📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Dodo is a Finnish environmental organization founded in 1995. Dodo addresses environmental issues societally, without unnecessary simplification. From a dining table, a metro tunnel or an adventure holiday, there is a short way to global environmental issues. Developing new solutions and cooperating even with surprising allies is important to Dodo. Dodo aims to avoid unnecessary confrontations and examines environmental issues widely from different viewpoints.
Dodo works under the parol Seeds for Urban Change. Dodo aims to turn urbanization into an answer to global environmental problems and motivate people to come up with solutions themselves. Dodo's activities are open to everyone. A large proportion of those who participate in activities and events are young students, and a third of the board consists of young adults as well. Dodo aims to be a sandbox of thoughts where new ideas flow and evolve. An encouraging atmosphere and a courageous attitude towards sharing new views and own ideas empower people of all ages to participate in the development of their own environment, in solving global environmental problems, and in the development of the organization.
Dodo has activities in Helsinki, Oulu, Tampere and Turku and works through different action groups that focus on themes such as urban gardening, food, urban development and global development. Regular activities include meetings of the different action groups and Urban Dinner events where a meal is prepared together from waste food and produce harvested in our urban garden. After dining there is a discussion, workshop or movie screening on a topic that futhers Dodo’s aim.
💼 What the programme involves
Dodo is a Finnish environmental organization founded in 1995. Dodo addresses environmental issues societally, without unnecessary simplification. Current key operation areas are urban gardening and food, urban planning and building, climate action and global development. Dodo is offering a half a year ESC volunteering position starting 1st of April 2023. The ESC volunteer will be working at Dodo’s office in the neighbourhood of Pasila in Helsinki. Just outside the office is the Urban Gardening Center Turntable, where events and activities are arranged during the growing season. The main task of the volunteer would be to help the employees. This includes tasks in urban gardening, communications, event arrangement and office maintenance. The volunteer will be joining Dodo’s Urban Dinners where they can arrange discussions and workshops, and help in the kitchen or in the garden.
🎒 Leisure activities
We will discuss, either in emails or in video call beforehand, the tasks, learning-process support and practical arrangements, and continue these discussions during the volunteer period. The volunteer will have a tutor (one of the employees) and a mentor (a person outside daily activities of Dodo) during the whole volunteership to offer help and support both during and after their volunteer period.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: We hope that the volunteer is motivated, interested in the scope of activities that Dodo runs, has a good level of English, has good communication skills, is co-operative and works well in teams. The volunteer should be motivated to learn, to adapt, to propose ideas, take initiative, work independently and be open to discover other cultures and different ways of doing things. A desire to participate actively in the project, pro activity, enthusiasm, eagerness and a desire for involvement are all necessary in order to ensure both the project and the volunteer will reach their full potential.
Deadline: Application deadline: 10/02/2023
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.