Kedves Önkéntes jelöltek! Van egy már megnyert Németországi EVS projekt, ahol az utolsó pillanatban mondta le az önkéntesünk a részvételt. Kérlek olvassátok el a leírást és ha úgy érzitek van bennetek elegendő energia egy ilyen projekt végigcsinálásához, vagy ismertek ilyet, akkor hamar hamar jelezzetek, mert gyakorlatilag lehet is kezdeni márciustól! Alap német tudás azért szükséges, mivel gyerekekkel kell majd kommunikálni, de természetesen mi is biztosítunk gyorstalpaló német kurzust és a projekt időtartama alatt is biztosítva lesz a nyelvtanulás!
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Project environment:
Kirchhain is a small town with about 17,000 inhabitants. It is in the Burgwald region in Hessen, 10 minutes by train from Marburg and 45 from Kassel. It is generally well situated with regard to transport. Kirchhain has different sport (tennis, fishing, riding, swimming) and leisure activities (observatory, sauna, barbecue huts, disco) and an adult education centre. The university town of Marburg with 70,000 inhabitants offers the volunteer an even (larger range of leisure activities and naturally contact to like aged youth.
Proposed activities for EVS volunteers:
Our community includes 5 residential groups accommodated in three houses. The houses are situated around the town square. We could imagine placing a volunteer in each of the 5 residential groups in addition to the full-time staff.
The volunteers accompany the children and young people in carrying out their daily lives. In this way they support our specialist staff. They will not be working under their own responsibility, but can offer the children and young people additional important support. They can offer motivation and care in areas where love of people is more important than qualifications and where the specialist staff often do not have enough time.
The volunteers can decide whether they would rather work from about 6- 14.00 or 6 - 8 and 14 - 20. The volunteers' work could be as follows:
6.00 Get up, accompany the children with washing, getting dressed, personal conversations, naming the tasks.
7.00 Breakfast together, supporting the children and young people, journey to school, accompanying the children and young people on the school journey.
8.00 Go on a walk with a children's group and specialist staff
9.00 the pre-school group, initiating play or working in the health area, awareness exercises with the Pollux and Castor groups to support the specialist staff
11.00 Break
11.30 Participation in circle games, play songs
12,30 Lunch together, supporting the children and young people
to about 14.00 organising the midday quiet time (e.g. reading aloud).
From 14.00 the school children are also at home. If the volunteer has not worked until14.00 then they
help with the homework, motivate and strengthen the children in their work.
In the leisure activities in the afternoon within and outside the establishment, the volunteers can attach themselves to a group and support the specialist staff. Depending on interest and involvement it is also possible for the volunteers to offer their own ideas as time goes on. This could for example be: music groups, painting, making things, discovering nature. The staff supports the volunteers and helps them organise the offers so that they correspond to the development and requirements of the children and young people so that we can create a lively environment with strong, clear and natural sensory impressions. 'The small child is totally a sensory organ' (Rudolf Steiner).
The average working week is 30 - 35 hours including a language course. Each week the volunteers have 2 consecutive days off. Once a month the weekend is free. On free days they are given a catering allowance. Each month the volunteer has a right to 2 days holiday. Our establishment is also open during the school holidays meaning the volunteer does not have to take their holidays in this time. Poket money of 105 Euro a month will be transferred by the co-ordinating organisation directly to the volunteer.
Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:
The volunteer should above all be open to working with disabled children and youth. Previous experience is not necessary and it is more important that they are interested in the work and willing to get involved in this type of work. It would be good if the volunteer was interested in music and could play an instrument as music is very good for both our children and youth.It would have been good, to have a driving-license.
Risk prevention, protection and safety:
During an EVS problems could arise. In the practicethe strategy of solving smaller problems firstly in the project proved of value. The tutor as well as the closest colleagues play the most important role. By regular conversations between tutor and volunteer we are informed in time about the problems and can help to discuss them and give assistance. VIA e.V. interferes first of all by phone. If the problems become more complex a VIA - coordinator visits the hosting organisation and works as (neutral) mediator between volunteer and hosting organisation. At this time the sending organisation has been informed about the situation. In addition the German National Agency offers a professional accompaniment of the volunteers at the seminars.
Motivation and EVS experience:
By hosting a young European we want to give them an insight into our work with disabled children and young people, to take them into our community and to spend a year with them.
For our supervised children the young volunteers from other countries offer a big opportunity to widen their social circles and to experience additional motivation and stimulation through exchange with young people from other countries. Through living together with healthy young people our children and young people can be integrated into their everyday lives a little. Understanding and tolerance should be promoted by shared projects with the disabled and the volunteers. This could be parties, plays, shared recreation planning or independence training.
Through dealing with disabled people the volunteers will also newly discover their own possibilities and receive new stimulation. Living and working in a community brings new experiences with it. We work out a target plan for the activities with those cared for together with the volunteers and the volunteers can feet satisfaction by achieving small or larger aims and experience how important this is.
Description of the organisation:
We are a remedial community offering care in the residential area as weIl as remedial education, stimulation and care. This is above all for children and young people suffering the effects of brain traumas with mental/multiple disabilities with psychological impairment of the senses or severe multiple disabilities. The community includes three houses with five groups and two parent-child apartments. We accommodate 38 children and youth. Our aim is social, cultural and physical integration. We work on the principles Rudolf Steiner. The administrator is the Association for remedial education Marburg e. V.
