ESC: Volunteering in the kindergarten in the Special School Complex no 4 - Dare to Act! project

Name: ESC: Volunteering in the kindergarten in the Special School Complex no 4 - Dare to Act! project
Start: 2025-09-02
End: 2026-05-31
Location: Kraków, Poland

Code: 4422667a4d94759452 Copied

Poland Culture Education European Voluntary Service Social work Culture Education +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Internationaler Bund Polska (IB Polska) is a foundation established in Krakow at the turn of 2004 and 2005. The founder is a German organisation Internationaler Bund Freier Traeger der Jugend-Sozial und Bildungsarbeit e.V. from Frankfurt am Main. The main goals of the foundation are: helping people to develope themselves in different areas and planning their own future life, to integrate with the society, to be responsible for themselves and to be an active citizens whose are helping to develope local communities and society. Foundation tries to stimulate to action for the benefit of the individual as well as the whole society in order to support and build mutual international understanding and cooperation. The target groups are children, teenagers, young adults, seniors, people with disabilities and fewer opportunities.
IB Polska carries out statutory goals by initiation and supporting local and international programmes based on the social, economical, and political phenomena including education, culture, environmental protection, healthcare, social assistance and vocational and social rehabilitation.

As the coordinating organisation Internationaler Bund Polska cooperates with local and foreign organisations as well as local governments. Every year we are trying to extend our activities focusing on actual needs and social problems. This way we are able to develope our local communities and to let them grown and be more active and aware of current possibilities and tools.

💼 What the programme involves

We are looking for volunteers who would like to join our long-term project in the kindergarten in the Special School Complex no 4 in Krakow, Poland. This project lasts over 9 months, starting on the 2nd of September 2025. The school has the long tradition, as it exists 86 years already. The school provides excellent education, revalidation and intellectual development for children with mental disabilities. Usually volunteers give the additional care to kids, such as art classes, gym, individual revalidation, assist during the school trips to the movie, theater, museums, amusement parks, school festivities, educational projects, they help to prepare international presentations and competitions. In the kindergarten there is a space for volunteers own ideas to create activities suitable for children with mental disabilities with the support of the coordinator and teachers. To apply please fill out the questionnaire: https://forms.office.com/e/cL1HLsbPVz

🏠 Accommodation on site

All volunteers are placed in the flats rent for the purpose by coordinating organization Internationaler Bund Polska. Rooms are single or double. There is always shared bathroom and kitchen in each flat. Flats are placed usually in the neighborhood of the hosting organizations, not in the city center, but we provide monthly cards for local transportation to all the volunteers.

🍲 Food

Every month we transfer pocket money and food allowance to bank account of the volunteer open in Poland.

🎒 Leisure activities

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are looking for candidates who would like to work with very young children with mental disabilities and are ready to give them their time. For sure you need to be patient and ready to built relationships with children, which takes some time in the beginning. Candidates need to be open, friendly, warm, creative and empathetic. And ready to learn Polish to communicate with children. It would be nice to have additional abilities, for example vocal, manual, musical or sport. Candidates must be between 18 and 30 years old, because it's the main rule of the European Solidarity Corps program.
Deadline: 31/03/2025 00:00

ℹ️ Additional information

Volunteers get travel costs back when they arrive to the project up to the limits set by ESC.

There are meetings with candidates before they are accepted to the project. Sending organization should prepare volunteer to the project before they leave the country. During the project IB Polska provides regular monthly meetings for volunteers and individual meetings with each person. There are also two obligatory trainings provided by the Polish National Agency if the activity lasts at least 6 months.

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

PL44226

02/09/2025 at 00:00 → 31/05/2026 at 00:00

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Deadline: 31/03/2025

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

Kraków, Poland

Poland

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Poland Zloty (PLN / zł)

Exchange rate

1 PLN = 0.228363 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 22:10 (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 Polish