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ESC: I want to hold your hand - volunteer work at Hold My Hand Foundation

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About the project

ESC: I want to hold your hand - volunteer work at Hold My Hand Foundation

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

Our Foundation works with adult mentally disabled people. It operates two main services, one is the therapy- and work-related daycare centre, the other is living opportunity for the clients in a residental house. The key words describing our work is normalising, autonomy, acceptance. We would like to host volunteers, who are openminded, treat people equally, strife against prejudism. The project focuses mainly to help our clients improve their skills, their knowledge through leisure activities. We would like therefore to host one volunteer in our Daycare Centre and one volunteer in the Residental Home. We organise many integrated projects with students from gym In this project you can meet with people who has intellectual disabilities, but their hearts are so big and open. We used to have other volunteers from abroad and they always asking when will come the new member..so we are waiting for you! At here you can join the workshops we have and also go and have fun together with them!

🏠 Accommodation on site

We rent a 3 rooms apartmant near the centre of the city of Pécs, where the volunteers can live. Every month we give money or food, what the volunteer can spend for food and other products, she/he needs. Things for the apartmant the Foundation can supply, also other things once in awhile. The volunteer gets mobile phone with simcard, but mainly use for work (with limited internet access). We provide buspass for use to travel around the city. There is a bycicle, which can be used by the volunteer also.

🎒 Leisure activities

The sending organisation organises training for the volunteer before she/he leaves. The receiving organisation have meetings and discussions after arrival to make sure the volunteer understands everything about the program and the project. The volunteer is asked to participate on arrival meeting and halfway meeting organised and implemented by the National Agency of Hungary. If possible, we like our volunteers to participate other trainings also, and even training after going home, when the project ends.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We would like our volunteers to be openminded and socially sensitive. We work with adult mentally disabled people, who are some ways act differently as "normal" people. Sometimes they don't look so nice. On the other hand they feel, if people don't accept them. We would like, that the volunteer would be capable of accepting our clients and treat them, as they would treat any other persons without disability. We don't await the volunteer to have experience from this field, but we would like, that she/he would be willing to learn from our professional helpers.
Deadline: Application deadline: 26/03/2023

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.

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📅 Available sessions

HU33907

01/03/2023 → 29/02/2024

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
♂ 0/1 ♀ 0/1
Deadline: 26/03/2023

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

Pécs, Kovács Béla u. 10, 7634 Hungary

Hungary

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Hungary Forint (HUF / Ft)

Exchange rate

1 HUF = 0.002768 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 22:07 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Hungarian