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Don Bosco Youth-Net ivzw

Naamsesteenweg 37

B-3001 Heverlee

Belgium

Tel.: +32(0)16.48.78.80

Fax.: + 32(0)16.48.78.90

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.donboscoyouth.net

EVS @ DON BOSCO

Database of EVS sending & host

organisations in the Don Bosco Movement

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Colofon

This is a publication of Don Bosco Youth-Net ivzw. Don Bosco Youth-Net ivzw is an international

network of Salesian youth work offices and youth organizations which work in the style of don

Bosco.

The international secretariat of Don Bosco Youth-Net ivzw is financially supported by the European

Commission, through its ‘Youth in Action’-programme, and by the Council of Europ through the

European Youth Foundation. These programmes support youth projects and organisations involved

in the field of non-formal education in Europe and the rest of the world.

This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held

responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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Index Colofon ...........................................................................................................................................................................3

Index ................................................................................................................................................................................4

Austria .............................................................................................................................................................................6

2011-AT-3 Verein Soziales Jugendwerk Don Bosco- .....................................................................................6

2011-AT-23 IniciativAngola- .............................................................................................................................. 10

Belgium ........................................................................................................................................................................ 15

2011-BEFL-29 Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw- .................................................................................................. 15

Bulgaria ........................................................................................................................................................................ 23

2012-BG-35 Don Bosko Bulgaria Foundation ............................................................................................... 23

Czech Republic .......................................................................................................................................................... 28

2011-CZ-28 Salesian Youth Centre (Salesianske stredisko mladeze) ..................................................... 28

2010-CZ-29 Církevní stredisko volného casu sv. Dona Boska v Havírove ........................................... 32

2011-CZ-30 mTOTEM – regionalni dobrovolnicke centrum- .................................................................. 37

France ........................................................................................................................................................................... 42

2009-FR-41 Campus de Pouillé ......................................................................................................................... 42

Germany ...................................................................................................................................................................... 47

2010-DE-34 Aktionszentrum der Salesianer Don Boscos - Jugendbildungsstätte-............................... 47

2010-DE-116 Don Bosco Club- ........................................................................................................................ 50

2012-DE-140 Jugendbildungsstätte Aktionszentrum- .................................................................................. 54

2010-DE-229 St. Gallus-Hilfe für behinderte Menschen gGmbH ............................................................. 57

Great Britain ............................................................................................................................................................... 61

2012-GB-65 Salesian Youth Ministry UK- ...................................................................................................... 61

Contact Point ........................................................................................................................................................ 62

Ireland .......................................................................................................................................................................... 63

2011-IE-11 Don Bosco House - ........................................................................................................................ 63

Italy ............................................................................................................................................................................... 65

2013-IT-16 VKE - Associazione campi gioco e ricreazione- ...................................................................... 65

2012-IT-36 AZIENDA SERVIZI SOCIALI DI BOLZANO- ........................................................................ 72

2011-IT-43 ASSOCIAZIONE CRE.A.NDO INSIEME- ................................................................................ 79

2010-IT-80 COOPERATIVA SOCIALE MONDOERRE- ........................................................................... 84

Lithuania ...................................................................................................................................................................... 91

2012-LT-13 Marijos Krikščionių pagalbos dukterų institutas.................................................................... 91

2010-MT-9 Salesian Pastoral Youth Service ................................................................................................... 95

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Montenegro ................................................................................................................................................................ 97

2009-SI-102 Centar za obrazovanje i odgoj Don Bosko ............................................................................. 97

Poland......................................................................................................................................................................... 104

2010-PL-13 Salezjanskie Stowarzyszenie Wychowania Mlodziezy- ........................................................ 104

2012-PL-17 Salezjanski Osrodek Wychowawczy im.sw.Jana Bosko- ..................................................... 108

2010-PL-69 Salezjanski Ruch Troski o Mlodziez SALTROM- .................................................................. 110

2011-PL-134 Youth centre "Maryam"- .......................................................................................................... 112

Romania ..................................................................................................................................................................... 117

2011-RO-25 CENTRUL DIECEZAN CARITAS IASI - .............................................................................. 117

Slovakia ...................................................................................................................................................................... 120

2010-SK-23 SAVIO, o.z. .................................................................................................................................... 120

2011-SK-10 DOMKA - Association of Salesian Youth .............................................................................. 122

Spain ........................................................................................................................................................................... 127

2012-ES-2 Asociación Recreativa y Cultural Los Tilos- ........................................................................... 127

2010-ES-38 Asociación Xuvenil Abertal- ...................................................................................................... 132

2012-ES-62 Centro Sociocultural JOSÉ SAMARAGO/ Vite- ................................................................... 137

2012-ES-64 Asociación Xuvenil Amencer .................................................................................................... 142

2012-ES-65 Centro Sociocultural Fontiñas- ................................................................................................. 146

2012-ES-71 Centro Sociocultural do Castiñeiriño- .................................................................................... 150

2012-ES-73 Centro sociocultural de Santa Marta ...................................................................................... 155

2011-ES-93 Confederación de Centros Juveniles Don Bosco de España- ............................................ 160

2010-ES-88 Escola de Tempo Libre e Animación Socicultural Don Bosco .......................................... 163

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Austria

2011-AT-3 Verein Soziales Jugendwerk Don Bosco-

Accreditation Host organisation

Approval Date 11/02/2011

Validity Date 11/02/2014

Location Klagenfurt (Austria)

Theme 1 Media and communication/Youth information

Theme 2 Education through sport and outdoor activities

Project environment

Project Environment:

The Youth Point Don Bosco Siebenhügel is situated in Klagenfurt, Waidmannsdorf, in the parish

St.Josef. Waidmannsdorf is a district of Klagenfurt, which is the capital of Carinthia, situated in the

south of Austria. Klagenfurt With more than 90.000 habitants Klagenfurt is the biggest city in

Carinthia.

Klagenfurt is a single huge sports field for amateur sportspeople, both in summer and in winter. From

tennis and inline skating to cycling, swimming, cross-country skiing and ice-skating – everything can

be practised out in the open. The recreational value in Carinthia’s provincial capital is particularly

high. Whether you prefer something more leisurely and let it all hang out, want to enjoy nature or

focus on sports – everybody will find something suitable in summer and winter. For water babies and

un-seekers, the largest lakeside lido in Europe on Lake Wörthersee is just perfect.

The volunteer will live in an international dormitory near to the Youth Point, the university and the

Lake Wörthersee. S/he has the possibility to use the Internet at the Youth Point. If there is the need

for social integration the volunteer will find a well-working interhuman network.

Proposed Activities

The volunteer would work with young people from 12/13-18 years at the Youth Point, help working

with children from 6–13 years. We mainly work with children and young people who are socially

disadvantaged. During the first time the volunteer should only help doing different activities to get to

know the people, the working

conditions and targets of the organization. Later on s/he gets the possibility to carry out his/her own

creative workshops and games. For example he/she can organise a creative or a sportive workshop

and the other employees only support him/her. The working field of the volunteer will be the same

as for our team. In general the volunteer will be with two educated employees the third person

running an afternoon with playing, discussing, making creative workshops, helping with the small

buffet, visit the park for some games and so on.

The main target for us is to give young social interested people the possibility to get impressions how

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social youth work can be and give him/her the possibility to learn for life and future job career. The

young volunteer will learn a lot about social-pedagogical work in the filed of youth work and he/she

will also learn how to organise different things like workshops, special indoor or outdoor activities.

He/she also will learn how to run a youth centre and a lot about needs and necessities of young

people an he/she also trains his/her social skills. The average working time is about 35 hours per

week, preparation time, language course, trainings, team meetings and tutor meetings included.

Tuesday to Thursday:

13:45 – 14:00 Lead time for the actually day

14:00 – 16:00 Working at the Youth Point with young people from 12 to 18 years

o Playing football table or billard with the youngster, Speak with them about school, leisure

time and so on, …

16:00 – 18:00 Working with children from 6 to 13 years

o Play boardgames with the children; invent and play games where they can exploit …


o Make a creative workshop, …

20:00 – 20:15 Debriefing of the actually day

Friday:

13:45 – 14:00 Lead time for the actually day


16:00 – 18:00 Playing time in the park

o Learn children how to play diabolo, blance on the slack line, play badminton

18:00 – 20:00 Working at the Youth Point

20:00 – 20:15 Debriefing of the actually day

Saturday

15:00-21:00 Working at the Youth Point with young people from 12 to 18 years

Additional:

every Thursday 12:00-13:30 Team or Supervision

Volunteer profile

Personal qualities and attitudes: For application please send a letter of motivation and your

curriculum vitae. If it’s possible we appreciate a visitation before the EVS starts to find out if the

work fits to the applicant and if the applicant fits in our team. Otherwise we can make a phonecall to

speak about the most important things. Of particular importance is that the volunteer enjoys the

work with young people and likes to work in a team. Every working day is different, because of the

various needs of the young people. So the volunteer has to be flexible and open minded. Most of the

kids, can’t speak English and a basic knowledge of German would be helpfully in the daily work.

Because our target group is between 12 and 18 years old, therefore it would be advantageous to be

older than 20 years.

Number of volunteers hosted: 1

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Risk Prevention:

The volunteer will never work alone at the Youth Point. S/he will work in a team, will get feedback

constantly and in case of any questions there will be an pedagocially educated person next to

him/her. In addition there will always be a person in charge for organizational needs. The volunteer

will receive a list with "Emergency Numbers + Addresses" (doctor, hospital,mentor, pharmacy) and

will be told how to find out the doctor and pharmacy on duty on weekends. In case of an accident or

illness s/he can contact the projectleader of the youth point any time.

The volunteer will also be informed about risk prevention in the organisation (first aid kit, emergency

exit etc.). Within the project, the volunteer will have a mentor whom s/he can contact any time.

Motivation and EVS experience

The non-profit organization “Soziales Jugendwerk Don Bosco” puts a lot of effort into the support of

intercultural ability of young persons. Living in Europe together with many different cultures means

being able to accept and supply other persons’ way of living and thinking. Well educated employees

together with the members of the nonprofit organization “Soziales Jugendwerk Don Bosco” work

hard to provide children, teenagers and the youth of today with stability and social as well as

intercultural abilities and competences. On the basis of the good experience with three volunteers

from different countries we would like to continue this project and give young person the possibility

to join the daily work with young people in a protected atmosphere and to develop his/her social and

intercultural responsibility.

Description of the organisation

The organization “Soziales Jugendwerk Don Bosco” is a not profit association. It is situated in

Klagenfurt, Waidmannsdorf, in the parish St.Josef. Klagenfurt is the capital of Carinthia, situated in

the south of Austria. The organisation offers a lot of different social initiatives:

Youth Point Don Bosco Siebenhügel – for young people from 12/13 – 18 years

advice centre for young people, families and adults

playgroup for kids from 6 – 13 years

private tutoring for pupils up to 14 years

All our offers provide social competence, should be an integration possibility and give young people

the knowledge of being helped and understood. The volunteer would mainly work with young people

from 12/13-18 years at the Youth Point and help working with children from 6–13 years. The Youth

Point Don Bosco Siebenhügel is a clearly defined place, where young people of the district meet. 5

days a week young people aged 13-18 years have the possibility to visit our Youth Point. In

summertime we also go in parks with games to play and talk with children and youth who don’t visit

our Youth Point. The team is formed by three educated employees.

Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday (2 to 8 p.m.), Saturday (3 to 9 p.m.)

Our Youth centre “Youth Point Don Bosco Siebenhügel is a place where young people can spend

their free time, meet friends and have fun without the compulsion to consume anything. Beside the

fun factor the youth centre is a place where young people can find help and talk about their

problems. The Youth Point consists of a nice coffee area with a small kitchen, one room with 3

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computers and internet and one room for girls only. We also have a billiard table, a football table as

well as many board and card games. Our visitors can also test their talent at the Playstation with

many different games and quiz and their singing talent as “sing-star”. Our Youth Point becomes an

artists’ studio regularly because our people love being creative. For people who like to do some

sport we can offer football, basketball, volleyball and table tennis indoor and outdoor.

Main targets of our educational work: Young persons

get a comprehensive understanding to develop their own way of life

develop responsibility and independence of the single person

get to know possible models of living

get help for integration

find out different interests of what they can do during their free time

develop behaviour based on partnership

We try to help young people to be self-determined and self-confident, because we think that this is

one of the most important conditions to be open-minded and tolerant towards other individuals.

Contact Point

Organisation: Amt der Kärntner Landesregierung/ Landesjugendreferat Kärnten

Address: Adlergasse 20

Postal code: 9020

Town: Klagenfurt

Country: Austria

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +43 463 536 41367

Fax: +43 463 5464 1340

Contact: Ms Heidrun Puff

mailto:[email protected]

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2011-AT-23 IniciativAngola-




Location St. Primus (Austria)

Theme 1 Development cooperation


Project environment

Project Environment

The nonprofit organization IniciativAngola is situated in St. Primus and in Klagenfurt in

"Diözesanhaus" - house of various organization of the Catholic Church in Carinthia. Klagenfurt is the

capital of Carinthia, situated in the south of Austria. Klagenfurt is with more than 90.000 habitants

the biggest city in Carinthia.

Klagenfurt is a single huge sports field for amateur sportspeople, both in summer and in the winter.

From tennis and inline skating to cycling, swimming, cross-country, skiing and ice-skating - everything

can be practised out in the open. The recreational value in Carinthia´s provincial capital is particulary

high. Whether you prefer something more leisurely and let it all hang out, want to enjoy nature or

focus on sports - everybody will find something suitable in summer and winter. For water babies and

sun-seekers, the largest lakeside lido in Europe on Lake Wörthersee is just perfect.

The volunteer will live in an international dormitory near to the "Diözesanhaus", the university and

the Lake Wörthersee. S/he has the possibility to use the Internet at the "Diözesanhaus". If there is a

need for social integration the volunteer will find a well-working interhuman network.

Proposed Activities

The volunteer in our organisation will get an insight into youth work in the Catholic church in

Carinthia and more general in Austria. He/she will learn a lot about working in a team and working

on her / his own. Moreover she / he will gather skills of planning, running and evaluating projects

(concerts, seminars, workshops, etc..). On the other hand our organisation will profit from the new

ideas and the special skills which the volunteer brings in this project. Generally the volunteer will

learn about the Austrian culture and EVS will therefore help to reduce prejudices and stereotypes.

The main part of the volunteer´s tasks is to support and participate in preparing and organising the

various activities organised by the catholic association IniciativAngola for the whole region:

charity concerts with children, young people, adults (ca. 5)

seminars for young people (development coorperation, millennium Development Goals)

workshops (Fairtrade, Africa, ...)

trainings for young people in various fields (communication, personality development)

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events throughout the year (e.g. for Advent and Easter)

The volunteer helps to organise the programme, helps in public relations and administration

The volunteer will mainly be seen as support to the whole team in various projects and events

run by our organisation. He / she will be involved in the whole planning, running and evaluating

process.

Moreover the volunteer will have the chance to create his / her own project (e.g. to organise an

intercultural evening)

We try to match activities for the volunteer with her / his own interests and strengths.

Example of a weekly schedule (32 working hours + 3,5 German or Slowenian course)

Monday:

o 14:00 - 18:00 Reflexion and Planning the tasks to be performed in this week

Tuesday:

o 09:00 - 12:00 Administration, Archiving (photos, newspaper reports, video footage,...)

o 14:00 - 18:00 Public relations activities (writing a small information brochure, designing

the layout and organising the mailing

o 19:00 - 20:45 German (Slovenian) course

Wednesdey:

o 09:00 - 12:00 Preparing (workshops, ...) for young people;

o 14:00 - 18:00 Team meeting: conversation about communicating, in-service training, self-

motivation, discussion about new developements, new ideas and conceptions

Thursday:

o 09:00 - 12:00 Volunteer´s own project;

o 14:00 - 18:00 Preparing (concerts, ...)

o 19:00 - 20:45 German (Slovenian) course

Friday:

o 09:00 - 12:00 Preparing (seminars,...);

o 14:00 - 18:00 Team meeting: to plane in the team the great events, allocation of tasks, ...

There are also some workshops in the weekends where the volunteer will participate and also

help. If the volunteer is working in these workshops (seminars, concerts,...) she / he will have

equivalent hours of free time in the following week.

The volunteer´s working time ist 32h in her / his project (and 3,5h German (Slovenian) course).

Of course it depends on the specific language skills and the needs of the volunteer if he/she

requires more language support.

Volunteer profile

For application please send a letter of motivation and your curriculum vitae. If it´s possible we

appreciate a visitation before the EVS starts to find out if the work fits to the applicant and if the

applicant fits in our team. Otherwise we can make a phonecall to speak about the most important

things.

The volunteer should be open for the concerns of the Catholic Church but does not have to be a

member of the Church. She / He should like to work with children an young people and should be

creative. She / her should be open for the development cooperation and acts of solidarity. Basic

knowledge of German (or Slovenian or Portuguese) would be advantageous but is not necessary for

the work with youngsters. She / he should be reliable. It would make things easier if the volunteer

has a driving licence (B) but this is not necessary.


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Risk prevention:

In general we can say that Austria is a very safe country with a low crime rate. The volunteer will live

only some minutes by foot away from a bus station. There are very good connections with public

transport for the volunteer to get his / her project.

The mentor in the working place will have regular meetings with the volunteer to ensure his / her

well-being. The people working in the team are very open-minded and are also willing to spend some

of their free time with the volunteer.

In case of a medical emergency Carinthia has a good and professional medical care system with its

hospitals and doctors in all doctors in all the smaller villages.


The non-profit organization "IniciativAngola" puts a lot of effort into the support of intercultural

ability of young people. Living in Europe together with many different cultures means being able to

accept and supply other person´s way of living and thinking. The members of the nonprofit

organization IniciativAngola work hard to provide children, teenagers and the youth of today with

stability and social as well as intercultural abilities and competences. On the basis of the good

experience with the volunteers in Angola we would like to start this project and give young person

the possibility to join the daily work with young people in a protected atmosphere and to develop

his/ her social, solidary and intercultural responsibility. We want to appreciate the new ideas the

volunteer adds to our work. We see this experience as a challange to our work and a rewarding

source of exchange of experience.


IniciativAngola is an youth aid organisation and was founded in 2004. The objective of our non-

governmental organisation (NGO) is national and international youth aid together with sustainable

development assistance.

IniciativAngola negotiates Christian motivation in the spirit of Don Bosco, the great Saint of young

people. The project partners, the Salesians of Don Boscos (SDB) and the Sisters of Don Bosco

(FMA), have been operating as a catholic order organisation for more than a hundred years. Today,

some 16 000 Salesians and 14 300 Sisters of Don Bosco work in more than 130 or 90 countries

worldwide, respectively. Hundreds of thousands of children and young people have the opportunity

of a better future.

The organisation is guided by Christian values and supports fair investments. IniciativAngola would

also like to contribute to the development of the whole of humanity towards a brotherly community.

The objective is a life of plenty for everyone. This includes: having life's essentials available, freedom

from oppression, understanding and knowledge of dignity and life's objectives together with skills and

freedom of organising your own life and participating in the community.

IniciativAngola has 2 offices in our province and 1 employe and ca. 110 voluntary helpers. We

organize various charity-activities with and for young people. These activities include tombola,

concerts, workshops, voluntary work, workshops, seminars on different topics (poverty, solidarity,

development assistance, Fairtrade, youthwork, teamwork, spirituality,….)

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Contact Point

Organisation: Amt der Kärntner Landesregierung/ Landesjugendreferat Kärnten

Address: Adlergasse 20

Postal code: 9020

Town: Klagenfurt

Country: Austria


Phone: +43 463 536 41367

Fax: +43 463 5464 1340

Contact: Ms Heidrun Puff


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Belgium

2011-BEFL-29 Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw-

Accreditation Sending organisation, Host organisation, Co-ordinating organisation



Location Heverlee (Belgium)

Theme 1 European awareness

Theme 2 Youth leisure

Inclusion Cultural differences, Disability, Economic difficulties, Educational difficulties,

Geographical difficulties, Social difficulties

Project environment

Project environment:

Outline the project environment for the suggested voluntary Service, including the local community

where the project will take place (e.g. geographical, social and economical environment). If the host

placement is located in a live-in community, please include the rules and conditions that apply also for

the volunteer.

Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw is a national recognised youth organisation which is settled down in the

city of Leuven (Heverlee). Leuven is situated in Flandres, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. Dutch

will also be the main language used during the service. The city is at about 30km from Brussels (the

capital of Belgium), it is the main city in the province of Vlaams Brabant and it is known as a famous

university city. Next to the university, Leuven also offers a lot of facilities in different areas: cultural

activities, sport, free time activities, big diversity and variety in youth organisations …

Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw is active in the free time sector of youth work. It has however links with

the broader Don Bosco movement in Belgium that consists of organisations that all have a focus on

children/ young people, non-formal/formal learning (playground, boarding school, special child care,

ngo, schools). It is with the organisations that function in the non-formal learning context

(playground, boarding school, ngo, special child care) that Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw works

together from time to time. Core elements in this cooperation with these organisations are:

training for youth workers

cooperation on playgrounds and elaboration of activities/projects

elaboration of international projects

preparation of volunteers

Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw is located nearby a Don Bosco live-in community where accommodation

of the volunteers is possible. This community is a place where several Don Bosco Salesians live

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together with some students doing higher education. They build out community life by living

together, doing activities together and take up engagement in society.

When Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw hosts an individual volunteer, he/she will not live in the Salesian

community, but Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw will look for a (students)residence nearby the citycentre

of Leuven and the service-hosts. In this residence the volunteer will have an own room/studio. This

personal room gives the volunteer the possibilty to have a place of their own and to have some

privacy. The place will foresee in all practical necessities: shower, kitchen, … (kitchen and shower

can be for common use, depending on the residence). By not living at the Don Bosco-community, the

host organisation wants to stress the difference between ‘the voluntary service’ and (socialising) free

time.

The volunteer can enjoy warm meals at Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw and can count on the Salesian

community and Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw for practical support. (laundry, internet, …)

For the short-term group-EVS, we are cooperating with several of our partnerorganisations in

Belgium. We work closely together with the 7 playgrounds that are connected to Jeugddienst Don

Bosco vzw. At least 5 of these Don Bosco playgrounds receives every summer one or 2 EVS-

volunteers. The playgrounds take care of the accomodation, the food and the personal wellbeing of

the volunteer. All playgrounds are well informed and prepared by Jeugddienst Don Bosco. The

playgrounds organise activities for children and teenagers during the summer. The young people who

prepare these activities are all volunteers willing to spend their summer with children and other

young animators. Most of these animators already followed a animator course delivered by

Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw.

Proposed activities for EVS volunteers:

Through the EVS-projects, we want the volunteers to achieve 3 main goals.

1. To create chances of acquintance and exchange and to improve European citizenship by

bringing Flemish and foreign volunteers together

2. To work voluntary in a Flemish youth work organisation and gain knowledge, skills and

attitudes related to the Flemish youth work.

3. To start up an intercultural learning process between the actors involved in the

organisation.

The young people that will be active as a volunteer in Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw will be involved in

national and international activities that are related with children/young people and that focus on

youth work and non-formal education, for the short term EVS as well as for the long term EVS.

Contents of short-term EVS organized by Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw

Hereby a schedule of the last short-term EVS (2011): The schedule starts from Monday, but the

volunteers already arrive on the Friday before the service starts. During this first weekend, we

organise the on-arrival training. We foresee a languagetraining, an introduction on Flemish

youthwork, a preparation session about the volunteers’ service, getting to know each other games,

informal moments and (inter)cultural activities.

WEEK 1

Monday to Saturday

o Morning: Active on the playground, Evaluation, cultural visits, training

o Afternoon: Active on the playground Cultural activities, group activities with Belgian

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volunteers Preparation for upcoming week + travelling to the playgrounds

o Evening: Evaluation, preparation, free time, activities with animators, travelling to

mid-term weekend, relaxing, exchange of experiences Cultural activities, free time

activities, preparation of week 2

o Sunday : Mid-term evaluation

WEEK 2

Monday to Saturday

o Morning , Active on the playground, Final Evaluation

o Afternoon ; Active on the playground; Cultural activities, visit to Brussels, Departure

of the Evs-volunteers

o Evening ; Evaluation, preparation, Free time activities, travelling to weekend, relaxing,

exchange of experiences , Cultural activities, free time.

o Sunday: Final evaluation

Active on the playground: all volunteers will be actively involved on the playgrounds. On Sunday they

can choose an age group of children where they want work with. They will have to prepare and lead

activities such as games (indoor and outdoor), sports, handcrafting, big games, city games, free-time

moments, …

During these moments they will be responsible for a group of children on the playground. They

always will be accompanied by a Belgian animator. For each age group, there is also one group leader

where the volunteers can go to in case of problems. The playground tries to focus on variety, non-

formal learning and ‘have a nice time/fun’. The playground starts at 9.00am and ends at 17.00pm.

Sometimes, playgrounds organise summer-events like parentsday, daytrips, performances,… The

volunteers will be involved in the preparation and during implementation.

Evaluation, preparation, free time activities: Every day, an evaluation takes place with the animators of

each age group. There, the volunteers can exchange experiences, feelings, indicate problems and

difficulties, … After dinner, volunteers can prepare the activities for next day and there is free time

or some activities are foreseen for the animators . (training in some youthwork topics, games,

intercultural evening, movie night, …) Most playground also provide sleeping-accomodation, so

volunteers can stay at the playground at night. This means, 2 big dormitories, one for boys and one

for girls. In case there is no possibility to sleep at the playground, we look for host-families nearby

where volunteers can stay. During weekends, the volunteers come together in a youth center

(mostly nearby). This accomodation are arranged by Jeugddienst don Bosco vzw. Mid-term

evaluation and final evaluation weekend: All international volunteers, a team of trainers and a Belgian

hostteam come together during these weekends and focus on (intercultural) exchange, evaluation

and cultural activities.

Contents of long-term EVS organized by Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw

When a long term volunteer is active in Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw, he/she will be involved in the

several program areas of Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw. These are: external activities, training, youth

pastoral and international activities, you can find more information about these areas in the part

‘description of the organization’.

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The tasks and role of the volunteer will be

accompany young students (classes) on reflection days (schoolretraits) organized by

Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw: The youth-pastoral area of Jeugddienst Don Bosco organises

every week a 2 days-lasting schoolretraits. During these days, the students reflects on certain

topics like racism, bullying, equality, … The volunteer will lead these days together with the

team of youth-pastoral. They will set up a program together and lead the classes in the

groupprocesses, activities, discussions, …

Involvement in projects that are linked with playgrounds: being active on one of the

playgrounds during the year and summer. This contains the preparation of activities for

children but also the preparation of activities for the local volunteers.

Involvement in volunteers activities of Jeugddienst Don Bosco: almost every week,

Jeugddienst Don Bosco organises an activity with and for its volunteers. The international

volunteer will give new input, set up new activities and prepare with the staffmembers and

the volunteers the regular activities.

Involvement in international activities

The volunteer wil give support during the pre-departure training of our international

volunteers and the international networkweekends of Don Bosco Youth-net. This can be

logistic support, member of the host-team, training, leading free time activities, …

Involvement in the setting up of training for young people: in the area of training, Jeugddienst

Don Bosco vzw organises several training courses for young animators. (mostly during

Christmas and Eastern break). The volunteer will be part of the team of trainers and give

support and new input during the trainingcourses.

Throughout the whole service, the volunteer will be in contact with young people, children

and other volunteers. The activities where he/she will be involved are all activities focussed

on non-formal education and youth work.

All the EVS-projects (short term and long term) include different kind of learning

opportunities:

By being active as a volunteer in the Flemish youth work, the volunteer will acquire knowledge,

skills and attitudes related to this kind of youth work.

o The volunteer will accompany children and young people.

o The volunteers will set up activities for the children and young people.

o The volunteer will cope with the living world of the young people and the children.

o The volunteer will lead groups and animate them.

By being active as a volunteer in a Flemish youth work organisation, the volunteer will have to

work together with native volunteers.

By attending meetings with a group of volunteers, the volunteer will acquire skills concerning

team work: programming, planning,reflection, evaluation, …

By living in Belgium and meet people living here, the volunteer will gain knowledge and attitudes

about different aspects of the life and the culture in Belgium.

By working together with Belgian volunteers, the EVS-volunteers will have an intercultural

experience on European level.

The volunteer will get acquainted with other young people within the broader Don Bosco world

in Belgium.

By being confronted with elements that are linked with being alone for a longer time in a foreign

country, the volunteer will gain skills and attitudes to cope with the new situation and as a

consequence will grow as a person.

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Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:

As host-organisation for Individual and group-EVS we look for volunteers who :

- Are at least 18years old

Are interested in doing youth work

Have a good basic knowledge of English language.

Are enthusiastic, open and interested in meeting like-minded young people from another country

.

For the recruitment process, the different actors involved in the EVS project (sending and host

organisation, volunteer) work together.

The sending and the host organisation promote the EVS project. When there is an interested

candidate, the volunteer receives the necessary information about the project in Jeugddienst Don

Bosco vzw and the elements of their task. (their role and the content of the service, the structure

and the working methods, the program, …) The candidate will have a meeting with the sending

organisation. The candidate receives a questionnaire to fill in. This document gives an overview of the

personal details and motivation of the candidate. On the basic of this questionnaire, the sending and

coordinating organisation get important information to decide on the matching between the profile

and the candidate.

After consultation between sending and hosting organisation, the participant will be selected. The

selection will be done by the ‘staffmember international projects’ of Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw and

the general coordinator of Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw . We take at look at which learning

opportunities there can be in the period the volunteer wants to come. If there are enough tasks,

learning opportunities and enough contact moments with local volunteers and local youth are

possible, we can get the volunteer involved.

Once the volunteer is selected, he/she will be briefed about the decision and will receive the needed

information to prepare themselves. (on content and on practical elements).

The sending organisations that cooperate in this projects preferably also focusses on working with

young people.

Number of volunteers hosted:

For individual EVS: we can host maximum one volunteer at the same time.

For Group EVS: we can host maximum 12 volunteer at the same time. The playgrounds receive

during the project 2 volunteers of the same country.

Risk prevention, protection and safety:

To make the project as valuable as possible, we create a safe environment in which the volunteer can

be her/himself and have respect for each other. For this we go back to the pedagogical model of our

organisation in which some elementary aspects are written down. The educational system of our

organisation is identified as ‘the preventive system’. Within this system, the concept of ‘assistance’ is

important. Within assistance, the youth worker should have eye for the group as for the individual,

focusing on those young that need the most attention, without forgetting about the group. The

people accompanying the volunteer (youth worker, educator, mentor, …) will work out of this

system, focussing on the 3 key elements of assistance:

Attendance: attendance means to be actively present: the youth worker is among people and takes

part in their daily life, during games and during moments of reflection. However, active attendance is

not sufficient; the attitude is also important in this. Often ‘small things’ matter, such as to remember

someone’s name to approach people and show interest.

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Reason: Don Bosco youth workers/educators associate with young people in reason. This means for

instance that they do not behave in an authoritative manner and do not decide on any overly harsh

rules or sanctions. It also means that they do not arouse false hopes, but indicate what they think is

acceptable and why. They should approach young people with reason, explain clearly their motives

and plans, be confident that young people can be reasonable and are able to bear responsibility

themselves and respect a young person and his or her opinion, even when it is a different one.

Encouragement: one of the major tasks of a Don Bosco youth worker is to encourage young people

in their on-going development. This can be done by offering dynamic and creative programmes, or by

offering a frame for a programme that the young complete themselves. Delegating responsibility as

much as much as possible , adapted to age and skills is an important aspect of encouragement. In this

way, you show a young person that you trust him.


Pleasant commitment’ that’s what Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw wants to be. We want to offer young

people chances to involve and commit themselves and grow in this way as a person. On international

level, we want to support young people that within a more globalising world feel themselves

attracted to explore different cultures and that want to involve themselves actively in the work with

children and young people. Take up a commitment in a different culture contains learning

opportunities. The encounters and conversations with the local population, the active contribution

into the project, the confrontation with another society and culture, the confrontation with

themselves and the search for what is valuable. These are all elements that can provide young people

to experience an intercultural learning process. A process that can enrich them on personal and

social level. If young people take up an intercultural commitment, they take up a responsibility for

their surrounding environment. The EVS program foresees in the frame and the chances to create

these opportunities and this is the reason why we as an organisation want to participate in it as

sending and hosting organisation.

Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw already has several years of experience as sending and hosting

organisation. The last 3 years, Jeugddienst Don Bosco has been organizing a Short Term-Group EVS

during the summer. These projects were all subvented by the YiA program. Before 2009, there have

been other Group EVS’, but out of the Youth (in Action) program; Great Idea (2009), - Idea XL

(2010), VIBP HEURA (2011). For June 2012, we are already planning a new Group EVS. Next to the

Group-EVS, we receive and send also individual volunteers. In 2009, Jeugddienst Don Bosco sent

one of its volunteers on a EVS project Asociación Jovesolides(ESP). Also an individual volunteer was

hosted by Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw a couple of years ago (2007). Jeugddienst Don Bosco is now

planning to host a new volunteer in 2012. As both sending and host organisation, we foresee the

necessary preparation of and support for the volunteer.


Mission

“Joyful commitment” that’s what Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw wants to be. By challenging young

people* to volunteering, formation initiatives and other ways of leisure activities, a contribution is

made towards their complete development. In this way they turn into able-bodied, social and

engaged young people, who dare to occupy their place in society and shape it. We focus our

attention on people between 12 and 30, but with an emphasis on the age group of 15 to 25 years.

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Program areas

Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw has 4 main project areas: Training, International activities, Youth Pastoral

and External activities.

Training:

o The training courses for youth animators on different levels: basis course, course

head animator, advanced course, instructor course.

o Other sessions of formation

o Playground animation and support

o Organisation of activities for the involved volunteers and trainers

International Activities

o European Activities: international (training) weeks, exchange of animators, EVS, …

o Representation in Don Bosco Youth Net

o International volunteering outside Europe

o Ushirika-project: training on playgrounds in Zambia

o Jebo!-project: training on playground in South-Africa

o Vides: individual volunteering and life learning trips

o Group-EVS: host-organisation of a short term group-EVS

Youth Pastoral

o Youth pastoral weekend for the volunteers in our organisation

o Youth pastoral support on the training courses

o World Youth Days

o Oaseweekends: at these weekends young people can take part in diverse and

creative programs which are more profound and give opportunities to experience

deeper values.

o Schoolretraits/ reflection days for schools

External Activities

o Holiday and Adventure camps for children from 6 until 17 years old

o Support of the Don Bosco playgrounds, discussion forum of playgrounds

o JOTO (young people on their way). Joto focuses on the 11-16 years old. In this stage

of life young persons are in full development and open for a lot of incentives. We

offer them activities and stimulate them to think about their future.

o 2yearly event for all animators involved in the Don Bosco playgrounds

o Thematic project: an annual project about a certain topic which is lively within the

organisation (e.g. 2001: young people and space, 2004: project with young and

elderly people, 2005: humor, 2007: music , 2010: it turns)

We also spread the following publications:

o 3-monthly periodical ‘Koerier’

o Monthly digital newsflash

o Book with methods for doing youth work

o Collection of inside and outside games

o Hujambo: informative game to talk with young people about values in life

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Contact Point

Organisation: Jeugddienst Don Bosco vzw

Address: Naamsesteenweg 37

Postal code: 3001

Town: Heverlee

Country: Belgium


Phone: +32 16 24 16 20

Fax: +32 16 24 16 29

Contact: Mr. Fonny Grootjans


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Bulgaria

2012-BG-35 Don Bosko Bulgaria Foundation




Location Ztara Zagora (Bulgaria)

Theme 1 Minorities


Inclusion Economic difficulties, Social difficulties

Project environment


The projects will be holdin town of Stara Zagora and town of Kazanlak. In Stara Zagora the

envirnment are children and young people from the Romany quarter Lozenetz and the people from

the Foundation, who work in the town. The activities are happening in CICES rented rooms in the

quarter and also in the open air in the town and the area. The target group are the children in risk in

the Romany quarter and from Romany descent.

In town of Kazanlak the envirment are the children and young people, who are visiting CICES and the

people from the branch of the foundation. The activities in kazanlak are educative; sport;

entertainment and catehistic.

The target group are the children and young people in risk from the Romany descent.


The main activity of the Foundation, in which the volunteers will take part, is the work with children

and young people. The knowledge and skills that the volunteer can gain are connected with the work

in groups and teamwork with taking concrete responsibilities, learning new games and activities that

have educational effects and stimulate the creative protential, new skills in the field of the fine arts,

music, cookery and christian ethic, bulgarian culture and tradition. The concrete activities are: fine

arts workshop, music workshop, dance workshop; supporting the children and the youngsters with

the school material, - circle room; catechistic activities; sport; games in open air, camps, excursions.

The role of the EVS volunteer will be of an youth leader, who is supporting the activities, who are

attractive for him/her, and also organizing new, if he/ she has specific skills, which can be included in

the work of the CICES. ;

to help in organizing and leading the activities in the center for information, consulting, education

and support - CICES Oratorio, town of Stara Zagora

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to help in organizing and leading the activities in the CICES Oazis , town of Kazanlak.

To take part in the organising and leading of the summer camps

To take part in the organizing and leading the youth meetings with the young volunteers from

Bulgaria

In the beginning, while they are learning the language, the volunteers take part in the activities in

open air and sport. After finishing the course they support the circle room, and also have the

opportunity to organize their own group, depending on their own skills and interests.

