📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The project takes place in La Clarté, an organisation for physical handicapped children (6-20 years). The volunteer will mainly support the group of teenagers (10-14 years), helping them in the classes, workshops like informatics, theatre, music, arts, … but also to the individual help for homework, help to write, support pupils in being integrated in some “open classes” in the schools and highschools of the town.
The volunteer can also value his/her own country and culture, through the organisation of meals, exhibitions, slide-shows for instance. He/she can also create a workshop with the children around some personal skills he wants to share with them (initiation to foreign languages, puppets creation, European games, …).
The volunteer will participate to the organisation of a collective project about Europe, together with the other European volunteers hosted in Redon, with a partnership between all the host organisations of the town.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer will share a furnished flat with 3 other European volunteers or French youngsters. He/she will be part of a group of 10 European volunteers. He/she will be able to walk to the Clarté or to use a bicycle, as there are no efficient public transport in the town. the volunteer will receive 6 € / day for pocket money and 5 € / day for food. He/she will reimbursed his/her travel costs up to 275 € under expenses proves. A bank account will be open for the volunteer at his/her arrival with the coordinating organization in order for him/her to receive his/her payments.
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteer will have the support of the staff of la Clarté and of his/her mentor into the organization. All of them will support him/her to discover the organization, the specificity of children with disabilities and to build his/her project into the organization.
The volunteer will have the support of the European Volunteers coordinator in Mapar (the coordinating organization), who will support him/her during all his/her stay. The volunteer will also follow 3 hours of French classes/week during all the duration of the project.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: The volunteer should be available on the dates of the project (from September to the beginning of July)
The volunteer should be interested in discovering the environment of people with disability, pedagogy, and the school system. We will expect from the volunteer to be enthusiastic, curious, willing to learn, to take and share initiative, to be mature face to children and teenagers with less opportunities. Basis of French and commitment in non-profit, sports or artistic organizations will be highly appreciated.
Application from volunteers being aged above 22 will be highly appreciated.
Deadline: Application deadline: 17/05/2022
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.