📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
We invite you to participate in one of our projects. This is an opportunity to work with different generations in kindergartens, schools and in a senior citizen's home.
Volunteering involves supporting staff in their daily tasks and creating activities, especially representing your culture and promoting international exchange.
KINDERGARTEN: spending time with children, informal learning.
DAY CARE CENTER Senior+: keeping seniors company, organizing daily activities, interacting with young people.
SCHOOL: assisting teachers, giving language lessons, implementing projects, supporting refugee children, mini-projects.
Through volunteering you will develop new skills in your professional and personal life:education, planning events, living in an international community.
In addition, you will be involved in developing close cooperation with local organizations, joining in the organization of meetings and events. All your activities will be supported by a project team.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The apartment is located in the heart of the city, so all workplaces can be reached within a few minutes walk. The project participant will have to share one large room and bathroom with another volunteer. We have several single person apartments available. The apartment has a fully equipped kitchen with a washing machine.
In addition to pocket money, the volunteer also receives money for food and lunch at the work site.
The volunteer has insurance for the whole period of the project in the insurance company "CIGNA" - European type insurance.
🎒 Leisure activities
At the beginning of the project there will be a short seminar introducing the city of Wroclaw and the workplaces.
This will be followed by an official inbound training organised by the Polish National Agency. There will also be a mid-term training organized by the National Agency.
At the end of the year the coordinating organisation organised an evaluation meeting for the volunteers.
Meetings with the mentor take place once a week to discuss professional and personal issues.
The Coordinating Organisation offers the volunteer a Polish language course which lasts one semester.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We are looking for young, open-minded people between 18 and 29 years old who want to work in schools, kindergartens and with seniors (Wroclaw and surroundings).
These individuals must be open to another culture, flexible and innovative to work in different areas.
Volunteers should learn new skills in parallel with those already acquired.
Another issue is the readiness to combine own culture with Polish culture in order to discuss national, international and European values.
Knowledge of the Polish language is not required, but volunteers must be ready to learn it.
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.