Fine arts workshop

Music workshop are playing on different music instruments

Dance workshop

Different educational games and games for the free time

Sport with the children and young people

Youth meetings

Excursions

Camps

The activities, in which the volunteer will be able to take part, are creative and they need ideas to be

realized. As a material base and resources, our organization has the necessary potential for realizing

ideas, connected with the activities. If the volunteer has ideas, which will assist the activities and will

contribute to better work of the organization and they will always be wellcomed.

The typical activities, that the volunteer will be involved in, are:

in the fine arts workshop: with the children and youngsters, making postcards, different figures

from paper , plastic, paintings on glas, collage making and etc.

in the music workshop: playing on guitar, syntesizer, percussions, singing.

in the dance workshop: learning or teaching dances with the girls.

Sport: football; volley-ball; swimming; table-tennis; in the winter - hockey and skating.

The youth meetings: organizing and taking part in talks, connected with the work with children;

training games for self-experience and team working.

Camps: preparing the camps, in the part, connected with the games and pursuits with the

children and young people.


Profiles of the volunteers:

To wish and have interest for work with children and young people in risk and from romany

descent;

To be aware towards other culters and traditions;

To wish to learn Bulgarian language;

To be experienced in the team-working and work in groups.

Open and transparent recruitment process, as well as the overall accessibility of EVS to all young

people true:

Publishing the announcements for hosting of volunteers on places, where there will be accessible for

more sending organizations and volunteers;

Equal requirements for all the candidates;

Equal evaluation of all the candidates.

The selection of particular volunteer is straight connected with reaching our reqirements.

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After carry out communication /true internet/ with everybody fom the candidates, the Director of

the Foundation and the Board of Managers take the end decision, which from the candidates are

most appropriate for the organization and its activities.

Sending organization, that we want to cooperate with: Such, that have simular to our activities and

work with, trained for work with children and young people, volunteers.


From our experience till now, we know that is better, when the volunteers are at least two. This

helps them to adapt faster, and gives them oportunities to help each other. The activities of the

organization are hold in town of Kazanlak and town of Stara Zagora. The maximum number of

volunteers, that the organization is able to host at the same time is four and five. By ralizing of a

group project we are able to coordinate also ten volunteers, but for a shorter period of time.

Wehave in mind also a partnership with the municipalities.

We do the work in two places, both of the centers are working five days per week, which means,

that regarding the work nobody will be injured. The activities are directly connected with the

informal teaching. There is a good material base for accomodation with all the comforts in Kazanlak

and in Stara Zagora and sleeping rooms for two persons, heating, hot water, toilets and bathrooms;

technik and computers, internet, phone, printers, scaners, video projectors, screen, white boards and

etc.

There will be one mentor, experienced in the volunteer care, for every couple of volunteers in each

of the towns.)


Kazanlak is a calm and middle-town. The volunteers will work mostly in the CICES Oazis,

which is located in the center of the town, within the borders of the property of the Salezians of

Don Bosko and the Parish St. Josef. The work conditions are civilizated, also are the living conditions.

The volunteers have the run of one floor of a house, with passing room for sleeping and free time,

kitchen, toilet and bathroom. Stara Zagora is also a calm town. The volunteers are working in CICES

Oratorio, Romany quarter Lozenec. It is located near school and is not a dangerous place. They live

ina rented apartment in the center of the town. The work conditions are good, also are the living

conditions. The volunteers will have their own room, kitchen, toilet and bathroom. We work mostly

in dialog, against the risks and crises situations. By their arrival, the volunteers are introduced to the

specific of the work, with the children and young people, with whom they will work and with the

possible dangers of the work with children and young people. The mentor is always available for the

volunteers, when there are problems for sharing and solution. The specific of the activities in the

organization is such, that all of its members and employees have experience in the taking care of

young people. The mentors of the volunteers are with appropriate education and experience in

taking responsibility for minors. The safety of the minor volunteers is guaranteed true control and

rules, as in one common family.


Don Bosko Bulgaria Foundation is registered in the beginning of the year 2009. Before this

registration, and currently we work also as Salezians of Don Bosko in Bulgaria, partition of the

Byzantine Catholic Church. We, the Salezians of Don Bosko have a mission in Bulgaria since 18

years, and we work since 13 years with volunteers aˆ“ from Bulgaria and from abroad. The

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volunteers, who come to us, work mostly with children and young people in risk, mainly from

Romany descent.

Some of our employees have experience with teaching volunteers in Czech Republic and in Bulgaria -

and now they transfer this experience more widely in Bulgaria, leading trainings for young volunteers,

who work with children and volunteers from the organization Caritas. After the first accreditation of

Don Bosko Bulgaria Foundation the so far experience, we consider that we are able to continue

working as a host, sending and coordinating organization. Until now we have realized two EVS

projects aˆ“ For a better chance aˆ“ October 2010 aˆ“ July 2011 and For a better chance - 2 -

October 2011 aˆ“ September 2012. In the first project we hosted 2 volunteers, and in the second,

which activities are still ongoing, we hosted 5 volunteers. From October 2012 we will start to work

on the project For a better Chance - 3. The activities in these projects happen in town of Stara

Zagora and town of Kazanlak, they are orientated towards Romany children and young people, with

whom we work in the CIKES /Center for information, consulting, education and support/ in the

Romany quarter Lozenetz, town of Stara Zagora and in the branch of the Foundation in town of

Kazanlak. The branch is registered in the beginning of 2011. The EVS volunteers are needed or the

activities, at the same time, the exerience that they get as youth leaders is useful for them, gives them

opportunities for further realization in the sphere of work with children and young people in risk.


Don Bosko Bulgaria Foundation is non-profit, nongovernmental organization, which is working for

public benefit. In the town of Stara Zagora we work since one year, and our activity is orientated to

assistance the education and training of young people and children in risk, from all the ethnical

groups; assisting the social integration and personal realization for the needy children, young people

and adults; cooperation with other organizations, which have similar priorities.

We organize meetings and talks, seminars, trainings for volunteers. We organize camps for children,

excursions. The sport takes important place in our work with the young people. We do charity. In

the moment our activity is focused on the Romany children and their parents from the Romany

quarter Lozenec, town of Stara Zagora. We cooperate with the organizations: Caritas Bulgaria,

Caritas Sofia, VIS, Rome/Italy, Salezians of Don Bosko, Bulgaria. Our main goals are to raise the

motivation of the children and pupils for the teaching process and school work; to develop positive

attitude to the school; to show the individual potential of the children and to encourage them to

develop their interests and talents, including them in different kinds of workshops aˆ“ music and

dance, sport, fine arts, ethnic and tradition; to increase the self-assessment and self-confidence of the

children and young people, true realization, encouraging and developing of their personal qualities

and gifts; to expand the social contacts of the children from 1st till 8th class and to offer them

alternatives for new friendships; to increase the level of education of the parents.

The foundation is registered as deliverer of social service aˆ“ Center for information, consulting,

education and support (CICES). Five times per week we work in the Romany quarter Lozenec, town

of Stara Zagora, in rented from us rooms, where we do different kinds of occupations aˆ“ from daily

study rooms, where we help children to manage with the school material, till workshops in fine arts,

dances, guitar playing, foreign languages, Christian ethic. For now we work constantly with 60

children and young people age 6-18 years. We organize groups for girls and boys over 10 years old

(future youth leaders), who we want to support in their developing and give them the necessary

knowledge and skills for their future responsibilities.

Since the beginning of 2011 the Foundation has a registered branch Don Bosko Bulgaria Foundation-

branch Kazanlak. In town of Kazanlak a team from Bulgaria volunteers organizes also activities for

children and young people, again in CICES. The Center is visited mostly by Romany children and

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young people aˆ“ boys, works three days per week. The activities are: thematic games, which are

developing the logical thinking, the combinatory; sport and games in open air, introduction in the

Christian values.

As a long term project we intend to build our own Center for work with children and their parents

from the Romany district, which will have a sport hall and field. The equipment of the Don Bosko

Bulgaria Foundation is: office aˆ“ the main residence of the foundation, with room for meetings,

kitchen and sleeping rooms; 3 rented rooms in the Romany quarter Lozenec, where the activities

with the children are hold, equipped with computers, printer, tables, chairs, different games, musical

instruments and matareials for the activities. In the branch of the foundation there is an office aˆ“ the

main quarter of the branch, place for meetings, computer, combined printer-scanner-copier machine,

different games and multifunctional playground. There are and three rooms where the activities of

the CICES are hold. For the summer period with us are working short term volunteers most of

them with the help of the program Kaliero. They help by the organizing and leading the summer

camps for girls and boys.

As human potential we have at our disposal, trained for work with children and work with

volunteers, employees, with education in the field of psychology, pedagogic, philosophy, and

sociology. The team of the foundation includes: Director, President of the Board of Managers, two

members of the board of the managers, officer of the Foundation, 3 employees and volunteers, who

help for the activities.

Contact Point

Organisation: Don Bosko Bulgaria Foundation

Address: st. Zaharii Knayjeski 71

Postal code: 6000

Town: Ztara Zagora

Country: Bulgaria


Phone: + 359 42 959 699

Fax:

Contact: Martina Mrs. Staneva-Antonova


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Czech Republic

2011-CZ-28 Salesian Youth Centre (Salesianske stredisko

mladeze)

Accreditation Host organisation, Co-ordinating organisation



Location Plzen (Czech Republic)



Inclusion Economic difficulties, Geographical difficulties

Project environment


The project will take place in Plzen, a modern city situated in West Bohemia, 90 km away from

Prague. The city of Plzen counts 200.000 inhabitants, boast a rich cultural life, a university and a

Pilsener Urquell beer that is produced in our brewery. The city centre lies 300 meters above sea

level. Plzen is surrounded by hills and forests that offer great possibilities for hiking, mountain biking

and running. The Youth Centre itself is situated on the outskirts of the city, with an adjacent park.

City centre is reachable within 10 minutes by public transport.

The building of the Youth Centre, which was built in 2002, has four floors. On the ground floor

there are club rooms, a reception, storerooms, a rehearsal room, a tea room, a non-alco club bar

and a room for creative workshops. On the first floor, you will find a multi-purpose gym with a

climbing wall, second floor, there is a flat, where the Salesian community (currently 5 people) lives, a

dining room + meeting room and a kitchen. On the third floor, there are offices and meeting rooms

of the Help Centre, a big hall and workshop rooms. Next to the Centre there is a church and a large

playground where basketball, football, floorball, volleyball and other sports may be played. The

volunteer live in a separate apartment outside. The apartment is 10 minutes walk away.


Our youth centre intends to host one EVS volunteer. During the voluntary service in organisation

she/he will have the opportunity to learn the following competencies: ¨

through the involvement in the youth clubs and workshops the volunteer will have an

opportunity to learn and practise the "preventive" system of education that is a cornerstone of

the Salesian pedagogic style

¨ the volunteer will have the opportunity to deepen their planning and organizational

competencies

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¨ the volunteer will have the opportunity to develop their team work and communication skills

through their participation in team meetings, team events and while preparing and planning youth

activities

¨ through her/his own small personal projects she/he will have the opportunity to develop the

independence and creativity, especially in youth work

¨ the volunteer will get the possibility to attend language courses which will help her/him to pick

up faster the Czech language. If the volunteer learns the Czech language, it will be easier for

her/him to understand other Slavic languages, too.

¨ through various trips with children and youth during the year the volunteer will be able to

identify different places in the Czech Republic

¨ through the contact with the Czech culture the volunteer will get the competence of realizing

her/his own cultural roots and comparing it with the other ones

¨ through the stay in Plzen she/he will discover the city and will be able to give guided city tours

for foreigners coming to the centre in Plzen

¨ through the close connection with the community of the Salesians of Don Bosco the volunteer

will have the opportunity to learn to understand Christian values and the roots that the

European culture is based on

The volunteer will have 2 days off a week and won't work more than 35 hours a week. She/he will

work some weekends and some evenings so being flexible is important. Our organisation will provide

a mentor, who will support the volunteer. All co-workers in Salesian Youth Centre are very friendly

and create our Salesian family. Example of a working day: morning: team planning meeting or time for

the preparation of own projects / activities, lunch, afternoon: youth club activities (three hours),

workshop (one hour)

Role of EVS volunteers in the Host Organisation,

Volunteers will have the role of assistants who will learn the necessary competencies and skills to be

able to develop their own independent projects in the course of their stay in the youth centre. They

will become full members of the team. They will be expected to be the envoys of their culture in our

organisation.

· the activities in which the volunteers could be involved and the activities the volunteers could

create in your organisation.

Examples of typical activities/tasks for the volunteers.

Workshops; the volunteer will act as assistant (Job shadowing in the beginning) with gradually

increasing competencies in a workshop / several workshops - depending on her/his individual

interests and preferences. In the workshop there will always be a leader and the volunteer. The

volunteer can choose between creative workshops (ceramics, theatre, dancing), sports workshops

(table tennis, climbing, floorbal, football, bodybuilding, running) and other workshops (languages,

music instrument playing, choir singing, media, etc.). It is also possible for the volunteer to develop

his/her own workshop, for which he/she will receive support from the staff.

· Youth Clubs ; the volunteer will act as an assistant in a team of 4 people in the two youth clubs;

her/his activities here will focus on organising and playing games with children, lending sports

equipment to them, accompanying children and young people to sports competitions and other

events (cinema, outdoor activities), helping with the organisation of concerts, helping in the gym and

the fitness centre, assisting in the non-alco bar in the youth club, and taking part in the preparation

and realisation of weekend trips with children and youth. Approximately 30 children and 50 young

people visit the clubs per day.

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· Summer camps; - in summer our centre offers one - to two-week stays for children and young

people. The volunteer will have an opportunity to become member of the preparation team and to

participate in the planning and realisation of the camps.

Peer programme: The volunteer can also take part in a peer program for children as assistant in the

Help Centre. This peer programme usually runs half a year. The concrete working schedule will be

set together with the volunteer after her/his arrival according to her/his abilities, interests and needs.

The volunteer will set up his/her personal plan at the beginning of his/her service with the aims and

goals that he/she wants to achieve during their voluntary service.


The Salesian Youth Centre in Plzen is looking for motivated volunteers who enjoy working with

children and young people, who like to become a member of a wider team, who like to communicate

with other people. To be a Christian organisation, we expect the volunteers to be open to our

values and belief. At the same time, the volunteers could expect that their opinions will be accepted

and respected. The volunteers will be chosen on the basis of received CVs and motivation letters.

The selective procedure will be provided by the Youth Centre leaders, who will take consideration

all the relevant aspects (benefits for the applicant, suitability of the placement for the applicant with

regard to her/his profile). The project is accessible for all EVS volunteers without any restrictions.

Number of volunteers hosted 1.


Safe working environment will be guaranteed through an initial training and explanation of work

safety rules. The volunteer will also be intensively guided in the beginning of her/his stay so as to

enable them a smooth integration into the team, the working environment, and understanding of

her/his tasks opportunities and responsibilities. There will be regular feedback meetings with the

volunteer during the EVS project, where safety issues will be discussed and resolved. As for the living

environment, it can be described as safe, corresponding with safety conditions in other bigger

European cities. Still, especially in the beginning of the volunteer’s stay, she/he will receive

information/tips from an experienced mentor, who will also show the volunteer around and make

her/him learn the living environment together with all the practicalities in an efficient way. Risks and

crises will be prevented through appropriate training, open communication and regular meetings

between all interested parties (volunteer, project leader, mentor).


Our work widely relies on the support of volunteers. During the years of our existence we have

made a very positive experience with the involvement of young people from the Czech Republic in

the activities of the youth centre. Now we would also like to enable volunteers from Europe to learn

to know our work, to become members of a dynamic team and to share cultural values. We are sure

that our participation in the EVS will enrich both the volunteers and our centre. Like a Coordinating

Organisatoin we will perform major tasks ensuinig from contract with National Agency.

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The Salesian Youth Centre has been active in Pilsen in West Bohemia since 1990. The main aim of

our organisation is to accompany and educate young people, mainly those who are disadvantaged in

some ways or come from poor social families. Our approach is based on education system

developed by our founder - Don Bosco. The main goal of this so calledpreventive system is to avoid

punishment by offering such environment to young peoplewhere they are encouraged to

demonstrate their best qualities.

To achieve our aim we have established three main programmes – youth clubs, workshopsand The

Children, Youth and Family Help Centre. There are two youth clubs - for the agegroup from 8-14

years old and from 15-25 years old. The club visitors can use the facilities(gym, bodybuilding gym,

music rehearsal room, tea room, billiard tables, etc.) as well asthey can spend their free time

according to their wishes while accompanied by the clubworkers.

The Youth Centre also offers a variety of workshops that are regularly (mostly once a week) visited

by children who can learn to play the musical instrument (guitar, flute), they cultivate their sport

skills (climbing, roller blading, modern dancing, table tennis, football, floorball, study foreign languages

or they participate in creative workshops (drama, ceramics, art).

The Help Centre helps for children and their families. It offers specific activities led by psychologists

and therapists. The staff of the centre counts 17 employees and 90 volunteers nearly 2 500

donators/supporters. Approximately 350 children and young people visit weekly our centre. The

volunteer usually works in cooperation with youth worker with group of 10 children or youth.

Contact Point

Organisation: Salesian Youth Centre (Salesianske stredisko mladeze)

Address: Revolucni 98

Postal code: 31200

Town: Plzen

Country: Czech Republic


Phone: +420377266953

Fax: +420377450503

Contact: Mrs Lenka Hauerova


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2010-CZ-29 Církevní stredisko volného casu sv. Dona

Boska v Havírove




Location Havirov (Czech Republic)


Theme 2

Inclusion Educational difficulties, Social difficulties

Project environment


Havirov city lies east of the Czech Republic around 20 km from the center of Moravian-Silesian

Region - Ostrava. Havirov has 82 469 inhabitants. Distance to the capital city of Prague is 400 km and

it takes about 4 hours by train. With other larger cities such as Brno (200km), Olomouc (130 km)

has Havirov easily bus or train connection.

Valdocco club is located in the part of Havirov called Sumbark. Sumbark has good infrastructure, you

will find restaurants, banks, shops, playgrounds and other facilities. The city center is just 10 minutes

by bus, you will find more cultural and leisure activities such as theater, cinemas, swimming pool,

music clubs. Valdocco is very easily accessible by local transport.

In the building where the Valdocco club is situated, there is also staff office, gym, computer room and

other facilities for club activities (billiards, darts, table tennis, football, table, crazy squash etc.).

In the same building there is cozy flat for the volunteer. It is a large studio with own bathroom,

kitchen with all necessary facilities (fridge, washing machine, TV and internet connection). The

volunteer will be living there alone and also he/she will have office for preparation to work. The

volunteer will have an opportunity to lunch in Primary school situated just opposite volunteers flat,

but of course he/she can use kitchen for self-catering. Groceries are next door, just 3 minutes walk.

In the same area is located the drugstore, pharmacy and ATM.

Since this is a leisure club, office hours will be the following:

Monday 15:00 - 19:30

Tuesday 15:30 - 20:30

Wednesday 15:30 - 20:30

Thursday 15:30 - 20:30

Friday 15:30 - 20:30

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The volunteer will have the opportunity to actively participate in the most of activities and programs.

We believe that the volunteer will be working as part of the team. Since our organization is small,

the volunteer will be "full member" of our organization and will get full support from us. If the

volunteer will have an idea of his own workshop, he/she will receive a support form our side. We

consider that this will be advantage to both, the volunteer and to organization.

We would like to see the volunteer work on his/her own initiative and also he/she will get space and

time for his/her own project. The volunteer will be working directly with children and youth under

the guidance of the professional workers. We would like to see the volunteer work in gym and if

possible to participate in aerobics or dance school, football and the cooking workshop. We believe

that the cooking workshop will be interesting - enrichment of the culinary traditions of our country

and the country of the volunteer.

Main activities:

For young people between 14-26 years:

football, volleyball, florbal

fitness centre

dancing lessons

cooking workshops

the nights in the center

outdoors activities such as wall climbing, horseback riding, Ski park, bowling, etc.

summer and winter trips

occasional events - sports tournaments, celebrations

The volunteer will work 5 days a week with weekends usually off. From time to time the volunteer

will participate on Saturday trips, and therefore the other day in the week will be his/her day off. The

volunteer will not work more than 35 hours a week. Time off is also on the bank holidays.

Working hours are following:

Monday 15:00 - 19:30

Tuesday 15:30 - 20:30

Wednesday 15:30 - 20:30

Thursday 15:30 - 20:30

Friday 15:30 - 20:30

The volunteer can use office and centre space for his/her work from 12.00. Job description and

activities is only draft. Final activities and job description we will make in agreement with the

volunteer.

The volunteer will be also attending staff meetings, teambuilding or any training. The volunteer will

be able to attend English lessons which are carried out once a week for our staff members and also

we are able arrange Czech language course. He/she will have an opportunity meet regularly with the

project coordinator and also with his/her mentor.

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On the basis of activities that the volunteer would carry out, we would like to welcome volunteers

with an interest in sports, music and dance. We would like to welcome a creative, young person with

a drive and with interest and positive attitude. He/she should have good relationship with children

and young people. If the volunteer plays any sports actively or plays an instrument that would be fine.

The volunteer should also accept the Christian faith, on which our organization is based, but it does

not mean that the volunteer has to be a Christian. We would like to cooperate with the organization

of a similar nature (but not a requirement).


Special needs (if applicable):

So far we do not have experience with workers with social obstacles, but because we are working

with clients with socially disadvantaged families and also very often with clients with disabilities in

education, as an organization we are able to provide the volunteer with such obstacles comfortable

working environment.


Accepting volunteers will be notified upon arrival of all the principles of health and safety (includes

fire safety, first aid etc.), as well as with important telephone numbers (the embassy of the country of

origin of the volunteer, immigration police, police, emergency). He/she will be further informed

about the transport infrastructure of the city, and will receive all important information which are

necessary for living in the Czech Republic.

The volunteer will also attend regularly meetings with the mentor to discuss progress and any other

issues which may arise. The mentor will be available any time if the volunteer needs to resolve any

problem.


The motivation of our organization to participate in EVS is the belief that the volunteers may

contribute with their ideas and inspiration as well as experience with children and youth from their

areas. We believe that the benefits to our organization as well as for the volunteers will be to

understand other cultures as well as to actively learn foreign languages. Currently we are working

with several external staff members. Our plan is to cooperate with one volunteer and if the

cooperation is successful we would like to accept another volunteer.


Don Bosco Youth Centre is a youth and community facility offering social and recreational

opportunities to young people from the local area. The centre is a non-profit organization. Our main

objective is to offer children and young people such leisure activities that motivate them to spend

their free time meaningfully. Don Bosco operates two centers. The head office as well as the boys

and girls "oratory" for children from 7-14 years is located in the center of Havirov city. There is

another 'oratory' for boys and girls aged 7-14 as well as a club name Valdocco (for youth from 14-26

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years) and Majak (for youth from 14-21 years) in the residential part of Havirov (Sumbark). Both

clubs are intended primarily for youth from disadvantaged backgrounds, but is not required.

In the clubs mentioned above, we provide a wide and diverse range of facilities, a diverse selection of

games, activities and programs, which are designed to provide social and personal learning

opportunities for children and young people - school dance, afternoon extra tutorial lessons - helping

kids with their homework, sport matches, Saturday trips, etc. Part of the center is a gym, where we

play football, volleyball, basketball and other sports. Part of the Valdocco club is also a fitness center

where youth can develop physically.

Both centers of activity are run by a team of approximately 31 professional employees and outside

workers. Children and youth have also opportunity to use a professional psychotherapist.

Main activities:

For kids from 7-14 years:

school dance,

majorettes,

floor ball activity,

climbing wall,

soccer, table tennis,

cooking workshop,

breeder's workshop,

clever hands workshop,

ceramic workshop,

For young people between 15-26 years:

movie club,

football, volleyball,

fitness centre,

seminars on different topics,

psychotherapeutic session,

the nights in the center,

Outdoors activities such as wall climbing, horseback riding, Ski park, bowling, etc.

For all:

summer and winter camps,

one off events - sports tournaments, night in the centre, celebrations

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Contact Point

Organisation: Církevní stredisko volného casu sv. Dona Boska v Havírove

Address: Haskova 1

Postal code: 73601

Town: Havirov



Phone: (+420) 596 810 145

Fax: n/a

Contact: Roman Kalavsky


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2011-CZ-30 mTOTEM – regionalni dobrovolnicke centrum-




Location Plzen (Czech Republic)

Theme 1 Disability

Theme 2 Intergenerational activities

Inclusion Cultural differences, Geographical difficulties, Social difficulties

Project environment


Pilsen is a country capital situated about 100km southwest of the Czech capital Prague. It is the

cultural, industrial, academic, and athletic centre of the region and has around 190.000 inhabitants. In

the city there are theatres, cinemas, stadiums, a university and many other schools. Therefore, Pilsen

offers a great variety of cultural opportunities for volunteers. More information:

http://www.plzen.eu/

The volunteers live in a safe complex with an entrance of their own. They live in a two-bed room

with equipment and the possibility to cook. In the kitchen there is the common equipment: dishes, a

cooker, a refrigerator, a microwave, a washing machine. We have very good experience with lodging

of two(2) volunteers in the same room, since they have the opportunity to learn from each other

and practice tolerance for each other, since tolerance is very important part of working the field.

They should be able to create intimate contact with the mentor and to tackle problems (either

personal or with clients) in due time. Up to now we never encountered any problem with this type

of arrangement. Our accommodations are compatible to lodging in other countries.

The volunteers can be totally independent, but naturally they have to look after up their room

themselves. Pocket money and, depending on the agreement with the volunteer, money for food are

paid to them monthly. The volunteers’ room is about 15 minutes from TOTEM's main office in Pilsen

-Lobzy. This is where also the main activities of the volunteers are taking place, such as conversation

and computer classes for the elderly, as well as the parent club. TOTEM's second building is located

near the Centre of the Third Age (one of TOTEM's current projects) which is where the academy

for the elderly and other leisure activities are located.

During the whole project, a mentor, a project leader and professional contact persons in the

respective organizations will be available to the volunteers.


Our experiences from the last years is that not only the volunteers learn from us but also we profit a

lot from these motivated international volunteers who stay with us. The volunteers have many

http://www.plzen.eu/

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possibities to get involved in different work fields and gain new experiences. On the other hand they

always bring to us their individual and cultural imprint which enrichens our work a lot. By questioning

operations and procedures we always have to reflect and rethink our way of working and operating.

Seeing it from this point of view the cooperation is a win- win situation for both sides.

At the beginning of the service the volunteer and tutor meet and plan possible key aspects and

activities according to the wishes and experiences of the volunteer. Besides the work at our 2 main

houses or as a co-worker for activities within the youth education program, the volunteers also have

the possibility to work at an all- day primary school. In the afternoon there are lots of activites with

different programs for children and teenagers. Depending on their personal interest the volunteers

can decide to support the course instructor in musical or creative activities. In the past we had

volunteers who offered a course to learn german, english, or french for senior citizens or for

children.

The volunteer will spend about 20 % of his time in other projects or organizations of his choice, and

80 % working in the offices and main projects of Totem.

Another major aspect is the work in the main office, where the volunteers work on small projects or

assignments. It also gives them the opportunity to work closely with other employees there. Our

volunteers often have creative tasks like designing flyers for courses, trips or tickets and posters for

events. Many of our volunteers also use the opportunity to organise an evening to present something

about their home country with pictures of the scenery, music or food specialities. It is one of our

approaches to inform other people. There are many opportunities in our organisation for the

volunteers to be creative as we are only a small organisation with few bureaucratic borders.

The volunteers will work in two fields - in the two houses of TOTEM:

1. In the centre for mixed generations the volunteer can work together with czech volunteers or

employees of TOTEM. They can help to prepare PC-courses for the elderly, support parent-children

courses and provide senior education courses – english, german and french conversation The main

goal for the centre is to bring different people together. Whatever the personal and professional

skills of the volunteer are, he/she can make us of them during the projects in the organization.

2. Social group work: The volunteer will participate in a long-term cooperation with social

organizations with specific programs. Volunteers can assist these organizations in various activities,

ranging from administrative tasks, personal or group assistance with clients, environmental work, to

doing handicrafts with certain target groups.

There is a choice of several organizations:

MotA1l – a center for leisure activities for disabled small children.

Volunteers will learn to approach the work with young children from a creative perspective

while cooperating with trained professionals.

Salesian Center It's a day center for children and adolescents. Volunteers participate in a variety

of activities and workshops both in the club called Airship (for adolescents) and a second one

called Balloon( for children). Volunteers therefore assist mainly in sporting activities or other

leisure activities. In addition it is also possible to take part in events and trips during the weekend

and organized holiday trips (summer camps) outside the city. This organization is ideal for the

realization of the smaller projects in the second half of EVS.

The project greatly affects the volunteers, as they can expand their adaptability and autonomy,

experiencing the European dimension with all its possibilities. The volunteers have the

opportunity to contribute actively in a community, to gain many new skills, and to learn how to

deal with stress and conflict situations.

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We expect that the volunteer will have the chance to obtain important skills that contribute to

his/her personal and professional life, and in society itself. Main aspects affecting the volunteer's

personal development are a different cultural environment, new contacts, and many new experiences

during his/her EVS in a different country. To successfully achieve a postive development as mentioned

above, we are continuously offering professional and personal support to the volunteers.

During the whole period of the voluntary work, volunteers together with their coordinator will be

working on the Youthpass. The possibility and importance of obtaining this document for the

volunteer is taken very serious by our organization and we are familiar with its meaning and benefit

for the volunteers.


The volunteer placement will be published in the internet and spread by the contact of the network

of the supporting organization.We are ready to work with all kinds of sending organizations. We are

looking for young people who enjoy working with all kinds of target groups (youth, elderly, disabled)

and who like working with others. The volunteers need to be reliable, committed, creative and eager

to make many new experiences. Moreover, the volunteer should feel positive about getting together

with people with special needs. They should be open-minded and friendly, tolerant and

comprehensive of the needs of the handicapped clients.

The volunteer has to be at least 18 years old. He/She should show interest in the life and work in

different communities. The volunteer should be aged between 18 and 30 years. Also he or she

should be interested to spend 12 months in Czech republic and be willing to learn the Czech

language. The international volunteering should be used to gain a lot of experience, to get to know

yourself, contributing own ideas and talents, being open for everything that's new.

Number of volunteers hosted: 2.


The volunteer will get the same risk prevention that our local volunteers get and beyond. He will be

offered weekly guidance by the hosting organization, together with other volunteers of the region.

The volunteer will take part in a language course and we will help him in every kind of way to

integrate in him our community.

During the voluntary service the volunteers know who is assigned to them as mentor or tutor within

the given project. They also know their rights and duties and can get in contact with the employees

of the partner organizations, the sending organization or the national agency.

The volunteers have the emergency numbers of the sending and hosting organizations, the partner

organizations and their insurance company.

At the orientation training prior to the start of their service they are once more informed about

how to handle crises and difficulties, and who to contact during the occurrence of an emergency or

when facing difficulties. Furthermore, the volunteers meet other volunteers during the trainings run

by the Czech National Agency, seminars and further meetings and so they can establish networks, in

which they can help and support each other.

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Since 2000, RDC TOTEM participates in EVS. The tasks in this case are both in the sending of

volunteers to other international organizations, as well as hosting international volunteers in

TOTEM. Their work will be carried out in TOTEM in coperation with other charitable organizations.

Since 2000 TOTEM is an active hosting and sending organization of European Voluntary Service.

During this period, about 21 volunteers were hosted and five volunteers sent.

Our motivation to be active as sending, hosting and coordinating organization for EVS is based on the

great experiences of the past years. Czech as well as international volunteers support and inspire an

organization with their ideas, their individual point of view and give the organization an opportunity

for professional development. A lot of volunteers hosted in German EVS projects as well as German

EVS volunteers who were sent to other countries are still active in the (international) voluntary

work and help to develop a lot of activities in our organization with new impulses, ideas and

commitments. Therefore we are able to open up new areas of work and develop the quality of our

daily tasks as well. Finally it is a win-win-situation for both (the volunteer as well as the organization).

This kind of feedback and successful cooperation isn't limited to our organization. The youth clubs

and NGO's coordinated by us report similar positive experiences with the volunteers. This

consequently motivates us as an organization to carry on in this field.

Finally EVS is a great tool and an important part of voluntary work in general. In this period of

increasing globalization and the need of close relations between countries, especially within Europe

(without waste of national/cultural identity) EVS contributes in an exceptional manner to reach this

aim by giving young Europeans the possibility to be active as a volunteer and contributing in a

community of another European country.


The civil association Totem RDC is a non-profit organization promoting the idea of volunteerism and

the extension of social services. Our mission is to create positive and practical interpersonal

relationships, both within families and in the broader context of the civil society. Experienced

coordinators are responsible for ensuring the satisfaction of our customers in individual projects and

activities.

As the main goal of our work we consider:

Promotion and dissemination of ideas and placement of volunteers to promote the development

of volunteer work in the region of Pilsen

The offer interesting and educational activities for seniors, to maintain their mental and physical

strength

Support for children and their families in coping with difficult situations

The starting point for our projects are:

The needs of our clients

Principles of civil society

The basic concept of the city of Pilsen in the field of social policy

The database currently has about 350 volunteers, among other things, on the basis of contracts. 165

volunteers currently participate in 34 organizations. Totem currently has 12 employees.

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Contact Point

Organisation: TOTEM – regionalni dobrovolnicke centrum

Address: KaznějovskA! 51

Postal code: 323 00

Town: Plzen



Phone: +420732708377

Fax: +420732343947

Contact: Petra Kusova


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France

2009-FR-41 Campus de Pouillé




Location Les Ponts de Cé Cedex (France)


Theme 2 Environment

Project environment

Project environment

Pouillé, near Angers, Maine et Loire

The campus of Pouillé is in Les Ponts de Cé, a town bordering Angers. The town of Angers - and its

agglomeration - is an attractive territory thanks to its situation in the heart of the Pays de la Loire

region and the Great West, as well as being next to Paris (1h30 by train). The Angevine basin is a

balanced territory between city and country, benefiting both from the presence of an agglomeration

of 250 000 inhabitants, with all its services, and from an exceptional agricultural and natural territory,

in the heart of the Val de Loire recognized as worldwide heritage of mankind by UNESCO.

On the economic plan, the Pays de la Loire region is characterized by a high growth these last years.

This positive evolution gives a dynamic urbanism and environmental planning favorable to the

horticultural jobs in particular. On the agricultural plan, the Pays de la Loire region is the 2nd French

agricultural region.

The campus of Pouillé is situated in a department, the Maine et Loire, whose demography and

economy are dynamic. The university history of Angers is also important and old, what makes it an

attractive center which is identified regarding higher education. Two universities (Public University

and Western Catholic University) and numerous high schools constitute a set of qualities which

establish Angers as a student town with 25 000 students of whom numerous foreigners.

Networks of the campus

The campus of Pouillé is part of 3 major networks :

The catholic private agricultural network, structured at regional level by the CREAP (regional

committee of private agricultural education)

The catholic education network (45% of the school number in Maine et Loire)

The institutions of les Salésiens network: the institution is under congregation of les Salésiens de

Don Bosco's guardianship. The netwok favours the diffusion of its pedagogy and its training of the

teachers. The network is international and offers exchanges possibilities with Poland and Haïti in

particular.

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The international network of the campus is in constant evolution since the institution makes of this

dimension an important axis of its development. Thus, the campus is partner with the world

competitiveness pole Vegepolis, Val campus, ESA group from Angers ans ISUTEC whose aim is to

value at international level the high school trainings of the private insitutions.

Proposed activities for EVS volunteers

The services and conveniences offered to the volunteer:

The following logistics has been foreseen regarding the welcoming of the volunteer:

a Language support: the youngster can attend a French language training in the high school or

from an external association according to his needs.

a Accomodation: the youngster will live in the campus, in a single room. The volunteer can be

received by a host family - thanks to the networks of the high school - on weekends if he wants

to.

a Catering: the youngster will be able to eat at the cafeteria of the campus ; he will also be able

to eat outside thanks to a meal allowance given by the institution.

Other services offered to the volunteer :

The campus has an art and cultural space which will be free accessible to the young volunteer

Sportive activities will be suggested: riding activities, climbing, football ...

The aim of the campus of Pouillé is to help the youngsters to become responsible and autonomous in

their profesionnal life. His project of welcoming a young European volunteer is an integral part of this

mission of encouraging responsibility and opening on the world and Europe in particular. The EVS

objectives are:

To widen the field of its animations to the knowledge about Europe and the discovery of another

culture: the teachers and the pupils will be able to discover a European country by living by the

side of a youngster who will be able to express everyday life in his country, its economy, its

culture, the youngsters' life and their concerns ...

To develop international cooperation between the original country of the volunteer and France:

to build up links of partnership between the campus of Pouillé and another European structures.

The project of the institution falls within the will of developping actions of international and local

partnership, linked in particular with issues about sustainable development.

Role of the volunteer at the campus

The young volunterr will be received by the team of the campus in the concern of permanent

listening, respect of his personality and his individual motivation. His experiments and his skills will

also be valued and highlighted in the frame of the EVS project of the campus. His missions will be

integrated ine the dynamics " Circle Europe " of the campus of Pouillé. They will be related to the

missions of the information and documentation center (CDI). In close link with the objective of the

campus and the youngster's motivation, his roles can be the following: To help the pupils and the

teachers discovering Europe in a different way: The young volunteer can create animations on the

theme of Europe and organise theme days about European issues according to his concerns. The

animations can involve the youngsters of the campus, the aim being to increase the value of the skills

of each person (pupils, volunteer, teachers, staff) according to the chosen theme. Moreover, the

young volunteer can create an exhibition about his original country to help us to know it better.

