ESC: Volunteering in the Special School Complex no 11

Name: ESC: Volunteering in the Special School Complex no 11
Start: 2024-09-02
End: 2025-06-30
Location: Kraków, Poland

Code: 40338 Copied

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

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

We are looking for 8 volunteers ready to work in the special school, which menas working with students with disabilities. In this school students have severe disabikities: very often they use wheelchairs or walking sticks, they don't speak in the usual way but using special devices, picture books, sign language. Volunteer works there 30 hours per week, 6 hours per day. Additionaly volunteers participate in activities prepared by Internationaler Bund Polska, which is coordinating organisation. If you are interested on the project, please read this offer carefully, because we contact only candidates that follow the steps and the one of them is to fulfil the form for candidates here: https://forms.office.com/e/7n0H57wCAb

🏠 Accommodation on site

All volunteers will stay in the flats rented by Internationaler Bund Polska especially for our ESC volunteers. We have usually 2-beds rooms with spacious kitchen and bathroom. Volunteers receive pocket money and food allowance every month. Volunteers get monthly card which allow them to use public transportation (buses and trams) inside the city as well as outside if they work in one of the schools nearby Krakow.

🎒 Leisure activities

Before arriving to Poland each volunteer should be prepared for the project by his/her sending organisation. This pre-departure training is obligatory part of preparation. After comming to Poland all volunteers are involved in workshops about communicartion, ICL and Polish culture and history. There are also 2 obligatory trainings provided by Polish National Agency: on-arrival training in first weeks of the project and mid-term evaluation in the middle. All volunteers meet regularly each month. There is also a space for trainings proposed by volunteers

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are not looking for volunteers with a particular skills or educational level, sex or religion. We need volunteers who are motivated to work with children and contribute to the local community and ready to share their culture and experiences with others. Each volunteer is a part of bigger international group of people from different countries, so it’s important to be open-minded and tolerant towards countries and cultures. That’s what is the other core of our projects, too! Because this project is really not easy, experience of working with disabled people is welcomed.
Deadline: Application deadline: 14/06/2024

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

PL40338

02/09/2024 → 30/06/2025

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Deadline: 14/06/2024

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: 21:26 (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