📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Complex School No. 16 in Bialystok trains and educates young people with intellectual disability.
In our school there are about 205 students aged 16-24 years old. It consists of the following schools:
Vocational Special School, educating young people in following professions: a hairdresser, a cook, a
car mechanic, a gardener, a hotel service worker, a carpenter and Pre-Vocational Special School for
students with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities and with other impairments. We provide
students to develop and prepare to deal with different social roles, to live independently and lead an
active adult life. Students are trained, among others, in: preparing meals, sewing, cleaning work,
washing, gardening, computer use, and commercial art techniques.
We work individually with our students, dependently from the grade of their disability.
In school we have highly qualified stuff. Our students always have support of teachers and therapists
as well.
The school has a studio room with a catering service consumer, dwelling unit (Service); gardening
workshop with the area for growing and greenhouse; multimedia room to learn English; hairdressing
studio; a computer room, gym.
After regular lessons we offer additional lessons to develop interests and talents: sports activities
(gym, aerobics, swimming pool), theatre (auditorium with stage), arts, IT classes, choir, sightseeing
and tourism ; compensatory classes; specialty classes.
We organize carnival balls, tours, bonfires, cinema, theatre, meetings and social events. We also
organize a variety of classes and workshops for parents and guardians of our students. We work with
a variety of educational institutions outside the city of Bialystok, with the local community
associations working on behalf of people with disabilities.
The school also organizes a number of artistic events, sports, entertainment and various
competitions. We also have a dormitory.
💼 What the programme involves
The main activities of the volunteers:
• supporting professional lessons of cooks, hairdressers, gardeners and hoteliers in specialist rooms, training rooms or
greenhouses;
• supporting activities developing activities necessary in the daily functioning of the students of the training school in the
field of culinary, tailoring, computer and cleaning activities;
• supporting teachers in their daily duties such as preparing meals, sewing, cleaning, washing up, computer and artistic
activities, ie theater, music, art and applied arts;
• supporting teachers' caring work during trips, trips and visits to the cinema, theater, opera, etc .;
• participation in activities at the swimming pool, in the gym, in the gymnasium, in aerobics classes and sports
competitions in football, table tennis, basketball and volleyball
- participation in rehabilitation and specialist classes as part of rehabilitation classes, such as speech therapy, sensory
integration classes, social skills training
🏠 Accommodation on site
The coordinating organization rents a flat in the city of Bialystok. Here lives the volunteer together with other volunteers or with students, has own room and common bath and kitchen. The volunteer gets a monthly ticket for city travel. The coordinating organization pays also the travel expenses connected with the on-arrival training and the mid-term meeting on the base of original tickets The volunteer gets from the coordinating organization money for food and pocket money.
🎒 Leisure activities
Volunteers will participate in training courses provided by the Polish National Agency (On-arrival training and Mid-term meeting) and in two pieces of training organized by host organization: about ecological lifestyle and animation-methods.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We are looking for volunteers should be interested in ecological topics and ecological lifestyles, dynamic, enthusiastic, and passionate about ecology. Also, volunteers ready to collaborate with children/ youngsters with mental and physical disabilities. We would like to welcome someone with an open mind and heart:)
Deadline: Application deadline: 22/09/2021
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.