Deadline: |
May 5, 2019 by 12:00 pm
Location: |
Portugal
(Fully Funded)
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Acting Local, Changing Global
The Portuguese Red Cross Youth is going to host young volunteers from 1st of June 2019 to 31st of May 2020 in the cities of Guimarães, São João da Madeira and Vila Nova de Gaia, in an European Solidarity Coprs volunteering project called: Acting Local, Changing Global.
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During 12 months, these volunteers will carry out different activities that aim to foster solidarity in children and youngsters, not only amongst themselves, but also towards every human being, regardless of nationality, gender or race. Volunteers will carry out activities in order to work effectively in the social inclusion of children and vulnerable young people living in these communities. At the same time they will develop their own personal and social skills. Our aim is to include the volunteers in the projects of these Portuguese Red Cross youth structures if they feel motivated, but also allow their participation when it comes to event planning, social media and communication activities and even motivate them to create their own projects and develop their ideas among our communities.
All the activities will deal with topics that are of prime concern in the youth field:
health promotion and education, such as eating habits, alcohol and drug abuse, or promoting physical activity. They will also promote school inclusion especially through digital skills. Volunteers will promote actions in schools; develop leisure activities; develop and help organizing sports and learning activities during holidays but also during school time.
you will also be encouraged to develop your own ideas and personal projects to further enrich the organization in line with the six areas of intervention:
Health Promotion and Health Education: adoption of healthy habits and behaviors as part of individual and social development of young people.
Intervention for Inclusion and Gender Equality: inclusion of children and young people in situations of social exclusion through programs and projects based in different social realities.
Education for Development and International Cooperation: promotion of Humanitarian Values and International Cooperation through social awareness, Human Rights and Children and Education for peace and development.
Employability, entrepreneurship and active citizenship: skills development, entrepreneurship and the exercise of one’s own role in society, especially through volunteering.
Environmental education: adoption of environmental habits and attitudes through programs and projects that raise awareness towards a more ecological planet.
Humanitarian education: adoption of civic behaviors and development of personal and social skills and attitudes that respect diversity and human rights, through projects and activities that raise awareness on humanitarian values for young people towards a culture of peace and non-violence.
General Tasks Of The Volunteers:
- Take part in all the activities supporting the work of the professional team and the local volunteers.
- Propose their own ideas and initiatives.
Possible Tasks For The Volunteers:
- Blogging about the organisation’s activities.
- Providing support in the local Red Cross Youth Sector projects (for example,São João da Madeira “Ponto Vermelho” – a social shop that aims at helping needed families and fighting poverty – or Guimarães “Hospital Volunteering” that aims to support the ill in the local hospital)
- Developing online content.
- Photography for events and campaigns.
- English lessons and other occupational cultural activities with vulnerable children.
- Setting up and running of organization’s social media accounts.
- Writing of projects.
- Accompanying young people on excursions.
- Creating new materials to work with children.
- Helping in fundraising activities.
- Visiting local schools to work with children and present their countries.
- Learning of Portuguese language.
- Artistic workshops and/or non-formal educational activities for children to promote healthy behaviors.
- Creating diaries to accompany school progress.
- Writing of a funding application to host youth exchanges.
- Graphic design of dissemination materials.
- Decorating youth centers.
- Actively supporting campaigns like food gatherings and Christmas gift wrapping.
Opportunity Focus Areas:
- Social Work.
- Human Rights.
- Sport.
- Public Health.
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English.
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EGYPT, PALESTINE, JORDAN, TUNISIA, MOROCCO.
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(12 months) during the period 01.06.2019– 31.05.2020.
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- Between 18-30 years.
- Genuine interest in social and educational issues.
- Motivated, flexible and reliable.
- Ability to work in multi-lingual/multi-cultural environment.
- Should be interested and predisposed in working with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people and children.
- Able to work in a team environment .
- Should be responsible, creative, curious, open-minded.
- Should have good communicative skills.
- Creating empathy with children and young people.
- Able to support and stimulate different types of leisure activity, from indoor to outdoor activities.
- Competences in artistic expression.
- Experience on sports or music field is very welcomed.
- True will to overcome the language barrier and learn portuguese.
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(Fully Funded)
- Monthly salary: Includes food, transportation, travel within the country, EVS pocket money, health insurance and language courses for volunteers.
- 100% of travels: costs will also be reimbursed by bank transfer according to the maximum budget approved by European Commission for every country.
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First Step: You must send a Curriculum Vitae in Europass format and Motivation Letter in English (It should take into account the
motivation for joining this project) to this E-mail [email protected] All documents must be submitted in PDF format.
For more information about project, download this Acting-Local-Changing-Global.pdf
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