📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our aim is to promote sustainable development of society, and to foster cultural and environmental education through youth and adult life long learning and active participation in social processes. Our main tools to achieve this is volunteering and non-formal education
Radi Vidi Pats started as an association that works with topics related environmental education for youngsters but slowly and very naturally we have grown into the social sphere as well. Sustainability, alternative and DIY life style is still our fundamentals, and bicycle for many years has been our main tool in communication with the society, especially youngsters. A few years ago we started consciously working with NEET youngsters as socially disadvantaged youngsters have always been attracted to RVP activities. Nevertheless, environmental topics will always be important for the organisation.
Five years ago RVP opened a bicycle kitchen – self-service bicycle workshop that also serves as a freak bike creating basis. Another regular activity is up-cycling workshops that RVP facilitates in different parts of the region. For RVP waste is seen as material and sharing this view is an important part of thier work throughout the existence of this NGO. In the Summer of 2017 we moved to a new building that is more opened to different type of activities such as community discussions and learning sessions.
💼 What the programme involves
The aim of the association is to promote sustainable development of Latvian society, cultural and environmental education through lifelong learning of young people and adults, and participation in social processes.
The volunteers will take an active rol in the activities we carry out in the organisation, such as the swap-shop, the community garden, cultural events, art work with mosaics, educational bike-rides... Volunteers, especially long term, are also encouraged to create their own activities according to their interests and level of skills. Those mostly are educational or practical workshops, but we are open to listen to their own ideas.
We will have weekly and monthly meetings to keep track of the activity of the volunteers in the organisation and help them to carry out their projects. In addition, they will be assigned a mentor to assist them in their learning throughout the project.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will live in a shared apartment in the city of Liepāja, with individual rooms.
The project offers 4€ per day as pocket money, and 140€ per month for food.
Volunteers will have the opportunity to use bicycles to move around the city.
Travel expenses will be reimbursed on the basis defined by the European Commission.
🎒 Leisure activities
Volunteers will attend an arrival training, midterm training, and will have the opportunity to apply to participate in other trainings appropriate to the project.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: They must be from 18 to 30 years old.
The characteristics we are looking for could be: flexible, independent, committed, able to communicate in english, takes initiative, ready to get out of the confort zone, etc.
We are accepting people from rural, marginalised areas.
Deadline: Application deadline: 06/09/2022
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.