📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The goal of the "How to Create Community" project is to create an inspired and motivated youths who are active participants in creating their dream life. The project aims to offer a sense of solidarity and belonging through loving, respectful and participatory community practices and which responds to the problems of the day by becoming an example of sustainable living and by reaching out to the surrounding community with a neighbourly spirit and a willingness to share.
Through immersion in the yoga lifestyle and through engagement with self-developing practises we will dive in living together, growing food, becoming more self-sufficient, hosting events and reaching out to the surrounding community the project will help develop a broad range of skills, capacities and positive values in the volunteers.
The project opportiunities:
1. One year volunteering for two participants from Portugal and one from Italy.
2. Two months volunteering for 3 participats from Italy and 4 from France.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will take place in Paúl village in the volunteer house of Ananda Marga. Each volunteer will have shared room with one or maximum two more participants. There are shared bathrooms for each room. For those that like and want more adventure experience we can offer accommodation on the camping area includes outdoor showers (with hot water), dry toilets and an outdoor kitchen, during the summer time.
Food will be provided by the hosting organisation regarding to the healthier practises but of course each volunteer is free to have whatever they desire.
🎒 Leisure activities
During their activity volunteers will integrate with the life and work of the community. The volunteers will create events to promote volunteering around the area of Covilhã. They will be encourage to explore their creativity and merge with the local population understanding their needs and dreams.
The project includes an experiential learning activity which immerses participants in a multicultural environment focused on living in community, daily yoga and meditation, performing practical tasks associated with living sustainably and serving the wider local community.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: The volunteers will be selected based on their inspiration, skills and talents matching the activities of the project and who show a great deal of enthusiasm for the lifestyle and values of the project. Our aim is to host as much as possible volunteers with merganised background and families or region with fewer opportunities.
Volunteers will be encouraged to engage themselves in various aspects of the project and find which area suits them best. They will be as well encouraged to choose a personal project, that may bring further development of the community and local area.
Deadline: Application deadline: 01/06/2022
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.