The organisation runs a broad range of support measures for children and adults with handicaps. The volunteer has the opportunity to get to know different responsibilities and offers for handicapped people or for families with handicapped children. In addition to school support, the hosting organisation offers further activities and support measures, e.g. the "Café Heckerswiesen". During the summer holidays, special holidays games are offered.

The volunteer has the opportunity to get to know different responsibilities and offers for handicapped people or for families with handicapped children. The main focus of the voluntary service will be put on the support of a multiply handicapped child at school. Usually, between six and eight children are taught in one class. During the lessons, the volunteer helps the child with writing, reading, playing, but also with its meals, using the bathroom or putting on nappies. Apart from the regular school lessons, each child needs special treatment such as ergotherapy, exercise therapy, physiotherapy and others. The treatment takes place within the school schedule so that the volunteer has the opportunity to get to know these different methods of treatment.
In the context of school support as well as in the field of leisure activities, the volunteer is welcome to develop his or her own ideas and focuses and use these to enrich the hosting organisation's variety of leisure and support acitivities.

The candidate should be between 18-30 years. It is important that the volunteer should be ready to get in touch with people with special needs, should be interested in education and sensitivity regarding the needs of the children. He/she should be open to integrate into the hosting organisation and have a certain commitment to the idea of volunteering. Although it is not necessary that he/she is already acquainted with working in an NG-Organisation, previous experiences in volunteering activities and/or NGO's will be very helpful. The volunteer should have a basic knowledge of German.
First of all we inform organisations with whom we had previous partnerships or contact about vacancies. If volunteers or sending organisations ask about vacancies they are generally informed within one week about vacancies and the time schedule of selection. In case that we don't have any candidate we contact our National Agency for support.
If a volunteer hands in his application we contact him or her first of all in most cases via e-mail to give him/her a first feed-back and to clear possibly remaining questions. Every suitable application is discussed with the responsible in the project and we then arrange a telephone interview with the volunteer candidate to get e personal impression. We encourage him to contact the project and/or the actual volunteer to get to know more about it. After this contact we make the final decision and inform the volunteer about the outcome and if there had been previous contact also the sending organisation.
During the above described selection process we already match the volunteers profile and interests with the activity by giving all sides the opportunity to know as much about the each othert as possible. Along with this we already develop a personal schedule for the volunteers acitivity and a perspective what his/her specific contribution to the project might be.