Settled at the information and documentation center, the exhibition can then be spread to the whole

pupils from the Maine et Loire.

The volunteer's mission will also be to update and enrich the documentary funds of the center (CDI)

about European Union, in collaboration with the person in charge of th CDI. To create theme

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workshops for the youngsters: the volunteer can prepare and set up workshops for the pupils and

students in the information and documentation center (CDI). These leisure times help to create links

between the youngsters of different ages and trainings. The leisure times will concern themes linked

to the pupils' trainings but also to more playful themes such as:

" Agriculture / horticulture

" Environnement and sustainable development

" Renewable energies

" Other themes suggested by the volunteer according to this profile

To develop cultural exchanges between the campus and other institutions in Europe: the youngster

will have to create links in Europe and to participate to the organisation of cooperation projects and

school exchanges.

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process

In relation with the above defined missions, the volunteer's profile is the following:

It would be interesting that the young volunteer is sensitive to the agricultural world, rural

society, sustainable development and environment

It is essential that the young volunteer shares the educative values of the institution

The campus of Pouillé is ready to welcome volunteers from every Eurpean countries.

Nevertheless, a country with experience regarding sustainable development and the use of

renewable energies happens to be interesting in the frame of this EVS project

Knowing a certain maturity is necessary for the volunteer to host activities for the youngsters, it

is better if he is at minimum 22

A strong motivation for learning French seems essential for a good integration of the youngster

in the institution.

Number of volunteers

The campus of Pouillé wishes to welcome a young volunteer during the school year from September

to June.

Risk prevention, protection and safety

The volunteer will live on the campus, what will permit to solve the problems everyday and to

anticipate or react on possible crisis. All week long, educators are there and the person in charge of

scholar life owns a room close to the one of the volunteer. During weekends, the director can be

reached in case of problems or security issues ; if he is absent, a delegation will be given to another

person able to intervene (bursar, person in charge of the information and documentation center,

assistant head, assistant in charge of educative life and pastorale).


The campus of Pouillé wishes to welcome a young European volunteer in the frame of its project of

developping the European dimension in its eductionnal project. Composed of a general,

technological and professional high school, a pole of higher education, a life long training center and a

plant experimentation center, the campus accomodates various publics who have to open their mind

to other cultures, other experiments, other territories in Europe. Strongly focused on agricultural

and horticultural teaching, the campus is involved in the dynamics linked to sustainable development

and environmental protection. That is why it seeks to developpe European partnerships on the

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theme of environment. Its international and European opening will indeed be essential to its global

teaching dynamics in favour of the youngsters.

The campus of Pouillé has already organised school exchanges, with Poland and Germany in

particular. The higher education pole also implements an ERASMUS project in 2009 to permit to the

vocational training certifcate (BTS) students to carry out work placements in companies in Europe. It

is a new step towards the development of its European projects. The objective of the campus is now

to develop the European actions in favour of pupils from the general and professional high school.

Thus, welcoming a young European volunteer coming from a different European country will be

another stage to the development of the European dimension of the campus. In this respect, the will

of the campus is to develop collective life and animation for the youngs, based on international and

European links. The welcoming of a European volunteer will participate to the opening of the campus

towards Europe thanks to various ations, such as events, workshops, exhibitions, documentations ...

Our wish is to welcome a young volunteer from September 2009 for a period of 10 months, until

June 2010. Then, we wish to renew the experiment every year from September to June by

welcoming


Pouillé high school has been founded in 1933 by the congregation of the Salésiens de Don Bosco

which used to be an agricultural and horticultural school in phase with the economic environment in

Anjou. After several stages of development - the high school became officially an agricultural and

horticultural learning center in 1952, a secondary school of agriculture and horticulture in 1965 and

in 1933, it creates a vocational training certificate (BTS) pole in partnership with ESA group (High

school of agriculture) - the institution is today a campus of arts and crafts about nature and the living.

Thus, it offers today two great training processes (from secondary to higher education):

" General and technological training about nature and the living sciences, sanctionned by the

diplomas BAC S and technological BAC STAV (general secondary education)

" Professional training from level V (profesional high school: CAP, BEP, BAC PRO) to level II

(higher education: BTS and professional degree) in the domain of economy of the living

o Production: agriculture/breeding and food-producing and decorative horticulture

o Environmental planning

Secondary cycle trainings (levels 4 and 5) are carried out at Pouillé site. Higher trainings (level 3 -

vocational training certificate and level 2 - professional degree) take mostly place at ESA group

site in Angers. They will take place at Pouillé from the beginning of term 2010.

The campus also has a continuous training center (for employees ou particulars about computer,

languages, tree pruning, floral art …) and a vegetable experimentation center.

The institution is under the congregation of the Salésiens' guardianship whose pedagogy consists

in the respect of the youngster received, the acknowledgement of all his dimensions (not only

intellectual and technical but also expressive, sporting, affective and spiritual) and prevention and

valorization of success (" Permitting the youngster to memorize his past success gives him the

means to face additional difficulties "). That is the way the campus of Pouillé gives itself the

objective of welcoming, instructing and educating.

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The received public

Secondary cycle: 22 classes / 520 pupils

Higher cycle: 4 classes / 100 students

23 % out of the pupils from secondary education and 39% out of the students are scolarship-

holders. 30% out of their parents are farmers (this figure is decreasing since 2000 when it was

more than 40%).

The secondary cycle pupils are all from Pays de la Loire region, 77% from Maine et Loire. The

students are from all over France, a strong majority coming from the great West, 50% from Pays

de la Loire. The pupils being trained to agricultural and horticultural domains all need to open up

to the European dimension, to have practical knowledge about farming in a European economic

context in the aim of sustainable development.

The teachers

Secondary cycle: 48

-Higher cycle: 12

Contact Point

Organisation: Campus de Pouillé

Address: Route de Pouillé BP 90049

Postal code: 49136

Town: Les Ponts de Cé Cedex

Country: France


Phone: 0241448711

Fax: 0241445862

Contact: Ms Florence MIGNOT


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Germany

2010-DE-34 Aktionszentrum der Salesianer Don Boscos -

Jugendbildungsstätte-




Location Benediktbeuern (Germany)



Project environment


The project is situated in a retreat house, which is based in a former Benedictine monastery building.

The history of the place goes back to 739. In 1930 a new period starts: The Salesians of Don Bosco

purchase the monastery. The congregation started to restore the buildings, saving them from the

decadence and gave an input to a "renaissance"of the cultural life. The retreat house Aktionszentrum

was grounded in 1969 and offers social and spiritual development to young people. The monastery is

located in a village called Benediktbeuern with around 4000 inhabitants around 60 km south of

Munich towards the Alps. The town is easy to reach by train from Munich. There is a train

connection every hour in both directions. A lot of tourists visi this region, which offers many

possibilities for leisure time activities (walking, cycling, swimming). In the monastery there are two

colleges (University of applied sciences of social work and university of philosophy and theology)

with around 600 students for social work, philosophy and theology. This makes the place itsself a

very young place with a lot of social life, where young people easily can step in. The volunteer will

have an own area, with a single room based in a community with other volunteers. Food is provided

by the Aktionszentrum.


The retreat house has two major tasks: one is the work with groups of young people who come to

the Aktionszentrum to work on their personal and social skills. Here the volunteer can get in contact

with German young people, can do indoor climbing, offer leisure time programme. An important

point in the cooperation with international volunteers is the intercultural exchange: Gemran young

people can meet the volunteer and exchange experiences (on topic like: intercultural learning, Youth

in Europe). The volunteer has got the possibility to join seminars for international voluntary service

in order to exchange experiences with other volunteers. The volunteer will also have to do some

practical work in the youth centre: support in the central office, weekly meetings with the house

manager, reception service for young people, guided tours for groups in the youth centre. All the

activities are planned week by week according to the skills and expectations of each volunteer.

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Every young person is welcome who is open to other young people. A basic knowledge of German

would be really helpful to start from the beginning in participating in the educational activities. Any

skills in the area of sport, music, arts and crafts or experience in youth work will be very

welcome.There should be an openness to work in a centre which has a Christian background.

Normally we use to look for volunteers in cooperation with our partners in Europa. If young people

are interested they contact their sending organisations. After this they send an application and if

possible, we arrange a meeting to get to know each other. We select the volunteers together with

our partner organisation.


Special needs

The Aktionszentrum is open for volunteers with fewer opportunities. In particualr we support the

participation of young people with low education and coming from difficult social backgrounds. A

team of social workers (8 staff members) can offer a personal support during the EVS experience.


The Aktionszentrum has an own child and staff protection system, which can be sent to everybody

who is interested. A special training at the beginning of the volunteering will ensure that everybody

knows the rules and regulations of the house and the area (fire, first aid). The volunteer will live in a

safe environment and will have a personal mentor. The hosting organisation and the sending

organisation will be regularly in contact to prevent and discuss possible problems. We think that

good partnerships are one of the most important requirements in organising voluntary services. We

are not planning of hosting young volunteers between 16 and 17.


Aktionszentrum gives the possibility to young people to do a voluntary service abroad. The volunteer

can broaden their perspectives for the future, learn new cultures and develop new ideas in the field

of youth work. Main objective of the organisation is to support the exchange of experiences

between countries and to support in particular young people with fewer opportunities in the learning

process. An important aspect of the project is the pedagogical support of the volunteers before,

during and after the voluntary service. The centre is active since 1998 in the field of EVS. Every year

we send 1-4 volunteers and sometimes host young people. The last volunteer has been in the centre

from April till September 2009. Since 2008 Aktionszentrum has been working together with

Jugendbildungsstätte Unterfranken in the organisation of the EVS training cycle.


The youth centre Aktionszentrum focuses its attention on the following work areas:

training courses for school classes

tutoring and mediation programmes for schools

organisation of international youth encounters and EVS projects.

coordination of voluntary services

training for youth trainers (following the standards of JULEICA)

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The Aktionszentrum is, in the organisation and realization of non formal education's measures, part

of a big national and international network www.donboscoyouth.net

Contact Point

Organisation: Aktionszentrum der Salesianer Don Boscos - Jugendbildungsstätte

Address: Don Bosco Str. 1

Postal code: 83671

Town: Benediktbeuern

Country: Germany


Phone: +49 8857 88314

Fax: +49 8857 88349

Contact: Herr Francesco Bagiolini

http://www.donboscoyouth.net/


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2010-DE-116 Don Bosco Club-




Location Köln (Germany)

Theme 1 Anti-discrimination


Project environment


The project is located in Köln/Cologne. With one million inhabitants Cologne is the largest city in

North Rhine-Westphalia, the largest German Federal State. Twenty million people live within one

hour's drive from Cologne. The dynamic Rhine-Ruhr region is one of the central locations in Europe

for industry, trade, the economy, science and research.

In the last decade Cologne has developed from a classical industrial centre into the modern service

centre in western Germany. Today Cologne is associated primarily with the media, tradefairs and

culture, in addition to chemicals and mechanical and electro-engineering. Cologne is Germany's

leading media metropolis, a tradefair venue of world renowned and cultural centre.

In addition, the city also boasts a highly modernised and innovative industrial sector with a balanced

sectoral structure and an ideal mix of small and medium-sized companies. Commanding a vast body

of know-how, Cologne's craft and trades sectors have successfully specialised in many areas. As an

industrial centre, Cologne has also benefited from its geographical location: Within a radius of just

300 km over 40% of the EU's total domestic social product are generated.

With its excellent traffic connections and infrastructure, Cologne is the main traffic hub of the west:

Ten main axes of the European motorway network converge on Cologne's orbital motorway circling

the city. Cologne's main railway station is also regarded as one of the key rail junction in Europe. And

flights from the regions two major airports Cologne/Bonn and Düsseldorf set course to over 200

destinations worldwide. Cologne's Rhine ports are among Germany's largest inland ports.

Since the Medieval times Cologne has been a key commercial and tradefair centre. 25 of the world's

largest industrial tradefairs are staged at Cologne's tradefair centre, the KölnMesse. Cologne boasts

a great variety of municipal and private museums, which is their various ways reflect the 2000-year

history of the city. The Cologne Philharmonic is celebrated as one of the most prestigious concerts

hall in Europe, and the city houses over 100 art galleries. Over one quarter of all German television

programs are produced in Cologne and there are more TV and radio stations located here than in

any other German city. Numerous telecommunications companies provide the logistic basis for the

expanding service sector and an innovative research network.

With the highest student population and the oldest municipal university in Germany, Cologne is the

most popular city in which to study. Similarly, with its engineering centre, Cologne's Technical

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University is the largest of its kind in Germany. The Sports Academy and the Art Academy of Media

Arts also enjoy a worldwide reputation. More information can be found under www.koeln.de


The following areas of work are possible:

co-operation in the educational open area (table football, billiards, board games, discussions) 60%

free activities with children and youth (making things, cooking, practicing dances etc) 10%

organizing sports projects (football tournaments, basketball competitions, table tennis, hockey,

chess etc) 10%

further independent running of multimedia projects (making films, digital photo stories, computer

training etc) 10%

A typical day in the Don Bosco Club:

At 12.30 the volunteer arrives at the club and can have their lunch in the bistro.

At 13.00 all members of staff meet in a team meeting which we call Übertrag (carried over).

Here important events of the previous day are discussed, important decisions made and the

current day planned (everyone is given an area of responsibility which means a space where they

have responsibility - sports room, computer room, making things room). In these rooms they

can then provide an offer with the children and youth. After the meeting each member of staff

has enough time to prepare their plans. At two o'clock the children (6-15) come to the club and

make use of the offers. The volunteer can come into contact with the children through play or

activities. Through discussion they can provide attitudes to life and listen to fears and needs of

the children. With the help of the team they can respond appropriately. At 17.45 the children

leave the house and we tidy up.

Between 18 and 18.30 we have a break.

From 18.30 the 12-21 year old youth visit us. Contact here is made through direct

conversations. Sometimes the medium of games or activities (billiards, table football, table tennis,

board games) are needed. At 21.00 the youth also leave the club and the team tidies up

(brushing, emptying bins etc).

The day ends at 21.15 with a prayer.

A typical week in the Don Bosco Club:

Monday-Friday is as described.

One evening a week is free (on agreement). Every two weeks Sunday evening is working time

from 18-21.30 as the Don Bosco Club is then open to young people.

Once a week is an exchange discussion for the people doing practical training and volunteers. After a

short working in phase the volunteer can introduce an autonomous project. The volunteer will work

in the open area in the first three weeks and the creative and sports area will slowly be added to

this.

A European volunteer opens up horizons for our youth and children. They learn what other

countries and cultures are like without consciously noticing. European thought becomes not only an

abstract thought, but an everyday matter for the children. They are used to multicultural life, but as

the volunteer has grown up in another country they do bring other basic prerequisites and

experiences with them. The fact that a European volunteer is in an establishment normally means

that English is used and this becomes normal for the children and youth. I believe this also to be an

advantage.

Through the different activities of the children and youth in the area the volunteer is also involved in

this area. There are many contacts in the Mülheim district beginning with the neighbouring junior

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school to the different youth institutions, clubs and private associations. For example once a year

there is a competition for music groups in Mülheim and there are different competitions in which

sports teams can take part.


Skills: Age: 18-30/ gender: not important/ interest and enjoyment in co-operating with children and

youth/ area of interest: sport and or media (photo, film, internet, computer).

Cooperations with partnerorganisations:

The European Voluntary Service is connected with city twinning. Therefore applicants and sending

organisations from the cities that are twinned with Kölns are prefered: Barcelona (Spain), Cluj

Napoca (Romania), Cork (Ireland), Istanbul (Turkey), Katowice (Poland), Lille (France), Liverpool

(Großbritannien), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Thessaloniki (Greece) und Tel Aviv (Israel).



The organization, where young volunteers are working, secures, that volunteers will be introduced

into their fields of work and that they find enough support to integrate well into the respective

systems.

The organization provides continuous monitoring, including easy access to the contact person

(Tutor), regular dialog with the volunteers, in which the options for personal development and

the interests of the volunteer are being discussed.

The organization opens their regular educational programs of the employees for the volunteers.

At the end of a voluntary service, the organization finds an appropriate form to bid farewell to

the volunteer and writes a qualified letter of reference.

Mentors: The Kölner Feiwilligen Agentur acquires Mentors who accompany the volunteers. Mentors

are required to take on following responsibilities:

serve as personal guide of the volunteer outside their working field

support volunteers with formal necessities at the beginning of their service (i.e. registry office of

the city, office for foreigners, open bank account, select a language program)

offer basic orientation in Cologne and provide for social contacts

recognize and appreciate the growing abilities of the volunteer in their work and open discussion

on future perspectives for career training in their home countries.

Support in volunteeer-management:: Employees of the Cologne Voluntary Agency visit the

volunteers at least once in their service time in the respective organization. Motives and content:

talks with the Tutor in the organization/placement, in which the voluntary service can be

considered from three different perspectives: the volunteer, the organization, the agency

Investigate if all the conditions of the voluntary service are being fulfilled.

Support in the solution of problems.

Once a year the Cologne Volunteer Center invites all hosting projects to a meeting for the exchange

of experience and for improving the volunteer-management.

Regularly the Cologne Volunteer Center offers training in volunteer-management (four halve days),

where all hosting projects are invited.

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We want to extend the international horizon in giving youth from other countries the chance to

work in our establishment. For our youth, who partly have another nationality, it is very important

to come together with people from other regions as they seldom leave Köln or even the Mülheim

district. The volunteer helps through their work here in the club to increase tolerance between the

different nationalities through targeted activities.

The children and youth who visit the youth centre are to a large degree socially emotionally

disturbed. They need role models which they can follow. The volunteer can be such a role model

through their age similarity and their non-German culture. This is very beneficial for our

establishment as well as for the nearby surroundings.


The Don Bosco Club is a catholic establishment of open child, youth work and youth social work. It

includes differentiated offers of leisure education, youth social work and youth work connected with

charitable oriented mobile help. The aim of the Don Bosco Club is to offer children and young

people space for experience, meeting, play and experiment in their free time (prevention). Young

people are supported in the transition from school to the world of work and promoted through

social educational help in their social and vocational integration (accompaniment).

Contact Point

Organisation: Kölner Freiwilligen Agentur e.V.

Address: Clemensstr. 7

Postal code: 50676

Town: Köln

Country: Germany


Phone: 2219233364

Fax: 2103763

Contact: Frau Ulla Eberhard


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2012-DE-140 Jugendbildungsstätte Aktionszentrum-




Location Benediktbeuern (Germany)



Inclusion Cultural differences, Economic difficulties, Educational difficulties, Health

problems, Social difficulties

Project environment


The project is situated in a retreat house, which is based in a former Benedictine monastery building.

The history of the place goes back to 739. In 1930 a new period started: The Salesians of Don Bosco

purchased the monastery. The congregation started to restore the buildings, saving them from the

decadence and gave an input to a "renaissance"of the cultural life. Following the idea of the founder

John Bosco (1815-1888) the Salesians developed an important centre for religious education. The

retreat house Aktionszentrum was grounded in 1969 and offers social and spiritual development to

young people.

The monastery is located in a village called Benediktbeuern with around 4000 inhabitants around 60

km south of Munich towards the Alps. The town is easy to reach by train from Munich. There is a

train connection every hour in both directions. A lot of tourists visi this region, which offers many

possibilities for leisure time activities (walking, cycling, swimming). In the monastery there is a

University of applied sciences of social work with around 600 students. This makes the place itsself a

very young place with a lot of social life, where young people easily can step in.

The volunteer will have an own area, with a single room based in a community with other

volunteers. Food is provided by the Aktionszentrum.


The retreat house has two major tasks for volunteers: one is the work with groups of young people

who come to the Aktionszentrum to work on their personal and social skills. In this part the

volunteer can get in contact with German young people, can do indoor climbing, offer leisure time

programme. An important point in the cooperation with international volunteers is the intercultural

exchange: German young people can meet the volunteer and exchange experiences (on topic like:

intercultural learning, Youth in Europe).

The volunteer has got the possibility to join seminars for international voluntary service in order to

exchange experiences with other volunteers.

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The volunteer will also have to do some practical work in the youth centre: support in the central

office, trips with groups (mountains, lake), weekly meetings with the house manager, reception

service for young people, guided tours for groups in the youth centre. All the activities are planned

week by week according to the skills and expectations of each single volunteer.


Every young person, who is open to other young people, is welcome. A basic knowledge of German

would be really helpful to start from the beginning in participating in the educational activities. Any

skills in the area of sport, music, arts and crafts or experience in youth work will be very

welcome.There should be an openness to work in a centre which has a Christian background.

Normally we use to look for volunteers in cooperation with our partners in Europa. If young people

are interested they contact their sending organisations. After this they send an application and if

possible, we arrange a meeting to get to know each other. We select the volunteers together with

our partner organisation.



The Aktionszentrum has an own child and staff protection system.A special training at the beginning

of the volunteering experience will ensure that everybody knows the rules and regulations of the

house and the area (fire, first aid). Benediktbeuern is a very safe place for young people. The

volunteer will live in a safe environment and will have a personal mentor, who will take care of the

intrgration of the volunteer in the local environment. The hosting organisation and the sending

organisation will be regularly in contact to prevent and discuss possible problems. We think that

good partnerships are one of the most important requirements in organising voluntary services. We

are not planning of hosting young volunteers between 16 and 17.


Aktionszentrum gives the possibility to young people to do a voluntary service abroad. The volunteer

can broaden their perspectives for the future, learn new cultures and develop new ideas in the field

of youth work.

Main objective of the organisation is to support the exchange of experiences between countries and

to support in particular young people with fewer opportunities in the learning process. One of the

aim of the organisation is the exchange of experiences and the cooperation among different

countries, offering the opportunity to disadvantaged young people to take part in our activities. An

important aspect of the project is the pedagogical support of the volunteers before, during and after

the voluntary service. The centre is active since 1998 in the field of EVS. Every year we send 1-4

volunteers and also host young people. Since 2008 Aktionszentrum has been working together with

Jugendbildungsstätte Unterfranken in the organisation of the EVS training cycle.

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The youth centre Aktionszentrum is a state-approved organisation, which focuses its attention on

the following work areas:

training courses for school classes

tutoring and mediation programmes for schools

organisation of international youth encounters and voluntary service projects.

training for youth trainers (following the standards of JULEICA)

Evs trainings, in cooperation with Jugendbildungsstätte Unterfranken

The Aktionszentrum is, in the organisation and realization of non formal education’s measures, part

of a big national and international network www.donboscoyouth.net

The Aktionszentrum is open for volunteers with fewer opportunities. In particular we support the

participation of young people with low education and coming from difficult social backgrounds. A

team of social workers (7 staff members) can offer a personal support during the EVS experience.

Contact Point

Organisation: Jugendbildungsstätte Aktionszentrum

Address: Don-Bosco-Str. 1

Postal code: 83671

Town: Benediktbeuern

Country: Germany


Phone: +49 8857 883 14

Fax: +49 8857 883 49

Contact: Herr Francesco Bagiolini

http://www.donboscoyouth.net/


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2010-DE-229 St. Gallus-Hilfe für behinderte Menschen

gGmbH




Location Meckenbeuren (Germany)


Theme 2 Disability

Project environment


Living in the region around Lake Constance means living where others go on holiday to. The region

is situated in the border triangle of Germany, Austria and Switzerland and between Lake Constance

and the Alps. The residential homes of the St Gallus Hilfe are situated in the countryside in the village

of Hegenberg, next to Meckenbeuren. The trainstation of Hegenberg lies in a distance of 4 km, the

airport of Friedrichshafen about 6 km. The next towns are Tettnang with about 18.000 inhabitants

and Ravensburg with about 50.000.Both towns can easily be reached in less than half an hour ,public

busses leave directly from the St Gallus Stiftung. Ravensburg offers a medieval town centre, loads of

cafes, shops and a lively student life with pubx and clubs. Volunteers will live in a flat inside the

residential homes of the St Gallus Hilfe.


Children and young people with disabilities usually need support in their organisation of their spare

time. Usually there is not enough staff in homes to offer interesting and adequate activities. Above all

young people with disability feel the same needs as all other young people: they want to hang out

with friends and be part of a group, instead of staying home with their parents, which they feel

dependent off. The contact with a young volunteer can satisfy this need and offers great possibilities

to a young person with disability. The programm Happy Hours wants to offer with the help of the

volunteers greater freedom and more possibilities in the organisation of their free time.

The volunteer will work with the team of a residential group, which normally is made up by three or

four experienced members and two to three helpers and attends to eight childern or young

people.Within this team the volunteers receive personal and professional guidance.The volunteers

will work with the youngsters after school and sometimes on weekends and offer activities outside

the St Gallus-Hilfe. The volunteers have the possibility to get to know the situation of people with

disabilities in Germany.

In their everyday life they can explore their abilities in contact and communication with young people

with disabilities and develop a sensitivity for the social and spatial barriers in the life of children and

youngsters with disability.

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The volunteers can connect their own recreational activities with those of handicapped people and

learn how to actively devise, plan and implement own ideas. They take over the responsibility to

represent in the interests of the children and youngsters and learn to put those interests into the

fore when offering recreational activities.

The volunteers will not only work in the teams of the residential groups, but also work in a team

with other volunteers the same age as them. Thus, they can get into contact with young people

outside the St Gallus Hilfe as well.

The St Gallus Hilfe offers adequate accomodation in form of a personal appartment on the grounds

of the St Gallus Hilfe and if wished, can also offer meals. The volunteers will attend a language course

in Ravensburg and attend the necessary seminars of an EVS. Additionally they will attend the

supporting programme for the German volunteers.


The volunteers should be able and willing to work with children and young people with disabilities

and be interested to organise activities for their spare time. Experience in working with disabled

people is helpful, but not conditional.


Special needs (if applicable)

The St Gallus Hilfe can host volunteers with fewer opportunities due to financial, cultural or

geographical reasons. The St Gallus Hilfe can support a volunteer with this kind of fewer

opportunities in form of the tutor and of the manager of the St Gallus Hilfe. Additionally, the St

Gallus Hilfe is inside the network of its coordinating organisation which is closely connected with

supporting organisations and experts.


The volunteers will live in an appartment on the grounds of the St Gallus Hilfe and will thus have

contact persons also in their free time. The volunteers will have a tutor, who is their first person of

contact and who will accompany the volunteers throughout their service. Above all in the beginning

he will suport the volunteers and introduce them to life in Germany. Possible problems and irritation

will be talked about immediately and it will be tried to solve all problems through talking.

Additionally, there are several trained employees at the St. Gallus Hilfe that can support the

volunteers.

To prevent irritations in working with disabled young people, the volunteers will be thoroughly

informed about their tasks before their service starts and during their service they will work with

trained and experienced staff. The volunteers will never work alone. Of course the volunteers are

insured over axa.

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The St. Gallus Hilfe for disabled people has been first accredited as sending and hosting organisation

in 2004 and has since hosted two volunteers per year and sent approximately two volunteers per

year.

We want to give young people in Europe the opportunity to get an insight into the living conditions

for young people with impairments in Germany. The encounter with people with disability should be

thought provoking and can influence young volunteers in their future plans. Through their volunteer

service young people are able to experience that they can offer assistance to disabled people and feel

that they are needed. They learn to take on responsibility for themselves and for others. Values like

humanity and solidarity can be experienced and lived. By offering these experience, this service is a

contribution to the European community of values.

Young people with disability are supported in important aspects of their day-to-day life and can get

into contact with young people from other countries.

The exchange with the partner organisations brings up new thoughts and ideas for the development

within our own organisation.


The St Gallus Hilfe for disabled people is a Catholic institution offering several services for disabled

welfare in the administrative districts of Lake Constance, Ravensburg and Sigmaringen.

The following facilities are part of the department for children, youth and family:

The interdisciplinary early stimulation office in Markdorf which upports around 100 disabled

children and children facing disability and their parents

An integration service for kindergarden with experienced staff that support around 50

kindergardens in the integration of disabled children.

The Don Bosco school in Meckenbeuren-Hegenberg has about 140 pupils and is divided into

three departments: a school for mentally disabled, a school for educational assistance/ special

school and a school for the sick

-About 130 children and young people live in three residential homes and three external

residential groups

A service to relieve families during holidays, weekends and times of crisis guarantees the

supervision of children with disabilities who live with their families.

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Contact Point

Organisation: aha Tipps und Infos für Junge Leute

Address: Marienplatz 12

Postal code: 88212

Town: Ravensburg

Country: Germany


Phone: +49 751 825 06

Fax: +49 751 8260521

Contact: Frau Doris Hofer


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Great Britain

2012-GB-65 Salesian Youth Ministry UK-

Accreditation Sending organisation, Co-ordinating organisation



Location Bollington (United Kingdom)



Inclusion Cultural differences, Disability, Economic difficulties, Educational difficulties,

Social difficulties


Our motivation to participate in European Voluntary Service is so that we can provide our young

people with the opportunity to develop solidarity and promote active citizenship and mutual

understanding with their fellow young people through participation. The benefits of becoming a

sending organisation will provide our young people with a wider range of opportunities to develop,

learn and contribute to the EVS learning service by opening new doors to help local communities,

learn new skills and languages, develop their own knowledge and understanding as well as to discover

and embrace other cultures and traditions. The opportunity to participate in projects and themes of

intervention around culture, youth, sports, social care, cultural heritage, arts, environment,

development cooperation, etc is something we value and wish to be a part of.

As an organisation we already have experience of sending volunteers across the world to various

projects and activities (not via EVS though). An example of this is BOVA which supports young

people in a similar way to EVS but sending beyond Europe and in particular to the developing world.

We already have training, planning, evaluative methods, support, ongoing participation/support,

guidance for training education or work, etc set up to assist our young people through their

volunteering experiences. We also have a strong emphasis on good working relationships and

practices with partner organisations so that we can work together to develop and improve our work

in the volunteering we offer and provide.

We already have strong links with international organisations where EVS is happening and there is a

growing demand for EVS from our young people as well as many EVS hosting organisations who want

our young people to take part. Some of these requests come through our work and partnership with

DBYN which is an international NGO supporting young people in having inter-cultural learning

experiences through volunteering, exchanges and seminars with 13 partner organisations from

around Europe working together. On a national and international level the requests to participate on

EVS is so high that it is now a need to become an EVS sending organisation looking to start

immediately.

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SYM (Salesian Youth Ministry) is the umbrella organisation that oversees, supports and creates

activities throughout the province of the UK. It assists with the work of Schools, Parishes,

Chaplaincy, Volunteering (BOVA- international, Retreat centres- National) and DBYN (Don Bosco

Youth Net- a network of 13 international NGO's from around Europe). Our main aim is to support,

promote, link and deliver the many activities and projects with young people we work alongside. The

young people range from all ages and even into late adult-hood. The majority of our work is aimed

towards disadvantaged young people from multi-cultural and diverse backgrounds, carried out

through various methods and activities (mainly informal education). We work both locally (youth

centres, parishes, schools, summer projects) and nationally (Retreat centres, networking, etc) but are

also involved with international activities and events (participating and hosting seminars, training,

volunteering, etc).The main aim is to work with young people, particularly those who are

disadvantaged or marginalised within society, and to support and encourage them to be the best

people they can be.

Overall our work is varied and caters for many young people from different cultures, backgrounds

and positions of a disadvantaged nature. The SYM is an organisation that is continually seeking to

improve and develop new and exciting opportunities for the young people it works with and this is

why EVS is a perfect proposal.

Primarily our organisation is run on a voluntary basis however there are two paid members of staff.

Contact Point

Organisation: Salesian Youth Ministry UK

Address: Savio House, Ingersley Road

Postal code: SK10 5RW

Town: Bollington

Country: United Kingdom


Phone: 01625560724

Fax:

Contact: Mr Patrick Kerridge


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Ireland

2011-IE-11 Don Bosco House -

Accreditation Sending organisation



Location Dublin 7 (Ireland)


Theme 2 Health

Inclusion Cultural differences, Economic difficulties, Educational difficulties, Social

difficulties


DBH has sent young ppl overseas before and in each and every case it has had a huge positive impact

on same. Our young ppl have chronic low self esteem and their trust in adults is minimal to

nonexistent. A main aim of ours is to build successful relationships with these young ppl,

therapeutically, as they are often v isolated and alienated. We find with the appropriate intervention

there is huge potential for young ppl to grow and establish good relationships with others. We

believe that once a good relationship is established trust will also manifest itself


We work in transitional housing with young men who have been in care/foster care. We work with

18-25 year olds. We work therapeutically with these young men, as we believe correcting behaviour

is not of benefit to anyone and does not promote self esteem nor build relationships. We always

encourage and advocate our young ppl to make outside links, we have a football club which plays

other clubs every second week. We also have established a theatre group which is proving popular.

We often go for drives to different areas; we have found this to be very beneficial to relationship

building. Making outside links and keeping up these links is a continuous piece of work due to the

isolation our young ppl feel. Nevertheless we have observed the growth and improvement in self

esteem when our young ppl partake in courses, voluntary work, paid work or indeed attend a short

term EVS.

We are a small staff team consisting of a manager Jillian, team leader, Gary, and 3 other staff, Owen,

Julia and Tríona. We have a relief staff member, Yvonne. We work day shifts and sleepovers. There

are 7 beds in the house, and we more often than not operate at capacity.

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Contact Point

Organisation: Don Bosco House

Address: 136/137 Phibsboro Rd

Postal code: .

Town: Dublin 7

Country: Ireland


Phone: 01 8601261

Fax: .

Contact: ms Triona Malone


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Italy

2013-IT-16 VKE - Associazione campi gioco e ricreazione-




Location Bolzano (Italy)

Theme 1 Children


Inclusion Cultural differences, Economic difficulties, Educational difficulties,


Project environment

The voluntary activities proposed here is the same proposed in our 2 previous manifestation of

interest (3 and 6 years ago) and performed by our former volunteers: collaboration with the staff of

VKE with the educational and recreational activities for local communities' children.

The central office of VKE is located in the city of Bolzano, a city with about 100.000 inhabitants.

Bolzano district (“provincia”) has about 450.000 inhabitants and is part of the “Trentino-Alto Adige”

region, Northern Italy. The region is one of the richest in Italy, being the city one with the highest

quality of life of the country. There are three different languages spoken in Bolzano’s region: Italian

(26,47%), German (69,15%) and Ladin (4, 37%). In fact, Bolzano is a unique city in its type, meaning a

meeting point between two of major cultures in Europe: the Mediterranean and middle European

one. In this reality, our volunteers will experiment that all cultures should be respected in a similar

manner and living together is possible. It's a multilingual and very dynamic environment.

Bolzano is situated 265 meters upon the sea level alongside the Brennero connection, in the hearth

of the Dolomites region of Alto Adige. The site is reachable with any mean of transportation,

highway, train, plane, and is situated among the best known European path which connect the

Costanza lake to Venice. On the geographical point of view Bolzano benefit of a lucky position, in

front of Dolomites and close to the meeting point between the Talvera and Isarco rivers, in a basin

protected from the winds and sunny during all the day and the year long. The meteorologist

attributes to Bolzano the prize for the coldest city in Italy, the average year temperature varies

between 16,6 and 6 degrees, but sun shines in average 300 days per year and summers are quite hot.

Bolzano's historical center is rich of tradition, history and art, and also the core business of the city:

Via Portici, Piazza Walther, Corso Libertà: with few steps is possible to cross the thousand years old

history of a city born for trade and business.

The volunteers and EVS volunteers are placed in accommodation generally in student residences in

the city.

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The structures we use are usually the "Studentinnenheim der Marienschule" (House for students of

St. Mary School - see http://www.pg.bz.it/144d173.html), the boarding of the Kolping House (see

http://www.kolpingbozen.it/ baukasten/en/Kolpinghaus-bozen/convitto.html) or, in the third measure,

the Salesian boarding Rainerum (see http://www.rainerum.it/convitto/camere.php) . In all structures,

the volunteers have available single room and internet. In the house Kolping rooms are in an

apartment. The kitchen is shared with other guests on the floor of the house.

The volunteers will not face any rules or conditions different from what it’s expected inside of the

European Union. They will have the chance to learn about and experiment all the activities developed

by VKE in the district territory (provincia). During the activities, the volunteers will always be

supported by their mentor, as well as their work supervisors and the EVS coordinator of the

Association InCo (which not only support us with the bureaucratic and administrative procedures

but it's also of great support in the management of international partners, preparation and support of

volunteers).

The competences and attitudes we expect the volunteer to acquire during the service are the

followings:

inter-cultural sensitiveness and knowledge in inter-cultural communication

competences in the organization and coordination of activities and projects

abilities in leading and coordinating groups

knowledge about new social-cultural realities which are different from their own one

possibility to discover and develop new own professional competences through a voluntary

service in a non-profit organization

competences concerning of a social useful work with children and youngsters

sensitiveness concerning the rights of the children

improvement of abilities in the field of animation and promotion of recreational activities (free-

time activities but also pedagogical and educational ones)

personal growth: independence, self-confidence etc.

Volunteers will have the opportunity to acquire these skills through the activities that take place in

the main office of VKE as well as in regional VKE projects (Sezioni VKE) distributed over the

province. The activities mainly include the organization and promotion of recreational and

educational activities.

During the activities developed - and after a integration period - the volunteers will have the

possibility to organize and develop small own personal projects which could be related to their own

culture, for example, or to aspects related with intercultural communication and/or any other topic

they think could be appropriated. In this way, the volunteers could develop their own initiatives in a

more independent way, staying in any case under the supervision of VKE's staff. Volunteers will learn

to work autonomously and to rely on their own capacities and knowledge, developing self-

confidence. The opportunity of being away from their own family and usual friends, having to learn a

different language to communicate and facing a different reality, will give them the possibility to

reflect, to open their minds to new realities and to grow up as an individual.

