📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
We believe that everything begins from having a home. Everyone has a right to one’s own home, with his own door with his own name.
Drug and mental health rehabilitants, long term homeless people, and people driven to economic difficulties are usually the ones who drop out of the housing markets. For 60 years Sininauhasäätiö has given thousands of homeless people a home, regardless of drug, economic, or mental health problems or criminal history. People with a place to call their own have a significantly better chance to use their will and power to get their lives together.We defend the rights of the people in the weakest position. The goal of Sininauhasäätiö is to lower the amount of homelessness, strengthen the drug and mental health services, and assist our clients towards being a part of the society. Our Christian values can be seen in our way of encountering our clients: we believe in human dignity and meeting people with respect. There is always hope when someone cares.
💼 What the programme involves
Sininauhasäätiö defends the rights of the people in the weakest position, for example homeless people, and people with drug or mental health issues. The goal of Sininauhasäätiö is to lower the amount of homelessness, strengthen the drug and mental health services, and assist our clients towards being a part of the society. As a volunteer in this project you help in shelters for homeless people by meeting the people, playing games with them, by listening and giving your time and care for them and help in the kitchen.
You can volunteer as a support person for our customers, help in sorting donated clothes, help in events and fundraising campaigns ,help in the tasks with the new immigrants, help in cooking groups, write stories or blogs, send pictures in our social media and many other things. We want that our volunteers do things which gives them great feeling. That’s why we want to find the most suitable tasks for you. We are always also open for your ideas.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers live in the shared apartment in Helsinki. In the apartment there's a living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. Another volunteer can have the bedroom and another one the living room.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We are looking for volunteer who has will to help people in the most vulnerable situation. It is good to be open minded and ready to face all kind of people in all kind of conditions.
Deadline: Application deadline: 05/06/2022
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.