📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The Solidarity Action and Coopation Office (OASC) at Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) through the project "Programa de Voluntariado con Jóvenes con Discapacidad Intelectual y con Adultos Mayores", the volunteers work together, on one hand, with youngsters with intellectual disabilities at the Promentor Program-UAM. This partisipation in the project aims to support capacity building among young people with intellectual disabilities, support their development of abilities and strengthen their autonomy and make easier their inclusion into the labour market. On the other hand, the volunteers participate hand to hand with the students of the UAM university to the local volunteers programe at the elderly residency “Nuestra Señora del Carmen” based in the campus of UAM, helping elderly people through leisure and creative activities and strengthening intergenerational attitudes, the volunteers support task at the OASC, BLOG: https://evsmadrid.wordpress.com/ & https://www.instagram.com/
🏠 Accommodation on site
The Solidarity Action and Coopation Office will arrange flat rent and the two volunteers will live in shared flat, will have their own room - but share kitchen and bathroom with one other young person. Food money will be paid out to you as well as money to buy the local transportation monthly. The volunteers manage their money, because we consider it has to do with competence related to responsibility, butget managment and autonomy.
🎒 Leisure activities
We will help you to find and to enrol in a Spanish language course which fits your needs and level in our language school from UAM. On the other hand, you must go to our courses about local volunteering and constant mentoring support.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: Member of the European Solidarity Corps volunteer. We are looking for 2 voluteers from the countries of the list. It will be very appreciated an excellent communication and speaking skills in Spanish (B1). We are looking for people with these attitudes:
- Motivation, creativy, flexibility
-awareness by disability and social field work
- Interest for the social field
- Sympathetic
- Who likes to help the others
- Can do team work
Deadline: Application deadline: 11/02/2022
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.