📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The project involves 2 Bulgarian, 2 partner country volunteers and 6 EU member country volunteers. Its goal is to support the Permaculture Association of Bulgaria which is formally represented by the Green School Village. The Association unites the Permaculture Design Certificate holders based in the country and their projects. Some of them are teachers, other consultants, third develop the so called LAND centres - demonstration centres for Permaculture. In this project you will be helping those candidates for accreditation in their development through activities with the local community and its nature. You will be gardening, writing a blog, interviewing locals and designers, taking Bulgarian language classes, writing a project, helping with the creation of teaching materials for Permaculture, creating a seed library for the villages you will work in, clean mountain trails and paths, help the local municipality in promoting sustainability, make Permaculture designs and signs/infoboards
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be divided in smaller groups and rotate between different locations - candidates for LAND centres and sometimes the base of the Association. In those places you will be accommodated in houses with self-catering kitchens, bathrooms, toilets, Internet, heating and shared rooms. You will get a bike and eventually a car (depending on your hosts/supervisors ability to provide one). The hosting organization will help you organize your travel to and from Bulgaria from/to your home country. Food is either organized by your hosts or you. The project is open for young Ukranian refugees as well.
🎒 Leisure activities
If you face fewer opportunities (e.g. you are a refugee, migrant, asylum seeker, face geographical, economical, social or cultural challenges in your life) you can get a Permaculture Design Course with certificate. In exchange you will be helping the Association's teachers by providing them with designed and created by you teaching materials.
There will be a pre-departure and on-arrival trainings delivered by your hosting organization. The Bulgarian National Agency usually organize an on-arrival and mid-term evaluation trainings, and you might be attending one of them too.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: GSV is looking for people that are ready to explore a new topic - the Permaculture design and experiment with it. It is important to be pro-active, responsible, a team player and eager to share time and energy for a good cause. To be a volunteer means to give and help from your heart. Volunteering is an informal way of learning, so be prepared to self-organize and take own initiative. Supervisors will be helping you locally and coordinators remotely, but you need to make sure you give 6 hours per day 5 days week to deliver the needed outcomes by following the weekly activities set by your host
Deadline: No application deadline
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.