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ESC: It's Time to Volunteer-Portugal

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About the project

ESC: It's Time to Volunteer-Portugal

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Sorgun Youth Organization was established to carry out activities on soscial, education, health and sports fields, to contribute to improving youth poicies, to enable solidarity and help among young people, to encourage their spirit of entrepreneurship, to help them gain knowledge and skills on such topics, to contribute to the disadvantaged young people like those who are disabled to be integrated into society. Our organization which discovers the fact that the young people are the most important individuals and which aims to bring together the young people with different skills and create a great synergy and aims to enable young people to be involved in the society and enable the society to benefit from the young people more was established with the name “Sorgun Youth Organization” in the district Sorgun in 2014 Before our organization became a legal institute, it started with an informal group which was initiated with a few young people and managed to Access many young people in a very short time. Our organization which in time becomes a great asset by bringing together volunteers working for a divine purpose and involving many young people from different age groups, expands its impact and tries to increase the number of projects in which it is involved as partners actively.

💼 What the programme involves

▶️ Volunteering Period: 40 Days (25/08/2025 - 03/10/2025) This is an Individual volunteering project, funded by the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) Programme. It gives young people with fewer opportunities the chance to volunteer with the Red Cross in Portugal for different periods of time. Volunteers are hosted in two different places: - Vila de Cucujães - Oliveira de Azeméis Social Assistance and Access to Welfare Services Social Assistance and Counselling Food Bank Clothing Bank & Solidarity Shop Intervention Program for People Struggling with Addictions Youth and Volunteering Environmental Education Activities Youth Summer Camps Intergenerational and Community Activities Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will receive a daily allowance of approximately 10€ which includes pocket money and food allowance - approximately 330€ per completed month. The payment will be made to the volunteers at the beginning of every month, preferably by bank transfer. All volunteers share an apartment equipped with basic appliances, furniture, towels & bed linen, water, gas, electricity and Wi-Fi. Bedrooms and bathrooms are shared. Each bedroom will be allocated to 2 or 3 volunteers - it is not possible to have a single bedroom.

🎒 Leisure activities

Activities for Youth at Risk: Volunteers carry out activities with young people between 12 and 22 years old that live in a Residential Facility. These are young people at risk, that come from very difficult family backgrounds. Volunteers support them in their school work, in gardening & sustainability workshops, with English Classes, arts and crafts activities, and help workers to monitor them Food Bank: ALL volunteers take part in food bank in supermarkets, collecting and storing food donations Environmental activities: These are related to cleaning up actions that the Red Cross organizes

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: Volunteers must be between 18-30 years old, must be able to communicate in ENGLISH language and shouldn’t have participated in ESC long-term volunteering projects abroad before. Ideally... Volunteers should be practical, “hands on”, people who like to get their “hands dirty” and helping in what is needed Volunteers should be open minded and adaptable to new context (languages and cultures) and the challenging surroundings Volunteers should be willing to learn from others, try new things for the first time and acquire or develop their skills It would be desirable to have some level of Portuguese language proficiency or the willingness to learn it
Deadline: 07/08/2025 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

TR47707

25/08/2025 → 03/10/2025

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
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Deadline: 07/08/2025

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

Sorgun/Yozgat, Türkiye

Turkey

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Turkey Lira (TRY / ₺)

Exchange rate

1 TRY = 0.017822 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

GMT+03:00

Local time: 21:29 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Turkish