📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
CIRIUS Kamnik is a Center for education, rehabilitation and training located in a small beautiful town of Kamnik in the North of Slovenia, at the foot of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps. Kamnik is one of the oldest towns in Slovenia and it is known for its diverse nature, hiking spots and historical background.
CIRIUS Kamnik is a public insitution specialised in education and rehabilitation of children and youngsters who are physically handicapped or have other various longterm illnesses. Every year around 220 children and youngsters attend educational and training programmes in primary and secondary schools, and attend therapies (occupational, physio, speech ...). Around 70 of them are in the residental care (they attend different school courses and therapies but live in the Centre during the week), most of the rest of the children and youth are a part of the daily training programme (they attend it after school end every day and after it finishes they go home).
After school activities (included in daily training programme and residantial care programme) offer children and youth a variety of opportunities to gain important life experiences and improve social skills (sports and adapted sports (boccia, swimming); creative workshops - music, theatre, painting; conversational groups, camping project with different schools ...). Our aim is to equip the students and pupils to be as independent as possible and to be an active part of the society they live in with the skills they have.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers accompany children and youngsters with special needs with school work, organise activities that promote healthy life style, sports (table tennis, swimming, basketball …), improve social skills, organise a language course, have creative workshops, cooking ... The volunteers will also be a part of our Centre's projects (camping) and international projects (youth exchanges), present their country, culture and volunteering projects to youngsters in the Centre but also to other young people in schools, libraries and other organizations from local and regional environment. Volunteers will learn about different pedagogical methods, about group dynamic, method of active listening, experiential pedagogy, method of individual work and method of project work. Volunteers will also help in an apartment for youth with special needs - supporting their striving for more independence and taking responsibility for themselves through informal socialising and learning from each other.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will have a constant support of professionals working in CIRIUS Kamnik. For the project we will train volunteers through basic beginners training, we will offer them on-going support through the whole period of the project and a teacher of Slovene. Accommodation for volunteers is available in our Centre: an apartment for two volunteers and an apartment for one. The food is provided for in our Centre from Monday to Friday).
Additionally volunteers also get pocket money, additional money for food (weekends, school holidays …) and money for transport to Slovenia and back.
🎒 Leisure activities
- English course with a native speaker,
- Slovenian language course,
- OLS,
- trainings organised by Movit, the national agency,
- constant support of a work mentor.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: - Interested in working with children and youth (with special needs),
- Have some background in working with children and youth (exchanges, workshops, work experience, degree ...),
- Welcome anyone interested to develop professionally in the field of special needs,
- Has a lot of energy, ideas (sports, music, art, cooking ... any hobby and enthusiasm is very welcome),
- Is able to work in a team with other professionals to achieve a common goal.
Deadline: Application deadline: 08/08/2022
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.