A. Project environment: profile of the organisation and local community
Catholic Culture Centre "Windmill" is a non-governmental educational institution providing after-school activities. It is located in Fordon district, ca. 15 kilometres from the centre of Bydgoszcz town. Fordon is occupied by over 80 thousands people. There is no cinema, theatre, or any other cultural entertainment in Fordon. The target group of the centre's work are children and teenagers, however adults may take part in almost all of the activities as well.
Our main aim is to support the psychical and physical development of children and teenagers. We provide entertainment in many fields - education, culture, tourism, sport, music, art, etc. regardless physical and mental differences as well as the financial status. We also provide activities for disabled people. Many children's parents, who participate in classes in the "Windmill", cannot afford to pay regular fees. During the current school year, the "Windmill" has been offering the regular after-school activities for more than 600 participants per week. Our offer covers 38 sections and evening classes: sports (football, tennis, chess, aerobic, dance lessons, rhythmic), theatre groups, kindergarten club, music and art classes, classes for disabled and ill people, anti-drug workshops and other meetings.
CCC "Windmill" provides Kindergarten Club for children between 3 and 5 years old. Once a week Club for Young Mothers is organized. About 10 mothers with babies meet, talk, play.
Our activities include also occasional events (performances, competitions, meetings once a month) - these are attended by a few thousands of children and teenagers during the last year. These events were addressed to the citizens of Bydgoszcz, however some of them were of regional or countrywide range. The purpose of our work is to offer children and teenagers the opportunity to discover and develop their talents and - at the same time - to protect them of dangerous social processes leading to depravation and pathology.
We also have groups of regional volunteers. Because of the huge enquiry and the big amount of children, youth, disabled and ill people who attend our classes, we would like to invite international volunteers to join us and to work together with us for needed people.
Bydgoszcz is a quite big town (ca. 400.000 inhabitants). It is over 650 years old. The biggest problems of citizens of Bydgoszcz town are difficult economic situation, high unemployment (ca. 25%), and poverty. The economy is not developing as well as it would be wished. Now that the factories are old and unused, many workers are unemployed. In Bydgoszcz there is an adequate public transportation - bus, taxi, train, tram. 30 kilometers outside of Bydgoszcz start the Tucholskie Forests. It is a beautiful place, unpolluted with fresh air and very good ecological conditions.

B. Proposed activities for EVS volunteers
We would like to meet new volunteers, to take advantage of their individual skills, to exchange experiences and to give them the opportunity to develop themselves. We want the volunteers to show us different traditions, religions, customs, practices, histories, architecture, art, language, kitchen, daily life etc. and in exchange they will get to know the Polish culture. Together with the volunteers we want to extend and develop the offer for the people who need help. We want to give our volunteers the feeling that they are important and needed for the people they take care of. Volunteers will have the opportunity to learn from our experiences and wisdom They will help children, youth, disabled and ill people. We are open for volunteers' own ideas and initiatives while thinking of the way of organizing and preparing their classes, meetings and work. We will appreciate if volunteers have also theirs own ideas for organizing activities in any part of the project. We would like to build this project together with volunteers. Moreover we expect to expand our activities during the volunteers visit.
The host organization guarantees the possibility to participate in different activities named in the contract with the sending organization.
The volunteers will help full time workers. They will work with competent staff.

TASK 1 - WORKING WITH CHIDREN AND YOUTH
The volunteer's tasks will be:
- to accompany children in their various activities
- to prepare theme workshops, interesting games
- to help in carrying on workshops for children
- to assist and be responsible for some local projects and initiatives (cultural evenings, exhibitions, sport events, art, kitchen)
- to organize leisure time activities for children and youth (including excursion and promenades)
- to take part in different games with children
- to assist the children with their school exercises, play with them
- to help in looking after children during the entertainment (trips, matches)
- to prepare games, own ideas and materials if needed

C.Volunteer profiles and recruitment process
The volunteers should be open-mined persons, who would like to meet new people, countries and cultures. They should be interested in the work with children, youth and disabled people. Volunteers should be flexible, creative and communicative. It will be an advantage, if the volunteers have experiences in national culture, social and youth work.
During the recruitment process we will cooperate with our co-ordinating organization The "Windmill" Foundation. On the beginning the volunteers will be put in contacts with the other volunteers (students and GPS groups), other young people in our organization and will be encouraged to join local cultural events. Volunteers will learn how to work in the office, as well as what's the administration and personal structure in our organization. During this time we want them to take part in intensive polish language classes.
The volunteers will work 5 days a week (from Monday to Friday). The Working day for the volunteer will be about 7-8 hours long.Weekends: the volunteers normally have Saturdays and Sundays free for sightseeing and taking part in cultural activities. Volunteers are free to spend this time on their own wishes and preferences. All national and Church holidays are supposed to be free for the volunteers. We would also like to give them a free period which they can also use for travelling.
There will be exceptions when they are part of a team, organizing a holiday trip or summer or winter camp for people with disabilities or children and youth that has program activities over the weekend. In this case the volunteers will get other days off to compensate.The volunteers will have the opportunity to visit the main cities of Poland.
We are open to cooperate with any sending organization.

E. Risk prevention, safety and protection
Volunteers will take part in the job training and Health and Safety Course. We familiarise them with the Health and Safety at Work Act in the place of accommodation, kitchen and workplaces. Every volunteer will have a personal mentor and they will be in contact all the time.
In CCC "Windmill" safe living and working environment is guaranteed. Safety and protection of staff and youth is the most important for us.
The competent staff is responsible for children, youth and disabled people. A volunteer helps full-time worker but he/she doesn't bear responsibility.
He/she will not stay alone with children or disabled people. We plan to organize for volunteers a preparing to work in our organization.

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