The main role of the volunteer is to collaborate with the staff of the VKE, supporting the regular

activities proposed to children in the different spaces for games and proposing new recreational and

entertainment options. The volunteer will never be alone carrying out the activities and should never

be forced to do something s/he doesn’t want to. S/he will be there as VOLUNTEER therefore, s/he

will not substitute the place of the educators or regular staff.

After experiencing a little bit about each VKE’s activities, the volunteers will be able to choose the

activities they would like to carry out. They will have the chance to plan together with VKE’s staff

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and the mentor a weekly timetable, taking into consideration their interests and capacities. The

timetable, the activities and the project the volunteer will be integrated (like the “Spielbus” or the

summer camps). They can be changed during the service taking into consideration punctual needs of

the organization as well as the volunteers' well-being.

The timetables of the different projects are the followings:

“VKE-Spielhaus/Casa Gioco” (game center) – opening hours

o Morning - 9.00-12.00

o Afternoon - 15.00.18.00 (16:00-19:00 in July and August)

“VKE-Spielbus/Ludobus”

o Morning – 9.30 – 11.30 (active during school-break)

o Midday – 13.00 – 14.30 (active during school-break)

o Afternoon – 14.30 – 18.30 (game actions during the week)

o Continuous working time at the „game actions“ during the weekend.

VKE-children holidays

o Continuous working time: 9.00-17.00 from Monday to Friday in the months of June, July,

August, September

o At some places only in the morning (8.00-12.00) or in the afternoon (14.00-18.00).

VKE-special actions

o Città dei ragazzi MiniBZ – during the second half of June – Bolzano

o Continuous working time 10.00-18.00 from Monday to Friday.

According to the capacities and personal interests of the volunteer, s/he will be asked to organize

her/his own entertainment projects (alone or together with the volunteers of the Italian and German

National Civil Service). Creative ideas and contributes of the volunteer are very welcome. They will

be evaluated and integrated, if possible, in the activities organized for the children and youth.

Volunteers could, for example, organize sport activities, music workshops, theater, workshop, a

circus, dancing activities or propose the children typical games of her/his country. Mainly in the game

centers, the volunteers can organize workshops about their own culture, evenings with music or

typical dances or offer a language course to the children and their parents etc.

The tasks of the volunteers could be resumed as the following:

participation at the organization and at the realization of the games with the "Spielbus/Ludobus"

and in the game centers (“Spielhaus/Centri Giochi”)

support in the organization and development of summer centers

organization and realization of workshops concerning their own country, for example about a

typical day of a child in the own country, concerning Europe etc.

organization of inter-cultural activities together with the other volunteers

to raise awareness about the rights to play of young people

participation in the team-meetings and the monthly supervision with the other volunteers

promotion of new activities and projects connected to the voluntary service, as for example the

presentation of the possibility to do an European Voluntary Service to the young people of the

Province of Bolzano.

We would like to underline that the volunteer will have a particular role in our team. They will

participate in general activities in collaboration with the education team, but their main role is to

enrich the offer of activities with their presence, with new ideas and projects, integrating activities

which are connected to their own culture, to the aspect of intercultural dimension and to the living

together of people with different cultural backgrounds. The team of the VKE is very open towards

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topics concerning interculturality seen that the members, volunteers, employees and users belong to

the three ethical groups of the Province (Italian, German and Ladin).

Our project is open to every major young person who has a special interest and sensibility to

children and could bring new energy and enthusiasm to VKE, helping to improve the life quality of

those children and enriching the free-time/cultural activities. Once that the volunteers will be

permanently in contact with children, they should have an appropriate behavior towards children;

being open to play games and different kind of activities besides having interpersonal relations.

Initiative and creativeness are also important characteristics. It's essential that the volunteer will be

available to be integrated in a multilingual environment: Italian and German are the official languages

in the region and those used during the activities (from children and staff). The previous knowledge

of at least one of them (Italian or German) could be an advantage to the volunteer him/herself

(facilitating his/her integration – otherwise, s/he would have to face 2 foreign languages at the same

time).

The recruitment:

The recruitment process is done together with InCo Association which takes charge of dissemination

of volunteering opportunities with our organization. If we receive specific requests, we forward them

to InCo which proceeds with the selection according to the principles of transparency and equal

opportunities. The selection period is agreed together and released over the internet (website,

Facebook, mailing lists, newsletters). InCo makes a pre-selection taking into account all the young

people who contact us or them via e-mail or through a Sending Organization. During the pre-

selection, the motivation of the candidate-volunteers, their interest in the theme of the project and

voluntary work in general are evaluated (through a study of their curriculum vitae and letter of

motivation). InCo always tries to keep a gender and geographic balance between the whole

volunteers’ group present in the VKE, considering not only the applicants, but also the already

existing group. Usually, an evaluation of the Sending Organization is also requested in order to extra

check the match between motivation and learning opportunities. The final decision on the selection

of volunteers is taken by the Director responsible for the volunteers of the VKE, Mr. Pompermaier,

following a decision of the provincial executive board of VKE. If necessary, a telephone interview is

also done.

VKE and InCo are open to work with any Sending Organization from any country. The most

important thing for us is that the SO prepares and supports the volunteers as it’s predicted by the

Youth in Action Program, respecting the deadlines and agreements set, and being collaborative in

case of an emergency or crises. Seen that currently VKE counts with the support of young volunteers

from the Italian and German Civil Services (who also has to be followed and supported), usually we

host only 2 volunteer from the EVS The EVS Activity doesn’t put our volunteers in any kind of

dangerous or risky situation. Volunteers will be instructed how to behave in an eventual (and

improbable) case of emergency during the service as well as inside the accommodation.

During the service, regular visits will be organized in which the mentor will be able to verify the

corresponding actions asked and foreseen. That is an occasion for the volunteers to show and

discuss eventually problems and difficulties – in this case, open communication will be encouraged,

facing the situation in an early stage to improve the service and the permanence of the volunteer in

the host organization. VKE's mentor has also the possibility to address himself to the directive board,

with the work supervisor and EVS coordinator of InCo in order to intervene on time and to discuss

about the problem.

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Furthermore, the EVS coordinator of InCo will arrange regular meetings with the volunteers in order

to verify the course of the project, if volunteers are performing the activities agreed and if they feel

themselves appreciated and welcome. We are convinced that the meeting with a person who is not

involved in the hosting project could facilitate the dialogue about hypothetical problems or

difficulties.

In the case of difficulties and problems regarding the practical activities, Mr. Pompermaier will

immediately organize a meeting with the volunteer and her/his work supervisor in order to face the

problem in the very beginning. Together, we will try to understand the reasons of the problem and

to find an appropriate solution, counting also with the support and help of InCo. In an eventual

emergency situation, the partners will be contacted and together we will give the proper support to

volunteer's need.

It's not foreseen the participation of under-aged volunteers.


VKE – Associazione campi gioco e ricreazione” receives young voluntary people since several years

especially from the Italian, European and German Civil Service. The positive experiences made until

now with the foreign volunteers have motivated us to enlarge the group of international volunteers,

not only concerning the number of volunteers but also the cultural richness.

Since 2006, VKE takes part of the “Youth” and “Youth in Action” programs. Until now we have

hosted hosted 3 EVS volunteers from Germany besides one of Norway, Estonia, Turkey, Hungary,

Greece and Czech Republic. Besides the nice opportunity given to the young people participating in

the EVS, their presence enriches the existing voluntary group, giving an exceptional added value to

the children and to the staff of VKE. We believe that this is a great opportunity once that our

children learn to open themselves towards new experiences and cultures. Being the South Tyrol

region a place in which different cultures already live together, we believe that it's very positive to

introduce other young people from different countries, not only enriching the activities dedicated to

children with the ideas of the volunteers but also having the opportunity to have a living example of

respect and tolerance between different cultures reducing at the same time prejudices.

VKE usually hosts 2 EVS volunteers every year (besides some others from the German and Italian

Civil Service) for a long term period which usually goes from 10-12 months. The activities start

usually every Summer (August/September).

Since 2006, we collaborate with “Associazione InCo – Interculturalità & Comunicazione”, a

coordinating organization which gives us support in the management of the EVS projects. Having into

consideration the complexity of our activities, the collaboration with InCo is essential: without this

support we wouldn't be able to take part of EVS.

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VKE is an association of volunteers founded in Bolzano in 1974 by a group of parents who wanted to

engage as citizens' initiatives in favor of the right to play and play spaces for children and young

people, but also more general to improve the quality of life of children, youngsters and their families.

This commitment continues today.

VKE conduct its activities in South Tyrol in educational, cultural and leisure activities. It is committed

to improving the quality of life, especially children and young people, eg by creating and defending

spaces for play and recreation, educational interventions, as a lawyer for children, through the efforts

for environmentally friendly forms of mobility.

In its educational activities, VKE seeks primarily to promote and provide cultural content. The

pedagogy of VKE aims to be non-violent and non-repressive, this approach also applies to efforts at

social-political and institutional levels, p.es in favor of the civil service or the peace movement. In its

work, VKE tries to put limits on competitive attitudes, rather trying to encourage the experience of

solidarity and cooperation.

VKE is a multilingual association which does not represent any political party or religious group, it

can work and collaborate with such training if they represent common goals. The structure of the

VKE has a democratic basis (partners, general meetings, directors). The sections, partners and

employees have wide opportunity to co-decision. The Association is organized on a federal basis, as

each Section acts independently (respecting the guiding documents). Great importance is given to

active cooperation of parents.

VKE don't want to be an agency that provides services to third parties, it is rather the combination of

conscientious citizens committed to an environment that is more humane and in favour of children.

All this is achieved with the work of awareness and with the support of civil and political initiatives.

The activities of the VKE take place mainly in two different sectors:

1. Direct contact with the children and young people in the various activities of the association:

The employees coordinate, in collaboration with the volunteers, the main activities of VKE, the

mobile and fixed playing services of social-cultural entertainment, and organizing projects and

initiatives focused on playing games. “Spielbus” is a small bus furnished with games and toys

which goes around neighborhood communities to allow children to have different options and

possibilities to play and learn together. The “Spielhaus/Centro Gioco” is a fixed structure for

promoting and developing activities out of the usual school timetable. Besides that, the

employees and volunteers of the playing centers organize and develop the summer camps “Estate

Ragazzi VKE”. These camps are addressed to children and young people between 3 and 14 years

old. They happen the whole day from Monday to Friday during the summer period in almost all

the places where the VKE’s groups of volunteers are present.

2. VKE as a lawyer of the right to play: The organization is engaged to protect this right by creating

new spaces and organizing specific activities, reflected also the philosophy of the VKE. The

volunteers will also in a way collaborate with the promotion of the idea that children and young

people have the right to play.

At this moment, there are 22 municipalities in the Province where the local groups (called

“Sezioni” and mainly constituted exclusively by volunteers) try to guarantee the respect of the

right to play for children in local level, whereas the activities of the association (managed by the

central office of Bolzano) are expanded to the whole province. The staff of VKE is currently

composed by 18 employes, besides the volunteers from different national and international

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programs and the volunteer members elected by the directive board. The staff is divided in:

director (1), coordinators (2), secretary (1), educators (12) and cleaning agent (2).

The activities of VKE are funded specially through public contributions: at the provincial level

through the central office of VKE and at municipal level through the local groups (“Sezioni”). VKE

also receives contributions from banks, sponsors and last but not least, by its members! Besides

that, VKE collected financial resources thanks to the projects and the occasional tasks (lectures,

advice and above all entertaining initiatives)

VKE is a legal recognized body registered in the Provincial Voluntary Bodies (“registro

provinciale degli enti di volontariato”); it's a non-profit organization with social utility (in Italy,

ONLUS); it's associated with “Südtiroler Jugenring” (Federation of German language's youth

associations), with N.E.T.Z. (federation of centers and meeting places young people in South

Tyrol) and also to “ALI per giocare” - Association of Italian ludobus and game rooms; VKE is also

associated with Banca Etica.

Contact Point

Organisation: INCO-Interculturalità & Comunicazione Associazione

Address: VIA V.VENETO 75

Postal code: 38122

Town: TRENTO

Country: Italy


Phone: +39 0461 523409

Fax: +39 0461 52 34 09

Contact: Wenddi Burger


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2012-IT-36 AZIENDA SERVIZI SOCIALI DI BOLZANO-




Location Bolzano (Italy)


Theme 2 Intergenerational activities



Project environment

The voluntary activity proposed here is the same proposed in our previous manifestations of interest

and performed by our former volunteers: collaboration with the staff of the nursing homes for elders

in the entertainment sector.

The environment in which the volunteers will be integrated is the nursing homes for elders. They will

always be in touch with the guests, their families and the staff of ASSB. One of the most important

characteristics in those houses is the adaptation to the reality and condition of the elders: it's

essential to be patient, calm and sensible.

The nursing homes of ASSB are all located in the city of Bolzano, a city with about 105.000

inhabitants. Bolzano district has about 500.000 inhabitants and is part of the Trentino-Alto Adige

region, situated in Northern Italy. There are three different languages spoken in Bolzano’s region:

Italian (26,47%), German (69,15%) and Ladin (4, 37%). In fact, Bolzano is a unique city in his type, or

better, is a meeting point between two of major cultures in Europe: the Mediterranean and middle

European one. In this reality, our volunteers will experiment that all cultures should be respected in a

similar manner and living together is possible.

Bolzano is situated 265 meters upon the sea level alongside the Brennero connection, in the hearth

of the Dolomites region of Alto Adige. The city is reachable with any mean of transportation,

highway, train, plane, and is situated among the best known European path which connect the

Costanza lake to Venice.

On the geographical point of view Bolzano benefit of a lucky position, in front of Dolomites and

closet to the meeting point between the Talvera and Isarco rivers, in a basin protected from the

winds and sunny during all the day and the year long. The Bolzano historical centre is rich of

tradition, history and art, and also the core business of the city: Via Portici, Piazza Walther, Corso

Libertà: with few steps is possible to cross the thousand years old history of a city born for trade and

business.

The volunteers will not face any rules or conditions different from what it’s expected inside of the

European Union. The most particular condition of the working environment is the local bilingualism

and the inter-generational activity. Inside of the nursing home’s structure, the volunteers will always

be supported by their work supervisors, as well as the other staff members, the direction of the

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house and their mentor (Ms. Maniezzo). Besides that, the volunteers can also count with the support

of InCo which organizes at least 2 personal meetings with them (in the beginning and end of the

service). We believe that meeting with someone outside of the organization could allow the

volunteers to speak more openly about eventual problems or difficulties. The straight collaboration

with InCo and the closeness of Bolzzano and Trento allow us to follow the volunteers in a

complementary and complete way, developing project (until the moment) with very positive results.

The competences and attitudes we expect the volunteers to acquire are the followings:

bigger intercultural sensitiveness and knowledge in intercultural communication

European awareness

knowledge about new socio-cultural realities which are different from their own one

possibility to discover and develop new professional competences

development of an useful social work

improvement of competences concerning the assistance and entertainment activities for elderly

development of their own small project and initiatives

improvement of the capacity to work in group

improvement of the language skills (Italian and/or German)

personal growth: independence, self-confidence etc.

The volunteers will get the possibility to acquire these competences through the activities they will

carry out at the hosting organization. The service will consist mainly in helping the staff of the nursing

homes to develop the everyday life activities and the organization of recreational and cultural

activities. Volunteers will constantly have the support of the staff members. The work supervisors

should explain and discuss with them the objectives of every single actions, the development and

expected result, teaching to the volunteers what is needed to do this kind of social work in the

proper way.

By performing the above activities, the volunteers will participate actively in the life of the nursing

home in close contact with the elderly so that they can enjoy the presence and support of young

volunteers who – on the other hand - will learn to relate with the elders in need of care and support,

gaining a valuable experience in the personal and professional point of view and with a growing

autonomy and responsibility.

During the service, the volunteers will have the possibility to organize and carry out their own

projects which could involve the representation of their own culture, taking into consideration also

aspect of intercultural communication, and any other argument they consider appropriated. Once

they gain confidence with the working environment, the volunteers could develop their own projects

more independently, being in any case under the supervision of the staff of the house. The volunteers

will learn to work autonomously and to rely on their capacities and knowledge, developing self-

confidence. Besides that, the opportunity of being abroad, without the family and usual friends, using

a diverse language and facing a different reality will give them the chance to reflect, to open their

mind and to grow up as individuals. During meetings with the other volunteers from ASSB will allow

them to change experiences and grow up together.

The volunteer will also have the chance to participate in an Italian language course, which probably

lasts 30 hours and takes place two times a week, in the evening. If the funds would allow us to, it

could also be possible to organize a German course to those who would like to, seen that Bolzano is

a bilingual region. It will be offered to the volunteers to participate also in some specific short-term

courses usually designed to the staff.

During the whole period of the service, monthly meetings will be arranged between the volunteers

and the person in charge of the in ASSB. Those meetings will be an additional opportunity to

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exchange opinions and impressions between the volunteers and the staff of the nursing homes. It will

be a space to talk about eventual problems, perplexities or curiosities. Besides that, the EVS

coordinator of InCo will organize at least 2 personal meetings with the volunteers besides a constant

evaluation by email and phone in order to verify if the project is being developed in the proper way.

The volunteers can live inside “Casa Don Bosco”, where there is an apartment for three people or in

“Villa Serena”, where there are two double rooms with bathroom in common. Both options are

inside the nursing homes of elders of ASSB. The lodging choice will be always decided by ASSB and

it's not possible for the volunteers to choose their own accommodation. The volunteers will share

the room/apartment with other volunteers (never with elders). Seen that the lodging is inside the

nursing homes, the volunteers have to respect the rules of the structure and the environment where

they live.

The main role of the volunteers is to collaborate with the staff of the nursing homes in the

entertainment sector. The volunteers will be supported by a work supervisors and should never

develop activities they don't feel like. They will do a voluntary service and therefore, won't substitute

the place of the social worker or educators.

Volunteers will collaborate with the staff of nursing homes with recreational and entertainment

activities planned for the elderly. They will support also in assistance and care of the guests under the

supervision of qualified workers (including accompanying persons with deambulation restrictions and

distribution of meals). Last but not least, they will deal with complementary activities necessary for

the accomplishment of the assistance to elders (eg. purchase of food and medicines for guests). In

practice, leisure activities include the organization of parties, reading the newspaper together, play

music, handicraft activities, small walks around in downtown, bingo, small trips, etc.

The duties of our volunteers will include mainly the participation and the organization of cultural and

recreational activities (reading newspapers, listen to music, handicraft workshops, walking tours,

game evenings, organization of birthday parties etc.), the participation in daily excursions (in the

mountains, to a lake, nearby market, etc.) and the support of the elders in the organization of their

daily live (make different kind of purchases, accompaniment to the canteen, etc.).

During the first month the volunteer should familiarize herself/himself with the house where s/he will

work in, the activities to be developed, the language and the staff members of ASSB. After getting

confidence with the everyday routine and the guests, the volunteers will be able to move more

independently, improving their language skills and proposing other activities in line with their own

interests and competences.

The volunteers could be integrated the in following nursing houses of ASSB: Villa Europa, Villa

Armonia, Casa Don Bosco, Griesenhof and Villa Serena. Although those are different structures, the

role of the volunteer and the activities in which s/he would be involved are basically the same.

Just to make a clear and practical example, the typical time table of a EVS volunteer in Villa Armonia

could be as the following (Monday – Friday)/

8.00 – helping with breakfast

9.00 - organizing activities of the day

9.30 – developing activity predicted

12.00 – 14.00 – lunch break

14.00 – developing activity predicted

17.00 – end of the working day.

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The activities vary according to the day of the week and what is planned by the tutors. The weekly

timetable changes almost every week, according to the entertaining offers (groups which goes to

present themselves: children, dance groups, live music, etc) and proposal of the month (Christmas,

spring, gardening, etc). Ithe activities could be as it follows:

table games (bingo, cards, chess, etc.)

manual activities (painting, cooking, gardening, etc.)

cultural activities (cinema, expositions, museum's tour, group discussion, etc.)

The weekly time table could INCLUDE as for example:

Morning - Gymnastic;

Cooking session – Gardening

Pedicure with professional school - Pet Therapy - Theater presentation – Gymnastic

Coffee moment

afternoon - Hairdressing and manicure;

Smile Therapy - Dance class

Party and Music;Tombola”

Painting session - Music presentation (special guest) - Religious celebration

Usually the volunteers will work 5 days a week and will have 2 consecutive days off. The working

hour should be from Monday to Friday, but it’s possible that sometimes the volunteers should make

some shifts (because of some special kind of activity during the weekend, for example). In those

cases, the volunteers will have one extra day off in the following week.

The volunteers will always have the opportunity do developed their own projects or introduce new

kind of activities. Their proposals will be taken into considerations and discussed in such a way to

foster the objectives and results foreseen, supporting the volunteer to develop his/her own

organizational and creative capacities.

Our project is open to all young volunteers (with more then 18 years old) who has a special interest

and sensibility to elderly people and could bring new energy and enthusiasm to ASSB and its nursing

homes in order to improve the conditions of the guests in the nursing homes, contributing to

maintain active their physical, mental and affective capacities. Once that the volunteers will be

permanently in contact with the elders, they should be open to relate with them, have patience to

listen and help them, having interest in interpersonal communication. Another characteristic which

would be welcome (although not mandatory) would be that volunteers have a previous knowledge of

Italian or German (it would facilitate the integration of the volunteer).

The project drafting, the volunteers' identification as well as the management of practical details is

developed together with InCo. Regarding the identification of potential volunteers, InCo is in charged

to promote the free vacancies, answering and taking into consideration all young people who

contacts the organization through email or a sending organization. We have also agreed that InCo

manages the first phase of selection, considering the motivation and expectations of the volunteers

(verified by their motivation letter, emails exchange and an evaluation of the sending partner). InCo

tries always to keep a gender and origin balance between the volunteers taking into consideration

not only the single individuals but also the already existing group in our structure. The final decision

is taken by Ms. Maniezzo in accordance with the Director of the ASSB’s Legal Office and the

Director of the Nursing Homes for Elders.

ASSB and InCo are open to work with Sending Organization from any country. The most important

thing for us is that they prepare and supports the volunteers as it’s predicted by the Youth in Action

Program, respecting the deadlines and agreements set, and being collaborative in case of an

emergency or crises.

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The EVS Activity doesn’t put our volunteers in any kind of dangerous or risky situation. They will

make a tour in the nursing home in order to know the rooms, the working dynamics, the rules and

the expected behavior in case of emergency.

During all the voluntary service regular visits will be organized by the person in charge of the

volunteers in ASSB, in order to verify the corresponding actions asked and foreseen. That is an

occasion for the volunteers to show and discuss eventually problems and difficulties. In case of

eventual problems, it's foreseen to use open communication during a moment when the problem just

arose and did not escalate yet. This should support the development of the service and the

permanence of the volunteer in ASSB. In case of need, the mentor (Ms. Maniezzo) has the possibility

to intervene and discuss about the problem with the direction of ASSB, the work supervisors as well

as the EVS coordinator of InCo.

In the case of a serious crisis, Ms. Maniezzo will organize immediately a meeting with the volunteer

and other interested people involved in order to affront the problem in the beginning. Together, we

will try to understand the reasons and eventual difficulties in order to find a common and satisfying

solution.

Volunteers will be informed since the beginning about the responsibilities and action spheres of each

organization/person involved in the project, as well as be provided with respective telephone

numbers.

In no case it's foreseen the participation of under aged volunteers.


The nursing homes for elders from ASSB receive young voluntary people since several years

especially from the Italian and German Civil Service. Since 2004, ASSB started to participate in the

“Youth Program”, giving the possibility to foreign young people to live an intercultural experience,

enriching the existing voluntary group and the work of the regular staff: an exceptional added value

to the nursing homes for elders, which everyday has to deal with the cultural differences present in

the bilingual region of Bolzano.

Inside the “Youth in Action Program” this is the 3rd time we ask for the accreditation. Since 2006

until now we have already hosted 17 EVS volunteers coming from Germany, Netherlands, Norway,

Spain, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Turkey, England, Armenia, Austria and Russia. Last January (2012), 3

new volunteers started their activities by us inside the EVS project n° IT-21-183-2011-R4.

We can usually host a maximum of 4 EVS volunteers/year (not counting those from the German Civil

Service) for a long term period (between 10 and 12 months). The activities start ideally in the end of

the Summer (August/September) but can also start on January (following the solar year).

Seen the very positive experiences we made in the previous years, we are convinced that the

presence of the volunteers in the nursing homes for elders is very positive. The volunteers bring new

energy, motivation and ideas to the institution and specially to the guests. On the other hand, the life

experience abroad would enrich the volunteers skills on interpersonal and intercultural

communication through living and working together with people from different realities and cultural

backgrounds. This would allow them to broaden their awareness, autonomy and creativity though

small personal projects. In some cases, it could be also an opportunity to confront themselves to a

different reality which could be useful to their future study and working choices. Our intention

requesting once again the accreditation is to give continuity to the work developed until now,

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bringing a young smile to the elders assisted, combating loneliness and social exclusion in an inclusive

and intercultural way. In short, our motivation to host international volunteers are those to give

continuity to values such as:

promote the idea of a European mentality;

promote intercultural exchange;

foster solidarity among young people towards the elderly and the rapprochement between those

generations;

make a contribution against social discrimination;

promote coexistence between Italian and German population by the presence of an European

volunteer who demonstrates the peaceful coexistence between people of different cultures; the

coexistence should not be obviously limited to citizens of South Tyrol, but also covers foreign

nationals;

give volunteers the opportunity to experience non-formal education;

enrich the live of the elderly guests, offering them the opportunity to make contact with young

people from different cultures, bringing a new spirit to the entertainment activities offered by the

staff and the elders themselves;

place a volunteer in the entertainment activities developed inside the nursing homes and

encourage them to participate actively in using their skills and knowledge.

In order to be able to participate in EVS, however, we count on InCo Association's support, who

since the beginning helps us in this experience and promotes international exchange. Without their

support (especially regarding bureaucratic and administrative issues, orientation of volunteers and

contacts with foreign partners), it would not be feasible to us to participate in the program since its

management complexity and our commitment in other areas.


The “Azienda Servizi Sociali di Bolzano” (ASSB) is a public institution, which coordinate and manage

the social services offered in Bolzano's territory. The ASSB was instituted with the act 106 of the

17th September 1998 by the executive committee of Bolzano's municipality and started the activities

the 1st January 1999. It was born from the old Social Services Office of Bolzano with the aim to

extend and improve all social services in the territory, using programmed strategies and functioning

like an exclusive center for the whole community.

The ASSB’ services are addressed to youngsters, families, elders, disabled people, people with psychic

problems and people in state of need. In order to guarantee the aims mentioned, ASSB is divided in

districts. In the whole territory there are about 5 social-health districts.

In ASSB, the volunteers will collaborate with the activities of the 5 nursing homes for elders in the

city of Bolzano: Villa Armonia, Villa Europa, “Casa di riposo Don Bosco” and Villa Serena and

Grieserhof. If the volunteers have interest and disponibility, they could also perform their service

within some of our laboratories service to people in distress or disability.

The services in the nursing homes and centers for elders are performed by the staff of ASSB as well

as by external collaborators. The services offered are as for example: hosting services (food, lodging,

room cleaning and clothes washing); nursing services; care and hygiene; health assistance; speech

pathology assistance; Physiotherapy, and entertaining activities.

There are around 923 people working at the ASSB, being more than 300 dedicated directly in the

nursery homes for elders. The staff of the nursery homes has the following professional qualification:

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geriatric assistants, social work assistants, nurses, speech therapists, entertainers and administrative

staff. Inside the nursing homes, there are 338 collaborator divided as it follows:

• 65 collaborators in Villa Armonia (being 56 engaged in the direct assistance to the guests);

• 201 in Villa Europa and “Casa di riposo Don Bosco” (180 direct assistance);

• 59 in Villa Serena (51 direct assistance);

• 23 in Grieserhof (21 direct assistance);

The rest of the staff is occupied with administrative issues or some specialized service (like cooking,

cleaning or maintenance operations).

In the city of Bolzano, 22,3% of the population corresponds to elders, with a constant increase of

people over 65 years (in the last decade the total number increased from 18.263 to 22.426). In the

elder’s reality, ASSB tries to guarantee services of quality in order to supply the increasing elderly

population with their needs. In this view it’s possible to understand our willingness to have young

motivated volunteers inside the activities promoted by ASSB.

The number of elderly people assisted by the ASSB is huge. Villa Armonia hosts 80 fixed guest and 21

temporary; Villa Serena instead has 75 fixed and 14 temporary; there are 165 fixed guests in Don

Bosco; 88 fixed and 79 temporary in Villa Europa; and 34 fixed and 17 temporary handicaps in

Grieserhof.

Contact Point

Organisation: InCo - Interculturalità & Comunicazione

Address: Via V. Veneto, 75

Postal code: 38122

Town: Trento

Country: Italy


Phone: 0039 0461 523409

Fax: 0039 0461 523409

Contact: Wenddi Burger


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Location asti (Italy)

Theme 1 Children


Project environment


Outline the project environment for the suggested voluntary Service, including the local community

where the project will take place (e.g. geographical, social and economical environment). If the host

placement is located in a live-in community, please include the rules and conditions that apply also for

the volunteer.

The association Cre.A.Ndo. Insieme is located in Asti, in the East part and includes the districts of

San Lazzaro, San Domenico, Praia and Villaggio dei Santi. The problems of this area are the typical

ones of the suburbs, where varied life experiences and situations live together, a large number of

immigrants and families with bad socioeconomic troubles. There are many acts of bullying,

hooliganism and vandalism; the school giving up among young is frequent, mainly due to the cultural

poverty of the environment where they live. The lack of sound spurs and the family background, that

often does not guarantee the appropriate support for a healthy and harmonic growth because it is

nearly totally absent, make these young become a risky class of people. Often those who have a

family that follows and helps them feel a deep loneliness due also to the incapacity to establish

positive and equal relationships with people of the same age.

Creando Insieme has got about 70 members (30 are active), it's a heterogeneous group made up of

young people and grown-ups, males and females. The executive board is composed of 10 people and

meets once a month to plan the activities, to verify the performance of the projects and to collect

members' suggestions.

The premises where the association carries on its own activities are: Oratorio di San Domenico

Savio (Parish Youth Club), the Youth Aggregation Centre Casa Dietro and Hospitality Centre Casa

Tabor.

Inside the area and in cooperation with San Domenico Savio Parish, the association's volunteers

perform recreational and entertaining activities for children and teenagers of the district, intervening

in structured environments, such as the parish youth club, the Youth Aggregation Centre Casa

Dietro, summer activities for young, the Hospitality Centre Casa Tabor, but also more informal

situations (groups of young people that sporadically attend Casa Dietro, parties in the district…).

The main targets of the association are the following:

to aggregate people around initiatives of inter-ethnic and intercultural socialization;

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to form and prepare responsible, autonomous and positive people;

"to facilitate meeting and communication among generations in order to promote a lifestyle in

which is possible to make comparisons and to learn from the experience of other people;

to offer to youth the opportunity to spend their free time in an amusing, educative and socializing

way;

to prevent and to remove situations of need and discomfort on the territory;

to offer premises for meetings in order to achieve aggregation among people through moments

of commitment and joy.

At the moment the association does not have the premises to give hospitality to the European

volunteers, for this reason we will make use of Vedogiovane Asti that will put at their disposal a

room of the flat they are using for their European voluntary projects

LEARNING OPPORTUNITY

The European volunteers who are going to participate to our project will be able:

to learn a new language and to be available for teaching their own language;

to know and to learn elements connected to the world of the tendency to form associations and

the voluntary work, with some elements of administration and funds research;

to learn using professional instruments within musical and theatrical production (recording

software, audio equipment for live events…);

to participate to the planning and realization of playful moments for children, young people of the

area, making comparisons with the volunteers of the association and offering their own skill;

to try themselves out in the management of small groups;

ROLE OF THE VOLUNTARY WORK IN THE ASSOCIATION

The European volunteers will support the volunteers of the association in the realization of activities.

At the beginning we will entrust them with little practical tasks (photocopies, leaflets, arrangement of

the Parish premises for the activities, management of the place and the reservations of the music hall)

always joined to an experienced volunteer. We would appreciate a lot if from this cooperation could

arise a real intercultural comparison, not only concerning the practical realization of the activities,

but also as to the methodology, used instruments and reasons that press young people to make

voluntary work in a specific association. Later on we will ask them to hold a more active rule in the

organization and in the realization of the activities and if the European young want they will be able

perhaps to organize some activities autonomously. All the activities will be agreed during the

scheduling meetings with the person in charge.

ACTIVITIES IN WHICH THE VOLUNTEERS WILL BE INVOLVED

Casa Dietro" Youth Centre: management of the recording and music hall, recording of informative

radio programs regarding the association's activities in cooperation with "RadioDietro", organization

of the activities for teenagers of primary and secondary school ( games, tournaments,

laboratories…), management of anIinternet point for young people of the area, participation in the

activities of the project "Musicando Insieme" (advertisemens, contacts, management of the

premises…);

Parish youth club: activities with children from 0 to 18 years old. Games, laboratories, meetings

with a specific topic for children and families;

Summer project for youth: summer and residential centre for children of primary and secondary

school;

Tabor house: reservation of the premises, internal and external maintenance of the house,

reception of the guests, assistance service during some parts of the day, (breakfast, meals,

opening and closing of the premises…)

Promotion of the association's activities: maintenance and updating of the Internet website,

creation of promotional material (playbills, flyers, newsletters...)

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INTRODUCTION IN THE ACTIVITIES

Presentation of the association: our volunteers will prepare a presentation of the association and the

activities during which the European volunteers will be able to visit the premises and to meet all the

members of Creando Insieme;

Observation of the activities: in the first month of the project the European volunteers will be

introduced by our volunteers in the activities. They will meet the young who attend ours "services"

and they will try to build with them a relationship starting from small recreational activities. In this

stage the volunteers will be accompanied by the coordination tutor of the organization who will help

them both on a linguistic level and supplying them with the monitoring and evaluation tools for the

observation/knowledge process.

Carrying out of the activities: the European volunteers will support the operators and the volunteers

of the associations in all the activities, offering their own skills and observing the planning arranged

with the work group. They will be able to propose activities and games and to try themselves out in

the management of small activities.

Training: if necessary we will organize moments of training ad hoc for the European volunteers with

the aim to supply them with the necessary tools for the realization of the activities (animation

techniques, games, multimedia tools.). During the year Creando Insieme asks for the intervention of

some professional animators to accompany the youngest volunteers in the realization of some more

structured activities (Casa Dietro, summer centres..), obviously also the European volunteers will be

inserted in these stages of project.

MONITORING

Together with the scrupulous job of monitoring that the coordination organization will perform

during the whole project (see Demonstration of Interest "Vedogiovane Asti") we forecast to

organize a meeting every two weeks with the volunteers and the work groups with the purpose to

verify the course of the activities, the satisfaction degree of the European volunteers and the

association.


Please describe the profiles of volunteers you would like to receive in your organisation. Include

information on how you ensure an open and transparent recruitment process as well as the overall

accessibility of EVS to all young people. Consider further information about the type of Sending

Organisation you want to cooperate with. This information can help the match-making between

volunteer candidates, Sending Organisations and your organisation.

For the selection of the volunteer we'll be helped by the experts of Vedogiovane Asti as coordinating

organisation of the project. Our idea is to look for volunteers who show:

High motivation in respect to the type of project and activities

Availability to experiment himself in different activities (practical and theorical)

Be "ready" to live in a city of middle dimension, able to propose qualified event, but only in some

part of the year (March - October)

Be flexible respect to the timetable: some of the proposed activities will be carried on during the

week end, with the possibility to have free days during the week

Be curious and capable to confront his experience with the other's experience

Age and gender are not important criterion: the person doing activities in the association have

heterogeneous characteristics (man, woman, young, adult, different religion, Italian, foreigner...),

therefore the volunteers that will participate to the project won't be selected on vital statistics.

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Vedogiovane Asti will take care of the practical phases of the selection (contacts, documentation...)

and will choose the volunteers with the responsible of the association.



Together with the coordination work of the organization that will deal with the explanation to the

volunteers some "rules of survival for living well in Asti" (see Demonstration of interest Vedogiovane

Asti), the person in charge of Creando Insieme will meet the European volunteers and will explain

them how to perform safely the activities of the project. We will organize a small tour of the

premises where the association carries out activities and our volunteers will be in charge of

supervising the European volunteers in case they should face dangerous circumstances. The European

volunteers will be able to enjoy the national health care and AXA insurance for special expenses.


The voluntary association Cre.A.Ndo Insieme cooperates with Vedogiovane Asti cooperative since

years and in many occasions our volunteers have worked closely with the European volunteers

organizing activities within the Casa Dietro Youth Centre. These moments allowed us to experience

different ways to do voluntary work and to compare our experiences.

Therefore, as reception centre we intend to pursue the following goals:

to place the European volunteers in a position to have active rules and to participate to the life

of the association, placing at our disposal their abilities and giving them the possibility to acquire

new ones.

to offer to Creando Insieme's volunteers the possibility to compare themselves with youth

coming from other countries, not only from a cultural point of view, but also on more concrete

aspects, such as association activities or ways of doing voluntary work;

to support the associations' volunteers organizing activities;

to offer to people who participate to the association's activities (children, young people,

families..) the possibility to know people coming from foreign countries who have decided to

devote a period of their life to the voluntary work of our area.

to take the process of intercultural exchange for all the subjects involved in the project, since we

believe that it will be really a unique experience for many young people of the area.

