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EVS in Portogallo su attività giovanili

YouNet (2010-it-93) as sending organisation is looking for volunteers for the project proposed by the Portouguese hosting organisation ARCIL (2009-PT-1) that will start from 03/01/2011 to 03/10/2011.

Proposed activities for EVS volunteers

A) Leisure Time Centre: the target groups are children between 6 and 10 years old. The volunteer will work with the monitors. We work with about 180 children in five different schools. We plan activities with the monitors like music, body expression, plastic expression, nature activities, sports, thematic discussions and others. During the school holidays, the monitors work during all the day and the volunteer can choose and work also during the same period. The volunteer will also participate in trainings offered to the monitors and organised by our organisation or by other associations who gives formation in the most important issues related with activities for children.
B) Activities for disadvantaged young people and for young people with Special Educational Needs: the main objective is to support a small group of disadvantaged young people and young people with disabilities or special educational needs and propose them some activities, motivate them to participate in future projects. The activities are flexible and can be adapted to the talents of the volunteer: language courses, music lessons, theatre, drawing, computer lessons and much more things that the volunteer can propose. If the volunteer doesn't have a special request or capacity to think and animate a special activity, we can propose him some concrete ideas relating to our capacities and resources. These activities will be a good way to keep in touch with this target group, to know them better, to define their own needs. The volunteer can also work in collaboration with our accommodation program in the unities of male, female and couple accommodations giving personal, social support and leisure time occupation for children, youth and adults with a handicap and/or in risk of social exclusion.
C) Other punctual activities: beside these daily activities, the volunteer will be able to participate (preparation, realisation and evaluation) in other activities like the Youth week-end, international work camp, school information sessions.
D) Individual project: During the voluntary service, the volunteer will have the opportunity to think, prepare and execute his own project with the help of the tutor and the other members of the association. A special and regular time during the week is defined to achieve this objective, with special training if necessary (methodology of project, budget skills, communication….for example).
E) Support to the staff: the volunteer can also help other staff in "small daily things" like shopping, logistic work; it's always a good way to know the city, the important places and it can help and motivate the volunteer to practice his Portuguese knowledge in a very concrete way.

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:

The volunteer has to be an active young female or male, with an open spirit to work with special needs and willing to learn and to collaborate with the objectives of the host organisation.

Better if his/her has some skills to help during music classes and sport classes. Also if the volunteer has skills to work on websites.

Description of the hosting organisation:

The mission of ARCIL is to promote care and rehabilitation services to persons with disability or in a situation of exclusion, aiming their social and professional integration. ARCIL develops several activities, structured in
Rehabilitation Services and Production Unities.

Rehabilitation Services includes:
- Childhood and Youth Program- to promote personal, family and social development of children and youth with special development problems and/or with trouble in their social insertion process.
- CAO Program (Occupational Activities Centre) - to stimulate and develop lingering capacities, promoting self- valorisation, social integration and well-being; to promote self- sufficiency through the development of socially useful activities.
- Professional Training Program - to raise jobs and encourage social and economic insertion through information, evaluation and professional guiding, training, job insertion and follow-up.
- Sheltered Employment Program (CEPARCIL) - to assure employment in production or service units, as a means of personal and professional valorisation of disabled people, and making it easy for them to have access to regular job market.
- Residential Program - to promote the development of personal and social abilities, to raise self- sufficiency and cooperation and solidarity relations and to promote communitarian integration
Complementary activities - sports, music, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, hypnotherapy, clinical psychology, expressions (dance, music, acting, painting, adventure sports), holiday trips, snoezelen, work medicine, dentist and physiatrist..

EVS in Portogallo su attività giovanili

YouNet (2010-it-93) as sending organisation is looking for volunteers for the project proposed by the Portouguese hosting organisation ARCIL (2009-PT-1) that will start from 03/01/2011 to 03/10/2011.

