📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Ser Joven Association (ASJ) is a non-profit Youth Service Provider, made up of a multidisciplinary team of educators, monitors, free-time directors and entertainers who from different professional experiences and volunteering come together with a common goal: the enhancement of education in free time.
The objectives are:
• Promote the integral development of people through education in free time.
• Facilitate actions and activities in the field of social services and the community.
• Develop and offer information, training, orientation and advice services to educational centers, social entities, institutions and organizations that work on education in their free time.
• Facilitate the labor insertion of youth in the field of education in leisure time.
• Encourage research in the field of education in leisure time creating educational materials and programs.
The target group is:
The whole of the young and adult population; people at risk of social exclusion; users of specific services or resources; educators, monitors, directors of free time; professionals or technicians of youth services; youth workers belonging to public and private organizations that during their daily work.
💼 What the programme involves
The main task of the volunteer is to accompany the users with intellectual disabilities during different free time daily activities scheduled by the AMPROS organization Leisure time center, for example dances, games, cooking workshops, karaoke, sports activities, gymnastics, hand crafts, theater etc. Moreover, the volunteer gets the chance to take part in special events like Winter Festival, San Valentine's Day, Holiday Programme, Summer Camps, weekend activities in a hostel, sports events.
The occassional tasks in the coordinating organization Ser Joven are promotional activities of ESC and European projects and free time education activities for local youth.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation (shared room in a shared flat with other ESC volunteers) with internet WIFI, local transportation (travel card), monthly pocket money (150 euros), online Spanish Language Course for foreigners, food money (150 euros), a mentor, an opportunity to carry out a personal project.
🎒 Leisure activities
At the beginning of the activity, all volunteers are offered a special training course run by professionals working at AMPROS and SER JOVEN, in which they learn: the history, aims and functioning of AMPROS and SER JOVEN as a Youth NGO and different services it offers, the meaning and importance of voluntary work.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: V O L U N T E E R S ’ P R O F I L E
-interested in working in the field of disability and youth work
-responsible, reliable and with initiative
-creative and communicative
-good knowledge of Spanish is a plus or motivation to learn it
-ready and motivated to interact with local people and live a deep cultural experience
Deadline: Application deadline: 31/07/2022
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.