📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Organized together with UDINUS (Universitas Dian Nuswantoro) in collaboration with second partner, YPAC a school for disable people in Semarang. YPAC will offer volunteering space in the field of social inclusion for volunteers in UDINUS. This joint program between three organizations is a brand new type of collaboration where both local partners agree to:
1. Share visions of both partners through sharing knowledge of both local partners to the volunteer
2. Achieve missions of both partners through combined activities which will be implemented by volunteer
3. Give volunteering time shared between two local partners
4. Open access for students of UDINUS to do social inclusion activity together with international
volunteer during his stay in this program
5. Open access for students of YPAC to meet non-disable people in Semarang area who are the students of UDINUS and to receive love and sincere attention through social inclusion activities with UDINUS students and international volunteer
💼 What the programme involves
1) When in UDINUS
- Assist English Classes with alternative subjects: Speaking, Cross Cultural Understanding, Subtitling, etc. The classes will be followed by students of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in university mainly conversation classes;
- Create and manage the English conversation club out of classes by inviting UDINUS students. The purposes of this activity are: (1) to spread the IVS (International Voluntary Service) spirit among the college students especially in the field of Social Inclusion and (2) to have more relax and informal English conversation activities with interested students.
2) When in YPAC
- Learn about YPAC school: its departments, activities in and out of classes, its diversity of disabilities supported by the school to the students and parents
- Volunteer can decide in which department/ activities of YPAC he would like to take part at. Volunteer can also do assisting in all departments in turn. Volunteer MUST find his best interest and skills in this phase -Together with UDINUS Students Association to create at least two times Social Inclusion event in YPAC.
Working Days: 25 to 40 hours/week. Sometimes the volunteers are needed during the
weekend.Sometimes the volunteers are needed to help UDINUS and/or GREAT to do other voluntary
action during the weekends.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Boarding house provided by local partner
📍 About the location
Jl. Nakula Semarang Central Java Indonesia
⚠️ Requirements
Has a letter of teaching English is more preferable, has higher education background, cheerful, patient, self confidence builder, comfortable to interact with disable people, high motivation and full of initiatives.
ℹ️ Additional information
Starting Date: Period 1 March-July 2016,
Periode 2: September-December 2016,
Duration: at least 2 months
There is no extra participation fees for this project
There will be sessions of Learning Indonesian Language in the On Arrival Training but the very basic one. The rest is his own interest and effort to learn. Indonesian is one of the easiest languages in the world. Give yourself a good try!