Proposed activities for EVS volunteers

A) Leisure Time Centre: the target groups are children between 6 and 10 years old. The volunteer will work with the monitors. We work with about 180 children in five different schools. We plan activities with the monitors like music, body expression, plastic expression, nature activities, sports, thematic discussions and others. During the school holidays, the monitors work during all the day and the volunteer can choose and work also during the same period. The volunteer will also participate in trainings offered to the monitors and organised by our organisation or by other associations who gives formation in the most important issues related with activities for children.
B) Activities for disadvantaged young people and for young people with Special Educational Needs: the main objective is to support a small group of disadvantaged young people and young people with disabilities or special educational needs and propose them some activities, motivate them to participate in future projects. The activities are flexible and can be adapted to the talents of the volunteer: language courses, music lessons, theatre, drawing, computer lessons and much more things that the volunteer can propose. If the volunteer doesn't have a special request or capacity to think and animate a special activity, we can propose him some concrete ideas relating to our capacities and resources. These activities will be a good way to keep in touch with this target group, to know them better, to define their own needs. The volunteer can also work in collaboration with our accommodation program in the unities of male, female and couple accommodations giving personal, social support and leisure time occupation for children, youth and adults with a handicap and/or in risk of social exclusion.
C) Other punctual activities: beside these daily activities, the volunteer will be able to participate (preparation, realisation and evaluation) in other activities like the Youth week-end, international work camp, school information sessions.
D) Individual project: During the voluntary service, the volunteer will have the opportunity to think, prepare and execute his own project with the help of the tutor and the other members of the association. A special and regular time during the week is defined to achieve this objective, with special training if necessary (methodology of project, budget skills, communication….for example).
E) Support to the staff: the volunteer can also help other staff in "small daily things" like shopping, logistic work; it's always a good way to know the city, the important places and it can help and motivate the volunteer to practice his Portuguese knowledge in a very concrete way.

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:

The volunteer has to be an active young female or male, with an open spirit to work with special needs and willing to learn and to collaborate with the objectives of the host organisation.

Better if his/her has some skills to help during music classes and sport classes. Also if the volunteer has skills to work on websites.

Description of the hosting organisation:

The mission of ARCIL is to promote care and rehabilitation services to persons with disability or in a situation of exclusion, aiming their social and professional integration. ARCIL develops several activities, structured in
Rehabilitation Services and Production Unities.

Rehabilitation Services includes:
- Childhood and Youth Program- to promote personal, family and social development of children and youth with special development problems and/or with trouble in their social insertion process.
- CAO Program (Occupational Activities Centre) - to stimulate and develop lingering capacities, promoting self- valorisation, social integration and well-being; to promote self- sufficiency through the development of socially useful activities.
- Professional Training Program - to raise jobs and encourage social and economic insertion through information, evaluation and professional guiding, training, job insertion and follow-up.
- Sheltered Employment Program (CEPARCIL) - to assure employment in production or service units, as a means of personal and professional valorisation of disabled people, and making it easy for them to have access to regular job market.
- Residential Program - to promote the development of personal and social abilities, to raise self- sufficiency and cooperation and solidarity relations and to promote communitarian integration
Complementary activities - sports, music, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, hypnotherapy, clinical psychology, expressions (dance, music, acting, painting, adventure sports), holiday trips, snoezelen, work medicine, dentist and physiatrist..

EVS in Ungheria su media e comunicazione

YouNet (2010-it-93) as sending organisation is looking for volunteers for the project proposed by the Hungarian hosting organisation Hang-Kép Kulturális Egyesület (2009-HU-1) that will start from the 1st of February for 10 months.

Proposed activities for EVS volunteers

On the one hand the volunteers will actively participate in the trainings of the communication courses that are organised for high school students, university students and other youth workers. Besides these different programs (team building, open speech training, photography courses) the volunteers will be involved in the youth action teams that we are doing together with local youngsters (action teams for communicating different issues to other young people and to the members of the local community with different purposes).
On the other hand the volunteers will be working with the members of the association in making radio, TV programs (making interviews, editing, recording, gathering information, preparation, etc.) and doing short videos on youth activities. They will be involved in the different stages of the work depending on their interests and skills. In order to maintain these activities and develop these skills the volunteers will be helped to learn and to try out in practice all the activities (creation of an image for a TV show, editing radio and TV spots, doing interviews and reports, jingles, making "mock" press conferences etc.). This non-formal learning will enable them to decide which types of activities they would like to be more involved in and also develop new skills when working in teams.