We have chosen to offer to the European volunteers the opportunity to stay with us for a long

period (9-12 months). This will mean for them the choice "to live" the association in different periods

of the year and consequently to participate to different activities.

In the first part of the project, at the same time with the language course, we will try to support the

volunteers to allow them to acquire as quick as possible all the necessary tools to communicate with

us and the youth. Since the first weeks of the project we will insert the European volunteers in the

association activities giving them very practical tasks, such as preparing the materials, suggesting

cognitive activities and supporting our volunteers. In the following months we would appreciate that

European volunteers could participate significantly in the activities, interact with the young, taking

part to the activities planning, comparing themselves with the achievement ways and tools. Around

the seventh month they will be able to start suggesting activities autonomously (always followed by

our volunteers) and participating in the management of small groups. The last month of the project

will be dedicated for the most part to the project closing, we intend to make an overall evaluation of

the experience both on the European voluntary work's point of view and the association life, so that

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for both parties is possible to put to good use what has been learnt during the project for the future

life. If the association is confirmed it will be our intention to propose a project with the deadline of

June 1st 2011, in order to start giving hospitality to the volunteers in September 2011.


The Association Cre.A.Ndo Insieme is a non-profit-making organization for voluntary work formed

by young people and grown-ups that addresses its activity mainly to youth and teenagers besides to

people living in the east area of Asti and in Praia district who risk social alienation. The name we have

chosen for our Association is a sort of abbreviation of "CREscere A saN DOmenico Insieme"

(Growing together in San Domenico). The starting point for the creation of Cre.A.Ndo Insieme was

born some years ago, in 2004 thanks to the curate Father Dino Barberis and to parish priest Father

Giacomo Accossato in order to look for some people who could help San Domenico Savio parish of

Asti where itself had difficulty to reach its goals and to offer to young in the area scopes and activities

for aggregation, educational moments of personal growth trying to promote at best the

responsibleness of people in the society.

The main activities of the Association are:

animation for children and teenagers in the premises of San Domenico Savio Parish

Youth Aggregation Centre Casa Dietro (sports activities, music hall, Internet point, listening

centre, theatre laboratories, cooking, cinema, music courses ….)

summer centres for children and teenagers of primary and secondary schools;

Hospitality Centre Casa Tabor (training camps, camping for teenagers groups, meetings and

conferences, school trips, twinnings and international exchanges…)

Contact Point

Organisation: ASSOCIAZIONE CRE.A.NDO INSIEME

Address: Corso Casale, 62

Postal code: 14100

Town: asti

Country: Italy


Phone: 348 0071644

Fax: 0141 275976

Contact: silvana guiotto


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Location Torino (Italy)

Theme 1 Youth policies

Theme 2 Environment

Project environment

The project will take place mainly in Via Parenzo's area, but the activities in the schools can be done

in different schools along the City and the metropolitan area. Via Parenzo's area has nearly 6.400

inhabitants, and belongs to the Circoscrizione 5 (district 5), in the north-west of the City. This area is

characterized by the high concentration of residence buildings that needs renewal interventions. The

inhabitants fo Via Parenzo arrived to the district in different waves. The first, the inhabitants of the so

called "red houses" came from zones in which the italians have been sent off, like Istria or Dalmazia

or repatriated people from Libia, Grecia, Tunisia, Albania. Some time after, during the seventies,

immigrants from the south of Italy began to arrive, attracted by the industrial city that offered new

opportunities. The last people arrived in the houses of Via Parenzo, are the foreign migrants from

other parts of the city. In all this area high levels of social distress are found.

Therefore, this area is deprived of it's own identity, characterized by disorientation and an urban

design sometimes casual and confused, by the impossibility or great risk of overcoming some physical

barriers, by a public space without maintenance. Green areas, even if present, are characterized by

the lack of security; paths, illumination and street furniture are not enough and several places are

used as meeting points by drug addicts and dealers. In addition to the urban decay, also

environmental decay is very clear.

Nevertheless, the area contains public and private resources active or becoming active to contribute

to the resolution of the social problems found, being recognizable cultural, commercial, social,

medical, scholar, religious and sportive resources in the area. The District Contract aims to improve

the urban quality and to promote the regeneration of the zone, to sustain the development of the

whole north-west of the City. Mondoerre is a part of the District Contract, developing in its sphere

different projects addressed to the local youth with the aim of understanding its needs and identifying

its problems. After, together with the local youth, Mondoerre has worked to reinforce or create

virtuous relationships between same aged youngsters, family and district, from a community point of

view.

Service and learning opportunities

The volunteers that will collaborate with us in our projects will be able to acquire different kinds of

knowledge. At Mondoerre we want the volunteers experience to have a positive impact, not only in

their education and experiences, but also in their development and personal growth. Volunteers will

be therefore involved in the EVS formation cycle (pre-departure training, on arrival training, mid-

term evaluation, final evaluation) and also in formation events planned for them inside our

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organisation. The main methodology used for the education inside the project will be learning by

doing, that is, the acquisition of the knowledge through direct experience.

First of all, we want the volunteers to know deeply Italian culture, in all its complexity and

contradictions. The volunteers will live immersed in another culture, with other traditions, habits and

ideas, and, through a specific formation, we want them to seize the opportunity of being

compromised with inter-cultural dialogue. For this reason, they will receive a language course to

reach an adequate level of Italian, in order to be able to express themselves and talk without great

problems. Volunteers will attend language courses for migrants, that will allow them to know other

cultural and social situations in the city.

Apart from the language course, the volunteers will receive specific cultural formation, in which we

will explain these themes:

Culture and history of Italy and Turin. The volunteers will acquire knowledge of social, political

and administrative organisation of the Italian Republic, and its history and principal challenges for

the future.

Inter-cultural communication. The volunteers will be formed about the difficulties present in the

communication between different cultures and the methodologies to use in order to overcome

these obstacles.

Conflicts resolution. The volunteers will learn the methodologies of crisis management that will

be useful at work or at home.

Regarding the knowledge that the volunteers will acquire during the development of the activities,

they will receive specific training at the beginning of every activity, and will count on the constant

support of Mondoerre's workers to solve any doubt or difficulty found in the project. In general, and

independently of the activities developed, the volunteers will have the opportunity to improve their

knowledge about:

Methodologies of intervention while working with youth and children. The volunteers will learn to

use the educational tools practised by Mondoerre's staff in each project. In this way, the volunteers

will be able to understand the importance of creativity in education and how stimulate this creativity

has positive consequences in youngsters and children personal growth, raising their self-esteem, their

capacities of expression and their participation in the activities proposed.

Working methodologies with local community. The volunteers will be able to learn to observe the

needs and critical points of peripheral districts, the importance of creating active networks on the

field, made by associations, but also by public institutions, and above all, the development of the

territory through projects made by participated planning methodologies, that make the inhabitants of

the district the main characters of the changes that take place on it. We want that, at the end of their

volunteering period, the EVS volunteers have a clear idea of the project's development in non profit

sector and the tools that this sector can use to work efficiently together with local communities.

To ensure volunteers' integration in Mondoerre staff and in the social life of the city, a personal

mentor will be assigned to each volunteer. The mentor will help the volunteer in any kind of

problem. The mentors will meet the volunteers regularly (at least once a week) to verify the

progress in learning process and to solve eventual problems. They will discuss also the results of the

learning process at the end of the project, in order to achieve the Youthpass.

The mentor won't be the volunteers supervisor; a project coordinator will meet periodically the

volunteers to verify the progress of the activities in which they are involved.

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Practical arrangements:

Housing: The volunteers will live in apartments with other EVS volunteers in shared rooms, in order

to increase the possibilities of cultural exchange.

Transports: the volunteers will have monthly tickets to public transports of the city and/or

bicycles to ensure freedom of movements.

Food: Volunteers will receive monthly an amount of money to buy their own food and cook it,

alone or together with their flatmates.

Role of the EVS volunteers at Mondoerre:

The role of the EVS volunteers will depend on the activities in which they will be involved and on

their interests and capacities. They will work side by side with Mondoerre's workers and will be

encouraged to participate in all the phases of the projects development, as a part of their learning

process. Mondoerre's staff will give to the volunteers all the tools needed for their integration and

for their autonomy and independence. The volunteers will be encouraged to develop their creativity

and to bring ideas to the different activities in which they will be involved. They will be supported all

the time by Mondoerre's staff, and the project coordinator/s will have the legal and general

responsibility of all the volunteers activities. These activities will be monitored periodically.

Activities proposed for the volunteersUrban vegetable gardens: One of the activities we develop

since several years at Via Parenzo is a vegetable garden, children from the nursery school, together

with the elderly people of the bowls club look after this space. This activity has shown to be an

important spot of life in the zone, reaching different objectives:People of different ages collaborate to

carry on the garden during the whole year, making it become a meeting point with events open to all

the inhabitants of the district. The oldest people of the district, many of them former farmers, see

their knowledge appreciated and applied to the garden. The garden is completely organic, the land

has been analysed and has an optimal quality. In this way, the vegetable garden is useful to give to the

children an education regarding healthy food and environmental protection. The volunteer will

collaborate in the maintenance of the vegetable garden, and also in the creation of events and

activities for children and adults that look after it. The volunteers can collaborate in the diffusion of

this activity between the inhabitants of the district, encouraging them to participate or to reply this

experience with the help of Mondoerre.

Sustainable mobility projects: These projects are aimed to two different targets in the district. One of

them, called Triciclibus, is made in a nursery school. This project promotes the use of the bicycle

between children, encouraging them to make the way to school by bike. Through this project, we

give children a deep knowledge of their streets, improving at the same time their road safety with the

lessons given at the school. The children's parents are also involved in this initiative, in order to give

to them the opportunity to change their relationship with the city through alternatives of sustainable

mobility. The volunteers can participate in all the phases of this project, from planning to the

preparation of the material for the lessons and to the trips by bike in the city parks.

Another project focused on sustainable mobility, addressed to the local youth is the Ciclofficina. This

project wants to involve youngsters by means of courses about bikes self-repairing and mobility

alternatives.

Daytime Centre: The Daytime Centre is managed by Mondoerre, assigned by the Social Services of

the city of Turin. In this centre, addressed to children between 6 and 12 years, there are different

educational activities, aimed to the assistance and prevention of juvenile distress. The volunteer wiil

be able to work together with the educators during their stay in Turin.

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Workshop: in the Corso Cincinnato 115 building we work on different workshops for the district

inhabitants. For children there is a Recycling Workshop all the weeks in the afternoon. This

workshop, that is working since some time ago, allows children to explore the possibilities that a lot

of objects and materials have and "save" them from the rubbish bin. In this way, they develop their

creativity and, at the same time, we can treat with them some important issues as environment

protection and separate rubbish collection.

For youth and adults there will be a Cookery Workshop. This workshop has as main aim the

approach of the people living in the area, by means of cooking ideas and recipes exchange. We want

to create an environment in which use to advantage the knowledge of the people with different

origin, and to promote a healthy and natural nutrition.

The volunteers will be able to collaborate in the organisation of the workshop, in its communication

and in the lessons, bringing their own knowledge and experience. They will be able to cooperate in

all the preparation, making and evaluation phases.

Theatre at schools and Image Education. Mondoerre is specialised in the production of cultural

events, particularly theatre and image education trainings (video and photography) We promote,

mainly with youngsters but sometimes also with adults, an educational theatre that wants to become

a synthesis between art concept, understood as a whole of aesthetic choices that have their own

value, and a vision strictly pedagogical that attributes to the theatrical activity other objectives, as

creating social poise, overcoming shyness, improve the self-expression, and, this way, make people

know, discover and improve themselves. The methodology is made to create stimulus adapted to the

exigences of the group. European volunteers will be able to cooperate in the lessons at school,

preparing materials, working on planning and accompanying the educators to the schools.

Social promotion activities and volunteering promotion. The members of Mondoerre contribute

voluntarily, depending on their interests, to the initiative and projects addressed to youth and adults

of the area, in the conviction that social work cannot be limited to professional interventions.

European volunteers will be also involved in this activity, that go from the support to the educators

of the Daytime Centre, to the creation of theatre groups between neighbours of Via Parenzo. In this

sphere, volunteers will have more freedom to create and implement their own ideas and activities,

promoting volunteering and participation in the district. The volunteers will be helped in every

moment by Mondoerre workers, that will encourage them and support them to put into practice

their ideas and to live an autonomous experience of social development.

The profile of the volunteers we look for is defined by independence, curiosity towards other

cultures and social situations and initiative. It's fundamental for us to have volunteers very interested

in their own integration in the works dynamics of Mondoerre, making an effort to learn our work

methodologies with youth and local community.It's very important that volunteers have high

motivation. To work with children and youth is always a challenge, particularly when they are in a

high social exclusion risk. Volunteers will need to have patience and assertiveness.

The candidates should send us a CV and a motivation letter. The letter will be fundamental in the

selection process. We will take under consideration previous experience as volunteers, particularly

in the field of youth or children, but it is not compulsory. We will appreciate also the artistic or

craft-work capabilities. In our project, creativity is essential and for this reason, we will take under

consideration all the activities the candidates have done to increase and develop it.

It is important to know to use basic elements in an office: PC, internet, telephone and fax.

All candidates and their sending organisations will be informed about the number of vacancies

available, about the number of candidacies presented and about the criteria and selection process.

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The kind of organisations we would like to work with is very various. From organisations focused on

youth policies to those more interested in environment and urban development. Also those which

work with youth through the development of creativity and artistic activities are very interesting for

us. We would like to build deep relationships with the partner organisations, in order to create a

dynamic ideas and experiences exchange to improve our projects and increase their impact.

The maximum number of volunteers we can host, with the guarantee of a total participation in the

activities of the project and a correct monitoring from the staff is six at the same time.

To ensure volunteers safety during their stay in our organisation, we foresee the development of risk

analysis for each activity proposed. This analysis is particularly important for us, as we usually work

with children. Once we have identified the risks, we will create the prevention measures needed and

the methodology to manage the eventual crisis.

The prevention measures are put into practice fundamentally through the volunteers' training in

these themes:

risk prevention

insurance

projects critical points,

rights and duties,

AXA insurance contents.

Mondoerre's workers will be also informed about risks and will be the main force for the

management of the eventual crisis. The volunteers will be always accompanied by the members of

the staff during the development of the activities in which higher risks are found, and will have the

contact data of all the persons designated to solve these problems. All EVS volunteers will have an

expert mentor, they will know all the contact data to call him/her in case of need or emergency. The

mentor will analyse the activities together with the volunteer and will have a continuous contact with

Mondoerre staff to suggest interventions needed to guarantee the development of the activities in a

safe way for the volunteer.

Mondoerre collaborates and has collaborated in the past with organisations that have a great

experience in EVS project management. These organisations have taught us how to react in the

emergency situations lived by their volunteers, in a way to make us create our emergency measures

for all of them (like need of medical assistance, robberies)


Mondoerre Social Cooperative works since several years for and with youths in different educational

projects in Via Parenzo area. This zone is in the north-west of Turin's city. The problems present in

this area, inhabited by an heterogeneous population arrived from different parts of Italy and other

countries, with a strong social distress, and the experiences lived so far through the implemented

activities in these years, have confirmed us the importance of citizens involving in the policies that

will have a high impact on their lives, making them becoming the main actors of these policies.

The EVS experience, which we have known through the association Legambiente Ecopolis Torino,

with which we have collaborated in several projects during the last years, has allowed us to

understand the possibilities that this European programme offers to young people, and the impact

that EVS volunteers participation in the projects of an organisation has on the target population. We

think that the presence of European youths, actively collaborating in our activities with their ideas

and experiences, would be a great opportunity to add multicultural values to our projects, becoming

a clear example of fight against exclusion, prejudices and xenophobia.

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At the same time, we are very interested in proposing to the young volunteers to know our culture,

our work and our compromise to improve the city in which we live, in a dynamic ideas, experiences

and creativity exchange.

We want to offer the same opportunity to the youths that work with us and participate in our

activities and projects. We consider that, for the local youngsters, the possibility of new learnings in a

voluntary activity abroad would be an important inflexion point for their lives and their future

working life.


Mondoerre is a cooperative that works thinking, planning and managing activities for youths and with

youths. Mondoerre makes mainly specialistic interventions with projects supported by a study and

research job.

We are an educational agency that works on the territory on a portion of social problems. Each day,

we work to make grow inside us the capacity to read and understand the complexity of social reality,

in order to build socially effective actions and processes. Our work is to activate synergies and

complementarities with local community, institutions and organisations. We strongly believe that

only through the creation of bindings between people it's possible a collective and shared

responsibility assumption.

Mondoerre was born in the sphere of the project Don Bosco 2000, in 1986, with youngsters

compromised in social voluntary activities in the streets of Lucento and Vallette districts. Today,

Mondoerre is formed by a group of people that puts together social compromise and

professionalism: educators, professional play-workers, psychologists.

Mondoerre is member of different organisations and networks, with which promotes the values and

methodologies that characterize our work. The activities in which Cooperativa Mondoerre works

are mainly of two types:

Activities for the local community: In these activities, the target is local community in the Via Parenzo

area, with a special attention for youth. These activities are developed mainly in the Corso

Cincinnato 115 centre, they have as aim to create new learning and leisure time opportunities for via

Parenzo's inhabitants. Between these projects, we can find a lot of them specifically addressed to

children and youths, as the organisations of different "Youngsters Summer", job preparation paths,

educational projects in collaboration with the city's Social Services- for example, the Daytime

Centre- or projects aimed to the community sense development. With these projects, we pretend

to improve the relationship of the district inhabitants with their territory, betting on the relationship

between the people that share an important part of their living space.

Activities at schools. In the schools of the city, we develop different kinds of projects. We organise

activities for time before and after school, with homework assistance, and assistance for disabled

children. We manage also theatre and imagine education (video and photography) workshops.

Through these projects we incline youths towards new ways of self-expression and we treat relevant

social issues, as integration and multiculturality.

Both kinds of activity are related and the methodologies used for their development are

complemetary.

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Contact Point

Organisation: COOPERATIVA SOCIALE MONDOERRE

Address: Via della Misericordia 6/A

Postal code: 10122

Town: Torino

Country: Italy


Phone: +39 011 7397342

Fax: +39 011 7397342

Contact: TANIA Llera


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Lithuania

2012-LT-13 Marijos Krikščionių pagalbos dukterų

institutas




Location Kaunas (Lithuania)

Theme 1 Children


Project environment


The Daycare center is situated in district of Kaunas named Palemonas. After regaining back state

independancy, huge ceramic factory in Palemonas were closed, causing huge unemployment rates and

no alternative to keep high economical level. People, who had opportunity, moved to the center

exchanging the accomodation with poor people, mostly having alcohol problems, therefore there's a

big concentration of multi-problematical families in the district at the moment. Palemonas district has

poor public transport connection to Kaunas, therefore inhabitants of Palemonas have less

opportunities to be integrated to Kaunas society physically.

Prevailing difficulties of Palemonas are unemployment, poor economical situation, poor hygiene

conditions, lack of constructive leisure time offers. Children living in the distric usually see negative

parents behaviour: abusing aclohol, conflicts, agression towards other family members. Children

suffer poverty, violence, neglect, too few possibilities to spend their leisure time purposefully,

therefore it's hard to integrate to school community or public, often children are absent at school,

involved in criminal act or abuse of alcohol.

The objective of of Palemonas Children Daycare Center program is the integration of the children

into society by infuencing all three levels of their personality: physical, psychological and spiritual. As

an educational method the sisters are using Preventive Children and Youth Education System created

by St. Son Bosco, described by three pricipals:

1. Reason, which expresses itself as reasonableness and flexibility in rules and requests;

2. Religion, which helps people to find meaning in their life and to develop a sense of the presence

of God in person;

3. Loving kindness, where young people know that they are loved and are thus helped to develop

their full potential.

Proposed activities:

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Volunteers' role at "Palemonas Daycare center" is worker's assistant. Volunteers learn how to work

with children of social risk environment, though they will never get the final responsibility for the

children and there'll always be worker to assist in difficult situations. Volunteers help to organise

different activities for children, assist in teaching children social skills.

Volunteers main task at Palemonas Daycare center:

to organize different workshops for children (according to their skills) – sport, vreative,

educational activities;

to teach children to use computer programs;

to help children to do their homework;

to teach children english or other foreign language;

to organize festivals, excursions, summer camps;

to implement their own ideas, collaborate with other organisations and volunteers.

Schedule for the volunteers (it's one of the possible schedules, it may be changed together with

volunteers) Monday to Friday:

11.00-12.00 Preparing equipment for the day, welcoming children.

12.00-13.30 Assistance the children in doing homework.

13.30-14.30 Preparation for the lunch – volunteers together with the nuns and the children

prepare the meals, and serve it to the table.

14.30-15.00 Having lunch with the children

15.00-17.00 Different workshops (art, sports) assisted or done by volunteers.

17.00-17.30 Tidy up together with the children (arranging all the toys, cleaning of the rooms etc.)

There will be some all day for organizing the festivals, excursions, summer camps.


We accept all volunteers, regardless their background or other features. Eventhough it is crucial to

love children and be willing to work with children from social risk environment. It is also preferable

that the volunteer wouldn't have any harmful habits or addictions, which would influence nurturing of

the kids.



Volunteers will live in the rented flat in Kaunas city itself together with 1-2 other volunteers from

other hosting organizations. There is public transport taking volunteers directly to Palemonas and

back. Volunteers are part of 9-11 volunteers' group, which meets regularly, attends on-arrival, mid-

term trainings organized by coordinating organisation as well as National Agency. Each volunteer has

trained mentor, who meets regularly (each or every 2 weeks) for reflection, to establish learning

goals and follow progress, mentor also provides personal support for the volunteer, establish trustful

relationship, prevent crisis and seek for professional help if necessary. Palemonas day-care centre"

creates microclimate favourable to being yourself and openness to the others, which makes easier

for volunteers to adapt and find their place. At working place volunteers do not take final

responsibility. Volunteers don't stay alone with children in the centre, there's always professional

worker around, who helps to manage stressful situations and also provides consultations on

pedagogical issues, personal support. Volunteers are introduced to safety rules, agreements and

important things to know about specific things before they start, in order to prevent

misunderstandings and to ensure fluent volunteers integration.

In case of crisis we cooperate with coordinating organisation, mentor and sending organisation in

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order to take all possible steps before the peak of the crisis occur. We have 11 years of experience

with international volunteers and collaboration with coordinating organisation PB "Actio Catholica

Patria". This long experience makes easier for us to solve any occurring problems.


Since 1996 Marijos Krikščionių Pagalbos Dukterų Institutas Palemonas Children daycare center was

established by "Caritas Bresciana"(Italy) program "From the street to school" and State Child Rights

protection service iniative. It is a socioeducative preventice insitution designed for children at risk

and their families. Organisation doesn't have enough human resources to accomplish the program,

therefore big emphasis is given to voluntary work. Each year 1-2 local, 2 international volunteers and

2 practicans assist inthe center. Because of the need of volunteers, we collaborate with Actio

Catholica Patria since 2000, each year we host European volunteers, who contribute signinficantly to

Palemonas Daycare Center Project.


Salesians Sisters of St. Don Bosco started their mission in Lithuania in 1994. There are 7 Salesians

sisters in Lithuania in Kaunas (Palemonas).

The Salesians Sisters of St. Don Bosco already for 15 years are running in Kaunas (Lithuania) an

educational and pastoral program - Day Care Centre for children from poor and multi-problematic

families. The objective of the program is the integration of the children into society by influencing all

three levels of their personality: physical, psychological and spiritual. The essence of this program is

that ~38 children from poor and multi-problematic families are coming to the sisters’ house after

school, where they are served dinner and helped to do their homework, where sisters organise their

leisure time and care about their Christian pasturage. By the end of the day the children are

returning home to their families. As an educational method the sisters are using the Preventive

Children and Youth Education System created by St. Don Bosco, described with the concepts of

intellect, religion and affection.

There are 8 personnel people engaged in this program: a director, coordinator, social pedagog, a

cook, 2 volunteers and 2 social work students. Coordinator is involved in the administrational and

organisational work. Social pedagog together with the volunteers assist with children and organise

their activities. Social work students do social work practice with children and their families.

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Contact Point

Organisation: VšĮ Actio Catholica Patria

Address: Daukšos g. 26-1

Postal code: 44282

Town: Kaunas

Country: Lithuania


Phone: +37060019550

Fax: +370 37 204185

Contact: Milda LukoÅ¡eviÄ•iÅ«tÄ—


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2010-MT-9 Salesian Pastoral Youth Service




Location Balzan (Malta)

Theme 1 Minorities





SPYS strongly believes in the value of intercultural participation as part of its ongoing programme of

holistic formation of young people. Through its regular involvement in activities on an international

level, it has gained much benefit and also contributed to its own growth and that of the other

organisations both in Malta and in other countries in Europe and outside (mainly Africa, India and

South America).

SPYS has participated in the EVS programme both as a host as well as a sending organisation. Hosting

was done with a long term volunteer through the Euromed programme in 2003-2004 (113184-2.2-

MT-01-2003-R3). Sending was done firstly with a long term volunteer project in 2004-2005 (1-AT-

208) and with two volunteers in a Group EVS project in 2007 (NL-21-21-2007-R2). Since then, SPYS

has sent volunteers on short term, international group EVS projects in Belgium, Slovenia and the

Netherlands and in 2010 sent a volunteer to Spain for one year.


Animated by a team of experienced religious and lay youth leaders, SPYS seeks to develop and

implement a programme of holistic formation for young people.

The programme includes youth training weekends. The themes of these seminars range from

leadership, to teamwork, to self awareness to spiritual growth and education through sport. Some of

these seminars are also recognized as academic credits at the University of Malta. Animated by well-

prepared professional youth leaders, these residential weekends are characterised by active

participation from those present at each seminar.

Other activities include the training of young people in other youth groups according to their needs,

voluntary work in Europe and developing countries and the animation of spiritual and social

encounters and various creative sessions for young people.

SPYS is also an active member of a European youth network (Don Bosco Youth-Net -

www.donboscoyouth.net). Together with the other organisations within the network, SPYS

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members participate in training courses and intercultural exchanges both as participants and as hosts.

All the members of SPYS are volunteers. Most of them are young people who were once participants

in the training programme. All activities are aimed at young people above the age of 16.

Contact Point

Organisation: Salesian Pastoral Youth Service

Address: 221, 'Dar Dun Bosco', Triq il-Ferrovija l-Qadima,

Postal code: BZN 1615

Town: Balzan

Country: Malta


Phone: 00356 21 491 573

Fax: 00356 21 491 573

Contact: Ms Sylvana DEBONO CHETCUTI


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Montenegro

2009-SI-102 Centar za obrazovanje i odgoj Don Bosko




Location Podgorica (Montenegro)


Theme 2 Inter-religious dialogue



Project environment

Project environment

Don Bosco Center is located near the city center in Podgorica, the capital and largest city of

Montenegro. Podgorica is a city with about 180 000 citizens. The city is located at the crossroads of

Montenegro. Podgorica locally stands among the confluence of two fertile planes (Bjelopavlicka and

Zetska) and is surrounded by mountains. These two fertile valleys are cut through by no less than

five rivers, including the Zeta, Sitnica, Ribnica and Cijevna which flow into the Moraca and into Lake

Skadar.

Lake Skadar, located between Podgorica and the sea, the region's varied height above sea-level, the

relief of the land, and other factors in the region's geographical makeup, all have created the

conditions for a sub-Mediterranean climate with mild winters and very hot summers. Podgorica is

located 44 meters (145 feet) above sea-level and just a hundred or so kilometers (about sixty miles)

from well-known seaside resorts and attractive winter sports centers, including those in Bar, Budva,

and Herceg Novi.

The construction of the Sozina tunnel allows travelers to leave Podgorica and reach the Adriatic

coast in just half an hour's drive. Construction in Podgorica and surrounding areas is proceeding at

such a pace that almost daily the foundations of new building are being laid. New cultural, scientific

institutions, modern roads (especially bridges), business centers, promenades, schools, hospitals,

monuments, hotels and restaurants and sports facilities are springing up almost overnight. It is

justifiable to say that today's Podgorica is the unquestionable administrative, cultural, financial,

business, transport and service center of the country of Montenegro.

In the fifth century AD, while the Roman Empire was beginning to dissolve, the first Slav and Avar

tribes began to arrive in the region. The interest of the Slavs in establishing their own state and the

interests of Byzantium came into conflict with the local Docelans and constant wars were fought

during which Doclea was eventually obliterated completely. The most likely date for this "first

demise" of ancient Podgorica is set as 602 AD, because from that date local records of the

community, or references to its wealth, cease to exist.

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Podgorica is today a business center, a university center, a capital of Montenegrin and International

culture, and a city of the young and the future.

Regarding our Center, it is located at the end of the city center and its main population is

Montenegrin. In this part of the town also lives a large number of Albanian minorities. The location of

our Center which represents selezian community is very good regarding to its traffic connection with

the city core. The center can be reached by city bus in couple of minutes. It is only few minutes away

from railway station by foot. Exact in this center the volonters can attempt the projects we organize.

The Youth Center Don Bosco conduct various activities:

Regular activities: school for animators, teaching animators and volunteers, daily oratorios, learning

to play musical instruments( band "Ljetaci") , learning solo and choral singing ( Choral group VOX),

sports activities (basketball school, football school, volleyball, table tennis) and other sports games (

darts, cycling, …..), thematic meetings, weekly meetings and workshops.

Periodical activities: summer and winter oratorios ( during 15 days), studied tours/trips ( the purpose

of this trips is to exchange our animators working experience with their colleagues from abroad),

sports tournaments (Pizza tournament, Street basketball, Don Bosco Tournament), seminars for

animators, organizations of various ceremonies and celebration (New Year celebration, Christmas

celebration, celebration of Don Bosco day, Easter)

Activities to do in spare time: Our Center is situated near the city center. Our city can offer to

volonters different cultural, sports and recreation facilities. They can visit Museum of Podgorica,

library Carver which has cafeteria, gallery, library, and is well known place for gathering of young

people who promote here their activities. A lot of concerts, literary evenings, exhibitions are being

held here. Volonters can also visit Montenegrin National Theatre, Cultural Information Center "

Budo Tomovic" and cinema.

Nearby the city is forest park Gorica which is ideal place for picnics and recreational activities

because of large number of trim trails and external courts for football and basketball. Young people

often walk or ride bicycle to recreate themselves in Gorica.

Beside these places there are also archaeological sites Duklja and Medun which should been visited

by all means. Not far away is National Park Skadar lake. On the north-west, just an hour drive time is

situated Vucje resort. Podgorica is also half an hour driving away from the sea.

The nutrition:

It is possible to prepare food in the premises of the center which has a well equipped kitchen that

can satisfy the needs of dozens of young people. In addition to the kitchen there is a table for lunch

and all necessary appliances (refrigerator, stove, toaster, etc.) Also near the center are two large

supermarkets: Voly and Mex, which provide a wide range of services and beside markets offer

Bakery, restaurants, pizzerias. Hygienic conditions are of high level. In order to provide personal

hygiene there are 6 toilets and 3 showers which are very well-equipped. Center also takes care of

washing and ironing. Things for washing can be put once a week. We provide accommodation in the

premises of the center for volunteers. They would have room available on the second floor which

leads to the stairs. The room is double. They have free access to wireless internet connection.

Within the rooms are shower cabin and a toilet that can be used. Living conditions are excellent.

Volunteers are guaranteed the right to privacy, which allows possession of keys and moving freely

around the house and outside. The Center is organized and arranged so that each segment of the

center does not disturb the peace of other working environment. As to the Center environment, it

is situated in a quiet part of town. Our staff is very attentive, ready to provide any information and

help in any situation.

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The EVS volunteers will work in Youth Center Don Bosco and will participate in many activities such

as:

sports activities ( football, basketball, volleyball and table tennis)

spare time activities ( socializing through selected programme activities, visiting events and

happenings in the city, picknicks

cultural and artistic activities

creative workshops

music activities

We think that volunteers could learn a lot in our center, and they can use that knowlage to develop

practical skills and abilities and certainly this knowledge will be useful for them in future. Volunteers

can learn how to organize appropriate events for young adults and other people too, could learn to

foster values such as tolerance, respect and appreciation of other cultures and different opinions.

Staying in our center is great opportunity for volunteers to learn montenegrin language. The easiest

and fastest way to learn language is by staying in our center among young people of his age. If

volunteers want they can participate in sports activities and develop properly their physicall

characteristics. They can learn other things too, such as dancing, playing some instruments, singing.

Volunteers can practise singing in choir or they can teach the others how to sing or play some

instrument. Creative workshops are ideal opportunity for volunteers to show their potentials and

express their ideas in creative way. Through our programmes volunteers learn who to work as a

team members.

Volunteers would work with children and young adults who visit our center. They could also

participate in programs which animators prepare along with mentors. So, the volonteers could

participate in:

Daily oratories which are performed every day from 13:00 p.m to 15:00 p.m for children up to 6

th garde preliminary school, age 7-12

Daily oratories which are performed every day from 15:00 p.m to 16:00 p.m for young adults

from 7 th grade preliminary school to 1 st garde high school, age 12-15

On workshops which are being organized every week. Their main goal is educational, to teach

children new things, to know better the enviroment in which they live.

On organizing and taking part in humanitarian projects. The volonteers could take part in soprt

activities which are being organized for young adults:

Training for children (football school)

Basketball school "Feer play"

Street ball league

Don Bosko league

Mini league

Through this activities children promote physical growth and develepment, and develop sport spirt

and habits as well. There is also set of cultural activites which are being organized in center and in

which volonteers also can take part:

organizing of practise or even playing in band "Ljetaci"

organizing of entertainment evenings

organizing and performing of summer and winter oratories

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We organize winter oratories in january and summer oratories in june and each lasts two weeks.

Each oratories is theme determined. In this time of year we go with young adults to a picnick which

we organise. Herewith we want the children to socialize and make friends, in a good enviroment,

which helps them in their growing up.

Volunteers can agree his activities with the leaders of our center. Volonteers could also express their

opinion over the programmes they partecipate in, they can also suggest their own ideas of organizing

other programmes that they are interested in. They can discuss all these topics with our center`s

leaders. Our leaders are ready to accept good and inovative ideas of any kind.


Volunteers we chose should be highly motivated to work on current projects that are organized in

our Center, and give their contribution to its implementation. It should be the enthusiastic young

persons ready to learn the customs and culture of our country and accept people of different

religions since our center works in multicultural environment. It is very important for our Center

that volunteers are skilful in working with children and young people, to be creative and

determinative person with strong will. The advantage to be chosen would have those who have

already worked on similar youth projects.

The Center is open to all people regardless of religion, gender and nation. We will form the

commission for choosing the volunteers. The members of this commission will be: the director of

Youth Centre Don Bosco, chief animator and a member of Caritas's organization. The applications

should be written, and the main criteria for choosing volunteers will be their motivation and will to

work in our center. We prefer cooperating with organizations similar to ours and organizations that

work on improving of position of young people who are socially threatened. So we would like to

work with the Silesian centers from region as well as Catholic organizations. The volunteers we

chose should speak if possible Italian and English language.

Number of volunteers hosted: 2 at the same time

Special needs

Children and young people who come to our center are generally problematic youth. They are

inclined to risky behavior and problems. Because of problems which they have to cope with, they

need a specific approach. Therefore, the volunteers who should work with them had to be stable and

calm person. It should be the persons with high moral values. Since we deal with the sensitive youth,

we would not be able to accommodate persons who has reduced opportunities for sensitive persons

because that kind of volunteers would not be able to work well with them. Volunteers can certainly

count on the help and support of mentors and people who work in the Center.

The director of Youth Center Don Bosco is very experienced in working with young people, he has

already worked with young people in Don Bosco Center Maribor, and he has also worked with

troubled young people in Italy for four years. He is founder and director of spiritual music festival

"The rythm of spirit", director of Youth Center as well as leader of Center for Pedagogy and

Education. He works in Youth Center along with mentors who have attended school for animators

and who are very experienced since they have many practise from trainings which were held in

Montenegro and in foreign countries.


We would provide a room for volunteers to live in our center which is located in Zagrebacka 3, 81

000 Podgorica. The volunteesr could also use a library, which can also serve for their afternoon rest

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in consultation with the management of the Center. Library is equipped with TV and computer with

internet access. Certainly access to wireless internet is provided to them in the room in which they

stay.

Within the Center there is a kitchen so that we would provide them nutrition. Work facilities in our

Center are very good. We have modern well equipped premises, sports halls, classrooms, library and

offices.

We accomplish all standards regarding work safety. In the case of physical injuries health center is

100m away from our center, so that we can react immediately in case of such need.

Volunteers who come to our center will have a mentor who would help them when they came in

our community. The mentor would help them dealing with new enviroment conditions. They would

also have a mentor supervisor for any professional help and assistance on our center activities. There

is also supervisor concerned for supervision of all people who work in center as well as the

volunteers.


We would like to participate in European Voluntary Service because we have volunteers who work

in our center and we want to include them in this program. We believe that this program offers

many advantages and one of them is certainly a possibility to connect volunteers on international

level. Gaining a license of EVC we would enable them to improve their knowledge and experience

and also to acquire additional knowledge and skills which could help them in further personal and

professional development.

Until now we have participated in the project "Ex Yu Let's Give a Hand" in which we worked with

youth from Slovenia. The project was realized on July 2008 in our center and it lasted seven days.

During those days the volunteers from the Selezian Youth center Celje and Youth Center Don

Bosco Podgorica taught from each other. The objectives of the program were the exchange of

experience in working whit young adults among volunteers, introduction of cultures of these two

countries and then learning about the values of European Union. Since we had positive experience

whit this project, we would like to organize similar projects again.

