📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
AMICOS, Association for the Care and Integration of People with Intellectual Disabilities, Autism, Paralysis or Brain Damage and Their Families.
We are a non-profit entity, founded in 2010, whose mission is to provide service and support to ensure that every person with intellectual disability, autism, cerebral palsy-damage and their families can develop their life project, with the aim of achieving their inclusion as a full citizen in a just and supportive society.
Its founding purposes include promoting actions, supports and resources that facilitate the training and labour integration of people with intellectual disabilities, autism, cerebral palsy-damage, promoting volunteering, both nationally and Europeanly, in order to promote teamwork and solidarity, and to spread the culture of European unity, in order to create ties that bring us closer to the different European cultures and the different problems and realities of people with disabilities throughout Europe. For this purpose he develops pedagogical activities, psychomotority and rehabilitation, occupational workshops, social inclusion activities through leisure and sport, music therapy... through its structure in 4 areas: Education (under 21 years), People (over 21 years), Enterprises (job training and job inclusion), and Transformation (innovation projects, mainly associated to environmental concern, environment protection and care).
We have been participating in Erasmus+ projects since 2017.
💼 What the programme involves
Amicos.org is a non-profit association created in 2000 to provide support services to people with intellectual disabilities and their families in the region of O Barbanza, in Boiro (Galicia). It currently has 200 partners and develops projects in different fields, to promote social inclusion within a life plan of people with disabilities, promoting training, facilitating employability and making them participants and leaders in actions for the preservation of natural and cultural heritage.
The project "GREEN FUTURE, INCLUSION AND SOLIDARITY" is a project of Amicos.org offering 2 places to develop activities for 6 months.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accomodation will be in Boiro, in a flat with individual rooms for the volunteers. In addition, the apartment has kitchen, living room and two bathroom.
During the stage, the volunteer shall share the apartament with another participant in the ESC programme.
We will arrange daily transport to and from Amicos facilities, where activities take place (monday to friday).
Amicos CAI (main facilities) will offer the lunch during volunteer hours in the association where all Amicos staff eat.
🎒 Leisure activities
Are you interested in learning social innovation projects management, fundraising strategies and practical work. We develop training programs to help people with disabilities get a job, so you can learn with us how those training programmes are designed and implemented, and how we support people during internships and job practices. Your tutor will guide you through our programmes, and you will become part of the team. You may also receive training in digital marketing, digital design.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: No previous experience required. If you have previously worked with disabled people it will be better.
Proactive, commited to your tasks.
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.