EVS FOR CAUCASUS (POLAND)
Duration: 9 months
Working with refugees and Polish teenagers
The project "EVS for Caucasus" will take place in Poland, the city of Bialystok. The duration of the volunteer's activity is 9 months in the DIALOGUE Foundation. The duration of the volunteer's activity is 9 months, starting from the 20th of July 2018 (estimated date) until the 30th of May 2019.
We are looking for one volunteer from Spain to take part in this project. All together, there will be 4 European Volunteers taking part in this project, from Spain, Greece, Italy and Germany.
The volunteers will work in the kindergarten for refugees’ children, with the assistance of the kindergarten teacher and the coordinator, they will organize extra classes for refugee teenagers and adults. The classes will be compatible with volunteers’ hobbies and qualifications and will be aimed at organizing free time for children, teenagers and adults, involving them in active participation in social life, integrating with the Polish and international society.
Apart from working in the centre, the volunteers will visit primary schools, junior high schools, high schools, universities and specialistic institutions throughout the region of Podlaskie, giving lessons about human rights, stereotypes and refugees, aiming at raising the society’s awareness of the refugee issue.
They will also design their own activities to reach the aim of the project and help to prepare integration events. Informal learning methods, like discussion, presentation, exchange of ideas, opinions, training combined with discussion of the issue, tandem learning, learning by doing, individual and group initiatives, will be dominating throughout the project.
The effect of the project will be the development of intercultural dialogue, raising awareness of therefugee issue among the participants and recipients of the project, increasing the level of knowledge and competence of both participants and recipients. Additional effect will be increasing the visibility of the ERASMUS+ Programme in the region.
And here in the short points:
Main tasks of volunteer:
• Working with children at the kindergarten of the refugee centre;
• Designing extra activities and games for refugees children and teenagers in the refugee centre and foundation;
• Conducting workshops about your country, refugees issues, tolerance, stereotypes etc. at local schools (kindergartens, primary schools, high schools, higher education and specialist institutions);
• Participating in different trainings, e.g. about refugees issues or art crafts;
• Participating in few classes of Russian language;
• Attending regularly a Polish language course;
• Preparing special events, like cultural evenings or movie evenings;
The volunteers will participate in the Polish language course, organized by the hosting organization. The training about refugee issues will be also provided, to facilitate volunteers' adaptation to the environment, where the activities will take place.
In Bialystok the volunteers will be accommodated in a dormitory located near the city center, with private rooms and bedsheets provided.
If you are interested in this project, please send your CV and Motivation Letter in English to gines.euroaccion@gmail.com with the subject EVS FOR CAUCASUS before the 1st of June 2018.