Our volunteers have so far the opportunity to stay in another country. Two of our volunteers were

hosted in Selezian Youth Center Celje for 14 days. Currently one volunteer from Youth Center Don

Bosco Podgorica is beeing hosted in Selezian Youth Center Celje for a period of one year.

Hosting volunteers from the regional countries would be compelling for us. That is a chance to

enrich our work and developed it further.

The advantages of this service are that it encourages the informal education of young adults, mobility

and intercultural learning and this is also one of ideas of our center. We would also like to send

volunteers from our center in regional countries where the similar projects take place, but we also

plain to organize voluntary projects for young adults from the region.

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Don Bosko Centar is an institution with headquarters in Podgorica, engaged in pedagogical,

educational and preventive work. In Don Bosco Center rooms operate: Center for Pedagogy and

Education, Youth Center and Catholic church. All three departments have their own acttivities.

Center for Pedagogy and Education Don Bosco is a private center which provides education,

especially for children and young adults in order to create better and safer future. Computer and

language courses are being organized here in order to provide acknowledge to everyone who has

lack of education. Through training and pedagogical work we want to help everyone who hasn't

finished studies yet or doesn't have necessary education and necessary skills.

Youth Centre Don Bosco brings together a large number of young people. We are trying to organize

their free time through sports, oratories, trips and meetings. The main goal is to teach children to

spend their free time properly and keep them away from street. We act preventively in order to

avoid risk behaviour of young adults.

Our target groups are primarily socially vulnerable children und young adults who came from less

developed areas. These children and young adults spend most of their time on street; they don't have

someone to take care of them. Usually they don't go to school at all or they leave school too soon.

Our center is open to all children and young adults regardless of religious and ethnic affiliation. Our

center is visited by a significant number of Roma children and we organize special programs for them.

We teach children and young adults through social games, oratories and study tours to develop their

potentials. We provide them also useful and necessary training and knowledge. And that is the main

purpose we implement educational and preventive programs.

We achieve all these goals with socializing, through various games, oratorios and thematic journeys.

We also organize special educational and preventive programmes for example in order to indicate

the risks of using drugs and similar bad social phenomenon.

50 animators participate in the work of Youth center and help it in the implementation of its

programmes. They are divided into three groups: mentors, animators and future animators. Large

number of children and young adults visit oratories. We organize also various tournaments which

were so far very good visited.

Oratories is the appropriate program for children and young people which is being prepared by the

older in which participate both the young as well as the older. The principle of work is such that all

learn from each other, first the young but also those who perform the program for them. The

oratories are being prepared by mentors and animators who have finshed the school for animators.

The animators also perform the oratories. The animators are usually high school students and faculty

students. . Thus, the Center organizes a daily oratorie for children up to 6th Grade, age 13-15, and

for children from 7 grade preliminary school to 1 grade high school, age 15-16. The main goal of

these oratories is socializing and so the children spend time with little older teens. During the winter

and summer holidays we organize winter and summer oratories. The program is designed for

children at a time when they don't go to school in order to fullfill their free time. The animators are

preparing workshops, games in which they work, develop manual skills, fantasy. Every year we have a

theme that helps children to think about life, to be informed about the problems in the world, values.

Most children that come to us are not able to go on snow or see, so we organize trips for them,

going to snow on winter, and on sea in summer.

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The core of our organization is the management. There are three people who work in management.

They are incharged for leading the center, they organize the courses and plan and write projects and

activities. Two more people are incharge for keeping permises cleaned and for tehnical maintaniance

of the equipment.

The director of the Center leads the Youth Cener Don Bosco. A part time coordinator assist to him

as well as the mentors who are incharge for the work of younger members - animators and future

animators. All the programmes in Youth center are being organized by the animators in assistance

with mentors and under director's supervision. Animators perform the programme activities for

young adults along with young adults who visit our center.

The target group in the Youth center are all children and young adults from the local community,

including all young people no metter on gender, religious and national orientation, especially the

young people who have less opportunites - young people from single - parent family, socio-

economically vulnerable, refugees, socially excluded, young people with difficulties for inclusion in

social and educational activities, Roma children.

Contact Point

Organisation: Centar za obrazovanje i odgoj Don Bosko

Address: Zagrebacka 3

Postal code: 81000

Town: Podgorica

Country: Montenegro


Phone: +38220607230

Fax: +38220607231

Contact: Ms Jela Radovic


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Poland

2010-PL-13 Salezjanskie Stowarzyszenie Wychowania

Mlodziezy-




Location Bydgoszcz (Poland)

Theme 1 Art and culture


Inclusion Cultural differences, Economic difficulties, Educational difficulties

Project environment

Project environment

Salesian Association of Youth Upbringing is a non-profit non-governmental organisation, which

dedicated full time to the service of young people, especially those who are poor and disadventaged.

The target group of our organisation is youth from Salesian Youth Movement - young people with

different kind of interest and do various activity leaded by Salesians (sports, scouts, for altar boys,

oasis, pilgrim and evangelising groups as well as students of Salesians schools and pupils of oratories,

youth dayrooms and pedagogical posts). Particularly we put pressure to work with youth with less

opportunities, especially if there are financial problems in their families, and also with youth from

Salesian pedagogical, caring or social rehabilitation posts. It is connected with Salesian mission (as St.

John Bosco did, first of all we care about poor, lonely and disadventaged youth, who need love and

evangelization). That is why we particularly work in the poorest environments.

Form of work of our organisation:

leading and working in local environment with groups and Youth Movements of young people

with various interests, using metods directed to an integral human growth;

directing therapeutic posts and oratories - places, where young people can safely and spend their

free time in creative way;

-organizing workshops, youth meetings, rallies and also summer and winter holidays for children

and youth (camps, colonies, raids).


During this project our volunteers will achieve the following skills:

methods of work with youth and children, especially those with fewer opportunities

salesians style of upbringing

leading groups of youth during their free time

organization of non-formal education projects

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We would like to realize this project with a group of volunteers (three or four volunteers in our

organization), because then they will be able to create a family atmosphere in a place of their

accomodation - in Oratory.

During the project the volunteer will be an animator for youth and children, who spend their free

time after school in Salesian Oratory "Dominiczek" in Bydgoszcz. The volunteer will:

- assist during afternoon and weekend activities for children, for example the volunteer will help in

leading games and plays, doing homework, assist and run recreation time, also in the open air;

- assist during activities for youth, which take place in the Oratory during their free time - circles of

interests (music, computers, sports, scientific);

- animate and inspire youth to work and act during activities in youth dayroom.

- help in organization and coordination of events, organized by Oratory in Bydgoszcz (for example

bicycle trips, Salesians Days of Youth, charity concert: "We love you, Santa Claus", camps and trips

for youth and children, etc).

In addition, in our organisation the volunteer will have opportunities to take part in projects

concerning intercultural education - youth exchanges and workshops, organized by our Association.

Participation in these projects will give the volunteer a great chance to get to know more about form

of work with youth and other useful information. Being there the volunteer will also meet new

people, make new contacts and see interesting and beautiful places in Poland.

We try to find new, attractive form of work with children and youth. So we will be very open for

ideas of our future volunteers - during the project they will be able to realize theirs proposals of

activities in Oratory.


We would like to cooperate esspecially with organisations, which have similar profiles to our.

Especially we would like to cooperate with organizations, which aim is upbringing of youth and

children.

We don't expect the volunteer to have any specials skills, be religious or have specific worldview. But

common values accepted by everyone, who takes part in this project (hosting and sending

organisations, volunteers) would be an asset for efectiveness of the project's realization.

Our target group is youth with financial low status, who have problems in learning and education,

who grew up in broken families, with many problems. As the great part of our work consists of

activities for such youth, we would like to cooperate especially with the volunteer, who is open to

work with difficult youth, from broken families. He should be responsible, open - minded, creative,

sterling.

The recruitment precess we would like to use an international web of salesians organisations, which

web page address is : www.donboscoyouth.net .

Number of volunteers hosted: Organisation is able to host 2 volunteers for long term projects.

Special needs

Salesians are prepared to work with youth with fewer opportunities because of their monastic

formation, which lasts nine years, and also other additional specialist studies and courses. Practice

and experience in work with youth with fewer opportunities Salesians achieve also through work in

pedagogical and social rehabilitation posts.

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Safety of accommodation - when volunteer will live in family's house, we choose only this family for

him, who is known for Salesians and is connecting with activity of Oratory. The environment of work

will be the Salesians Oratory, which is definitely safe place, so we think that there is no need to

special protect to this place.

In work with the volunteer we will use Salesians upbringing system. One of the aspects of it is

family's character of work with youth, animation to tutors and supervisors, personal attitude. These

elements will help also in potential volunteer's crisis during the project. Volunteers will also have a

permanent access to the internet, which make their contact with their own family and friends easy

and simply. For help in crisis situations responsible will be a mentor and volunteer's supervisor from

Bydgoszcz.


We enter into relations with organization from Turkey and now we are waiting for decision from

National Agency. We also came into contact with organization from Hungary but their volunteer

resigned. He got the job and he decided to stay in Hungery. The aims of our organisation are to

support process of youth upbringing. We know that this process is not simple so we perceive it

integrally. We think that European Voluntary Service is a very attractive form of supporting

upbringing and education of young people.


Salesian Association of Youth Upbringing is a non-profit non-governmental organisation, which

dedicated full time to the service of young people, especially those who are poor and disadventaged.

The target group of our organisation is youth from Salesian Youth Movement - young people with

different kind of interest and do various activity leaded by Salesians (sports, scouts, for altar boys,

oasis, pilgrim and evangelising groups as well as students of Salesians schools and pupils of oratories,

youth dayrooms and pedagogical posts).

Particularly we put pressure to work with youth with less opportunities, especially if there are

financial problems in their families, and also with youth from Salesian pedagogical, caring or social

rehabilitation posts. It is connected with Salesian mission (as St. John Bosco did, first of all we care

about poor, lonely and disadventaged youth, who need love and evangelization). That is why we

particularly work in the poorest environments.

Form of work of our organisation:

leading and working in local environment with groups and Youth Movements of young people

with various interests, using metods directed to an integral human growth;

directing therapeutic posts and oratories - places, where young people can safely and spend their

free time in creative way;

-organizing workshops, youth meetings, rallies and also summer and winter holidays for children

and youth (camps, colonies, raids).

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Contact Point

Organisation: Salezjanskie Stowarzyszenie Wychowania Mlodziezy

Address: ul. Salezjanska 1

Postal code: 85-792

Town: Bydgoszcz

Country: Poland


Phone: +48 692 104 641

Fax: +48 52 344 74 01

Contact: Mr Anna Laska


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2012-PL-17 Salezjanski Osrodek Wychowawczy im.sw.Jana

Bosko-




Location Dabrowa Bialostocka (Poland)






Our organisation has participated in the European Voluntary Service as Host, Sending and

Coordination Organisation for the last several years (arround 5 years). The character of our

organisation alows to realise EVS projects regularly. As an educational institution we run many

diferent educational projects with young people, in which volunteers are involved. We dispose of

very good infrastructure, we can assure good life condition, accomodation and board, as well as

many diferent interesting activities for volunteers and pupils, for example: horse riding, excursions

(the Center is placed in the beautyful area, close to the National Park), participation in the Without

Borders Festival (www.festiwalbezgranic.pl - music festival and art workshops), which is organised in

the Center every year.

So far, we have realised several diferent project of EVS, we hosted volunteers from, among others:

Georgia, Italy, France, Azerbaijan, Germany, Brasil, Singapore, etc. The EVS has, in certain menner,

changed the shape of our organisation. Thanks to the volunteers the Youth Center and our

educational program has gained an interntational and multicultural dimention, which we find very

important, especialy in the sphere of education and resocialisation. We belive that realisation of EVS

projects has a big direct influance on our pupils (direct contact with other culture and language) and

is able to improve the effects of our educational program. On the other hand, we are also convinced

that the volunteers taking part in our project, can gain large and priceless experience.

At present we run one EVS project, in whch four volunteers from France, Germany, Azerbaijan and

Georgia take part.


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The Salesian Youth Center was founded in 2002. It is a non-public, educational institution working on

the field of resocialisation of young people (13-18 years old) from disfuncional families. The Salesian

Youth Cener strive to create an educative atmosphere that will allow young people to discover their

own values and find in themselves the strength to live a dignified life based on understanding and self-

esteem. Our activities are realized in accordance with the educational system found by Saint John

Bosco, who not ignoring individual differences, helped young people in tough conditions. The key to

educational success is pedagogical optimism which allows helping young people.

The Center is based in Rozanystok, which is a small village in the north-eastern Poland, close to

National Parks and natural enviroment. The Center disposes of several buildings: Youth Hostel,

where young people are lodged, primary and secondary school, sports field, stable, guest houses, etc.

There are arround 80-100 pupils in the Center divided into groups. The Center employs pedagogues,

teachers, instructors and technical workers. A common day timetable include: school classes,

afternoon activities and meals.

Contact Point

Organisation: Salezjanski Osrodek Wychowawczy im.sw.Jana Bosko

Address: Rozanystok 13 B

Postal code: 16-200

Town: Dabrowa Bialostocka

Country: Poland


Phone: 85 7128408

Fax: 85 7128408

Contact: Katarzyna Stefanowicz


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2010-PL-69 Salezjanski Ruch Troski o Mlodziez SALTROM-




Location Krakow (Poland)


Theme 2 Environment




We decided to take up EVS tasks for we had found the idea of it very useful for both , those who we

-as the organization - had been taking care of and those who had been looking after them voluntarily.

We like the idea of European Voluntary Service as the "learning " service which gives young people

many opportunities to improve or acquire skills and competences as for their personal, educational

and professional development. It is a wonderful complement to our everyday activities. We have

been realizing the EVS projects since the year 2000. As the sending organization we have

experienced working mostly with young people with less opportunities (economically, geographically,

socially, emotionally disadvantaged) but year by year there are more volunteers who decide to take

up long-term projects tasks. Our main partner is Everything Possible in the UK. We did together

more than 40 projects on environmental, social and educational issues. We also did some interesting

and successful projects with Turkish and Portuguese organizations. Our volunteers did very well

working on European awareness with socially excluded and disabled children and youth in Turkey,

Portugal and England .


SALTROM" is the national non-governmental organization working with young people born in

pathological families, suffering from unemployment , alcoholizm , lack of interests of their parents.

They are in danger of different kinds of harmful addictions.Leaders of SALTROM try to help them to

find the right way in their present and future life,their education and career.Thanks to quite a big

group of young students willing to help the others SALTROM organizes after - school actvities for

above mentioned children ,helping them to cope with homework and any difficulties in school

subjects, developing their hobbies, taking care about their health problems and everyday troubles e.c.

hunger."SALTROM " also runs summer camps in different parts of Poland,Czech and Slovakia.We are

staying in contact with many formal and non-formal or informal organizations which help families in

need and try to find solutions for the difficult situations together. Because of a high level of

unemployment in Poland a lot of young people who meet in SALTROM are unemployed.Many have

got health,emotional ,family etc.problems. Noone of them could afford visiting foreign countries as a

tourist.Helping others they try to cope with their own problems.They are very keen on working

towards European integration and are happy to take up any kind of international tasks to become

closer to other cultures and to experience their own way in the contemporary world.

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Contact Point

Organisation: Salezjanski Ruch Troski o Mlodziez SALTROM

Address: ul. Rozana 5

Postal code: 30-305

Town: Krakow

Country: Poland


Phone: +48 122693000

Fax: +48 122693110

Contact: Ms Renata Kukla


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2011-PL-134 Youth centre "Maryam"-

Accreditation Sending organisation, Host organisation



Location Baku (Azerbaijan)


Theme 2 Youth policies

Inclusion Cultural differences, Economic difficulties, Social difficulties

Project environment

PROJECT ENVIRONMENT:

Azerbaijan, the official name of Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest and most populous country in

the Caucasus region. It is situated in south-western Asia and a small part of its territory extends to

Europe. To the east is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the north bordering the Russian Republic of

Dagestan, to the northwest Georgia to the west of Armenia and to the south of Iran. Azerbaijan

became independent in 1991. The Republic of Azerbaijan has 8.5 million habitants. The capital is Baku

and it has about 2 million habitants. One of the most important sectors of Azerbaijan's economy is

production of crude oil.

The Maryam Centre has been working since November 2004. During our short existence, we

developed our activities in many different areas:

1) The Maryam centre provides the courses in the school subjects of Azeri language and Literature,

History, Geography, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and the Russian language. The centre also

teaches foreign languages: English, German, Italian, and French. Computer programs; Windows,

Word, Excel, and Power Point are also taught in the centre. Likewise subsidiary courses of

painting, national and break dance, guitar play and meetings with psychologist. The centre doesn't

forget to respect the body development of children and so in the centre there is a basketball and

volleyball area and also table-tennis. The centre organises sport activities both in the centre, and

other locations. In this video you can see our classes and teachers at work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JQsRUXKp0s&feature=related

2) Professional Courses "Your Future", the Maryam centre has started a new project in January,

2009, called "Your Future". The objective is to help youth, who have finished their secondary

school and want to continue their education and grow their skills in some profession. The centre

offers career skills training to develop:

Electricians,

Carpet Makers

Furniture Designers

Photographers

Hair Stylist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JQsRUXKp0s&feature=related

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Welder

Repairman

3) Free-time activities. One of the most important functions of the centre is to organize summer

camps for children at beach near Baku. At the camp children plunge into the fantastic world of

games and adventures, music and sport competitions. They get healthy meal, proper sleep

schedule and lots of outdoor fun camping activities that will strengthen their bodies and minds.

New friends do not allow them to miss their home. During the year we organize excursions to

other towns in Azerbaijan. The children see the historical and cultural sights of native country.

We also organize celebration for major festivals throughout the year. The children also organize

their own music and stand up comic competition. In this video you can see the favourite dance

on our holidays and comic competition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVFVNirko6M&feature=related,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYBZUgC8uso

PROPOSED ACTIVITIES FOR EVS VOLUNTEERS:

To learn other foreign language and develop competences.

A volunteer in our organisation has possibility to learn new languages and will develop

communication skills - particularly skills allowing quickly move from one language to another (in the

Maryam Centre we commonly use three languages: Azeri, Russian and English, and at the same time

person can meet with German and Italian and also hear Avar, Lezgin or Tabasaran languages, which

are in use by the minorities of Azerbaijan). Such a multinational environment will teach volunteers to

communicate in a situation when they don't understand the language which is used by their partner.

Multicultural society is connected with a multi-language environment as well. The community in

Azerbaijan is very tolerant and relationship among different group is very good. Jews, Muslims,

Christians and other religions live and work together. This is very powerful experience for

everybody who visited Azerbaijan.

Volunteer can develop his organizational skills, through help with free-time activities. Every year we

organise many summer camps, sport activities, workshops... The role of EVS volunteer is according

to his/her abilities to participate in our program and activities desirable as leader, not simply as

attendant. Volunteers can organise trainings for youngsters, teach dances etc. They can offer their

ideas, abilities. In this way to share his/her cultural and professional background with youth in

Azerbaijan. A volunteer can participate according to his/her preferences in any sphere of our

activities:

to teach his own language,

to teach some school subject,

to help with leisure time activities,

to organise the improving of the centre,

to help with improving of local volunteers, local teachers,

sport training for children, discussion clubs - intercultural exchange,

trips to the country.

For example volunteer can assist to develop the program for summer camp, help to prepare local

leaders for it. Volunteers can be involved in their own projects according their capabilities and

preferences.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVFVNirko6M&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYBZUgC8uso

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VOLUNTEER PROFILES AND RECRUITMENT PROCESS:

We expect from volunteers in particular: a sense of humour, joy, enthusiasm and willingness to work

with youth and children, experience in organizing activities for young people, a sense of teamwork,

sensitive social conscience, willingness to learn new things and language, practicality and creativity.

Independence, responsibility, flexibility and physical fitness can only be an advantage.

Volunteer's activities are largely leisure time activities for unorganized children and youth, keeping

hobby groups, youth involvement in the development of cultural and sporting activities. Volunteers

will organize activities according to their preferences and interests by mutual agreement with

supervisors. This activities are important and rewarding voluntary work, which not only helps to

increase capacity, but it helps volunteers through education to shape their attitude to an active life at

home and abroad.

Our local volunteers have:

submitted a comprehensive application form

passed a one-on-one interview

convinced us that they are suitable to work in our environment - terms of respecting the

practice of faith, appropriate relationships with young people and local communities - through

they appropriate time of help in our activities with youth

attended two training weekends and completed individual preparation

a Criminal Records Bureau check and certificate ensuring there is no reason they should not

with the young and?or vulnerable.

SPECIAL NEEDS:

People from Salesian order are staff of our centre (director and one of coordinator are Salesians ).

They have rich experience with work for poor families, disabled youth and for our teachers they

prepare trainings. So, staff of our centre is ready to work.

RISK PREVENTION, PROTECTION AND SAFETY:

In first meeting mentor will explain the rules of safe living in Azerbaijan to volunteers. Mentor

together with volunteer and supervisor introduce rules of behaviours in the Maryam Centre.

Volunteers will be accompanied by mentor (each week will be meeting about evaluation and planning

of life and activities). If there will be any problem mentor also will help with solving conflicts. We

provide accommodation for volunteers by people who we know well, they are also able to suggest

and support volunteers.

The "Maryam" Centre is able to host up to 3 EVS volunteers at the same time. The organisation

doesn't plan to host short-term EVS groups. The organisation is ready to work with volunteers with

fewer opportunities such as: social and economic obstacles as well as cultural differences.

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Our centre has been working since 2004. From the beginning the center is supported by the work of

volunteers - both local and foreign - who help by teaching and free time activities. In summer 2008

there was youth exchange between Slovak organisation "Krok za krokom" and our centre through

program Youth in Action. According to this youth exchange 15 Slovak and 15 Azeri volunteers

prepared summer city camp for children.

In August 2008 2 volunteers came (from the Czech republic and Poland) to work in our centre for

one year. The next one came from Slovak organization called SAVIO and worked here for one year

through program Youth in Action - EVS. Also we had 5 short time volunteers from English

organization BOVA who helped us with teaching English as native speakers.

In our educational work with children volunteers are very important, because they share their values

with children - and we think that this is the main idea of education. Its bilateral influence: volunteers

to children and children to volunteers.

The foreign volunteers help to the Azeri youth to participate in these world important events. As a

hosting organisation of EVS we can receive and send volunteers who will be like a bridge between

various countries and cultures. It will help us to enrich and to perceive European values and to share

our values with Europe.


Our "Maryam" centre is situated in Baku, capital city of Azerbaijan. The main goal is to increase the

chance of getting a quality education for poor children and youth to help them get better chance of

finding a job. "Maryam" centre has six sections:

1. Foreign languages (English, Russian, Italian etc.)

2. Computer programs (Office programs, design programs, etc.)

3. Helping for school subjects (Mathematics, Physics, Geography etc.)

4. Professional courses (Electrician, plumber, carpet weaving, welding etc.)

5. Personal developing trainings (Time management, Basic accounting, Healthy etc.)

6. Free time activities (Cultural, sport, entertainment activities)

These courses are necessary for admission to college or to find employment. Our centre together

with young animators organize various leisure activities for poor children such as camps in time of

the holiday, various hobby groups throughout the year - guitar courses, concerts, preparation of

cultural events to celebrate major holidays. Organizing staff is consisted from director and 6

coordinators. Every section has own coordinator and with them director of the centre has a meeting

one time in a week.

In the main group of our teachers / animators (45 persons) are young people between 20-30 years

old. 400 young people learn here. They are divided into three groups:

5-8 age

8-17 age

- up to 18 age

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Contact Point

Organisation: Youth centre "Maryam"

Address: Mehmandarov 5

Postal code: 1000

Town: Baku

Country: Azerbaijan


Phone: +994 12 371 36 39

Fax:

Contact: Mr Nurane Asadova


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Romania

2011-RO-25 CENTRUL DIECEZAN CARITAS IASI -




Location Iasi (Romania)



Inclusion Disability, Economic difficulties, Educational difficulties, Social difficulties

Project environment

The projects will offer to the volunteers the unique opportunities to learn and understand different

cultures, to get rid of all sorts of prejudices, to support people less "favoured" by fate, to make

something useful, to learn new things, to speak a foreign language and to explore their own limits,

and to understand what volunteering means. Last but not the least, through group or individual

activities, there will be offered opportunities of formal and informal learning which will allow to the

young people to improve the necessary skills for personal, educational and professional development.

All the above-mentioned aspects, taken altogether inside the project, will not only contribute to

reach the set goals, but will offer advantages to the local community and to the participants to the

project. It should also be considered, that in time, some of the beneficiaries from the volunteering

activities will also become volunteers inside the organisation.

In order to prevent the fact that some volunteers might abandon the activities, because of the urban

location where there will be held, we will organise a schedule of active and interactive involvement

inside the project, and in order to guaranty its applying and development without troubles, we will

sign an activity agreement with EVS in which will be established and shared the duties, the schedule,

the practical engagements, as well as the learning process and the objectives of teaching of the

volunteer.

EVS volunteers will benefit and will have linguistic and management support during the period of EVS

activities, but also the activities with general character in which they will be involved will suppose:

informal learning and intercultural implication with the goal of social involvement of teenagers

and obtaining of competencies regarding personal, educational and professional development.

solidarity development, tolerance promotion, racism and xenophobia elimination for the

enforcement of social cohesion at European level.

teenagers' involvement in local community's life by participating and in the developed activities.

EVS volunteers will be selected by the organisation which send them and with which the

collaboration partnership was signed, depending on the context of the project in case.

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The volunteers will be selected independently of the ethnic, religion, political orientation or sexual

group to which they belong, Partner organisations will be selected on the basis of transparent

activities that they will develop and on the basis of their own status, having as goal the implication in

the social and community life, through social, educational, cultural and medical services; EVS

accredited organisations.


The volunteers will develop activities which suppose the approach of recent issues, stimulating the

active involvement through entire developing EVS probation.

Regarding risk and crisis situations, their prevention will be taken into consideration by creating a

balanced activity plan, which will also consider the ways of spending the free time, but another

measure of precaution is made by the EVS activity agreement, through which will be established and

shared the obligations, working hours, practice arrangements, as well as the learning process and the

teaching methods of the volunteer.

The organisation Centrul Diecezan Caritas Iasi can offer support to volunteers with ages between 16

and 18 years old, as well as to other age groups, depending on the complexity of the services which

they develop, having our own specialised personnel - social assistants, teachers, psychologists

specialised on different age groups and with a large experience in working with teenagers and

children and with problems specific to the age.


Centrul Diecezan Caritas Iasi is an organisation which makes volunteering work in a know and well-

understood manner, accepted and recognised, as an alternative approach to the problem solving of

the community.

Our view is one of the society where every person contributes voluntarily at the development of the

community in which he/she lives, either offering his/her time, knowledge, energy, skills, talents and

experience, or supporting financially the volunteer decisions within the community. We strive for a

society in the implications in a volunteer activity in the community's interest represent an acceptable

and appreciated part of everybody's existence compatible with other responsibilities towards family,

job and recreation.

Centrul Diecezan Caritas Iasi, from its very initiation has developed through all its programs the

collaboration with hundreds of volunteers at local and regional levels, promoting volunteering

activities and volunteers by different activities and collaborations. On November 4th, 2008 has been

organised the 6th edition of the Volunteer Festival, event which represents a good occasion for the

employees and for the management of the Diocesan Centre Caritas Iasi to address their gratitude to

the volunteers for their involvement in the activities which offered social services and carrying for

the beneficiaries of our institution.

Volunteering activity represents an important part of the action strategy of Centrul Diecezan Caritas

Iasi regarding the offer of social services and the development of support actions for the community's

interest. Every year we reserve time and resources in order to create new volunteers, to instruct

and involve them in activities, but also to motivate them.

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Being a non-governmental organisation without patrimonial reason, the Centrul Diecezan Caritas

Iasi, with the residence in Iasi, has as primary goals the involvement in ample actions to limit the

poverty and the its exclusion from the social structures, the promote human development, social

righteousness and the creation of upholding social systems. CDC Iasi Association develops a number

of programs and projects in the social area, as follows:

1. Social-educational assistance - Caritas Social Assistance Office - which has as goal to give back

the human dignity and to assist persons going through a difficult period in their lives (poverty,

marginality) up to the progressive releasing from the causes that brought them in the situation of

demanding help, involving at the same time the society in this complete transition of the indiv

2. Social assistance with hosting for the children and teenagers - Foster Center "St. Joseph" - whose

goal is to give emotional support, counselling to the children and their families, educational

support, individual's right to physical, psychological, moral and intellectual development in optimal

conditions, necessary for daily life in an institution of a residential type. Those who benefit are

the children and the teenagers coming from families having special social difficulties.

3. Resource Centre for Children and Teenagers "Don Bosco" - educational children support of

families encountering difficulties.

4. The Centre for social-professional involvement of teenagers with difficulties - Carpentry

Workshop in Barnova - sets as its primary goal material and management freedom for teenagers

with difficulties.

5. Assistance and Counselling Office for Persons with Handicaps - has as goal the improvement of

life level of persons with handicaps and their involvement in the community.

6. Social Program with Care at the Person's Residence - the goal of the project is to offer social

assistance and medical care at the residence of the persons who, because of the social, physical

and/or psychological condition as well as the age keeps them isolated at home.

7. Intervention program in emergency cases and natural calamities - the primary goal is to offer

immediate material and moral help to the victims.

8. Anti-drug Office - has as goal the prevention and the control of alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse

within the teenagers from 12 to 25 years old.

Contact Point

Organisation: CENTRUL DIECEZAN CARITAS IASI

Address: SARARIE No. 134

Postal code: 700160

Town: Iasi

Country: Romania


Phone: 0232.210085

Fax: 0232.217998

Contact: Ms. Oana-Petronela Romila


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Slovakia

2010-SK-23 SAVIO, o.z.




Location Bratislava (Slovakia)

Theme 1 Development cooperation

Theme 2 Other


SAVIO seeks to enhance human and social development in poor regions of the world. Our projects

are specifically aimed at poor and marginalised children and youth. We know that financial aid is not

enough and that the best way for cooperation is personal contact. In Slovakia SAVIO endeavours to

educate people on development issues and to foster responsible attitude to life in the current

globalised world. We give people opportunities to take action, to make a change in lives of people in

need. We strive to develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young people and this is very

efficient through the service of volunteers in local communities in developing regions. Such an

experience provides young people with better understanding of development issues, of different

places and people with different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. It also improves

volunteers' skills that may be useful in their further personal and professional lives.

Since we first got the EVS accreditation in 2008 we have organised two volunteer stays in Baku,

Azerbaijan. Two volunteers were working there for 6 months in 2009 in a charity organisation. They

were doing social work among poor people, giving educational courses and organising free-time

activities for children and youth. Two other volunteers went there in February this year and are still

present in the capital city of Azerbaijan. They run a social competencies development course for the

local youth.

We would like to broaden the scope of our EVS activities by organising stays of young Slovak

volunteers in other developing countries, where we cooperate with our partner organisations on

development projects. These are mainly schools and centres for poor children and youth. The

volunteers may teach certain school su bjects, hold courses of interest to the locals, organise free-

time sport, creative, cultural or other social activities and help with realisation and administration of

development projects, according to their preferences and capabilities. We would like to start the

project until the end of this year and develop it further in the long term.


SAVIO is a non-governmental organisation working for human and social development of children

and youth in need mainly in developing regions. It supports construction of schools, children and

youth centres, health care facilities, and helps running them in the long term. The education projects

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follow the don Bosco's preventive education method which aims at development of person as a

whole.

In Slovakia SAVIO is active in raising awareness and educating people on development, human rights

and peace issues, especially through nonformal education in schools, youth centres and other places,

by publishing informational leaflets, posters, articles and other media programmes. It seeks to awaken

public opinion to the values of international solidarity and cooperation for development. SAVIO

fosters open and cooperative relationships between members of different cultures and helps

diminishing prejudices and ignorance. It acts to develop the skills, attitudes and values in people both

in developed and developing countries so that they can work together for a change - for a more

sustainable and better world.

SAVIO is cooperating with local communities of the Salesians of Don Bosco which are present in

almost every developing country. Their work is highly valued in most of the places as they work hard

on education of children and youth and achieve positive results in this field. The countries where

SAVIO supports development projects include Slovakia (Roma communities), Azerbaijan, Russia

(Siberia), Ukraine, Kenya, Sudan and Angola.

Our primary target group is poor and marginalised children and young people living in bad conditions

and having little opportunities for education and skills development or meaningful free-time activities.

The secondary target group is people and general public in Slovakia that have possibilities to help

these children and youth in need, either in financial matters or by other means including promotion

and propagation of our development projects, project assistance and voluntary service. There is also

a steady group of volunteers cooperating with our organisation in these matters. In our office there

are employed two project managers and a project assistant. The NGO is further composed of the

Board of Directors and a Chairman who is the legal representative of the organisation.

Contact Point

Organisation: SAVIO, o.z.

Address: Mileticova 7

Postal code: 821 08

Town: Bratislava

Country: Slovakia


Phone: +421 2 5564 04009

Fax: +421 0 502 301 115

Contact: Ms. Mária Lacková


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2011-SK-10 DOMKA - Association of Salesian Youth




Location Bratislava (Slovakia)



Inclusion Economic difficulties, Social difficulties

Project environment


Domka has 32 smaller and bigger youth centres all around Slovakia, where the project could take

place. The centres cooperate with local Salesian community and the city they are situated in. All the

centres of Domka provide many opportunitites for voluntary work in various fields. Volunteers of

each age (usually of age 16 up) participate daily in leading of group meetings, workshops, sport

activites, camps, trips, social and other activities. The centres with their activities are open for

everybody who is interested in taking part in any activity as a participant or a leader no matter its

religion, education, cultural background or nationality . They are open especially for those with poor

social or economical background. Children and youth come to the centres after the classes in the

afternoon and during the weekends and summer. Some of the centres are equipped with

accommodation and catering capacities which would be enough for all the volunteers coming for the

european voluntary service and home volunteers. If not, it is possible to arrange accommodatin and

catering in nearby schools or catering facility. We do not rule out the possibility, the camp could take

place in some facility in the central Slovakia.

Half of the centres are located near Salesian community or are even physically connected with it.

Community is represented by Salesians-priests, candidates and assistants who live in the community.

It uses to be a house which is equipped with playgrounds, clubrooms, games which are for

everybody. They take care of the house they live in, work with children and youth, help with

coordination of the volunteers working in the centre, prepare different activities for children and

volunteers and communicate with the local autonomy. The community is financed and supported by

state, parents of the volunteers and children who attend the centre, benefactors, donors and through

different grants, foundations and projects. Using and regular visiting of the centre is not based on the

applying of special rules and conditions. The centres are open for everybody who is interested in any

activity or would like to help with preparing and realization of some activitity. All the work in the

centre is based on the mutual trust and friendly and open approach to everybody. Children and

youth are taught to be polite, not to discriminate anybody and accept everybody irrespective of age,

economical situation, colour of the skin, religion or nationality. Voluntarism in the community is

accepted from parents, youth, adults, proffesionals in different fields and people of all age who are

willing to take part in the work of Domka.

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The project will aim at developing individual skills of the volunteers in working in a multicultural set

up and here with qualify the efficiency of the partner organizations.

Learning by doing: The volunteer will get opportunity to work in a multicultural, a different social and

economic background. They will develop simple skills and tips to work with children and teenagers.

They will be aware of the youth situation in Slovak Republic, awareness of the unity in diversity, and a

positive attitude developed towards it. They will learn to work together and have a positive group

experience on a European level.

As we are going to offer this program mainly to volunteers without the experience of travelling and

staying in a foreign country we expect them also to gain a different and positive view of their own

skills and character.

Example of long EVS activity: The volunteers would be assigned to one of our centre. At the centre,

there would be some mentor of this volunteers. The volunteer should part in everyday life of salesian

centre, learning and using preventive educational system. The activities of our centre varies in plenty

of different work. The main task would be to lead together with some Slovak volunteer some regular

meeting with kids/youngsters. There may be also some additional task as there are lot of one-day

activities for youth. This includes planning, preparing, leading, supervising and evaluating of all kind af

short and long term projects. System of work is very similar to one described next.

Example of summer camp activity: The volunteers will be paired and will be put in different groups. In

every group there will be a an experienced mentor (worked before with volunteers) who speaks

English who will personally help the volunteers to accommodate to the circumstances and the daily

program. The mentor will help volunteers with language problems by explaining the program, giving

details about the centre and its visitors during this project. The mentor can also be a link between

other leaders and children, if there will be any uncertainties. This way they get opportunity to be

actively involved in the activities all the time. We expect the volunteers to take part in each aspect

of planning, carrying out and evaluating of summer camp for children in a way that will be suitable for

them. Our program is divided into three parts: the first part is going to help the volunteers to get to

know each other (as the will come from different European countries) and all Slovakian volunteers

taking part in this program. They will also have the opportunity to help to think up and accomplish

parts of the daily program of the camp. We are planning several cultural evenings, sports, excursions

and having dinner together during this first period of time. The volunteers are expected to cooperate

with other young Slovakian volunteers and youth workers (about 35 volunteers all together) to carry

out the program and lead a group of children during the second part of the program. We expect 60

children from different parts of Slovakia for our program. We will divide children into small groups of

8-9 persons. The volunteers will be paired and put together in a group with two Slovakian

volunteers. This way they would have an opportunity to get to know each other on another level

too. In every group there will be an experienced mentor (worked before with volunteers and aware

of the problems that may occur in this setting). In the program there is a good combination of

serious work and leisure time. The third part of the program will include evaluation of the camp,

finding a way how to cooperate in the future and sharing experiences. The volunteers will work

together on planning and evaluation of the programs and therefore they will give an extra input to

the camp activities and atmosphere of the activities. They will have a great opportunity to learn a lot

from the simple methods of working in a multicultural situation. This is a simple but very effective

working method which they could take home and implement easily in their working area. First of all

young people fill in the general application form expressing their motivation. Then they will be

prepared for coming to Slovak Republic with the help of the sending and host organization.