In order to make a good project it is necessary for the volunteers to contact local radio and TV stations (mainly community ones) in the community they live in at their home country. With the help of the volunteers we are planning to make different programs on Debercen and Hajdú-Bihar County. These programs could be broadcasted in the home region of the volunteers. On the other hand we are in good relationship with several community radio stations in Debrecen and some local TV stations in the North-Great Plain region, so we can arrange that introductory programs of the sending regions will be broadcasted in Hungary. This way not only the organisations but the inhabitants of the regions get to know each other. Naturally we are planning to put these programs to our web page as well and to different file sharing engines. The volunteers would be the managers of this exchange of 'image bits'. Please find underneath a proposed schedule for the weekdays of the volunteers:
Monday: Editorial meeting, preparation, gathering information, Trainings/ language shcool
Tuesday: Gathering information, press conferences, consultations, Editing, mixing
Wednesday: Gathering information, interviews, Trainings/ language shcool
Thursday: Editing, mixing,
Friday: Gathering information, interviews, mixing, post-mixing, Action team communication activities with local youngsters.
Of course this schedule can change according to the activities (if there is a shooting at an other city or there are ongoing trainings). At he beginning of each month we are preparing together a plan of activities with proposed deadlines. Every Monday there is a staff meeting where the activities of the week will be jointly discussed.

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:
The association is searching for young people who are interested in making TV and radio programs, but are open not only for becoming a reporter, but would like to learn the ends and bits of the profession as well (graphic design, photography making, filming, information gathering, news writing and reading, editing, vox-pops, reports, sound recording editing and mixing). The volunteers should actively participate in the trainings of the association not only as students, but also as helpers. The volunteers should be able to work out complex communication programs - on a chosen topic - by the end of the program. It is an advantage if the volunteer has experience in working for a youth or school TV or radio.

Description of the hosting organisation:

Young radio journalists of Debrecen and Hajdú-Bihar County founded the Sound-Picture Association in 2000. The association is training young people to prepare radio programs, TV magazines and short films on intercultural happenings of Europe. These audio and video materials are broadcasted at regional radios and TVs and are uploaded on file sharing engines as well. In the past few years the association has turned towards communication skill trainings as well, where disadvantaged groups of youngsters got the possibility to improve their communication skills in order to find a better job or to address the stakeholders in a more effective way to achieve their goals. Some of the members of the association are still working as journalists, while others chose different jobs, but are still working for the association as volunteers. The organisation is continuously working with local and international volunteers, this way involving more and more local youngsters in the programs. For communication products visit: www.youtube.com/hangkepe.

EVS di 6 mesi in Slovacchia

YouNet (2010-it-93) as sending organisation is looking for volunteers for the project proposed by the Slovakian hosting organisation Centrum voľného času (2010-SK-16) that will start from March 2011 and last 6 months. If you are interested be very quick and send your CV and motivation letter immediately to evs@you-net.eu. Bear in mind that the first suitable candidate will get the place so hurry up.

Project environment

The project will take place in the Centre of Leisure Time in Gelnica. Some activities may take place in the local area of the town Gelnica.
The town Gelnica is a small town in the eastern Slovakia. Because of its geography Gelnica is the centre of Hnilec Valley. There are about 6000 inhabitants in Gelnica. There is one primary school, one grammar school and an art school in the town. The centre of the town is formed by few small shops, supermarkets, groceries, basic services and a small Tesco. There is a town hall, the Mining museum, hospital, fire and a police station, catholic, greek-catholic and protestant churches. There are few small evening bars and a disco in Gelnica and in a nearby town.
A beautiful area in the surrounding of Gelnica gives various possibilities for summer and winter sports. We have many tourist and cyclo roads and a natural lake here, too.There are cross-country skiing roads in Gelnica and its surrounding and few skilifts with very good skiing conditions in the area of 30 km around Gelnica. There are ice-hockey and football stadiums, multi-functional and tennis courts, school gyms and a small school swimming pool. There is a railway and bus station, too. The town is situated 45 km from the central city of the eastern Slovakia - Kosice, which offers many other sport, cultural and entertainment possibilities (skilifts, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, cinemas, theatres, shopping centres, restaurants, music clubs and discos). The town Gelnica is situated about 400 km from Bratislava - the capital city of Slovakia, 630 km from Prague - Czech Republic, 490 km from Vienna - Austria, 300 km from Budapest - Hungary, 220 km from Krakow - Poland.
A geographical position of the town on the East of Slovakia, Roma social problems and poor economic situation of the town cause an unemployment rate about 20%. Children, the young and the adults have many financial problems, they have very few possibilities to find work, to travel abroad. The majority has an average or under-average standard of living. There is a Roma community in the town, too. Many children have education and behaviour problems, their families live in very poor living conditions.
The Centre of Leisure Time is situated in a very nice old villa almost in the middle of the town. The building of the Centre consists of two bigger rooms for sport and cultural events, as well as for dance clubs, and of four small classrooms where IT clubs, language clubs and environmental clubs work. There is also a self-made fitness room, a large garden with a tennis court, garden chess board, fireplace and few nice places for outdoor activities in the Centre of Leisure Time.
We closely cooperate with the town council, local and regional schools and kindergardens. The Centre of Leisure Time organizes together with the town council of Gelnica public cultural or sport events such as Gelnická desiatka - the cycling competition, Gelnický š¾apajcug - huge touristic day for almost 500 people from the region, St. Nicolas day or Childrens ´ day. We usually help the schools by servicing or organizing sport events (football, volleyball, handball or table tennis matches, swimming or running competitions) and we are responsible for organizing school subject competitions (history, geography, biology, language, singing competitions). Therefore, the volunteer may be helpful on various events taking place not only in the Centre of Leisure Time but also at schools in our region or outdoors in the town, at football stadium or other sport places.

