📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
PTG International Youth College / Ungdomshøjskolen PTG is a private and independent boarding school for young people, based at an international campus in western Denmark. PTG is an alternative school where young people from different walks of life and nationalities can study, work and live together. The school caters for people aged 18 - 30 years. The school promotes social responsibility and works actively to increase cultural awareness, inclusion and tolerance through cultural actions in the local community, as well as on study trips. The programme also entails "Planet Protection activities" such as planting trees, garden farming, learning about nature and carrying out nature restoration projects.
Some of the students at the schools come from troubled backgrounds and need social support to build a meaningful and successful future.
The school functions as a social community where everybody contributes with their strengths and positive efforts, and receives support in areas where they are lacking. The school has a strong "learning by doing" tradition, and also focuses on teaching skills. Thus, students and teachers run the school together, i.e. cooking, cleaning, maintenance work, gardening, shopping, planning programmes etc.
💼 What the programme involves
FIND APPLICATION FORM AND EMAIL IN THE FOLLOWING LINK: https://www.icye.dk/procedure-applying/ (4 volunteers).
PTG International Youth College is a boarding school based at an international campus in the country side in the western Denmark and is a school for young people aged 17 - 30 years and from different backgrounds and nationalities. The school promotes social responsibility and works actively to increase cultural awareness, inclusion and tolerance through cultural actions in the local community, as well as on study trips. The programme also entails, planting trees, garden farming, learning about nature and carrying out
nature restoration projects.
The volunteer either follows the PTG students to their Day school or focus on the afternoon/evening programme for the youth.
The work can include maintenance indoor and outdoor, nature work, planting trees and caring for the animals, garden farming, growing our own food, computer work, art-projects, teaching and pedagogical work.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Breakfast is taking place at PTG.
During the week we have lunch and dinner as a part of the common food system, where almost everybody living at the premises meet, eat lunch and dinner and socialize in the Dining Hall.
At PTG we have a kitchen with dining area. We encourage to cook together with the students and make International meals. It can be organized to cook special meals if need be.
Accomodation is in singlerooms with shared bathroom in the corridor. The volunteers and scholarship students are living in the same corridors as the students.
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteer will – if he/she arrives on the agreed date – participate on an on-arrival training provided by our national Agency IU, as well as a mid-term training halfway through her stay. These seminars are compulsory.
Meetings and other events will be organized by Dansk ICYE together with the volunteers we host from Europe but also from Asia, Africa and America as well. Themes of the seminars will vary, but will enhance the intercultural learning process and give the volunteer a chance to share and make friendship with youth from all over the world.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: -aged 22 to 30
-have a good english level
-have an interest that they would like to share with others, e.g. nature / sport / youth work / arts / music, etc.
-are interested in getting experiences in working with people, organizing projects and events and doing good for others
-it is important that the volunteers are interested in supporting and creating a positive youth culture at our school
-it is very important that the volunteers are motivated to get experiences, try new things, and to participate whole-heartedly
-It is important that the volunteer accept to live in the countryside.
Deadline: Application deadline: 22/06/2022
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.