📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Diakoniewerk is an innovative company active in the various fields of work in the social and health sector in Austria and internationally. It designs contemporary offers for people with disabilities, for people in old age, in the health sector and in education. The development of new, social space-oriented housing concepts is in the foreground.
The Diakoniewerk is involved in district work, family counselling, and refugee work and in the field of poverty migration. Several companies as well as a further education academy and 3 homes for students complement the broad field of activities.
The Diakoniewerk draws on more than 145 years of experience in caring for and accompanying people. Today, more than 3400 employees contribute with their professional competence and experience in more than 200 institutions as well as a large number of additional services. Volunteers are a valuable asset.
Diakoniewerk is a member of Diakonie Österreich, one of the five major welfare organisations in Austria.
The participants*/ Volunteers will work in the field of people with disabilities and people in old age. Their activities are oriented towards the respective place of work and the people living there and range from leisure activities, support of people in their everyday life to the support of people with disabilities in the employment sector.
Volunteers should be open and have an understanding of the needs of people with disabilities and people in old age. Flexibility and patience are also an advantage, as far as humour and joy in being together with people are concerned. Values such as respect, trust, communication and diversity are equally important.
In the beginning it is about getting to know each other and the possible tasks and good communication, because people with disabilities have usually not learned a foreign language and people with dementia have forgotten much of it.
💼 What the programme involves
The aim of this institution is to help those who are not able to help themselves. We work with persons with special needs who live in small sharing communities together (6-8 persons) as well as with persons who live in our home for old people. We attend to these persons from dusk to down (dressing, shopping, cooking, going for walks, going to church, cleaning, free time activities etc.). In Gallneukirchen we have 9 houses for people with special needs . These have respectively 2,4,6 or 8 units. In the units live 4 to 9 persons who are taken care of by one or two employers. All together about 700 employers work at our instituion in Gallneukirchen. In the old people`s home takes care for 40 persons.
For this volunteering Project in working with persons from different Ages (children up to elderly People), in a home for elderly, creative Workshop, kindergarten, theatre Group,......we are looking for a motivated Person.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation: The volunteers will be accommodated in a flat near the hostingprojects, in a safe area with room on their own.
Food/Meals: Each volunteer will receive a food of the project and allowance to cover his needs for all meals of the day.
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteer gets all volunteering seminars (on Arrival, mid term Meeting) and all other work related Trainings.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: we are open to host all youngsters between 18-30 years!!!; so we will not mention a special profile, as it just depends from the person.
As it is a huge organisation that works with persons with different needs, they are already prepared for nearly all.
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.