📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Emmaüs Antwerp is a big youth care organization. We are looking for it a volunteer who can join its technical support team. The organization manages three main locations, where a lot of youngsters resides: these boys and girls have difficulties in social skills and learning possibilities, or suffer for social or mental problems, and this is why they don’t live any more in their families. Helping Emmaüs Antwerp on the technical side is a way to support it in giving these adolescents a better life, is another way to express and make concrete your spirit of solidarity.
You’ll join the workers who moves and takes care of the furnitures for residences and offices, paints rooms and halls, maintains clean the green areas around the buildings, helps out the colleges in more several technical tasks. The technical support team works using a central registration system of the various necessities: every week a schedule is prepared that points out the various interventions that need to be done.
🏠 Accommodation on site
As usual for E.S.C. projects, the European Union provides a food allowance and a pocket money for you. You will live in a studio in the Kiel Neighbourhood. The travel from Italy to Belgium and back is reimbursed. To move inside Antwerp, a bike will be at your disposal, and we will also offer you a transport ticket valid for five trips by train all over Belgium.
🎒 Leisure activities
You will attend three official training sessions: a pre-departure training before leaving Italy; an on-arrival training in a few weeks after your advent in Belgium; a midterm training, around at half of the volunteering experience.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: You’re welcome in the project if you're really motivated towards the execution of technical tasks in the framework of a social oriented context. You must already have a sufficient fluency in English, and are also ready to get acquainted with Dutch language. A preference will be given to the candidate possessing a driving licence for cars.
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.