📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Cáritas Interparroquial de Tortosa is a non-lucrative, humanitarian, and charity organisation from the Catholic Church. Cáritas Interparroquial has 7 workers and more than 100 volunteers that work in different programs. Cáritas fights against poverty, exclusions, lack of tolerance, and discrimination. It helps people with fewe resources to participate in the issues that concern their own life. Also, people with risk of exclusion are helped by giving them shelter for some days, food and resources in case they have problems with the health. In Cáritas there are different programs and projects focused on the people and their needs. Also, Cáritas offers help with food services (social dining room and month delivery food) and also help to provide clothes in the shop. In addition to this, the organisation cooperates with others organizations in some specific programs for elderly people, children, and also women in need.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be living in a house in the countryside and sharing a room (4-6 persons per room) Common spaces (dining room, kitchen, bathroom, open areas) have to be shared. Pocket money: The volunteers will receive pocket money each month: 5 euros per day. Food: the food will be supplied by the coordinating organization + a basket of ecological and seasonal vegetables from our insertion company. Transport: if necessary, the volunteer will be offered a second-hand bike. Volunteers can go walking to the project or go by bike.
🎒 Leisure activities
- The first week the volunteers will have a "welcome week" - On arrival and mid-term training provided by the Spanish National Agency - Cultural presentation during the first months of volunteering. - Catalan language course - Cleaning day - Activities of knowledge of the territory - Complementary training and activities during the project will be organized.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: • Flexible • Good values and not superficial or materialistic • Calm and friendly, with a good sense of humour • Open-minded and not so strict with themselves • Healthy volunteers • Experience in social work (homeless, risk or exclusion, etc.) • Basic knowledge of Spanish and interested in learning Catalan. Avoid Aggressive people; Non-mature people (someone who arrives late, or doesn't care about the work of treating people, or taking drugs, drinking alcohol in the project and with the users...); People who don’t read the project details.
Deadline: Application deadline: 18/03/2022
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.