📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Project “Solidarity bridge” offers short-term, 17 days long,group volunteering opportunity that gives an insight in social needs present in Croatian community. Volunteering teams with 12 members will be scheduled to volunteer 6-7 hours daily (Monday – Friday, weekends are activity-free) and will participate in following activities during their mobility: • Support to homeless persons and persons in risk of poverty (preparation and distribution of meals in public kitchen, social interaction with homeless and poor) • Storytelling and reading for sick kids who are staying at hospitals (online) • Creative workshops (decorations making, creating of motivational sayings, cooking ...) for sick persons during their medical treatment away from home (beneficiaries of Humanitarian udruga "fra Mladen Hrkać") • Maintenance of public spaces in local community (interior painting, wall painting, decorating, cleaning environment in national hospital, social institutions, community spaces).
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in Organisation's facilities in dormitories for 2-8 persons. Breakfast, lunch and dinner groceries will be available in the facility. Allowance for local transport will be paid or organisation will provide transport. Project is prepared and also equipped to provide assistance to persons with disabilities: transportation in special vehicle (applicable to travel to activity place and also to transport during activity) and adjusted accommodation units and sanitary units, Scalamobil for people in wheelchair.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We are looking for young persons, aged 18-30, whose main motivation to be part of this project is to provide help to those members of society who need it the most. Volunteers need to be ready to provide services to people and kids with disabilities and health issues, homeless and poor. We prefer volunteers who will become our long-term partners in implementation of solidarity activities also after the mobility. This project aims to provide volunteering opportunity to the youth with fewer opportunities, for whom inclusion support and cover of costs for accompanying person will be available.
Deadline: Application deadline: 13/05/2022
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.