ESC: Vidas compartidas (Shared lives)

Code: 47540 Copied

Spain European Voluntary Service Social work Education European Voluntary Service Social work +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Sant Lluís Town Hall, through its youth service in Molí de Baix, offers its services since 1997 as a youth center. Since 2005 it widened its target population to not only youth but also children and families. Sant Lluís is a little town in the south-east of Menorca (on the balearic islands, on the mediterranian sea) From a pedagogic standpoint, Molí de Baix promotes services, programs and activities that encourage active and dinamic participation, through an inclusive, egalitarian, free and respectful perspective. Aiming to contribute to the development of social habits as autonomous and critical-thinking beings. Through an experience based plan, contributing to an integral kind of development, gaining skills and abilities in a fun, recreational manner, to ease participants the transtion into the different stages of their vital development. A diversity of throughlines are designed from a social and educational project, to educate children and youngsters for a new sense of global ethics, aiming towards social and plural cohesion we live in nowadays. The current team includes 6 people to carry out every task: a coordinator, two directors of activities, two youth leaders, and one social youth leader.

💼 What the programme involves

As a host entity, we offer the "Shared Lives" project in which the volunteer can imagine, prepare and lead activities for users of the Sant Lluís Geriatric Center. These activities may include: crafts, memory activities, adapted physical activities, etc. We offer the possibility for young Europeans to learn through interactions with the elderly by participating in a service where you can care and accompany the residents through their daily routine. In exchange, the residents will benefit from the ideas, youth, energy and international experience of the volunteers. You will become part of the local community through the interaction with the residents, their family members, as well as with the center's workers. Democratic values are promoted, such as: solidarity and social cohesion. This particular project is attached to a certain ammount of working hours per week (35 max).

🏠 Accommodation on site

There's going to be 4 volunteers in total, living together in the same flat in the center of the village, just 2 minutes walking from the organisation. The flat is fully paid by the organisation and you will have an allowance set by country, with money for living expenses, shopping and pocket money for you. You will also get a transport card to be able to travel by bus to other towns around the island. Volunteers should understand that they will be living with volunteers from other countries with other customs and culture.

🎒 Leisure activities

You will be explained what sort of activities we carry out during the year, and will get the opportunity to bring your ideas and implement them with the support of the team. You will take Spanish lessons weekly. You will also participate in the on-arrival training for a week during the first month of your volunteering activity. It's a great opportunity to share experiences and get more of a European dimension through contact with other volunteers. Then, half-way through your volunteering there's the mid-term training for another week of networking.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are looking for two volunteers for this project to complement each other and work as a duo. We are looking for - someone who enjoys being with elderly peolpe, with empathy and patience, who enjoys organizing activities. - good listening skills. - Spanish knowledge is a plus, as the residents will mainly comunicate in this language. - team players, as you will collaborate with another volunteer and the rest of the team in Sant Lluís' geriatric residence.
Deadline: No application deadline

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

ES47540

20/09/2025 → 18/09/2026

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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

07710 Sant Lluís, Balearic Islands, Spain

Spain

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 20:55 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

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✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Spanish