📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The UCC provides a place where local Ukrainians can preserve their language, culture, and traditions. The organization serves as both a community center and a Sunday school for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish in Estonia. The center also makes it possible for Estonians and visitors from other nationalities to learn more about Ukrainian culture and diaspora. The UCC has a wider focus on the development and protection of disappearing traditions, cultures, crafts, and endangered nature. Since protecting ancient traditions and disappearing techniques is one of their main aims, they regularly organize workshops and courses that teach a number of different medieval arts and crafts. These are organized for children and adults alike in Estonian, Russian, English, and Ukrainian. They include papermaking, calligraphy, bookmaking, letterpress printing, and traditional woodwork. The UCC organizes exhibitions to promote the ethnography of Ukraine.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be either by project host – small room in the medieval house in the Old Town of Tallinn, shared kitchen, bathroom and toilet (current volunteer lives here).
Alternatively volunteer can stay in one of the apartments for ESC volunteers in Tallinn and share with 3 – 6 volunteers. Distance to the project is about 15-20 min by public transport from here (monthly card will be provided).
Food allowance is 160 EUR per months which volunteers use to manage their own food shopping. They will also receive a monthly pocket money of 120 EUR.
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🎒 Leisure activities
• Gaining knowledge about Ukrainian culture
• Calligraphy, paper making, book art, traditional woodwork
• Meeting many different people, interested in history and culture, which will give not only new learning opportunities but also a great intercultural experience
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: • A person interested in preserving culture, art, and nature
• Strong personal motivation to work on and learn about these topics
• Eagerness to widen a horizon on art and cultural history
• Open-minded and ready to cooperate
It would be very useful if the volunteer has experience in those fields, it is however not crucial.
Deadline: No application deadline
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.