ESC: Volunteering in social therapy village for people with special needs

Name: ESC: Volunteering in social therapy village for people with special needs
Start: 2023-04-01
End: 2024-04-30
Location: Latvia

Code: 34110 Copied

Latvia European Voluntary Service Social work Environment European Voluntary Service Social work +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteers will live and work in a therapeutic village Camphill Rožkalni together with 10 people with special needs, with minor mental disabilities and with 6 coworkers and their families. Volunteers will be engaged in all daily activities, including participation and work in the workshops: tea and herb, cow shed - feeding and taking care of cows, dairy workshop - making cheese, yoghurt and sourcream, paperworkshop - making school excercise books for Waldorfshools. Using a scheduled that will be designed together with volunteers, they will also be engaged in cooking and caring for the house. Both in Rožkalni village and in Renceni there are different cultural events and other activities. We will cooperate with local Rencēni primary school and culture house to engage volunteers together with Camphill villagers to take part in these activities and will encourage volunteers to initaite their own activities - possibly language courses and other intercultural evenings and activities.

🏠 Accommodation on site

You will live in a room in our village - farm that consists of two family houses, a culture house, barn, cow sheds. Your daily meals will be offered here on site and there is no necessity to commute to work since you will live on site. The closest village with a shop is 9km away and Valmiera, the closest city is 16 km away. There is public transportation available. You will receive pocket money - 120 euros per month.

🎒 Leisure activities

You will be offered training from our national agency and will be offered online Latvian language lessons.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are looking for self-motivated young people who are willing to work in a farm and are not afraid to perform different tasks, spend time with people with special needs.
Deadline: Application deadline: 10/04/2023

ℹ️ Additional information

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?

Training before and after the project
Health insurance during your project
round-trip travel reimbursement
accommodation and food
pocket money
language course
Return Week-end
Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

LV34110

01/04/2023 → 30/04/2024

Closed

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Deadline: 10/04/2023

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Rencēni parish, Valmiera Municipality, LV-4232, Latvia

Latvia

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Eastern European Standard Time

Local time: 22:02 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Latvian Russian Lithuanian