📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
ELIX is currently implementing a non-formal education project supporting migrant and refugee youth. As an ESC volunteer in the position of ‘lessons of solidarity’ you will have the opportunity to create your own learning space within the project by providing educational activities to refugee and migrant population located in the center of Athens. This will help beneficiaries to gain necessary skills and knowledge and facilitate in this way their smooth integration. Volunteers will deliver activities according to their own skills, needs or linguistic knowledge. Your tasks will include: a. Language courses and life-skills education for out-of-school children and young people: for those who are still on the move, and those who are not accessing formal education, b. Early childhood education, socioemotional development and school readiness., c. Promotion of adult/ parents’ integration: through sensitization, language course and social integration activities, d. Digital learning.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted in a rented apartment in Athens that will be shared among them. The volunteer will receive a monthly food allowance of 120 Euros and pocket money (5 euros per day, appr. 150 euros per month). Travel costs to and from Athens are covered up to a certain amount, depending on your current location's distance to Greece. Greek language courses will be provided by the Online Linguistic Support and insurance is covered by CIGNA. On-arrival training and mid-term evaluation will be provided and organised by the Greek National Agency.
🎒 Leisure activities
Volunteers will have the chance to develop their organizational skills by being involved in the preparation and implementation of different kinds of activities, improve their sense of responsibility and initiative towards the tasks undertaken, work in a team in a highly multicultural environment, meet different people and cultures. Besides that, they will have the opportunity to develop a social network and participate in seminars, trainings and other cultural actions of ELIX or partner organizations.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: Available for 6.5 months (DAYS 195). Volunteers should be ready and willing to work in the ELIX office together with other volunteers and staff of the organisation. Your application will be evaluated mainly on the following criteria: previous volunteering experience (preferably in workcamps) and/or international Youth Exchanges, good understanding of non-formal education and informal learning, support for sustainability, gender equality and social inclusion, good computer skills (Internet, Microsoft Office, Google Doc), good command of English.
Deadline: No application deadline
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.