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On their arrival there will be one day set apart to get know each other and to get all the practical

information about the activities. There will be also a personal interview with one of the staff

members of the youth centre in which the volunteer will be able to give his/her prefference of

group. In planning, implementing and evaluating the activities the volunteers will be assisted by a

mentor. This mentor will make sure that young volunteer has an active involvement in the activities.

The programs are conducted for 9 whole days of camp. The volunteers are expected to work with

other young Slovakian volunteers and youth workers to carry out the program for the children. The

main task of the volunteers will be to prepare activities in the camp for children and assist in different

groups during the days. Some may also get task to plan and assist one part of the program. Some

volunteers will get chance to make photos and make a good presentation of photos for children and

the parents. All volunteers will get an active and important role in the program. The partial tasks will

be allotted according to their ability.


Our project is open to young people (aged 18-26), who want to get some practical skills or get

better know salesians. We would like to invite volunteers, who do not have many opportunities to

visit different countries or are going to be first time abroad. These young people are not expected to

be professionals in English language. But they need to know basic English grammar and vocabulary to

be able to explain activities in appropriate way. It is welcome at least some experience in working

with young people.

We have already informed our partner organisations in Don Bosco Youth Net about the opportunity

to join our projects. Participants will have to send filled application forms, CV and motivation letter.

Local organisations will make the first selection by choosing two volunteers and sending their

applications to our organisation. A team responsible for this project will choose volunteers who are

the most suitable for our project according to their motivation and expected abilities. Organisational

team will contact volunteers by email.


We have a multidisciplinary approach to risk prevention and crisis management. We have the

ideology: Prevention is better than cure! A good communication will prevent most of the risks,

problems. So we´ll try to inform the partners and volunteers involved about about every part: our

country, the project, activities, youth centre, the program of the camp etc.

The sending organisation will prepare the volunteers to take up the challenges in a new country.

It is a short group EVS of three weeks, so we do not expect major crisis. There will be a mentor for

each group of the volunteers helping them with language problems or anything they may need. The

coordinating organisation will also see to the practical arrangements and transport of the volunteers.

Medical corps will be on set. We will specially request the sending organisation and volunteers to

make us aware of the medical and health report of the volunteers and it will be put in the application

form. Daily evaluation, we give them full opportunity to share their feelings, worries, tensions and

expectations. A mentor will guide in this.

There will be opportunity for different recreative programs, rest moments, cultural evenings, outings,

etc. There will also be religious, councilling supports given to volunteers who require this. Regular

contact with sending organisation via e-mail and regular telephone talks with sending organisation will

also assist the volunteers. There is a standard procedure (protocol) by accidents, heavy psychological

problems for children and volunteers who work for Domka.

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Domka has been working with and for children and young people since the year 1991. It has been

formed during this time till now. The organization has got much experience with children and youth

through the systematic work with them. Domka has participated on many international youth

exchanges or meetings mostly as a member of Don Bosco Youth Net (DBYN). Volunteers of Domka

have been well-known for their iniciative spirit, joy and ability to give the most of them to the others.

Other organizations often take an example from Domka's volunteers how to be so active and

enthusiastic in many fields in spite of lack of financial resources in some cases. In order to share our

experience and support European awareness among children and youth we would like to invite

volunteers from other partnership countries of Don Bosco Youth Net and participate together on

preparing and realization of summer camps and other leisure time activities in English language. This

would be enriching for everybody. Volunteers from other countries could see and to know how

Slovak volunteers work with children and youth, what methods and activities they use, how they

behave to each other, how they live. Through these volunteers from other European countries could

better get to know the Slovak environment, Slovak culture and the way of life. The Slovak volunteers

and also Slovak children who would attend the summer camp would get an opportunity to

experience intercultural communication and so build up European citizenship.

Domka has 3 year experience with the action 2 in the programme Youth in action. We used to

cooperate a lot with other EVS accreditated organisation as Don Bosco Youthnet Nederland,

Društvo Salezijanski mladinski center Celje.

We did host 1 long term EVS volunteer from Netherland and now we are currently hosting one

volunteer in project SK-21-92-2010-R5 (01/02/2011 30/09/2011).

We have also undersingned 2 short EVS projects which should take place in this summer one in

Belgium and second in Netherlands. We are now preparing our volunteers to go and we use to

communicate with the hosting organisations.

We would like to continue mainly in sending volunteers to short/log term EVS as we have many

motivated young leaders. If we would find some financial partner or someone to help us coordinate

hosting project we would use our potential and creat multicultural summer camp, or some short EVS

project for foreign volunteers. We have tried to do something like this in past but the project was

not approved and we had to cancell it. We are interested a lot in cooperation with members of

DBYN and are usually planning all these projects together.

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Domka is spread all around Slovakia and has very close cooperation with Salesians of don Bosco. It is

open for everybody no matter what education, religion, descents, culture or nationality. Target group

we generally work with consists of children and youth mostly between 10 and 26 years. The activities

of our organization are regular team meetings which include sport, art, technical and other interest

groups. Social and educational activities are also the natural part of the life of Domka (festivals, social

events, music concerts, seminars, training for trainers etc.). Domka provides also different camps,

trips and whole day activities during the year. Domka actively participates in organizing various

international activities such as international youth exchanges or meetings mostly as a member of Don

Bosco Youth Net. Domka has 32 youth centres and almost 8000 members around Slovakia who

participate on all these activities and cooperate them together. Domka tries to prevent children and

youth from drug addiction, criminality and vandalism through the individual approach to everybody

and regular leisure time activities. The main aim of our organization is mostly to educate independent

responsible young people, who engage in public and who live their life according to the human and

Christian values. Domka employs 3 people for full time job and currently 3 students for part time

job. Domka is fully based on voluntarism. Hundreds (cca 1500) of volunteers help regularly with all

activities in the centres of Domka all around Slovakia. Besides, Domka cooperates with many

volunteers, who use to help at headquarters with different projects and activities.

Contact Point

Organisation: DOMKA - Association of Salasian Youth

Address: Mileticova 7

Postal code: 821 08

Town: Bratislava

Country: Slovakia


Phone: 00 421 2 502 31 304

Fax:

Contact: Mr. Peter Belej


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Spain

2012-ES-2 Asociación Recreativa y Cultural Los Tilos -




Location Os Tilos (Spain)


Theme 2

Project environment


The volunteers will integrate into the activities which already work in the leisure-time and cultural

association of “Los Tilos” for the the neighbours of the district of Los Tilos: for the children (playing

room, handicraft, languages, painting, theater, campsites, etc.), teenagers (youth club, hip hop, brake

dance, karate, judo, idiomas, theater, etc.) and adults (gymnastics, brain jogging, handicraft, cookery,

film club, book club, etc.) in addition to other, open activities (gatherings, parties, etc.) which can be

themed according to popular holidays (magosto, Christmas, Carnival…)

We believe that the cultural background, the different perspectives and ways of working, which an

European Volunter could provide, would be very interesting for the different target groups: senior

citizens, adults, teenagers and children and could inmensly enrich the work of the association.

Local Community

The leisure-time and cultural association “Los Tilos” is located in the urbanization “Los Tilos”,

belonging to the parish church of Saint Francis of Assisi, in the town council of Teo, which is situated

in the area of Santiago de Compostela, province in A Coruña, Spain. The council of Teo comprises

16.428 inhabitants and has an expanse of 80 km. The urbanization of “Os Tilos” is situated

approximately 4.5 km from the closest city, Santiago de Compostela. The people who live in the

urbanization either work or spend the major part of their time in the aforesaid city.

Santiago de Compstela is the main administrative and cultural center of Galicia, in which the

government of the autonomous region resides. In addition to being on of the main cities in Galicia,

the city´s location permits a good connection to the rest of Galicia´s important cities. Santiago has

approximately 95.000 inhabitants, eventhough the population doubles if you count the numerous

students and workers. The city offers the main university of Galicia, being one of the eldest in the

country, turns Santiago into a young and dynamic city.

According to UNESCO decision in the year of 1985, the city was declared Cultural World Heritage

and in 2000, Santiago was the European Capital of Culture.

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The proximity to the seaside implies that the weather in Santiago and Los Tilos is pleasant and

humid, typical for the North West of Spain, including a long winter with persistent rain and a short

summer with very pleasant temperatures. In Galicia exist two official languages, Galician and

Castilian, which co-exist in harmony without any major problems. The majority of the population is

bilingual.

The volunteers will live in Santiago de Compostela, in a shared flat with other volunteers (preferably

of different nationalities) who are participating in the EVS in Santiago, or with young students or

workers in Santiago, in a shared or single room. The flat offers everything which is necessary for

living: washing machine, iron, coffee machine… The flat is managed by the coordinating organisation

and is in charge of paying all the expenses: rent, light, water, gas…

For the upkeeping the volunteers will receive a monthly allowance in order to buy groceries for

preparing their own food. In addition to that, they will receive some money for buying the necessary

things for the upkeeping of the flat: washing up liquid, washing powder, mops… This allowance will

be transferred at the beginning of every month or at the end of the previous. Due to the fact that the

volunteers will live in Santiago de Compostela, but work in Los Tilos, 4.5 km away from Santiago,

they will receive a bus ticket.


We would like to offer to the volunteers an experience of sociocultural animation by integrating

them into the activities which already work in the leisure-time and culture association of Los Tilos,

for the citizens of Los Tilos; senior citizens, adults, teenagers and children. Due to the fact that the

hosting organization has experience in the field of non-formal education, the activity is organized in a

way which guarantees the learning process of the volunteers. They will participate in different

activities under the supervision of the team and in addition to that, they will receive a following-up

through periodic evaluation meetings, which evaluate the anticipated learning process.

The leisure-time and culture association“Los Tilos”wants to offer the volunteers the opportunity to:

Work as a team with other teenagers and experts of the center

Learn two foreign languages: Castilian and Galician

Learn to introduce innovative, well-planned sociocultural animation activities for children,

teenagers and adults.

Participate actively in the planning of the different activities

Promote their country of origin among the users of the association

Experience in work with children and teenagers

Develop skills as a “camp leader” for children

Know the working order of a play room, how to plan activities, how to develop and evaluate

them

Learn handicraft, games and dynamics for motivating the children and teenagers

Propose and organize new activities for the center

Know how a cyber-room for children and teenager works

Develop abilities as a leader/trainer for activities with senior citizens: brain jogging…

Learn how to plan and develop an intercultural encounter

Learn how to plan, develop and evaluate activities for a camp for children and teenagers

Develop skills as a camp leader for children and teenagers

Learn how to be more patient, open and independent

Know a new culture with all its aspects

Learn about the importance of knowing other mentalities and other cultures for personal

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In particular, the tasks of the volunteers weill be to collaborate with the specialists of the center, the

supervisors of the activites and the volunteers bringing in their iniciatives; without realizing functions

as supervisor in neither of the said tasks:

Collaborate with the specialists, supervisors and volunteers of the center in the planing,

preparation and evaluation of the activities: designing of activities, preparation of the material,

looking for resources…

Collaborate en the tasks of upkeeping, animation and dynamisation of the play room, the library

and the computer room, bringing in his / her initiatives and the resources of his / her own

culture

Collaborate in the realization of other activites in the center: workshops, dances, videos,

excursions…, bringing in his / her personal iniciatives and the resources of his / her own culture

Collaborate in the special activities of the center: Magosto (festival of the chestnut), Christmas,

Carnival, special festivals and activities of the center, popular holidays…, bringing in his / her

personal iniciatives and the resources of his / her own culture, for example by telling about how

certain holidays are celebrated in their country or which type of traditions they have.

Collaborate with other workers and Spanish volunteers in different activities of distribution of

information about the Youth In Action Program: informative talks, workshops, distributing

leaflets…

Offering language help to potential Spanish volunteers who want to participate in the EVS

Developping a personal project in accordance with his / her personal preferences, capacities and

skills. As soon as the volunteers know the working process and the general dynamics of the

center, feel at ease with the language and feel self-assured, they will elaborate their own project.

They can count in any moment with the help and the coordination of the specialists and the rest

of the volunteers in the center. These projects can go as far as to organise activities as theater

plays, dances, intercultural exchange, cookery of their country, music, language….

The beneficial effects on the local community and the contact is guaranteed, provided that more than

85% of the activities in which they participate are directly related to the local community.

The general schedule of the volunteers will be from Monday to Friday or from Tuesday to Saturday,

between 25 and 30 weekly working hours, depending on the hours of their linguistic training and the

reunions of planing and evaluation of the different activities in which they take part. In addition to

that, they have two free days per week, namely Saturday and Sunday, or Monday and Sunday, not

taking into account the additional holidays of the center which coincide with their stay. An example

for a schedule would be:

Monday to Friday:

o 16.30 – 20.30: Playing Room, Youth Club, Sports Activities, Youth Information Point,

workshops and other activities

o 20.30-21.30: Personal Project and other activities

Saturday:

o 11.30 – 13.30: Playing Room, Library, Cyber Room, other activities of the center

o 16.30 – 20.30: Playing Room, Youth Club, Youth Information Point, other activities

In addition to this schedule, there wil be language training in the mornings which will vary according

to the necessities of the volunteer and the reunions with the working team and the other voluntaries

of the association.

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Profile of the volunteer(s) and selection process:

We are looking for young people with interest and motivation in cultural and leisure time activites,

most of all with children and teenagers, but as well interested in the rest of the citizens and who

think that they could contribute to the work of the association. We are looking for young people

with abilities in communication, social skills and are enthusiastic and creative. They should have a lot

of proper initiative and values and ideals coresponding to European solidarity and identity. In

addition to that, we try to host volunteers from different countries in order to guarantee the

intercultural exchange. Moreover we appreciate the education and/or experience in cultural and

free-time activities. Finally we consider espacially the work of the sending organisation because we

think that it is of great significance.


Prevention of risks, security and protection:

The volunteers of the EVS have the same follow-up like any volunteer of the center with frequent

reunions of supervision. In addition to that, we intend to integrate the volunteers as soon as possible

in our local activities, and offer them a tutor and a coordinator who guarantee his/her physical and

mental wellbeing.


Our experience as an EVS- hosting organization started in September 2006. In this moment we have

hosted 8 volunteers from countries as Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Greece and Sweden. The

main object of the program is to improve and promote the knowledge about Europe and the offered

programs for the young people among the local youth. We reach this through an intercultural

exchange with young volunteers of other countries who provide different cultural experiences and

therefore initiate the participation of the local young people in the EVS-programs. On the other

hand, we are interested in the promotion of the knowledge of and the relationship to other cultures

which are situated in the same context of co-existence- Europe -among the local youth. Finally, we

consider it beneficial to know about different ways of working in the field of sociocultural animation

and non-formal education, in the different countries of Europe.


The cultural and leisure time association “Los Tilos” is located in the urbanization “Los Tilos”, in the

district council of Teo, A Coruña. It represents an up-to date information point dealing with the

different social services as well as a meeting point for the citizens of the urbanization, where they can

meet with their neighbours, read the daily press and take part in the planned activities. Our

instalacions offer a playing room, a social room, a reading room, a theater, a library, a ciber room and

various multi-use rooms. The team consists of the directorate and 6 employees, in addition to that

there is a team of 36 supervisors of activities and permament volunteers who coloborate either

continously or from time to time in the different activities.

In the association we plan activities for children (playing room, handicraft, languages, painting, theater,

etc.), teenagers (youth club, hip-hop, brake dance, karate, judo, languages, theater, etc.) and adults

(gymnastics, brain jogging, handicraft, cookery, film club, book club, etc.). In addition to that, we offer

other, activities (gatherings, parties, etc.), which can also be themed acording to popular holidays

(Magosto, Christmas, Carnival…)

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Contact Point

Organisation: ETL DON BOSCO

Address: Rúa Belvís 2

Postal code: 15703

Town: Santiago

Country: Spain


Phone: 981582243

Fax: 981570263

Contact: Ms VÃctor Mosquera Villanueva


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2010-ES-38 Asociación Xuvenil Abertal -




Location Vigo (Spain)


Theme 2 Other

Inclusion Economic difficulties, Educational difficulties, Geographical difficulties, Social

difficulties

Project environment


We believe that free time is a privilege space for education, prevention and social intervention; and

we are aware that society does not provide this time with educative contents that would enrich

young people’s development.

Children and young people are our target group, people with ages between 7 and 30 years, with a

special attention to people in underprivileged situations for economic, cultural or social

circumstances.

These are some of our activities:

The activities carried out in our youth centre are:

ALTERNATIVA VAIVEN: A programme of activities of educative entertainment for children

between 6-14 years. All Saturdays throughout the school year. It includes trips to the snow, to the

beach, camping, begging of school year parties, Christmas party, carnivals, Peace act , summer camps

This programme has different age groups:

Cativos (6-10 years), Andaina (10-12 years) and ADS (12-years).

There are also a number of after school activities: guitar courses, theatre, library, academic support

and toy library.

URBAN CAMP: Organized with another youth association and the House for Young People from

Vigo. A city camp for children from 8 to 14 years. It takes place the first fortnight of August and

every year around 550 children attend.

PROJECT XINXIN: Intervention project with children between 6-14 years in risk of social exclusion

derived from the Social Services of the City council of Vigo. It includes two educational support

teams and a study room during the week, integration in activities of standardized entertainment,

individual case monitoring, transports and food bursaries for participants.

THE TOUPEIRA: A programme of the social inclusion of young people and education for the health

that works with young people of 13 to 25 years. It is based on offering a room/bar that works as

reference space, from which healthy attitudes and behaviours are promoted. It includes: Noites

Alive (activities of nocturnal entertainment), a free Cyber cafe, sport activities, Point of Youth

Information, campaigns of awareness, music, theatre...

SOLIDARITY: Campaigns related to solidarity destined, on the one hand to cover a social need and

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on the other to raise awareness among young people about the importance of involving themselves

and of taking part in voluntary and solidarity actions. One of these is the food gathering campaign at

Christmas.

VOLUNTARY SERVICE: Raising awareness and promoting voluntary social action among the young

people and training of the volunteers that join the association. Including: mini voluntary experiences,

campaigns, courses….

Vigo is the biggest city of Galicia and the northwest of Spain. It is located to the south of the

Independent Community of Galicia, and is bathed by the Atlantic Ocean, which has affected the

activities of its population throughout history. Vigo is located on the ria with the same name on the

slopes of mount Castro. Vigo is an industrial city, of recent expansion. The Port of Vigo is one of the

main ports of transport of merchandise and travellers of the peninsula. The port along with the

Factory of PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN are two of the main economic motors of the city. The Naval

industry, (shipyard, fisheries...) contributed significantly to the growth of the city, although in the last

years it has undergone some eonomic-social conflicts as a result of the international crisis and the

progressive rationalization of the industry during the 80´s and 90´s.

The population of Vigo is close to 300,000 inhabitants, although only 63 % of the present inhabitants

have been born in the city. The great growth took place in a very short time (hardly 30 years),

which resulted in a chaotic and disorganized urban plan difficult to catalogue.

At present the city is undergoing a changing process, with significant increases of other sectors like

the cultural one (the opening in the last two years of a museum of the sea, a Museum of

Contemporary Art and a Museum House of the Word), the Tourist one, the recent implantation of

a University Campus...


As this is a centre for youth, the presence of young volunteers will contribute to a greater diversity

and richness of our activities.

Our main aim in hosting a European Volunteer is to promote the knowledge of Europe, and the

programmes available to young people, among the young people of Vigo, and Galicia . On the other

hand we believe it is a way of promoting among the European young people the knowledge and the

relation with other different cultures that coexist within a same frame, Europe. We find it enriching

to get to know different ways of working in the different countries from the European union.

The presence of a young European volunteer on our centre will provide a a greater diversity and

wealth to the activities we offer.

The specific duties of the volunteer will be :

1. To take part in programming, action, tracking and assessment of the activities in which he or she

is involved.

2. To work with other volunteers in the animation of the play group, library, cyber and the

Toupeira: games, workshops, solidarity campaigns, awareness campaigns, music, theatre...

3. Contribute to animation subjects, programming and tracking of the activities of the children

centre (cativos, ADS, Andaina): preparing materials, searching for resources...

4. Help the technical team in lending resources for the associations and volunteers.

5. Help other volunteers of the association in the special activities of the youth centre Abertal:

Magosto(celebration of the chestnuts), Christmas, celebrations and special activities of the

centre, popular summer camps, trips, folk festivals...

6. Helping the technical team and other volunteers in the different YiA dissemination campaigns:

distributing leaflets, round tables, informative talks...

7. Developing a personal project related to some of the activities of the Youth Association Abertal.

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The general schedule of the volunteer will be of 32 hours a week .

The volunteer will have 2 free days free a week, apart from holidays.

Holidays: 2 days/ month of project, in agreement with the centre.

During summer the schedule of the volunteer will adapt to the activities of the centre: summer

camps, trips to the beach, camping, Urban Camp...

The volunteer will attend socio-cultural training sessions, during his or her stay.


Volunteer: someone who enjoys social work with children and young people in risk of social

exclusion and leisure education.

Young people with communication and social skills, enthusiastic, creative, with initiatives and values,

who work with solidarity and with European identity.

Training and experience in children and youth leisure activities, as well as experience as a volunteer

are an asset.

Selection process:

1. Pre-selection of candidates

2. The selected people will fill in a questionnaire about their motivation and themselves. There is a

part to be filled in by the organisation.

3. A new selection takes place. We establish a date for telephone interviews to exchange further

information.

4. Definite selection. All candidates are noticed.


Special needs (if applicable):

The Asociación Xuvenil Abertal has experienced staff regarding monitoring and mentorship. EVS

volunteers will constantly be supported by the mentor; they can contact him whenever they need it.

In case of volunteers with special needs, and depending on their situation, an individual support plan

and monitoring will be established, covering their needs and guaranteing the success of the project.


EVS volunteers will also be covered by our civil responsibility insurance during their activity.

Volunteers will regularly meet with the mentor of the activities and a supervisor of the project

(Asociación Xuvenil Abertal), as well as with someone supervising the practical matters of the

project..

According to the document published in 2000, crisis is defined as the extreme situation leading to a

serious alteration of the development of an EVS project. Such crisis requires an urgent reaction,

though, as far as possible, it should be prevented. "

Many matters shall be taken into account to avoid risks, like, for example:

Provide volunteers with appropriate support throughout the project (this includes sending and

host organisations).

Fluid communication between the organisations (host and sending)

Clearly define the role and tasks of volunteers.

Training, potential problems, illnesses, alergies,... shall be taken into account when organising

tasks.

The individual needs of volunteers will also be taken into account for food and accommodation;

age and sex of volunteers will also be taken into account.

The living conditions shall respect health and the according security rules.

Regarding responsibility, health and security of volunteers will also be taken into account by the

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person responsible of the project; EVS volunteers will be provided with the information, training

and means.

The person responsible will take into account these measures for possible changes or

improvements.

EVS volunteers are responsible for their own security and health, as well as for that of the

people affected by their actions at work, according to their training and the instructions

received.

In case of emergency, illness, accident,...an appropriate protocol will be followed (known by

volunteers since their arrival).


Our motivation to send and host volunteers is to give them the possibility of taking part in a unique

experience. Among the goals that we aim to achieve obtain it is that the volunteer can work in

something they like, to give them the opportunity to work and to do something to help other

people, and in this way to work towards a better world. At the same time we want to provide

volunteers with the opportunity to get to know another country with its culture and people as well

as the EVS.

Within the activities to carry out in our organization, voluntary service is included in our articles of

association.

We would like to list among our activities: environmental activities, voluntary service promotion and

international cooperation activities.

All these activities contribute to the community in different ways (both as a sending organization as

a hosting one), on one hand the volunteer contributes with a new way seeing things with a new

approach, providing a global awareness for the accomplishment of the activities, and on the other

the volunteer will enrich not only in their personal growth but also in skills with which to contribute

to improve the community.

As coordinating organisation we assume the responsibility of keeping in direct contact (via e-mail,

fax, and other urgent communication systems like telephone, fax, Messenger, etc.) with all working

groups in EVS projects (volunteers, responsible people and/or contact people of sending

organisations and organisations working regularly with us). We will ensure that the volunteers have

secure and appropriate living and working conditions during their activity period, living in a place

according to their age and taste: flat shared by volunteers; participation in dynamic activities for

young people: leisure activities, camps, language classes. They will count with the close presence of

qualified people in tasks which may be difficult, and a group of professionals of similar age who, apart

from their mentor, will be guides who will help them to integrate in the new Spanish culture. They

will be directly supported and receive individual, certified training to carry out their tasks, they will

have a mentor for the whole period, from recruitment to the return to the country of origin and

the end of the project.

We are responsible for the administrative management and coordination of the project with all

members; we will pay corresponding grant amounts by bank deposits in the accounts of the

partners; we will keep accountancy with all the costs of the project which any partner may look at

during the project and years after it, as established in the Guide and EVS regulations.

The management of the costs will be done by the responsible of the project and the Administrative

service of our organisation, who will formally inform in three moments of the project: reception of

grant, sending of corresponding amounts to partners (travelling costs and sending activity costs);

intermediate evaluation, as established by the Programme for long term activities; and, at the end of

the project, with a copy of the separate costs included in the final report.

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Abertal is a youth association, member of the Federation of Don Bosco Galicia, founded in 1979 in

order to "contribute to the leisure education and the comprehensive development of children,

adolescents and youth." Understanding leisure as a privileged time for education, prevention and

social intervention. Having realized that society is not concerned in giving free time educational

contents, we promote projects and activities like the ones in this project, arising from the

participation and suggestions of young people in our organisation.

Abertal is structured as a leisure center with activities for children and youth of the environment,

with special emphasis on disadvantaged groups or social risk, and the integration of girls and boys

with special educational needs.

At present time we develop programs of activities for about 600 children and 300 young people, by

a group of 150 volunteers and 4 professionals. Examples:

For children: toy library, theatre group, music and dance workshops, educational leisure, summer

camps, school support for children in risk of social exclusion, workshops, sports, leisure activities

for young people with special educational needs, socio-cultural activities (folk feasts,...) etc.

With young people: we promote healthy habits, social awareness and volunteering. We carry out

educational leisure activities (dance and music workshops, concerts, sport championships, short-

films, etc.), we promote participation in solidarity and voluntary activities (at national and European

level), and we provide counselling and support in topics of concern to young people

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Contact Point

Organisation: Asociación Xuvenil Abertal

Address: Rúa Venezuela, 3 Planta Baixa

Postal code: 36203

Town: Vigo

Country: Spain


Phone: +34986225662

Fax: +34986225662

Contact: Ms Paula Martínez Rodríguez


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2012-ES-62 Centro Sociocultural JOSÉ SAMARAGO/ Vite-




Location Santiago de Compostela (Spain)


Theme 2

Project environment


The volunteers integrate themselves in the activities which already work in the socio-cultural center

of Vite for the neighbours of the district; for children (play-room, library, languages, puppets, story

telling, handicraft…), teenagers (ping-pong, chess, languages, sports, dancing…), adults (expositions,

dancing, fotography, cookery, yoga, excursions, city-tours…), public activities (journeys, videos), and

activities related to the local and national holidays (Chestnut-Festival, Christmas, Midsummer´s

Day…)

We believe that the cultural background, the different perspectives and ways of working which are

introduced by an European Volunteer could be very interesting for the different target groups: senior

citizens, adults, teenagers and children and could immensly enrich the work of our social center.

Thereby we believe that it would be interesting to offer to the volunteers the posibility to participate

in all the activities of the centre, so that they know the work procedure in general. Little by little

they themselves will determine which tasks correspond most to their skills and preferences and in

the course of time the volunteers will define a timetable which is adapted to their personal

preferences, with consideration the necessities of the centre.

Local community

The council of Santiago de Compostela is located in this city as main administrative and cultural

center of Galicia in which resides the government of the autonomous region of Galicia.

According to the decision of the UNESCO, the city was declared world cultural heritage in 1985 and

was the European Culture Capital in the year of 2000.

Santiago has a population of approximately 95.000 inhabitants, eventhough this population is doubled

if the numerous students and workers without citizenship are taken into account.

The city offers the main university of Galicia, being one of the oldest ones of Spain, a fact which

makes Santiago a young and dynamic city.

In Galicia there are two main languages: Galician and Castillian which exist in perfect harmony

without any problems. The majority of the citizens are bilingual.

The proximity to the ocean implies that the climate in Santiago is pleasant and humid, typical for the

north-east of Spain. Santiago has a long winter with lasting rainfalls and a short summer with pleasant

temperatures.

The volunteers are going to live in a shared flat with other volunteers (preferably of different

nationalities) who are participating in the EVS in Santiago, or with young students or workers, in a

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single or shared room. The flat offers all the things necessary for living: washingmachine, iron,

coffeemachine, etc. The accomodations are managed by the hosting organisation which is also in

charge of paying all the household expenses as rent, light, water, gas…

The volunteers receive a monthly allowance which serves for buying their own food, which they will

prerpare themselves. In addition to that, every month they receive a sum of money which allows

them buying all the things necessary for the upkeeping of the flat: washing-up liquid, detergent,

brooms… This allowance will be submitted at the beginning of every month or at the end of the

previous one.


We want to offer to the volunteers an experience of socio-cultural animation through their

integration into the activities that already work in the Sociocultural Center of Vite for the neighbours

of the district: senior citizens, adults, young people and children.

The hosting organisation has experience in the field of nonformal education. This implies that the

activity is organised in a way which guarantees the learning process of the volunteers and allows

them to participate in the different activities under the supervision of the team. Their learning

process is followed by periodical evaluation meetings where the acquisition of the target skills is

evaluated.

The Sociocultural Center José Saramago wants to offer to the volunteers the opportunity to:

Work as a team with other teenagers and members of the center

Learn two foreign languages: Castillian and Galician

Know the activities and services offerd to the citizens by the sociocultural centers

Learn how to introduce sociocultural activities which are stimulating, innovative and of high

quality for children, teenagers and / or adults

Participate actively in the planing of the different activities

Promote his/her country among the users of the center

Learn handicraft, games and dynamics to stimulate the children and the teenagers

Know the working process of a play room, how to plan activities, how to develop and evaluate

them

Develop skills as animator

Teach languages to the children, teenagers and adults of the center

Know the working process of a library

Propose and organise new activities for the center

Know how a computer room for children and teenagers works

Learn to be more patient, open and independent

Know a new culture with all of its facets

Learn about the importance of knowing other menalitites and different cultures for the personal

development

Specifically, the tasks of the volunteers weill be to collaborate with the specialists of the center, the








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leaflets…










Tuesday to Friday:

16.00-17.00: Planning, preperation and evaluation of the activities

17.00-21.00: Play-room, library, cyber-room and other activities of the center

Saturday


17.00-21.00: Play-room, library, cyber room and other activities of the center

However, we have to add to this schedule the language training, which will take place in the morning

and may vary according to the necessities of the volunteers and the reunions with the team and the

other volunteers.


We are looking for young people who are motivated and interested in working in activities in the

field of culture and free-time especially with children and teenagers, but also are keen on occupying

themselves with the rest of the citizens. The volunteers should dispose of own ideas for the

sociocultural center and be able to bring in something new.

We are looking for young people who are able to communicate, who have social skills and are

enthusiastic and creative; people with own initiative and values and ideals of European identity and

solidarity.

In addition to that, we try to host volunteers from different countries in order to guarantee the

intercultural exchange.

Moreover we appreciate the education and/or experience in cultural and free-time activities.

Finally we consider espacially the work of the sending organisation because we think that it is of great

significance.

With refernce to the beforesaid, we ask those who are interested in the project to complete a

questionnaire which includes a part for the volunteer and another part for the sending organisation.

In the part for the volunteer we ask him/her to explain as detailled as possible his/her interests,

motivations, abilities, potentials, etc.. In the part for the sending organisation we ask them to explain

the development of their functions as a sending organisation, which type of support and formation

they give to their volunteers... We would like that all of the volunteers fill out this cuestionnaire,

well-advised by the responsibles in their sending organisation.

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Given the size of the center and the wide number of users, we could host up to 5 volunteers.





mental wellbeing.


Our experience us hosting organisation of EVS begins on September 2000. At the moment we have

hosted 15 volunteers from France, Slovakia, Poland, Greece, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Ukraine,

Holland and Macedonia.

The main goal is to improve and promote the knowledge of Europe and the programs offered to the

young people among the local youngsters. We intend to achieve this through an intercultural

exchange with young volunteers from other countries who provide for them different cultural

experiences and thus intiate the participation of the local youngsters in the EVS programs.

On the other hand, it seems interesting to us to promote among the European young people the

knowledge of and the relation to other cultures who are moving themselves in the same frame of co-

existence, Europe.

Finally, we consider it very benifical to know different ways of working in the fields of sociocultural

animation and non-formal education in the different countries of the European Union.


The C.S.C. de Vite is one of the big socio-cultural centers in the city council of Santiago which is

available to the public. It represents an up-to-date information point concerning the different public

services as well as a meeting point for the residents of the district of Vite, where they can read the

dailies and take part in the scheduled activities. Concerning the instalations, the center offers an

office block, a room containing newspapers and magazines, a play-roon, a library, a cyber-room, a

theater and various multifunctional rooms.

The team consists of 2 public servants of the city council of Santiago de Compostela, as well as two

other employees and permament volunteers.

In this context, activities for children (games, reading animation, handicraft, languages, workshops...),

teenagers (chess, ping pong, languages, dancing, sports...) and adults (photography, handicraft,

cookery, danceing, languages, yoga...) are taking place. In addition to that, there are other, open

activities as expositions, video, etc. or activities referring to national and international holidays.

(Magosto / Chestnut-festival, Christmas, Carnival, Midsummer`s Day...)

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Contact Point

Organisation: Escola de Tempo Libre e Animación Socicultural Don Bosco

Address: Rúa Belvís, 2

Postal code: 15703

Town: Santiago de Compostela

Country: Spain


Phone: +34 981 58 22 43

Fax: +34 981 57 02 63

Contact: Mr VÃctor Mosquera


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2012-ES-64 Asociación Xuvenil Amencer


Approval

Date 27/04/2012


Location Ourense (Spain)


Theme 2 Children

Project environment


The territory of intervention of the “Youth Association Amencer” includes all the city, Ourense,

since in our activities children (3 to 12 years old) and teenagers (more than 12) from the town and

the periphery take part. Ourense is one of the 4 regions of Galicia, it is located within the same, and

almost 110.000 inhabitants live here. Talking about the economic activity, most of the citizens work

for the tertiary sector, although the secondary sector is important too.

So, our socioeconomic contictions are very various, which we believe it is a very important wealth.

In our activities a lot of children take part; they are children with good economic conditions, but with

other important social deprivations, as well as children and young people from Minor Centres,

Taking in Houses, Integration projects Drugs programs, etc.. One of the problems which we face is

that boys and girls with economic difficulties of their families (unemployment, etc.) who can not

enjoy leisure activities for lack of money. Actually the economic crisis is affecting all of Spanish

society, and in particular to Ourense. Hence many of our offers are free and have a scholarship

service to cater to this reality.

If one or two volunteers came, the option to live would be a youth hostel where they could cook

and that would be paid by our association. For the meals, we would give them a monthly allowance,

advancing the first month for having enough money when arriving. We would stay with them the first

weeks to show them the nearer supermarket, pharmacy, bakery,…If there wasn’t this possibility or if

they were three volunteers, the association would rent a flat and give a monthly allowance to each

volunteer for buying the food. In the same way, we would stay with them the first weeks to show

them the nearer supermarket, pharmacy, bakery.


The volunteer would be in all the activities the leisure educator, animator with a methodology in the

sense of involvement with the recipients, to promote good relations and good weather in the

activity, watch for recipients with more difficulties, etc.

We must also stress that each educator is included in an animation team where there is a

coordinator and a variable number of volunteers who form the whole project team. For usto reach

all the people is the key in this role, as well as complement and help in the same animation tasks.

At the beginning, SVE volunteers are informed about all projects and activities of our Association, in

coordination with the heads of the association, and considering, when it is possible, the centers

interests of each volunteer / a, to choose the fields. They need not be at all, although occasionally

they can help in other projects if it is necessary.

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Volunteers/as participate in regular rhythm: mornings on administration and management of projects

and activities (passing documents to computer, make copies, memories of the press, putting up

posters and billboards, buy some material, etc.), "maintenance" (organization of rooms and

replacement of materials activities) and support for campaigns and projects. All these tasks are

related to projects in which they will participate (opened room, game room, educational support,

leisure groups, etc.).

Other kinds of activities that we conduct are also so-called special rate (one or two activities per

three-month period): social awareness education campaigns, exhibitions, youth work activities in

coordination with other entities and agencies of the city (Megaxove, organization parties, leisure

activities during Carnival, Christmas, etc.), and participation in meetings of volunteers.

The strong rate of activity in the association corresponds to the Friday evening and Saturday times

when activities with groups of free time take place. SVE Volunteers will be active participants in these

groups, and they will be shaded in each group. Some activities take place during some hours of the

Friday afternoon, others in hours of Saturday morning. Every quarter there are several joint activities

where children of all the groups participate. These activities take place on Saturday, and have full-day

schedule (morning and afternoon).

