ESC: Solidarity with the elderly

Name: ESC: Solidarity with the elderly
Start: 2023-10-01
End: 2024-09-30
Location: Saint-Étienne, France

Code: 35924 Copied

France European Voluntary Service Social work European Voluntary Service Social work Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

The mission takes place at Unis-Cité Loire in Saint-Etienne. You will be part of an 8 members youth group with french volunteers working in pairs for a project called Solidarité Sénior. The goal of the project is to combat the isolation of elderly people. On Mondays, you will have time for personal or administrative tasks and appointments. From Tuesday, Thursday and Friday you will be working with isolated elderly people at home. One day per week you will mostly have meetings, activities and formations with the other members of the group. Your main mission is to create social bonding. The project is imagined as follows : Organizing events, games, short outdoor trips Collect memories and testimonials in order to keep track and share the life experience of the users. Organize digital workshopsDevelop social life between the elderly people. Additionally, the volunteer can be proactive and develop the content of his mission by creating animations from scratch.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteer will share the flat with 3 other European volunteers in different Unis-Cité projects and he/she will have his/her own room. The flat is in Saint-Etienne. It is equipped with a fridge, a stove, a washing machine, a microwave and internet. The money will be given at the beginning of each month for the purchase of food in addition of pocket money. And he/she will have an unlimited transit pass to move in Saint-Etienne.

🎒 Leisure activities

Between October and December the volunteers will have 2 hours of french classes per week. The volunteer will participate to the on-arrival and midterm training organized by National Agency. All project long, the volunteer will participate to different trainings, as SDG's training, as Education for Citizenship and International Solidarity's training, etc... For this project especially, the volunteer will have trainings about elderly people. During his project the volunteer will participate to 3 weeks of integration with all other volunteers hosted by Unis-Cité.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: Our project is deliberately general so that the volunteer can appropriate, adapt it to his own person, bring his ideas and flourish fully. It is crucial that the volunteer is interested in working with elder people, but also in teamwork. The volunteer will be immersed with a team of professional and will have to participate or even animate a group of elder people. He must be open-minded and adaptable.
Deadline: Application deadline: 31/07/2023

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.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

FR35924

01/10/2023 → 30/09/2024

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Deadline: 31/07/2023

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Saint-Étienne, France

France

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 20:57 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English French