📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Beautiful environment with excellent teachers and educators. Ability to take part in preschool life (1.5-6 years) old children to be there and support them in their first words spoken and games learned. Not to be there only for younger ones, volunteers will support afterschool activities (14:00-17:00) for 1st to 6th-grade young learners. There are opportunities for art/sport/culture/language/robotics/Lego/dance and other workshops for children. It is about the initiative and interests of volunteers, so the sky somehow is the limit, and finance of course.
The school is located in a rural area of Latvia, it is a safe and inspiring environment, with many natural surroundings. Volunteers need to be prepared to join forest activities with children.
We are flexible about volunteers' stay, it can be from 6 months up to 10 months and we can discuss it over the interview.
Project number: 2022-1-LV02-ESC51-VTJ-000052492
🏠 Accommodation on site
All by ESC rules.
Volunteers will share a flat with another volunteer (so it is 2 volunteers in total). Will have a separate bedroom, shared kitchen, living room and bathroom. Flat has all there might be needed (washing machine, dishwasher, wifi, iMac for some movie screening :)
Travel is covered as by ESC rules based on distance as calculated in the Erasmus+ distance calculator.
There is no need for public transport in Preili, volunteer has access to a bike if needed.
And a great opportunity to find or create entertainment within a rural place, with limited options.
🎒 Leisure activities
Volunteers receive on-arrival training from NA and ongoing support from preschool and school teachers and the community around us.
Additionally, there are meetings with the project coordinator to set learning goals and aims for learning in all aspects (personal, professional, interpersonal).
Some volunteers after the project have become excellent preschool teachers who went to study this field at the university, some took totally different paths, but all have learned and developed.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: The person who likes kids is open and outgoing in learning to communicate and jump into action. Likes the outdoors and is not afraid of the wind, snow and unexpected darkness at 4 pm in December. A person who wants to experience some type of mild nordic weather living, meet spring with open arms and experience a summer of the unknown.
If you feel ready for action and learning with some active and creative, kids, then this is for you.
Deadline: Application deadline: 09/02/2023
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.