📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
ACTIVITIES: Youth will be involved in activities with children and youth (arts and crafts, sports, music, dance, games, non-formal learning, workshops etc.),international volunteer camps, social inclusion activities, environmental awareness and sustainability activities, eco gardening and much more. Volunteers will plan, organize and implement everyday activities and workshops with children and youth. ABOUT US: Suncokret Center for Community Development runs both a local volunteer center and a community center in a beautiful rural postwar area. At the Suncokret community center we provide afterschool nonformal learning activities for the local children and youth in the community. We provide everything from educational activities, to arts/crafts, games, sports, fun and creative workshops. We also conduct environmental awareness education, sustainability workshops, eco gardening and maintaining our organic gardens and orchards and conduct eco construction activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation is walking distance from Suncokret community center. It is a house share and most often volunteers have their own rooms while they share a bathroom and kitchen with others. There may be temporary periods of sharing rooms. Volunteers will receive a food allowance once a month from the hosting organization. Volunteers purchase and cook their own meals. In addition, the hosting organization will give the volunteers pocket money allowance once a month. Volunteers have international health insurance and travel to the volunteer location is covered to a certain amount.
🎒 Leisure activities
Suncokret will appoint a mentor for volunteers. The mentor will be responsible for providing personal support to the volunteer, and will be available in crisis or conflict situation and support volunteers in various situations and assist with self-directed learning, including Youthpass administration. The supervisor will support volunteers’ in work related tasks. Upon arrival the volunteers will receive an introduction and on-arrival orientation, description of community and project and customs. There will be daily language learning opportunities.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: We are looking for young people (18-30 years old) from Erasmus + program countries. Volunteers should be communicative, open, motivated, creative, self-reliant, enthusiastic, eager to learn and to share knowledge/skills and enjoy working with children and youth. Volunteers should be willing to participate actively in projects and activities. Volunteers will work independently and also as part of a team and live with others in the volunteer accommodation. The volunteer also must be open minded and be ready to live in a rural setting and open to cultural differences and intercultural learning.
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.