📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE) is a non-profit social corporation of public law that has the fundamental purpose of improving the quality of life of blind people, people with residual vision and people with disabilities throughout Spain .
It has 72,231 members (as of December 31, 2019), of which 87% are people with severe visual impairment and 13% are totally blind.
It is a very active organization that participates in various national and international forums on blindness and disability, also promoting various initiatives to achieve its role. It is a founding member of the Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (CERMI).
It has a recognized state concession in the field of gambling for the commercialization of lotteries, which allows it to finance its social work and create jobs for its members.
💼 What the programme involves
We are looking for VOLUNTEERS that will help with: accompaniment to visually impaired people in order to help them in daily tasks, like going to a bank, visiting a doctor, running errands and so on as well as helping them to participate in the activities organized by the ONCE organization (accompaniment from their houses to ONCE headquarters and vice-versa and support in ONCE workshops: ceramics, theatre, book reading…, accompaniment during sightseeing excursions or hiking, accompaniment to events, shows and celebrations…)
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation (shared flat AND SHARED ROOM), local transportation (travel card), monthly pocket money (150 euros), the Spanish training course for foreigners, food money (150 euros), mentor, an opportunity to carry out a personal project, international work team.
🎒 Leisure activities
At the beginning of the activity, all volunteers are offered a special training course by specialists in the rehabilitation of ONCE members with recent visual impairment, in which they learn: the history aims and functioning of ONCE as an institution and different services it offers, the meaning and importance of voluntary work; relation with people with blindness and visual impairment; techniques of accompaniment to people with visual impairment; types of visual impairments.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We are looking for motivated persons, whose physical and mental condition is compatible with project duties; i.e. a person with no mobility problems and motivated enough (sometimes, the Project activities can seem routine); flexible (the activities have no fixed timetable, as they mostly depend on the needs of ONCE members); communicative, willing to learn or improve Spanish language, able to motivate a person with visual impairment to go out and enrich their social life.
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.