ESC Short Term Volunteering

Name: ESC Short Term Volunteering
Start: 2025-01-10
End: 2025-02-28
Location: Turkey

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Turkey Culture Education Environment European Voluntary Service Social work Sport Culture Education +4 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Sorgun Youth Organization was established to carry out activities on soscial, education, health and sports fields, to contribute to improving youth poicies, to enable solidarity and help among young people, to encourage their spirit of entrepreneurship, to help them gain knowledge and skills on such topics, to contribute to the disadvantaged young people like those who are disabled to be integrated into society. Our organization which discovers the fact that the young people are the most important individuals and which aims to bring together the young people with different skills and create a great synergy and aims to enable young people to be involved in the society and enable the society to benefit from the young people more was established with the name “Sorgun Youth Organization” in the district Sorgun in 2014 Before our organization became a legal institute, it started with an informal group which was initiated with a few young people and managed to Access many young people in a very short time. Our organization which in time becomes a great asset by bringing together volunteers working for a divine purpose and involving many young people from different age groups, expands its impact and tries to increase the number of projects in which it is involved as partners actively.

💼 What the programme involves

Within the scope of the project, volunteers will take part in various activities on sports, healthy living, art, entrepreneurship, environment and other issues and organize various activities on these issues in line with their own competencies and skills. The volunteer will also work as a volunteer in the office. Volunteers will contribute to both their personal development and the development of the local community, children and youth. They will include them in activities in line with their own interests and talents, raise awareness and engage in various activities. Volunteers will also use their organizational and creative skills to support the preparation and organization of international events organized by the association for youth and children. For more information about SORGED, please visit our pages. https://www.instagram.com/sorged/ https://sorged.org/ Infopack: bit.ly/4bIsYx3

🏠 Accommodation on site

In Sorgun you will share an apartment with double rooms, bathrooms and an eat-in kitchen. Accommodation s provided by the coordinating organzation SORGED. You will live in the apartment together with other ESC volunteers. Volunteers will have kitchen utensils and internet in ther home.In accordance with the rules of the Türkiye National Agency, 5 euro per day will be pad for pocket money for volunteers. The volunteer will be paid a daily meal fee of 5 euros for 3 meals. Your travelling expenses will be calculated according to km.

🎒 Leisure activities

The main activities to be carried out by volunteers are as follows: -SORGED administrative and office work; -Organisation of sports, healthy living, environmental and cultural activities; -Outdoor activities (sports and environmental activities involving local people) -Trainings to support the personal development of volunteers (such as teamwork, leadership) - Participate in Turkish lessons; - Organise activities with young people locally; - prepare and present presentations on Erasmus+ and ESC; -Organise intercultural activities; - organise English speaking clubs

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: To be interested in the project topic, to be motivated to do sports, to be sensitive to the environment and to work on issues, to be interested in different cultures, to be creative, active, open-minded and open to teamwork, to be able to work as a volunteer and to be ready to take responsibility, to be open to education and innovations, to be able to represent the home country and the sending organisation in the best way, to be able to speak English at least to express themselves to be solution-oriented and tolerant, to work in a planned manner and to accept all the rules of ESC.
Deadline: 05/01/2025 23:00

ℹ️ Additional information

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?

Training before and after the project
Health insurance during your project
round-trip travel reimbursement
accommodation and food
pocket money
language course
Return Week-end
Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

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