach in their professional activity / Experience in the development of feminist healing strategies or in the construction of community networks or in feminist activism / Previous experience as a volunteer / Social sensitivity and empathy / Ability to synthesise and write / Ability to work in a team / Fluent in spoken and written Spanish / Organisational skills / Ideally with knowledge of the Peruvian or Latin American context.
Deadline: 20/10/2024 23:59

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.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

PE39565

06/01/2025 → 01/07/2025

Closed

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Deadline: 20/10/2024

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

Abancay, Peru

Peru

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Peru Nuevo Sol (PEN / S/.)

Exchange rate

1 PEN = 0.262474 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Peru Standard Time

Local time: 22:10 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

Aymara English Quechua Spanish