ESC : Tallinn Centre for Children at Risk (Lilleküla and Männi shelter)
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About the project
ESC : Tallinn Centre for Children at Risk (Lilleküla and Männi shelter)
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Tallinn Center for Children at Risk is a welfare organization, where children who have been left without parental care or have behavioral or substance abuse problems, get professional help. This organisation has two centers in Tallinn: Lilleküla Shelter and Männi Shelter.
Children are hosted in these two shelters for various reasons, most common are vagrancy, home negligence, family violence, parental alcoholism or drug abuse, parental unemployment or loss of residence due to family poverty. Most of the children are brought to the shelter by the police or child protection worker.
The staff that works directly with the children consists of the manager of shelter, nine social workers and a nurse who all aim to provide the children a safe environment which helps to foster their personal development. Approximately 75% of shelter children are sent back home after their stay in the Shelter. If necessary, they remain under the supervision of the welfare worker.
💼 What the programme involves
Work tasks
After on-arrival orientation meeting aimed at the integration of the volunteer to local realities and explanation of aims and activities of the host project, the ESC volunteer will be carrying out the following tasks:
Looking after the children and youth and helping staff in teaching them different useful skills
Running additional educational activities in the house using its own facilities
Teaching children foreign languages through joined games, songs, sport, any other activities indoor and outdoor, which the ESC volunteer will be running
Presenting his/ her home country and its culture as a part of intercultural learning
Arranging children’s outings, e.g. culture visits, excursions, hikes, picnics, etc.
Playing with children
Participation of motivated ESC volunteer is seen as an exciting innovative element refreshing the daily routine and bringing additional educational value to the pedagogical process. The main idea is to provide assistance and support local personnel in daily work, particularly in running various educational and free time activities for the children and youth. It is also to provide some experience and practice of foreign languages and intercultural learning both for children and local personnel. At the same time it gives valuable field experience of the social and youth work to the ESC volunteer accepted to the project.
A lot depends on volunteer’s personality and mutual agreements. We expect the volunteer to be working from Tuesday to Saturday and
sometimes on mutual agreement to work on Sundays because the children are more available then for different activities. In that case volunteer’s two free days will be during the week. Together with the volunteers the goals and objectives of the ESC will be set. Weekly plans will help set the frames and organise time. Since Tallinna Laste Turvakeskus has a long experience with volunteers, we know how to support and empower them. Our psychologists can also help with extra counselling if needed.
📍 About the location
Männi shelter is in Nõmme subdistrict in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Bus connection is very good – it takes approx. 20 minutes to get to the city centre. This area is surrounded of big park and forest, which is a beautiful sight every time of year.
Lilleküla Shelter is also situated in Tallinn, in the district of Lilleküla which is about 10 minutes away by bus from the historical center of Tallinn. It is located in a quite busy area and is easily accessible from any location of the city.
⚠️ Requirements
Requirements for the volunteer
We will be pleased to get applications from anyone who are:
- Ready to work with children and youngsters and have enough patience;
- Ready to understand and accept that the children/youngsters often come from difficult family and social background;
- Friendly and open-minded;
- Courage to take initiative;
- Playful;
- Optimistic;
- Responsible
- Ability to speak Russian language is a big help, as this is the native language of many children in the Shelter.
Working experience is not required. Most importantly the volunteer should be fond of children and have optimistic and stalwart nature. All sorts of artistic, pedagogical, musical or sports related skills are welcome as they can be implemented in educational and free time activities.
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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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
EE34438
02/10/2023 at 00:00 → 16/06/2024 at 00:00
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–30 years old
Solidarity donation
0.00
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Tallinn, Estonia
Estonia
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
Timezone
Eastern European Standard Time
Local time: 22:11 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken