📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Lyhty ry is a non-profit association founded in 1993. Lyhty ry's ethical goal is to promote the well-being of developmentally disabled individuals, their families, and the whole society. Lyhty ry organises accommodation and housing services, a learning environment for young adults, inclusive work and day activities in textile, outdoors, culture, café, media, music and general workshops, events, and cultural and recreational activities. Lyhty ry examines and modifies its activities in order to reach its ethical goal, and is therefore an innovative and active participant in social development. Lyhty has received approximately three volunteers per year for over 20 years. We expanded our volunteering programme in 2020 by receiving 10 volunteers every year from all over Europe through the European Solidarity Corps programme. The aim of Lyhty's volunteer project is to improve the status of developmentally disabled people in our society, promote understanding and solidarity between different cultures, and offer the volunteer an opportunity to learn about care work. Working with Lyhty often affects your value system and might clarify your future plans. Many volunteers become interested in care work, particularly in the field of developmental disabilities. Here is a link about volunteering in Lyhty Assosiation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0jLoip_eVs
💼 What the programme involves
We are looking for a volunteer to work in a café workshop. Café Workshop IPI provides adults with intellectual disabilities a day and workplace in the café area. The café workshop started in the beginning of 2013. The Café Workshop offers a wide variety of jobs for people with intellectual disabilities who require different support and educational backgrounds, such as cash register work and desk cleaning. The aim of the café workshop is to find meaningful activities for each workshop that matches their skills. The Lyhdy Café Workshop is located in the premises of Ipi Kulmakuppila in Kallio and the Café Puhuri in Lauttasaari. The Preparation Team is based in Konala, Helsinki. Through working with people with intellectual disabilities, their involvement with the local community and society is increasing.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteer is accommodated in one of Lyhty’s housing buildings and will be sharing a room/house with other volunteers. Meals and transport are arranged through Lyhty.
🎒 Leisure activities
The job includes customer service and cooking tasks in the cafeteria service as well as basic tasks in the café service.
The role of the volunteer is to act as a mentor for the intellectual disabled with the help, support and with other workers. Working hours on weekdays 9-16. The volunteers will have a mentor working with him/her trough the year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0jLoip_eVs
The project lasts for 12 months.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: Good social skills and motivation to work with people with special needs are important. The work can be dynamic at times and requires such mentality. It is important to have the motivation to learn Finnish language.The basic tasks of a café workshop include maintaining general cleanliness, self-monitoring, ordering, receiving and storing goods, and dishwashing and washing. Good interaction skills, which are practiced alongside the work, are important in café work.
The role of the volunteer is to act as co-mentor with the mentors.
Deadline: Application deadline: 31/12/2037
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.