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.