Proposed activities
In terms of learning opportunities we can offer to volunteers free Slovak and German language courses. In the case that a volunteer will be a non IT-skilled person we can offer a free basic IT-course. A whole working time period of a volunteer in the Centre of Leisure Time will be a so called running "Leisure Time Animator course" for the volunteer as he will learn many ways how to spend leisure time with children or the young of any age. A volunteer will also attend On-arrival and Mid-term meetings organized by our National agency. A volunteer will meet another volunteers in Slovakia. He also may meet them in his free time.
The volunteer will be integrated in our internal team of pedagogical workers and he/she will assist us while organizing clubs. He/she may choose among English language, sport or Roma clubs where he/she will organize games, activities. He/she will meet children, communicate with them, prepare materials for them, plan interesting events, competitions for them, too. The volunteer will also assist on our common events or outdoor activities for example balls, children days, bigger sport events and competitions. He/she will help with the presentation of members on our events, giving out food, preparing or copying materials, organizing indoor or outdoor games. The volunteer may organize trips for children to the cimena or to swimming pool, trips to the countryside, cleaning any part of the town, he/she may work on his own small and short-time projects including our children with the aim to motivate them for doing anything meaningful but not staying on the street on their own. The volunteer will also be helpful in the computer class. He can do basic IT work with children like copying, printing, designing our posters and leaflets we often use for propagation of cultural events. In the case he will not be computer skilled he will just supervise children and this will be a possibility for him to learn computers and to use internet also for his private purpose, to communicate with his family, friends and sending organisation. The IT skilled volunteer will help with computers, web-site, IT problems, creating materials for clubs or our activities, all these depending on skills and knowledge of the volunteer.
According to the interests, hobbies and abilities of a volunteer, he/she will be able to create his/her own program. In any case there will be a lot of space for individual creativity and fantasy to develop new projects and find attractive themes regarded to the interests of young people, where the volunteer can perfect themselve. The role of the volunteer should mainly be to offer his/her special skills to children and young people, connected to and co-ordinated with the usual program of the CLT.
Volunteers who will work in Gelnica in the summer period will help during the summer camps. We usually organize on-site summer camps. This means that children stay in the CLT or outside of the town with us daily from 8 a.m. till 16 p.m. only. In the summer time we organize sport days for not-professional players: children, the young and adults. The volunteer may help to organize these events but he may also take part in them as a team player.
On working days the volunteer will have a break or a chance to go for lunch. Our workers get cooked lunch at the nearby grammar school every day except weekends and holidays. The volunteer will work 6 hours a day, 5 days a week with following two days off. But working hours can be arranged flexibly as well. There will be always contact with the English speaking supervisor and the mentor, even in leisure time when help and support is needed.

