📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
AMICOS, Association for the Care and Integration of People with Intellectual Disabilities, Autism, Paralysis or Brain Damage and Their Families.
We are a non-profit entity, founded in 2010, whose mission is to provide service and support to ensure that every person with intellectual disability, autism, cerebral palsy-damage and their families can develop their life project, with the aim of achieving their inclusion as a full citizen in a just and supportive society.
Its founding purposes include promoting actions, supports and resources that facilitate the training and labour integration of people with intellectual disabilities, autism, cerebral palsy-damage, promoting volunteering, both nationally and Europeanly, in order to promote teamwork and solidarity, and to spread the culture of European unity, in order to create ties that bring us closer to the different European cultures and the different problems and realities of people with disabilities throughout Europe. For this purpose he develops pedagogical activities, psychomotority and rehabilitation, occupational workshops, social inclusion activities through leisure and sport, music therapy... through its structure in 4 areas: Education (under 21 years), People (over 21 years), Enterprises (job training and job inclusion), and Transformation (innovation projects, mainly associated to environmental concern, environment protection and care).
We have been participating in Erasmus+ projects since 2017.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will be integrated into the Transformation Area, where we manage environmental, communication; and innovation projects.
They can participate in the organisation, coordination and execution of environmental awareness-raising activities, outings with groups to clean the seaside, removal of invasive species, removal of invasive species in protected natural areas, events for the inclusion (schools, other associations), cultural activities (local festivals, Entroido, Easter, regional cultural celebrations such as Letras Galeas, etc.)
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🏠 Accommodation on site
Amicos will provide and apartment in which volunteers can share space, they will have a single room and everything they need for daily life. The daily journey from the flat to Amicos will be 10-15 minutes. They will be provided with means for daily round trip transportation.
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🎒 Leisure activities
Amicos' regular office hours are Monday to Friday from 9.00h to 18.00h. The volunteers will carry out daily activities within these hours, with a maximum time limit of dedication established by the CES programme.
INFO
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⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: There is daily public transport by bus to Santiago de Compostela, where there are many cultural activities (cinema, theater, expositions). The closest cinema in the surroundings is in Ribeira. Amicos will help you to find bus-stops and understand timetables (frequencies and locations are not easy sometimes). There’s also public transport to move around Barbanza.
E) Our sea.
This is Ría de Arousa, the estuary formed by river Ulla. Here you can see how seafood is cultivated.
Deadline: No application deadline
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.