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ESC: Support in Special Education Centre

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About the project

ESC: Support in Special Education Centre

📝 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

Amicos.org offers the opportunity of being involved in the special education school for children with intellectual disabilities, aged 3-21. The school develops a project for increasing awareness on youth about the support that these children require for having a better neurological and physical development, and for achieving the habilities, skills and knowledge that will bring them opportunities in life. The school has a very important presence in colaborative activities with other entities and schools, looking for social integration of children with peers. We offer the opportunity of joining to: - Help the technical staff in design and implementation of these activities; - Acompanying the participants in the activities of the center; - Facilitating the understanding of the instructions given to users; - To suggest ideas of activities and practices to integrate in the center; - To develop environmental awareness activities.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Acommodation Amicos offer an apartment with all required services for comfortable living in a single room. The apartment shall be shared with flatmates depending on the arrival of other volunteers simultaneously. Transport We also provide daily transportation from the apartment to the school, and back, on the routinary van journeys that the school provides to students.

🍲 Food

Meals The school supplies with daily meal service from Monday to Friday at lunch time. Besides, volunteers will receive pocket money for their own expenses.

🎒 Leisure activities

Amicos staff is integrated by experienced specialists who will provide insights in learning methodologies for support and assistance of students with special needs. We will provide a “Welcoming Training” to introduce our work standards, the tutor, school methodology and facilities...The Spanish National Agency will be responsible of the On Arrival Training and the Mid-term Evaluations. Besides, volunteers will have online Spanish lessons by registering in the Online Linguistics Support platform (OLS).

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are looking for a proactive, commited and open-minded participant with a genuine interest and sensibility in working with people with disabilities on leisure, cultural and sustainable activities. A basic level of Spanish is required to be able to communicate with the staff and the students. If you are available and interested in applying, please send your CV and a Motivation Letter to [email protected].
Deadline: Application deadline: 28/06/2024

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.

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📅 Available sessions

ES38265

01/09/2024 → 30/04/2025

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
♂ 0/1 ♀ 0/1
Deadline: 28/06/2024

ES38265

01/09/2024 → 31/05/2025

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
♂ 0/1 ♀ 0/1
Deadline: 28/06/2024

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

Comoxo, 15937 Boiro, A Coruña, Spain

Spain

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 21:01 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Spanish