Project environment:
Nicolai for Børn is situated in the center of Kolding city. Kolding is a Danish seaport located at the head of Kolding Fjord in Region Syddanmark (Region of Southern Denmark). It is the site of the council Kolding Municipality. It is a transportation, commercial, and manufacturing centre, and has numerous industrial companies, principally geared towards shipbuilding. The manufacturing of machinery and textiles and livestock export are other economically significant activities.
With a population of c. 86,000, the Kolding municipality is the seventh largest in Denmark. The city itself has 55,596 inhabitants (2008).
Kolding is famous for its design school - a progressive and internationally oriented school that plays its part in putting Danish design and design competency on the world map. Designskolen Kolding is one of the leading Danish design institutions, with a long tradition for educating some of the country's best designers who go on to work in both national and international contexts.

Proposed activities for EVS volunteers:
The volunteer will work together with local professional artists and designers and learn from them. He or she will also learn about projectmanagement. We also offer a good network with a lot of creative and enthusiastic people.
In the future we will be working on a special project called "Childrens culture and integration"
The aim of the project is to create "meetings" between different kinds of cultures of children and make them understand the difference. It is also a meeting with professional art and culture. The participants of the project are children between 2 and 12 years old.
The project takes its start in the culture house "Nicolai for Børn, but will also tour in the southern part of Denmark.
The volunteer will take part in this project as well as in the daily work in the culture house. The tasks of the volunteer can be both administrative and practical according to the interest, abilities and qualifications of the volunteer.

Host family
AFS will provide a host family for the volunteer. The life in a host family will facilitate the integration in the local community and will accelerate the process of both language and intercultural learning.
The volunteer will be invited to social events arranged by the AFS's local chapters together with other volunteers, exchange students and host families.

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:
We are looking for a man or a woman prefarably between 18 and 28 years old.
We would be happy to recieve a person with a special talent (dance, performance, art, design or something else) and who would like to develop this talent working with children
We are also looking for a person who really likes children and who can be open and tolerant towards their culture and their religion. The volunteer must also be responsibel and proactive.
The volunteer must be able to speak English at a conversational level.

Risk prevention, protection and safety:
Nicolai for Børn complies with Danish safety regulations. The work in the house does not involve any special risks.

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