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.
Per maggiori info sullo SVE e sulla sending organisation contattateci a evs@you-net.eu o andate sulla pagina del nostro blog relativa allo SVE http://serviziovolontarioeuropeo.blogspot.com/p/progetti-attualmente-attivi.html.
Nessun commento:
Posta un commento