📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The Caritas Association for the Diocese of Augsburg e. V. is a leading association of free welfare work. The headquarter of the Caritas association has been in the Caritas house "Auf dem Kreuz" in the city center since 1978. All departments are united here under one roof.
The Department of Voluntary Services - responsible for all federal voluntary service providers in the Diocese of Augsburg - is looking for a volunteer from the European region who would like to help with the following tasks:
• Support for other volunteers during their period of service
• Conception and further development of educational concepts
• Implementation and development of various training days
• Planning and implementation of site visits
• Public relations - especially in social media
🏠 Accommodation on site
- youth hostel "Kolpinghaus Augsburg" near to the "Caritasverband für die Diözese Augsburg e. V."
- single room and use of the shared kitchen-cum-living room
- including partial catering
- WLAN
- use of the in-house leisure areas
- both, accomodation and the volunteer location, are in the City of Augsburg with short distances to each other and social infrastructure
- the public transportation system in Augsburg and Bavaria is of good quality
🎒 Leisure activities
-You will be part of a team.
-A supervisor will help you to implement your volunteer assignments. The youth pass will be used to monitor your learning experience. There will be at least three meetings with the supervisor during your volunteership (at the beginning, in the middle and at the end).
-You will get accees to a weekly German language training opportunity.
-You will attend two seminars of the German national agency somewhere in Germany.
-You will get the chance to contact other volunteers.
-You will get introduced to other parts of Caritas Augsburg.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: You should...
- be open minded to people of different cultures
- be interested in the German way of life, structures and contextes
- love to communicate with people
- like to help people in need and work with them directly
- be able to speak, read and write in English (at least B1); preferable you have German language skills too, any other language skills are beneficial
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.