ESC: IN MEDIA RESC: Supporting Faros tou Kosmou and the Roma community

Name: ESC: IN MEDIA RESC: Supporting Faros tou Kosmou and the Roma community
Start: 2025-05-28
End: 2025-07-21
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Code: 45873 Copied

Greece European Voluntary Service Social work European Voluntary Service Social work Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteering team will support different hosting organisations in Thessaloniki to support marginalized groups and people with fewer opportunities. Teams will also organise joint online and offline campaigns to address a crucial European priority. Volunteers will support the operation at Faros tou Kosmou foster center for children, in the marginalized Dendropotamos neighborhood on the west part of Thessaloniki and the youth Roma community of Thessaloniki, in activities such as: Support the daily operations of the local after-school activity center, realization of activities for children of the community aged 5-12 years old, in cooperation with social workers, such as handcraft, dance, music, learning sessions and exercise. Support the youth of the Roma community. This group will address the priority “Digital Transformation” and implement events, workshops and online material enforcing youth skills and media literacy, with the opportunity of the World Youth Skills Day on 15 July 2025.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will be accommodated in a fully equipped building located in the city centre (str. Anagnostara 13) near the main bus and train station of the city. It is an autonomous 5 floored building of 150 m2 per floor. There are two living rooms and a big kitchen, showers in the common floors and toilets in every floor. In the building there are also accommodated the volunteers who participate in other projects (up top 35 people in total). Each volunteer will share their room with one-three more people (we have double and big quadruple rooms). City bus and metro card are also provided.

🎒 Leisure activities

Task-related training.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: Volunteers will have to be 18-30 years old and be genuinely interest in the project. The selection of the participants is mostly based on their motivation and interest in the project. Our ideal volunteer candidate is an open minded person willing to learn, to improve herself and to help other people. It is important to be ready to work in a team and to share daily life with people from different backgrounds. Volunteers should be willing to implement activities for children, mostly of young ages. Although it is not required to have a high level of English, the volunteers need to have at least a basic knowledge of the language for their everyday communication and their safety. Volunteers work from Monday to Friday, for a maximum of 30 hours per week. The project is Volunteering Teams and does not exclude you from taking part in long-term or short term individual ESC in the future, always respecting the 12 month total for all projects. Volunteers must participate in the specified dates (arrival and departure) for the full duration.
Deadline: 12/05/2025 23:59

ℹ️ Additional information

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?

Training before and after the project
Health insurance during your project
round-trip travel reimbursement
accommodation and food
pocket money
language course
Return Week-end
Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

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📅 Available sessions

EL45873

28/05/2025 → 21/07/2025

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Deadline: 12/05/2025

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

Thessaloniki, Greece

Greece

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Eastern European Summer Time

Local time: 22:03 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English