The opening room (Sala Aberta) is a space which combines several things: a small bar to meet guys

and families, with soft drinks, water, snacks, jelly, chewing gum, pastries and coffee. In the morning it

works like school bar but the volunteers do not participate in the morning. The room has tables and

chairs, games, television, a magazine rack wide, exhibit, newspapers, etc, and on the ground floor we

have a game room (with two football and tennis), a cyber space (with computers free use) and a

playroom with games for children from 3 to 6 years. In the evening Sala Aberta works differently. It is

open Monday to Saturday and it is a 100% education and entertainment space. The games room on

the ground floor space is also a direct animation children, where we could chat and play with them.

What we call proper management corresponds with administrative tasks and processing of

documentation. These tasks are assumed by other persons engaged or having a better understanding

of the functioning of the association.

In addition, to the association com a lot of kids and parents to ask for information, to catch

information, to make entries for activities, etc, Like any other volunteer, they can care for people,

giving them information, collecting entries, etc.

We may conclude by noting that volunteers combine regular management tasks, customer service

and support for campaigns and projects with direct work activities with boys and girls.


The association has a variety of volunteers formed in the field of education (graduates in Teaching)

and social branch (psychologists, social educators, pedagogues, etc.). Moreover, there are a large

number of universitarians and others who are conducting studies in their final years of compulsory

education.

Finally, we would like to emphazise the direct involvement of some Salesian of Salesian community of

Ourense in animation tasks of our association.

Therefore volunteers’ profile would be quite wide, covering those with interest in animation in free

time, all of them over 18 years and under 30. In addition, volunteers should know that in our youth

center, apart from working directly with children and young people, they have to do other

administrative activities, management, support campaigns, etc.

And finally, we would like to point our Chistian profile, therefore, european volunteers should

consider this aspect. But we always keep an open policy towards other faiths, so all volunteers

interested in participate will be welcome, respecting their personal convictions.



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Volunteers in our association work with a total warranty of labour security, and with the legally

stipulated minimum sanitary conditions. The Association has an updated plan of prevention of labour

risks, and suitable to the risks that may happen in it

.


Our corporation has participed for several years in an european programme, The Civil Italian

Service. With this programme three volunteers came to Spain every year to participate in our

Centre. The experience was very enriching, since the volunteers brought us their culture with

language works, artistical activities, activities with young people, etc.

We have several reasons why we would like to participate in this programme. The main one is

because we would like to give our projects an intercultural shade with a co-ordinated work between

european volunteers and our own volunteers. On this way we could achieve to transmit to young

people other cultures naturally and proximity, working values and premises of the European Union.

Furthermore, as a coordination organization, we guarantee the commitment to obey with all tasks

and responsibilities stipulated, providing the necessary support to the volunteers who choose to join

this project. We also undertake to properly manage the amount of the subsidy to an equitable

sharing between the entities involved in the project and the administrative support of them.


The main mission of our association is to educate children and teenagers of our city in their free

time, especially underprivileged people. So, the consignees of our programmes are the children and

teenagers of our town.

This is an association formed mainly by volunteers, about 340 over the year. This people have a

Christian vision about life, and they don’t doubt in invest their free time, their experience and their

knowledge to improve the other people’s lives. In addition, nowadays our association has 3

professional contracts, with different number of hours. These people carry out different jobs, for

example, management, programming, animation, etc.

We have multiple projects in developing, which mainly detach because children and teenagers are the

starters of them, whereas adults have the role of accompanier. So, it exists a variety offering of

activities, projects and programmes that each year we extended and adapt to the reality of our

consignees and the society.

For instance, we can mention the “Urban Camp”. It is an activity which we have made each summer

for 24 years where students who are 9 to 15 years old can take part. During these dates they can

participate in several recreational and educative activities

Contact Point

Organisation: Asociación Xuvenil Amencer

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Address: Plaza Don Bosco, 1 - bajo

Postal code: 32003

Town: Ourense

Country: Spain


Phone: 988218123

Fax: 988218123

Contact: Ms Laura Valcarcel Marquez


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2012-ES-65 Centro Sociocultural Fontiñas -






Theme 2

Project environment



of Santa Fontiñas for the neighbours of the district; for children (pray-room, library, languages,

puppets, story telling, handicraft .. .), teenagers (ping-pong, chess, languages, sports, dancing .. .),

adults (expositions, dancing, fotography, cookery, yoga, excursions, city-tours .. .), public activities

(journeys, videos), and activities related to the local and national holidays (Chestnut-Festival,

Christmas, Midsummers Day .. .)



citizens, adults, teenagers and children and could immensly enrich the work of our social centre.

Thereby we believe that it would be interesting to offer to the volunteers the possibility to

participate in all the activities of the centre, so that they know the work procedure in general. Little

by little they themselves will determine which tasks correspond most to their skills and preferences

and in the course of time the volunteers will define a timetable which is adapted to their personal


Local community


center of Galicia en which resides the government of the autonomous region of Galicia. According to

the decision of the UNESCO, the city was declared world cultural heritage in 1985 and was the

European Culture Capital in the year of 2000. Santiago has a population of approximately 95.000

inhabitants, eventhough this population is doubled if the numerous students and workers without

citizenship are taken into account. The city offers the main university of Galicia, being one of the

oldest ones of Spain, a fact which makes Santiago a young and dynamic city. In Galicia there are two

main languages: Galician and Castillian which exist in perfect harmony without any problems. The

majority of the citizens are bilingual. The proximity to the ocean implies that the climate in Santiago

is pleasant and humid, typical for the north-east of Spain. Santiago has a long winter with lasting

rainfalls and a short summer with pleasant temperatures.

The volunteers are going to live in a shared flat with other volunteers (prelerably of different


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charge of paying all the household expenses as rent, light, water, gas ...




brooms ... This allowance will be submitted at the beginning of every month or at the end of the

previous one.



integration into the activities that already work in the Sociocultural Center of Fontinas for the

neighbours of the district: senior citizens, adults, young people and children.





evaluated.

Work as a team with other teenagers and members of the center Learn two foreign languages:

Castillian and Gaician




Participate actively in the planing of the different activities Promote his/her country among the

users of the center



them Develop skills as "camp leader"

Teach languages to the children, teenagers and adults of the center Know the working process of

a library


Know how a computer room for children and teenagers works Learn to be more patient, open

and independent



development

Specifically, the tasks of the volunteers weill be to collaborate with the specialists of the center,

the supervisors of the activites and the volunteers bringing in their iniciatives; without realizing

functions as supervisor in neither of the said tasks:

- Collaborate with the specialists, supervisors and volunteers of the center in the planing,


looking for resources ...

- Collaborate en the tasks of upkeeping, animation and dynamisation of the play room, the

library and the computer room, bringing in his / her initiatives and the resources of his / her

own culture

- Collaborate in the realization of other activites in the center: workshops, dances, videos,

excursions ... , bringing in his / her personal iniciatives and the resources of his / her own

culture

- Collaborate in the special activities of the center: Magosto (festival of the Chestnut),

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Christmas, Carnival, special festivals and activities of the center, popular holidays ... , bringing

in his / her personal iniciatives and the resources of his / her own culture, for example by

telling about how certain holidays are celebrated in their country or which type of traditions

they have.

- Collaborate with other workers and Spanish volunteers in different activities of distribution

of information about the Youth In Action Program: informative talks, workshops, distributing

leaflets ...

- Offering language help to potential Spanish volunteers who want to participate in the EVS

- Developping a personal project in accordance with his / her personal prelerences, capacities

and skills. As soon as the volunteers know the working process and the general dynamics of

the center, feel at ease with the language and feel self-assured, they will elaborate their own

project. They can count in any moment with the help and the coordination of the specialists

and the rest of the volunteers in the center. These projects can go as far as to organise

activities as theater plays, dances, intercultural exchange, cookery of their country, music,

language ....










solidarity.


intercultural exchange. Moreover we appreciate the education and/or experience in cultural and

free-time activities.


significance. With relemce to the beloresaid, we ask those who are interested in the project to

complete a questionnaire which includes a part for the volunteer and another part for the sending

organisation.

In the part for the volunteer we ask him/her to explain as detailled as possible his/her interests,

motivations, abilities, potentials, etc .. In the part for the sending organisation we ask them to explain

the development of their functions as a sending organisation, which type of support and formation

they give to their volunteers ... We would like that all of the volunteers fill out this cuestionnaire,

well-advised by the responsibles in their sending organisation.


Given the size of the centre and the wide Lumber of users, we Could host up to 5 volunteers.

Prevention of risks and crisis:

The volunteers of the EVS will have the same follow-up of the centre, with frequent reunions of

supervision. In addition to that , we intend to integrate the volunteers as soon as possible in our local

activities and offer them a a tutor and a coordinator who willl guarantee his/her wellbeing.

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Our experience hosting organisation of EVS begins on May 2006. At the moment we have hosted 9

volunteers from Germany, Finland, Turkey, Ukraine" Norway, United Kingdom Luxembourg and

France. The main goal is to improve and promote the knowledge of Europe and the programs

offered to the young people among the local youngsters. We intend to achieve this through an

intercultural exchange with young volunteers from other countries who provide for them different

cultural experiences and thus intiate the participation of the local youngsters in the EVS programs.



existence, Europe. Finally, we consider it very benifical to know different ways of working in the

fields of sociocultural animation and non-formal education in the different countries of the European

Union.


The C. SC. Fontiñas is one of the big sociocultural centers in the municipal of Santiago, which offers

services to the public. It is an up-to date information point about the differnt public services and a

meeting point for the citizens of the district Fontiñas, where they can read the newspaper and take

part in planned activities. The installations offer a administrative part, a room with magazines and

newspapers. playing room, library, cyber room, theater and various other rooms. The team consists

of 10 civil servants of the muncipality of Santiago de Compostela, in addition to other workers and

permament volunteers. We offer activites for children (games, reading activities, handicraft,

languages, workshops ... ), teenagers (chess, ping pong, languages, dancing, sports .. .) and adults

(photography, handicraft, cookery, ballroom dances, languages, yoga .. .) in addition to other open

activites like expositions, video etc .. , as well as local and international holidays (Chestnut-festival,

Christmas, Carnival, Midsummers Day)

Contact Point



Postal code: 15703


Country: Spain


Phone: +34 981 58 22 43

Fax: +34 981 57 02 63



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2012-ES-71 Centro Sociocultural do Castiñeiriño-




Location A Coruña (Spain)


Theme 2

Project environment



Castiñeiriño for the neighbours of the district; for children (play-room, library, languages, puppets,

story telling, handicraft…), teenagers (ping-pong, chess, languages, sports, dancing…), adults

(expositions, dancing, fotography, cookery, yoga, excursions, city-tours…), public activities (journeys,

videos), and activities related to the local and national holidays (Chestnut-Festival, Christmas,

Midsummer´s Day…)



citizens, adults, teenagers and children and could immensly enrich the work of our social center.

Thereby we believe that it would be interesting to offer to the volunteers the posibility to participate

in all the activities of the centre, so that they know the work procedure in general. Little by little

they themselves will determine which tasks correspond most to their skills and preferences and in

the course of time the volunteers will define a timetable which is adapted to their personal


Local community


center of Galicia in which resides the government of the autonomous region of Galicia.

According to the decision of the UNESCO, the city was declared world cultural heritage in 1985 and

was the European Culture Capital in the year of 2000.

Santiago has a population of approximately 95.000 inhabitants, eventhough this population is doubled

if the numerous students and workers without citizenship are taken into account.

The city offers the main university of Galicia, being one of the oldest ones of Spain, a fact which

makes Santiago a young and dynamic city.

In Galicia there are two main languages: Galician and Castillian which exist in perfect harmony

without any problems. The majority of the citizens are bilingual.

The proximity to the ocean implies that the climate in Santiago is pleasant and humid, typical for the

north-east of Spain. Santiago has a long winter with lasting rainfalls and a short summer with pleasant

temperatures.




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previous one.



integration into the activities that already work in the Sociocultural Center Castiñeiriño for the






evaluated.

The Sociocultural Center Castiñeiriño wants to offer to the volunteers the opportunity to:


Learn two foreign languages: Castillian and Galician








them

Develop skills as animator

Support language training to the children, teenagers and adults of the center







development

In particular, the tasks of the volunteers weill be to collaborate with the specialists of the center, the








culture

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leaflets…










The general schedule of the volunteers will be from Tuesday to Saturday, from 25 to 30 weekly

working hours, depending on the hours of the language training and the reunions which are

necessary for planning and evaluating the different activities in which the volunteers will participate. In

addition to that, they will have two free days per week, Sunday and Monday, not taking into account

the holidays of the sociocultural center which coincide with their stay. An example for a schedule

would be:

Tuesday to Friday:

16.00-17.00: Planning, preperation and evaluation of the activities


Saturday


17.00-21.00: Play-room, library, cyber room and other activities of the center

However, we have to add to this schedule the language training, which will take place in the morning

and may vary according to the necessities of the volunteers and the reunions with the team and the

other volunteers.








solidarity.


intercultural exchange.

Moreover we appreciate the education and/or experience in cultural and free-time activities.

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significance.

According to the beforesaid, we ask those, who are interested in the project to fill out a

questionnaire which includes a part for the volunteer in which we ask him to explain in detail his/her

interests, motivations, abilities, potentials, etc.. The part for the sending organisation will include

questions about the working process concerning the support and training the volunteer will receive.

We would like that all of the volunteers will fill out this questionnaire, well-advised by the

responsibles in their hosting organisation.


Given the size of the center and the big number of users of which we dispose, we are able to host up

to 3 volunteers.





mental wellbeing.


Our center belongs to the socio-cultural center of Santiago de Compostela, whos experience as a

hosting organisation began in May 2006.

The main object of the program is to improve and promote the knowledge about Europe and the

offered programs for the young people among the local youth. We reach this through an

intercultural exchange with young volunteers of other countries who provide different cultural

experiences and therefore initiate the participation of the local young people in the EVS-programs.

On the other hand, we are interested in the promotion of the knowledge of and the relationship to

other cultures which are situated in the same context of co-existence- Europe -among the local

youth.

Finally, we consider it beneficial to know about different ways of working in the field of sociocultural

animation and non-formal education, in the different countries of Europe.


The C.SC. Castiñeiriño is one of the big socio-cultural centers in the city council of Santiago which is


services as well as a meeting point for the residents of the district of Castiñeiriño, where they can

read the dailies and take part in the scheduled activities. Concerning the instalations, the center

offers an office block, a room containing newspapers and magazines, a play-roon, a library, a cyber-

room, a theater and various multifunctional rooms.

The team consists of five public servants of the city council of Santiago de Compostela, as well as

two other employees and permament volunteers.

In this context, activities for children (games, reading animation, handicraft, languages, workshops...),

teenagers (chess, ping pong, languages, dancing, sports...) and adults (photography, handicraft,

cookery, danceing, languages, yoga...) are taking place. In addition to that, there are other, open

activities as expositions, video, etc. or activities referring to national and international holidays.

(Magosto / Chestnut-festival, Christmas, Carnival, Midsummer`s Day...)

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Contact Point



Postal code: 15703


Country: Spain


Phone: +34 981 58 22 43

Fax: +34 981 57 02 63



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2012-ES-73 Centro sociocultural de Santa Marta




Location Santiago de Compostela/ A Coruña (Spain)


Theme 2

Project environment

Project environment


of Santa Marta for the neighbours of the district; for children (play-room, library, languages, puppets,

story telling, handicraft…), teenagers (ping-pong, chess, languages, sports, dancing…), adults

(expositions, dancing, fotography, cookery, yoga, excursions, city-tours…), public activities (journeys,

videos), and activities related to the local and national holidays (Chestnut-Festival, Christmas,

Midsummer´s Day…) We believe that the cultural background, the different perspectives and ways

of working which are introduced by an European Volunteer could be very interesting for the

different target groups: senior citizens, adults, teenagers and children and could immensly enrich the

work of our social center. Thereby we believe that it would be interesting to offer to the volunteers

the posibility to participate in all the activities of the centre, so that they know the work procedure

in general. Little by little they themselves will determine which tasks correspond most to their skills

and preferences and in the course of time the volunteers will define a timetable which is adapted to

their personal preferences, with consideration the necessities of the centre.

Local community


center of Galicia en which resides the government of the autonomous region of Galicia. According

to the decision of the UNESCO, the city was declared world cultural heritage in 1985 and was the

European Culture Capital in the year of 2000. Santiago has a population of approximately 95.000

inhabitants, eventhough this population is doubled if the numerous students and workers without

citizenship are taken into account. The city offers the main university of Galicia, being one of the

oldest ones of Spain, a fact which makes Santiago a young and dynamic city. In Galicia there are two

main languages: Galician and Castillian which exist in perfect harmony without any problems. The

majority of the citizens are bilingual. The proximity to the ocean implies that the climate in Santiago

is pleasant and humid, typical for the north-east of Spain. Santiago has a long winter with lasting

rainfalls and a short summer with pleasant temperatures.






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previous one.



integration into the activities that already work in the Sociocultural Center of Santa Marta for the






evaluated.

The Sociocultural Center of Santa Marta offers the volunteers the opportunity to:


Learn two foreign languages: Castillian and Gaician








them

Develop skills as “camp leader”

Help on training languages to the children, teenagers and adults of the center







development

Specifically, the tasks of the volunteers weill be to collaborate with the specialists of the center, the








culture




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leaflets…










The general schedule of the volunteers will be from Tuesday to Saturday, between 25 and 30 weekly

working hours, depending on the hours of their linguistic training and the reunions of planing and

evaluation of the different activities in which they take part. In addition to that, they have two free

days per week, namely Sunday and Monday, not taking into account the additional holidays of the

center which coincide with their stay. An example for a schedule would be:

Tuesday to Friday:

16:00 – 17:00: Planning, preparation and evaluation of the acitivities

17:00 – 21:00: Play Room, Library, Computer Room and other activities of the center

Saturday:







sociocultural center and be able to bring in something new. We are looking for young people who

are able to communicate, who have social skills and are enthusiastic and creative; people with own

initiative and values and ideals of European identity and solidarity.In addition to that, we try to host

volunteers from different countries in order to guarantee the intercultural exchange. Moreover we

appreciate the education and/or experience in cultural and free-time activities.


significance.

According to the beforesaid, we ask those, who are interested in the project to fill out a

questionnaire which includes a part for the volunteer in which we ask him to explain in detail his/her

interests, motivations, abilities, potentials, etc.. The part for the sending organisation will include

questions about the working process concerning the support and training the volunteer will receive.

We would like that all of the volunteers will fill out this questionnaire, well-advised by the

responsibles in their hosting organisation.

Number of volunteers hosted: 3 volunteers.

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mental wellbeing.


Our center belongs to the socio-cultural centres of Santiago de Compostela, whos experience as

hosting organization started in May 2006.

The main goal is to improve and promote the knowledge of Europe and the programs offered to the

young people among the local youngsters. We intend to achieve this through an intercultural

exchange with young volunteers from other countries who provide for them different cultural

experiences and thus intiate the participation of the local youngsters in the EVS programs.



existence, Europe.

Finally, we consider it very benifical to know different ways of working in the fields of sociocultural

animation and non-formal education in the different countries of the European Union.


The C.S.C. Santa Marta is one of the big socio-cultural centers in the city council of Santiago which is


services as well as a meeting point for the residents of the district of Santa Marta, where they can

read the dailies and take part in the scheduled activities. Concerning the instalations, the center

offers an office block, a room containing newspapers and magazines, a play-roon, a library, a cyber-

room, a theater and various multifunctional rooms.

The team consists of ten public servants of the city council of Santiago de Compostela, as well as two

other employees and permament volunteers. In this context, activities for children (games, reading

animation, handicraft, languages, workshops...), teenagers (chess, ping pong, languages, dancing,

sports...) and adults (photography, handicraft, cookery, danceing, languages, yoga...) are taking place.

In addition to that, there are other, open activities as expositions, video, etc. or activities referring to

national and international holidays. (Magosto / Chestnut-festival, Christmas, Carnival, Midsummer`s

Day...)

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Contact Point


Address: Rúa Belvís 2

Postal code: 15703


Country: Spain


Phone: +34981582243

Fax: +34981570263

Contact: Mr Victor Mosquera


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2011-ES-93 Confederación de Centros Juveniles Don Bosco

de España-




Location Valencia (Spain)



Inclusion Cultural differences, Disability


We consider that young people are the main builders of Europe; in order to build an Open and

without barriers Europe, we think that it should be pomoted this kind of actions which contributeto

multicultural learning, though an active partizipation.

The Confederación de Centros Juveniles Don Bosco España is formed by 9 federations with regional

offices, counting with about 2500 volunteers who do, in their own youth centers, volunteering

activities based in the Non-formal education in the Leisure Time area. Therefore, we manage a wide

youth population who really want to live the experience of helping kids and youngsters. Our activities

fit perfectly with Youth in Action Program in its diverse actions and above all, the participation in the

EVS projects, sending and coordinating hosting projects

Regarding our international experience, we are one of the founding members of the Don Bosco

Youth Net, created in 2001 and formed by youth associations of 13 european different countries.

This fact has allowed us to be in contact with young volunteers that carry out the same activities as

we do and to build numerous projects in common promoting active citizenship in our volunteers and

beneficiaries.

Our first experience was the hosting of a Slovene girl in our organization in 2001. As a consequence

of the great positive experience of this hosted volunteer and the repercussion in our associations,

themselves dared to host other volunteers, and a lot of animators of our association were motivated

to start experiences abroad.

Since then, we have hosted volunteers and students doing work experience for periods that went

from a couple of weeks to a whole year in different projects, in our Central Office as well as in our

local and regional offices; but away from the European Voluntary Service Program. Our associations

in the local level participate hosting volunteers in a continuous way, and they have done it in the past,

hosting youngsters with fewer opportunities in their summer camps, for periods of three weeks. As a

national association, we support them in every initiative and we make a continuous follow-up,

facilitating sources and communication, furthermore, being in the Don Bosco Youth Net, made and

makes easier to get contacts and a list of stable projects in common.

Nevertheless, we consider in a very positive way the opening and sending of volunteers to other

countries out of Europe, but supporting and continuing the started path till now in Europe. Is because

of this reason that we wish to continue promoting all the possibilities of the Youth in Action

Program, and of the action 2, the European Volunteer Service, in particular, integrating volunteering

experiences in a wider framework, creating stables networks between different organizations in

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order to share experiences, sources, methodologies… In general, exchanging good practices. It will

be positive if we also raise youngsters’ awareness of the importance of participating in the Youth In

Action Program framework and we make possible that they could develop new projects in the same

framework.

Since we obtained the sending and hosting accreditation in 2008, we have sent volunteers to different

countries for short terms EVS: Belgium, Netherlands from 2 weeks to 2 months; as well as long term

EVS, up to a whole year in UK, Poland, Germany; indeed, in 2011 we have signed 3 sending long term

volunteers and 4 for a short term.

Thus, from 2001 till last year, numerous youngsters have been able to enjoy a volunteering

experience abroad, this is why we would like to continue this way, given that results have been

widely satisfactory. Both directions experiences are being widely positives and enriching and they

motivate young people of the local associations to know new and different realities.

All this experience motivate us to apply for being a coordinating organization because we will

guarantee a continuous and personalized follow-up of each volunteer, being responsible of establish

and keep personal direct contact, via email, phone, skype… in every phase of the project,

preparation, development and evaluation with young volunteers, responsibles - tutors and contact

persons. Likewise, we’ll facilitate and guarantee to each volunteer safety and suitable living and

working conditions during the whole period of the activity: Accommodation, volunteer’s activities,

appropriate formation (languages and all about the volunteering) and the closer presence of the

professionals. They will have, as well, a specialized direct support and a personal formation certified

by our organization for the carrying out of his tasks besides a personal and linguistic support.

Our Organization will be the responsible of the administrative follow-up of the project and the

coordination of it with all the partners, we’ll manage the payment of the different quantities of the

grant sharing it by means of banking deposits in our partners’ account, likewise, we’ll take charge of

the update of an account book where will be reflected each cost of the carrying out of the project,

available to any of the partners who’d like to ask for it. The management of the expenses will be

taken care by the responsible of the project and the Administrative Department of our organization,

who will report in three moments of the Project: In the Reception of the grant (sending of the

quantities to the volunteers), in the Intermediate Evaluation (if it’s a long-term one) and at the end of

the project

.


Confederacíon de Centros Juveniles Don Bosco Spain is an organization based in the social education

in the leisure time who is being active for 20 years now. With the youth centres, it tries to promote

and support new ways of action, information and financing for activities developed by the local and

regional associations. Inside the mission of the organization, the core value is the social promotion of

the children and youngsters of Spain, developing educational activities based in recreational and

cultural animation procedures. Likewise, Confederación Don Bosco knows that its educational action

forms part of the Prevention, developing youth policies and participating in a coordinating way with

institutions and organizations who carry out projects for young people. Due to this, Non-formal

education is basic for us in every project including Youth in Action’ ones, those which we want to

promote. The base of the Don Bosco organizations is always a volunteering movemente, understood

not only as an ocupational activity in the leisure time, but also as commitment of solidarity with the

nowadays social necessities.

Confederación Don Bosco is meber of

CJE (Youth Spanish Board)

POI (Childhood’s Organizations Plattform)

DBYN (Don Bosco Youth Net)

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International Area is one of the work-areas inside Confederación de Centros Juveniles Don Bosco.

The European promotion of the educational aims of the different Federations and local associations is

one of our prurposes.

Therefore, the main work plan of this area, for last years and henceforth, is focused in get Europe

closer to our youngsters with the aim of promoting inside them attitudes of acceptance, integration

and support to diversity, particularly in the European Union frame and being facilitators of

intercultural experiences which enrich young people.

Moreover, Non-Formal Learning is one of the main topics in all our projects, and thanks to Youth in

Action projects is given to us the possibility of the recognition of some abilities we’ve worked on for

long using the opportunities that Youthpass is offering.

Confederación Don Bosco is a charter member of Don Bosco Youth Net, an European organization

who works with the objective of create an European network with organizations from 13 different

countries who work for young people. This network gives us the opportunity to have a platform for

the development of European activities, such as exchanges and seminars, languages courses,

volunteering activities…

The aims of the International Area are:

1. To Report and Spread of participation opportunities, inside the Youth Program of our

federations and youth centers; and support the process of presentation, manage and evaluation

for those projects.

To develop social and human abilities in the volunteers who participate in the different programs

and international activities

2. To educate critic people with the society they’re living at and raise their awareness of their

important role as the main figures of the European citizenship.

3. To Promote through our european projects the Exchange of Good Practices and the continuous

learning of our volunteers in cooperation with other european volunteers, in order to improve

their educational activities with the beneficiaries.

Contact Point

Organisation: Confederación de Centros Juveniles Don Bosco de España

Address: Avenida Primado Reig, 6

Postal code: 46009

Town: Valencia

Country: Spain


Phone: 963656988

Fax: 963664872

Contact: Mr Angel Gudiña Canicoba


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2010-ES-88 Escola de Tempo Libre e Animación

Socicultural Don Bosco







Project environment


he Centre Don Bosco, founded in 1978, and located in the Rua Belvis, 2, in Santiago de Compostela,

has two basic entities: The "Escola de tempo libre e animación sociocultural Don Bosco" (School of

free time and socio-cultural animation). It focusses on activities related to training in social and

leisure fields. It offers official degree courses, monographic courses, etc. Target group: young people.

In addition since 2000 it has an Information and Advice Office for the volunteer called "A punto",

which provides consulting services to any organisation related to volunteering, it is flexible, useful

and efficient, and offers its services for free. Since the year 2000 the Escuela acts as an EVS host,

sending and coordinating organisation.

The "Centro Juvenil Don Bosco" (Youth Centre) has a complete and comprehensive offer of

activities, with the main aim to educate in values by means of leisure for children and youngsters

from the district, the city and the neighbouring towns. It presents many resources, achieved through

the years: a toy library, a library for children and young people, computers' room, sports fields,

climbing wall, leisure groups, football teams,...

Its aim is to educate in values through leisure.

Due to its different offer, the centre is linked to other local, regional and national entities: Federation

of Youth Centres Don Bosco in Galicia, Town Council of Santiago de Compostela, Government of

Galicia and Federación Didania.

Regular activities:

The volunteer will participate in the leisure activities carried out at the Centro Juvenil Don Bosco in

Santiago, for children and youth of the city area: information and advice office for volunteering and

young people, lending of materials for consultation, activities for the dissemination of the YiA

Programme, toy library, library, school support, computers room, radio broadcast, café-bar, sports

fields, workshops, leisure groups for children and young people, chestnut party, Christmas activities,

trips to the beach, city camp, summer camp, summer camping for little ones, etc.

Local Community:

The municipality of Santiago de Compostela is located in Galicia. It is the seat of the government of

the Autonomous Community. The city was declared World Cultural Heritage in 1985 by the

UNESCO, and in 2000 it has been European Capital of Culture 2000. Santiago has an approximate

population of 95,000 inhabitants; this population becomes doubled if we take into account all the

students and workers not registered. The city has the main University in Galice and one of the oldest

in Spain, which makes Santiago a young and dynamic city. In Galicia there are two official languages,

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Galician and Spanish, which co-exist in harmony without problems. Most of the inhabitants are

bilingual. Proximity to the sea means that the weather in Santiago is pleasant and humid, typical in the

northwest of Spain, with a long, rainy Winter and a short, mild Summer.


Aim of hosting a European volunteer: · promote the knowledge of Europe and youth programmes

among the youth of Santiago de Compostela, specifically, and Galicia, in general.

On the other hand, we consider it interesting to promote among European youth the knowledge and

relation with other cultures living in the same area, Europe.

We also find it very enriching to know different ways of working in the field of leisure in different

countries of the EU.

As this is a centre for youth, the presence of young volunteers will contribute to a greater diversity

and richness of our activities.

Specifically, the volunteers will carry out the following tasks:

Collaborate with staff and volunteers in Don Bosco in the up-date and spreading of information

about courses, activities, grants, seminars,…

Collaborate with staff and volunteers in the different dissemination campaigns concerning the YiA

Programme: giving out of brochures, round tables, courses, information tables,…

Collaborate with the team and other volunteers giving information about the YiA Programme

(exchanges, EVS,…).

Collaborate with other volunteers in activities at the leisure room, library, computers' room and

youth room: school support, games, reading, workshops,…

Collaborate with other volunteers in the special activities at the centre: folk celebrations,

Magosto, Christmas, summer camps, trips, folk feasts,…

Participate, with other volunteers, in the programming and assessment of the activities:

preparation of material, search of resources,...

Collaborate with staff and volunteers in lending resources for organisations and volunteers.

Carry out a personal project related with any of the activities of the Centre Don Bosco,

according to preferences, abilities and skills.

Time of participation: from Monday to Friday, 30 hours/week.

Volunteers will participate with the staff and volunteers in programming and assessment of the

activities in which they participate.

Once feeling confident, they will carry out a personal project.

July and August: participation time-table of volunteer will be adapted to the activities: sea-side

and mountain camps, urban camp,…

Socio-cultural training: 1.5 hours/month.

Two free days/week: Sunday/Monday; holidays: free.

Holidays: 2 days / month of project. 24 days in a 12-month project, which may be taken together

or distributed in different periods: Christmas, Easter, Summer,... In agreement with the people in

charge of the centre.


We don't have a specific profile, though motivation is very positively assessed.


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The EVS volunteers will have the same monitoring as our local volunteers, with frequent

accompaniment meetings. Furthermore, they will be integrated as soon as possible in our local

activity and will have a mentor and a coordinator in all activities who will guarantee their physical and

mental welfare.

In general the documents available at the host organisation are:

Contact phone number in country of origin (and fax, if possible) and contact details.

Terms of the insurance and phone number of the insurance company (AXA card, conditions and

coverage).

Personal details of volunteers and passport numbers.

Address and phone number of the nearest embassy of sending country.

Phone number of urgency services.

We will establish a structure, of easy access to volunteers and all sending and host organisations will

designate a contact person in case of urgency cases.

The EVS mentor has some specific responsibilities regarding the prevention of risks and the

management of crisis, as well as the rest of the staff in the organisation.

The mentor shall be informed, at every moment, even during leisure, where volunteers are. In case

of emergency, volunteers may contact their mentor to her mobile phone.


Our experience with EVS started in 2000: acting as a sending organization, we also have experience

as a host organisation (2005-ES-90 and 2007-ES-112) and as a coordinating organisation (currently,

we have the following projects running 2009-ES-15, 2009-ES-16, 2009-ES-17, 2009-ES-18). All the

projects take place in Santigo de Compostela, except for project 2009-ES-15, in Los Tilos, 4.5 kms.

away from Santiago. Up till now we have hosted 88 volunteers and sent 49.

In 2010 we have also coordinated project number 1684842-ES-2009-R3, "Eu Camiño", with 30

European volunteers in different parts of the Jacob's Way.

Our work consists on informing and preparing volunteers to take part in EVS. We provide them with

theory training about their stay, their rights and responsibilities as well as cultural information about

the hosting country. We also provide them with psychological and emotional preparation to be

prepared for a cultural shock, for this we put them in touch wit ex-volunteers who can share with

them their experiences and motivate them and prepare them for the future voluntary work.

As a coordinating organisation we collaborate with organisations that host EVS volunteers with the

management tasks. We also organise training seminars for sending and at arrival, act as consultants

for associations with their projects and give advice to volunteers. We are an information reference

point and of consulting about this Action 2 and the other actions of the Youth in Action Programme.

As coordinating organisation we assume the responsibility of keeping in direct contact (via e-mail, fax,

and other urgent communication systems like telephone, fax, Messenger, etc.) with all working

groups in EVS projects (volunteers, responsible people and/or contact people of sending

organisations and organisations working regularly with us). We will ensure that the volunteers have

secure and appropriate living and working conditions during their activity period, living in a place

according to their age and taste: flat shared by volunteers; participation in dynamic activities for

young people: leisure activities, camps, language classes. They will count with the close presence of

qualified people in tasks which may be difficult, and a group of professionals of similar age who, apart

from their mentor, will be guides who will help them to integrate in the new Spanish culture. They

will be directly supported and receive individual, certified training to carry out their tasks, they will

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have a mentor for the whole period, from recruitment to the return to the country of origin and the

end of the project.

We are responsible for the administrative management and coordination of the project with all

members; we will pay corresponding grant amounts by bank deposits in the accounts of the partners;

we will keep accountancy with all the costs of the project which any partner may look at during the

project and years after it, as established in the Guide and EVS regulations.

The management of the costs will be done by the responsible of the project and the Administrative

service of our organisation, who will formally inform in three moments of the project: reception of

grant, sending of corresponding amounts to partners (travelling costs and sending activity costs);

intermediate evaluation, as established by the Programme for long term activities; and, at the end of

the project, with a copy of the separate costs included in the final report.


The centre Don Bosco is composed by two basic units: A Escola de Tempo Libre e Animación

Sociocultural Don Bosco (Leisure and Entertainment School Don Bosco) centred around activities of

social scope and free time, and the Youth Centre Don Bosco, with a complete offer of activities

aimed at educating in values through leisure, children and young people of the neighbourhood, the

city and nearby towns.

In addition since 2000 the Escuela de Tiempo Libre has and Information and Advice Office for the

volunteer called "A punto", which provides consulting services to any organisation related to

volunteering, it is flexible, useful and efficient, and offers its services for free. Since the year 2000 the

Escuela acts as an EVS host, sending and coordinating organisation.

The regular activities in the Centre Don Bosco in Santiago for children and young people of the

neighbourhood are: information and advice office for volunteering and young people, lending of

materials for consultation, activities for the dissemination of the YiA Programme, toy library, library,

school support, computers room, radio broadcast, café-bar, sports fields, workshops, leisure groups

for children and young people, chestnut party, Christmas activities, trips to the beach, city camp,

summer camp, summer camping for little ones, etc.

Contact Point



Postal code: 15703


Country: Spain


Phone: +34 981 58 22 43

Fax: +34 981 57 02 63

Contact: Ms Lara Rives Busto


International network

represented in

13 European countries www.donboscoyouth.net

Mission statement DBYN

We, the partners of Don Bosco Youth-Net, wish to contribute to the total development of all young people by bringing

them together through various international activities. We hereby look to broaden the opportunities for these young people who are, through various reasons, excluded. By concrete activities of co-operation, we wish to be a living example

of tolerance and mutual understanding.

Through our own Salesian identity, we aim to keep the heritage of Don Bosco alive and look to offer a ‘youthful voice’ in the Europe of today. By doing this, we want to make a real difference in the lives of all young people, especially for those

most in need.

Austria

www.jugendeinewelt.at

Belgium

www.jeugddienstdonbosco.be

Czech Republic

mladez.sdb.cz/sadba/

Germany

www.aktionszentrum.de

Italy

www.federazionescs.org

Ireland

www.salesians.ie

Malta

www.spysmalta.org

Poland

www.donbosco.pl

Slovakia

www.domka.sk

Slovenia

www.mladinski-ceh.si

Spain

www.confedonbosco.org

The Netherlands

www.donbosco.nl

United Kingdom

www.salesianyouthministry.com

http://www.jugendeinewelt.at/

http://www.jeugddienstdonbosco.be/

http://mladez.sdb.cz/sadba/

http://www.aktionszentrum.de/

http://www.federazionescs.org/

http://www.salesians.ie/

http://www.spysmalta.org/

http://www.donbosco.pl/

http://www.domka.sk/

http://www.mladinski-ceh.si/

http://www.confedonbosco.org/

http://www.donbosco.nl/

http://www.salesianyouthministry.com/

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