The project ON THE ROAD FOR SAFE SEX will mainly take place in Brussels and Flanders.
The national secretariat is situated in Brussels. Brussels is a multi-cultural city of about 1 million inhabitants. It is official bi-lingual (French and Dutch) part of Belgium, but a lot of languages are spoken in Brussels, thanks to the multi-cultural, European and international dimensions of the city. Thanks to its heterogeneous population, Brussels is one of the places to be in Europe, being the scene of many cultural and social events and the place where many important political decisions are being taken.
Flanders is the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, with about 6 million inhabitants. Flanders has 6 provinces and a lot of places and interesting cities to visit.
The volunteer will stay in Brussels so that he/she can live close to the project (± 20min by public transport) and experience the life in the capital. The volunteer will have an individual room in a house were local young people are living.
Learning opportunities:
As we working in different fields (health, leisure, information,…), EVS volunteers can get a lot of opportunities to engage themselves for the project in which they can increase motivation for volunteerism as well as increasing competences and knowledge in the field of youth work and health promotion and communication.
Besides the intercultural learning aspect, the volunteer can benefit from the trainings organized for the animators, in which he/she also can participate. As the volunteer will be involved in the MJA-projects, and as we offer also the possibility to engage in a personal project, the volunteer can have a lot of learning opportunities on the level of national and international project management.
And as we are a quite big organization, the volunteer can increase also skills on the level of organisational management.

The role of the EVS-volunteers at MJA:
The volunteer will, as main activity, contribute to the good preparation and running of the CondoTour by giving the necessary and adequate information, about safe sex, to the youngsters present on the festivals. For this he/she will get the necessary training from MJA.
Next to the main activity, We also expect the volunteer to participate in our national and international health promotion. The volunteer will have the possibility to help us in the development of our current health projects and to promote our existing projects for young people.
The input of the volunteer will also be expected in the international initiatives. As MJA is constantly participating and elaborating international projects, it's important that the volunteer can give his opinion and participate to the creation of these projects.

The Volunteer's Activities:

CONDOTOUR
First, we have our CondoTour which will be the main activity: we literally go on the road with our Van and bikes, to places where young people are during the summer (youth houses, festivals,…). There we give information about safe sex and even distribute condoms.
At the CondoTour, the international volunteer comes in contact with our local volunteers. In this way, we think the participation of an international volunteer would be interesting for both parties.
We have 2 condoVans ("condomobiel").
This project is runned with one of the 2 van's we have. With this Van, we go to the a festival tour. We have several big festivals in Belgium where the condovan will be present. For the EVS volunteer, the CondoTour gives the possiblity to see quite some places in Flanders (outside of Brussels) since the tour is going where young people are during the summer (on festivals). Going along on this CondoTour also means the volunteer has the opportunity to meet a lot of young Belgians and also quite some of our Belgian volunteers.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
The volunteer will be implicated in the international initiatives. She will have the opportunity to help us in the preparation and organization of our training course and youth exchanges where we are sending our volunteers to and to all the different international projects we have.

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL YOUTH HEALTH PROMOTION
Concerning the regional activities, there is a variety of activities and projects that the volunteer will contribute to, like a training activity for the youth health workers, a training course for team leaders for exchanges, the existing health promotion, …

OPTION FOR A PERSONAL PROJECT
Besides this there is space for other activities as well as a personal project. This project can be a national or international activity within the philosophy of youth work and/or youth health promotion.
The volunteers have to be between 18 and 30 years old (as mentioned in the Youth in Action Programme) at the beginning of their voluntary activity.
Personal interest and motivation, as well for youth health promotion as for youth work will be very important, but no specific knowledge or skill are required.
The volunteer should be interested in working in a youth organisation, in international youth work, in the context of non-formal education, to work with youth and to work in the field of health, as well in the broad sense of the word, as in the specific context of sexual and reproductive health.

We aim to find a multiplication effect in terms of increasing of the motivation to work in the field of international youth work, and specifically in Youth in Action.

How we will foresee the "vacant EVS placement":

Besides the database from which we receive spontaneous reactions, the project will also be announced by email lists (in total about 20 email groups), to the people that showed interest in the past, and by the website www.action2.be.

The volunteer will be selected according to the candidates' motivation, interest, learning possibilities, intercultural learning aspect.

How we will select the volunteer(s) among the candidates and how we will ensure the openness and transparency of the recruitment process:

To ensure the openness and transparency of the recruitment process, different levels of selection and persons will be involved. Selection will be made by: EVS collaborator, the EVS-coordinator of MJA, the director, the responsible of the CondoTour, and in close consultation with the EVS mentors.

First each member of selection team will read all applications and make a selection of the different profiles of the candidate-volunteers.
After that the selection team will organize a meeting where they will discuss upon the selected applications and make a final selection.
The final selection of the volunteer will be made according to the further information and interest that the volunteer will share, as well as the availability of the volunteer (as the procedure is taking time, some of the volunteers have found already another project in the mean time).
With this selection at different levels, we believe we will realise a good matchmaking.

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=18000246601