Description of the hosting organisation

The Centre of Leisure Time is a local public organisation in Gelnica. We have 50 years old history in the town and region and we have been creating different conditions for organizing educational, training and recreational activities during the whole year for children: kindergarten children, primary school pupils, grammar school students and for the young untill 30 years old, including one group of disabled people, street dancers, mothers on maternity leave with their children and children from the Roma community in our town. These all are our target group we generally work with.
Our main aim is to organize a meaningful leisure time for children and the young, to form active citizens who are able to live in an open society and to teach the young to live with people, to communicate and to spend their leisure time meaningfully. We offer: various activities in a leisure time with professional team, healthy lifestyle, equality of opportunities, reasonable communication, tolerance and solidarity, safety, friendship and team cooperation, aesthetic environment, development of talents, nonformal education, participation on the life of the Centre and the town Gelnica.
Our leisure time activities are divided into: 1. Regular activities in various clubs, such as sports (tennis, table tennis, football, handball, martial art and gymnastics), computers and internet, dance (HIP HOP, break dance, latino, black bottom dance and majorettes), languages (English, German) and nature/environmental clubs (we have about 553 members at the moment); 2. Organization and service of many events (for example Halloween, St. Nicolas day, Easter day), sport competitions, exhibitions and trips for children; 3. Holiday activities such as summer camps, sport competitions or special workshops; 4. Individual work with talented children, supporting those with fewer opportunities (Roma community and disabled people); 5. Pedagogical supervising in the Centre of Leisure Time on holidays and weekends.
We are open from 9 a.m. till 18 p.m. from Monday to Friday and from 13 p.m. till 17 p.m. on Saturdays. Our members visit the Centre of Leisure Time mostly in the afternoon hours. Mornings are usually spent by administration work or preparations for clubs and events. In the afternoon, children come to their clubs to the Centre of Leisure Time. Some clubs work outside at schools or in kindergardens. We are also open on school holidays but not on bank (state) holidays.
The organizational structure of the Centre of Leisure Time is formed by the department of sport, culture, natural environment, languages and department for Roma minorities. 5 internal pedagogical workers and 2 administration and service employees stay daily in the Centre of Leisure Time. Together with 13 external workers we are responsible for the organisation of all clubs, sport and cultural events of the Centre of Leisure Time and for some public events of the town.

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EVS di 12 Mesi in Ungheria con giovani e bambini

YouNet (2010-it-93) as sending organisation is looking for volunteers for the project proposed by the Hungarian hosting organisation Compass (2010-HU-18) that will start from March 2011 and last one whole year. If you are interested be very quick and send your CV (with photo) and motivation letter immediately to evs@you-net.eu. Bear in mind that the first suitable candidate will get the place so hurry up.

The tasks of the volunteer:

-Attendance to Compass Ability Quest later making self sufficient Ability Quests. The most important tasks of the volunteer:

- Language clubs.

The volunteer have to lead language clubs for youth the age between 6-30 but in some case for elders also. The aim of these clubs is to teach language for the local youngsters, using the methods of the non-formal education. The volunteer has to use/teach her/his own language and English. The volunteer has to tech the participants to communicate in foreign language. They have to prepare for every lessons, choose and discuss about different name, like sport, culture, movies, history, or anything which is interesting for the participants.

Background work: the volunteer has to prepare every week for the following weeks for the language clubs. They have to find theme, photos, movies, games which they can use in the clubs for teaching and practising languages. He has to prepare some written accessories for the Compass Ability Quest, partly documenting the effects of the program.

The tools of the program: team building, sport and role playing games and self development training. During the small group programs the youngsters discover the new knowledge together and share experiences. Through the volunteer they discover a whole new culture.

- Language lessons in local secondary schools

The volunteer usually goes to local secondary schools, to take part in language lessons. This is useful for the local community because they have a chance to hear and learn from a native speaker who lives in the country of the language what they learn. By this they can improve their communication skills in several kind of themes which is connecting to the country where the volunteer came from.

• Take part in popularization of the Youth In Action program

We regulary go to local schools, make presentations, take part in youth events in the city and in the region, make conferences in city hall, county hall, or in different kind of events. In these events one of our task is to popularize the Youth In Action program, the EVS and our own projects. The volunteer has to take an active part in these events, use their own ideas, presentations, ideas. They have to build up presentations, make talk in conferences, introductions in the mentioned events.

• Summer camp

The volunteer has to lead groups in summer camps. These camps are for Hungarians and also for foreign. For Hungarian groups we make these camps as intensive language course, so the volunteer have to figure out tasks, activities, games, programs, articles, for the youngsters for the participants to make them practise the English language in through activities and to learn it in the real life.

• Useful freetime activity

The volunteer should to provide, or offer possibility for take part in useful free time activity for the local youth depending on the abilities or possibilities of the volunteer. For example involve the youth to sport activities, or art programs or any kind what the volunteer is interested in.

• Accommodation, workplace

We expect the volunteer to:

• totally respect of the accommodation provided by the placement and the rules of common life.

• Provide sending and hosting organisation with written reports in every month as required.

• Take care conscientiously of the materials and objects that are being provided by the hosting organisation (camera, phone furnitures etc) for him/her in order to fullfill the goals and objectives of the project much easier, if not required to pay the equivalent amount of money for each one in part.

