📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Five international volunteers are invited to join three Krakow’s kindergärten, where they’ll help the teachers in assisting the children during the daily activities. Some of them are common for all kindergärten, others are specific for each structure. In general, your main tasks will be: accompanying children in games and educational activities; teaching about your culture and country of origin through presentations, games, songs or language activities; organising activities about your interests; helping to organise small events and celebrations; helping teachers to prepare and conduct classes; assisting the teachers during walks, trips and excursions; helping the children with art activities (painting, drawing, cutting and sticking) and their everyday things, music, theater, English, gym. As usual, every month you’ll receive a pocket money (around 120 euros) for your personal expenses, and your volunteering will be covered by a free insurance policy affiliated with the European Union.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You’ll be accommodated in a flat with other 3 -5 foreign volunteers, in a shared room. The rooms have basic furniture and equipment, but you’ll need to bring your own sheets and pillow cover. As a guarantee, you’ll be asked to deposit 120 euros, which will be returned at the end of the project. For your food, you will be given a sum per month equivalent to the average students local budget. The travel from your home and back will be reimbursed. Also local transports will be free for you, as you will be provided with a card for bus that covers all city’s lines.
🎒 Leisure activities
You will attend 3 training sessions: a pre-departure training before leaving Italy; a so-called “on arrival training” a few weeks after your advent in Poland; a midterm training, at half of your volunteering experience. Lessons of Polish will also be given on a regular basis, twice a week. You’ll train and increase your skills in the care and education of children. Thanks to your tutor and the kindergärten’s staff, you’ll learn how to deal with tasks concerning the activity of a nursery school for small children, and, in a wider sense, how to act and work in educational institutions.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: To be considered for this volunteering position you must have patience and emotional balance: you must be open-minded, creative, positive, flexible, easy-going and trustworthy, because the needs of your beneficiaries can be largely different and rapidly mutable. Working in a kindergarten in Krakow offers you the opportunity to better know this job, with both the problems and the best sides. It gives you the chance to feel how is to be a teacher, showing you how hard, but also satisfying, is to work with small children. In addition, this is an easy way to learn Polish language and culture.
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.