A.
The Boxcamp gives directionless youth with violence, aggression ad addiction problems the chance to learn new values and a different structure of life outside their current surroundings and to integrate these into their daily lives. The Boxcamp offers the youth a framework in which they can learn to deal with their aggression and in addition gain a feeling for fairness, self-discipline, boundaries and rules.
The Boxcamp offers other sporting acitvities too, e.g. runners training, basketball and football and leisure activities like joint excursions.
The Boxcamp club is an open space where young people can communicate and to exchange views. They always find someone to talk about everyday problems and sorrows and the Boxcamp provides support in developping solutions and strategies by means of single or group sessions.
The volunteer will be instructed by the head of the Boxcamp Peter Gräber. The Integration into the project should enable the volunteer to practice tolerance and to acquire personal independence. The broad range of sporting and leisure time activities provide a setting that makes it easy for the volunteer to orientate and integrate quickly.
Among the sporting acitvities the volunteer will be given the opportunity to attend measures of Youth and Social work.
The volunteer will live in a shared appartment with other EVS-volunteers and will have the chance to have an intercultural exchange. In equal measure tolerance and mutual respect will be fostered and required.

B.
The EVS project is directed to youth who want to use the experience abroad in the EVS to make something out of it themselves. A European volunteer can be included in the work of the Boxcamp and at the same time train in sport. The project is also suitable for disadvantaged youth.
There is the option taking part in a training leader qualification. The EVS project is directed to youth who want to use the experience abroad in the EVS to make a commitment and to experience themselves in a different cultural surrounding. The European volunteer can be included in the work of the Boxcamp and at the same time train in sport. The project is also suitable for disadvantaged youth. The integration in the Boxcamp project should help the volunteer to learn tolerance and independence. As well as sporting activities the measures in the area of youth social work can be accompanied.
The volunteer should participate in the following Boxcamp activities: team meeting, bar duty, organisation, creation, assignment, work organisation, organisation of the training and particular offers (fitness, running meeting, stamina boxing), training together with the youth
The volunteer can be involved in all the Boxcamp activities. Personal wishes or demands will be considered if possible. The volunteer can cooperate in the preparation of leisure activities (holiday programmes, trips etc) or competitions. The staff also provides other social support for the young people who regularly come to the Boxcamp e.g. in looking for a flat, work matters, debt advice etc. Depending on interests and skills of the volunteers they can introduce their own ideas to the Boxcamp and the accompanying social offer.We plan for the volunteer to train together with the youth (e.g. running meeting, boxing or cheerleading). The youth support each other, younger learn from older.
Occasional weekend activities e.g. sport events, competitions. Once a month participation in the 'Youth' work meeting of the Internationaler Bund (IB) in Kassel.
The tasks may vary according to the skills and interests of the volunteer.
If the volunteer is interested in developing an own project e.g. preparation and running of a sporting event e.g. a competition, then the ideas and cooperation with the host organisation and administrator will be discussed in detail and the volunteer given where possible the necessary support for the realisation of their own ideas.
The volunteer is a member of the staff and therefore a kind of role-model for the youngsters.

C.
The candidate should be between 18-30 years. It is important that the volunteer should be ready to get in touch with young people, should be interested in sports and physical education 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.
No special skills are required for getting involved into the IB volunteering programs. As above mentioned the volunteer should be sportive and dispose of German. Besides as he/she is going to work with young migrants he/she should be open to this target group.

D.
The IB Kassel and respectively the Boxcamp provides an establishes network of professional youth and social workers who are trained and experienced in working with disadvantaged youth and we can therefore provide an intense support and mentoring of the volunteer.

E.
Volunteers will be given advice on crisis prevention and management during on-arrival training. They will also be provided with 24 hour emergency phone numbers. The Co-ordinating organisation will hold all necessary personal information and emergency contact details for each volunteer.
We have acknowledged the results and respect the recommendations of the Working Group on Risk Prevention and Crisis Management about European Voluntary Service.

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