• In the accommodation the volunteer has to take care about the cleaning, washing up the dishes, take care of the appointments

• The volunteers has to keep clean the part of the office where he works. After the language clubs he or them has to take away the mess, if there is any, put back the materials (games, cards, papers, pens, etc) what they used in to their place.

• Take seriously her/his commitment to the whole period

• Support the aims and methods of the placement and to carry out conscientiously and to the best of her/his knowledge the tasks related to her service

• Support the aims and methods of the placement and to carry out conscientiously and to the best of her/his knowledge the tasks related to her service

• The volunteer agrees to complete a voluntary service within above named placement.

Work time:

• Maximum 35 hours weekly

• Daily agenda: 10:00 to 18:00

• Free days: two days per every week. (Sutarday, Sunday) The work hours are flexible depending on the volunteer’s and the instructor’s needs. If the volunteer has to work on the weekend, then the volunteer gets the free day in another time.

• One month the volunteer has two free days! it means that during 12 month the volunteer has 24 days for holiday.

EVS in Danimarca in un asilo per bambini dai 3 ai 6 anni

YouNet (2010-it-93) as sending organisation is looking for volunteers for the project proposed by the Danish hosting organisation Kindergarten Sunshine (2010-DK-13) that will start from April 2011 and last 9 months. If you are interested be very quick and send your CV (with photo) and motivation letter immediately to evs@you-net.eu before the 21th of October. Bear in mind that the first suitable candidate will get the place so hurry up.

Project environment

The Kindergarten Solstraalen is a large institution with four home groups, each having their own rooms. The fact that the children has their "own" room and that they are taken care of by the same staff members every day, makes them feel more safe and relaxed. However, they are of course allowed to be in all the other areas of the institution as well. We also have a big activity room where we can do major activities with the activities.

Our playground is large and provides the children with a lot of possibilities for play.

The kindergarten is located in Tarm at the southern end of the Ringkøbing Inlet in West Jutland.

Tarm is ideal If you would like to experience the countryside of Denmark, as it situated in natural surroundings with open heath areas and is close to the sea.

Activities such as windsurfing, fishing, kite flying, walks or boat trips on the Fjord are just some of the outdoor activities you can do here. There are also plenty of possibilties for activities such as walking, cycling, bird watching or horseriding.

You can find more information about Tarm and surroundings at http://visittarm.dk/content/view/1/2/lang,en/

At the homepage http://www.solstraalens-website.dk/galleri/index.php you can see pictures from the Kindergarten Solstraalen.

Proposed activities for EVS volunteers

We hope that the presence of the volunteer will give both staff, children and parents an intercultural learning experience.

The EVS-activities will be adapted to the qualifications and interests of the individual volunteer and he/she will be working together with one of the staff members who will support and guide him/her when needed.

The volunteer will be attached to one of the home groups and will help the staff in the daily work of the home group.

The volunteer is very welcome to make his/her own activities with the children, and we will do our best to help and support the volunteer so that the EVS-stay with us will meet his/her expectations.

Examples of activities in the kindergarten:

- outdoor games: e.g.ball games, playing in the sand box, rope skipping etc.

- indoor games: e.g. drawing, painting, bead work, preparing fruit and making bread together with the children, playing board games and other creative activities

- various seasonal themes during the year

- excursions in the nature every Tuesday

- work with the language capabilities of the children through reading, story telling, rhymes, and play

Lodging and boarding

AFS will provide a host family for the volunteer. The life in a host family will facilitate the integration in the local community and will accelerate the process of both language and intercultural learning.

The volunteer will be invited to social events arranged by the local AFS chapter and in that way he/she will meet other volunteers, exchange students and host families.

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process

The volunteer should be interested in working with children of this age group and must also have the patience required.

We also expect the volunteer to be openminded and able to speak english on a conversational level.

Description of the hosting organisation

Solstraalen is a public kindergarten. We have 100 children at the age 3 to 6 who spend the weekdays in the kindergarten. There are 18 staff members taking care of the children.

Care, play, respect and experience are the basis for our work with the children, and one of the main objectives of our work is to help the children develop their self-esteem and teach them how to interact with other people in different contexts.

The children are divided up into four "home groups", and each staff member has the responsibility for a limited number of children.

Approx. 20% of our children have Danish as their 2nd language and for 15 hours every week they receive intensive Danish language training and an introduction to Danish culture and traditions in order to facilitate their integration into Danish society.