📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
We’re looking for volunteers ready to assist teachers and therapists at a school of Krakow working with children and youth (aged 5-24) with diversified types of mental and physical disability. Through various kinds of classes, pupils and youngsters learn how to deal with the daily life and overcome upcoming obstacles. The volunteer will acknowledge various methods of working with people with disabilities and will receive practical experience about. The volunteer will be responsible for assistance of disabled children, will realize his own projects and will significantly increase his cross-cultural competences.
Helping in educational process means to help in feeding our disabled students, support them during lessons and activities; help teachers prepare lessons and educational materials, care for order and cleanness in the school. Activities will be adjusted to one`s profiles and fields of interest. The working hours are around 30 hours per week.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer will be accommodated in a room shared with another volunteer, in a rented flat with
access to kitchen and bathroom. Flats are furnished and equipped with pillows, duvet covers, pillow cases and washing machine. Internet connection is usually provided, but not assured 100%. The volunteer will get money for food every month and there may be a possibility to eat meals in the hosting institution. The volunteer will also receive an allowance as pocket money of 120 euros per month, paid in a local bank. The travel from Italy to Krakow and back is reimbursed, as local trasports.
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteers will attend three official training sessions: a pre-departure training before leaving Italy; an on arrival training in a few weeks after their advent in Poland; a midterm training, around the half of the volunteering experience. Other meetings will be frequently organized with people concerned with the projet. A course of Polish language held by professional teacher is provided, together with other means to learn the language (tandem meetings and access to online courses).
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: We are looking for an interested, hard working and motivated volunteer: open, empathic, kind, between the age of 18 and 30 and resident in Italy, who like to work with children and willingly take part in various activities during the day. Obviously, you must be ready to learn a bit of Polish language.
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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.