Saerbeck is a small place in the near of the cities Münster and Osnabrück (approx. 30 km in the distance) with its wide-ranging cultural offers. Saerbeck lies in the near of the international airport Münster/Osnabrück. Among other free-time-activities like riding horses, playing golf, go hiking is also a big sport offer in clubs very popular.
Saerbeck is, what one can understand with the word "village". An accumulation of houses, which haven´t blocked the look to the landscape around yet. An assembly of people, who are still having the look for the nature and the neighbours. In short: A municipality, where solidarity and community still count.
This solidarity and community is the basic for a well working Multi-Generation-House. The Kolpingfamily Saerbeck e.V. will adopt from 207 on the multi-generation-house, which is supported by the federal family ministry. The municipality of Saerbeck is renovating the "old townhall", in which the MGH will be placed.
Every day young and old people of our municipality meet there, to take up the different offers. The four life-ages Childhood/ Youth, adults, adults about 50 years and senior citizens can teach other generations and also learn something of them. They are offering offers, which relieve and move something, they help each other beyond the boundaries of their own generation. The division of labour between profis and layman, full-time working people and honorary working people, old and young people is created and it promises a high efficience.
In the Multi-Generation-House all activities of the Kolping-family Saerbeck, which had taken place at several places because of the lack of spatial possibilities, will be bundled and developed. Meeting place will become the Café "Four seasons", in which guests from the outside can meet the participants inside the Kolping-groups and the educational work. Here also the additional offers are to be applied

B.
In the multi-generation-house all generations should have the possibility to meet each other in different activities. The occupation of an EVS-volunteer in the project would underline the openness of the meetingcentre.
Our field extends to many different activities, beginning in the care of children via the work in the cafeteria up to computer-courses for seniors. There will be a Midday-lunch for single-living people, grandfather-handicraft-meetings and many other groups, where the old one learn something from the youth and the young one learn something from the senior citizens.
According to his interests the volunteer will work in several sectors and support the full-time- and the honorary-working people. An important point to become a contactperson and person to turn to for the visitors of the house.

Field of activity
" Work in parent-children-groups
" support of the groupwork with Cildren and youngsters
" organization of the media-lending
" support in the meeting-café
" care of the Internet-café
" offer of free-time-activities for several ages

C.
The volunteer should be open-minded and have fun in working with younger and elder people. Special knowledge in some working areas would be good, so he could actively bring in himself into the group-events. Basic knowledge in the german language would be nice, but not necessary. The volunteer should be able to work in a team and also on himself and he should have the encouragement to make own ideas becoming real.

E.
The local hosting organization provides an appropriate accommodation possibility for the volunteer in Ibbenbüren in a dwelling, which 5 volunteers are sharing or in the accommodation of the clinical center Ibbenbüren. Here the volunteer has its own room, kitchen and a bath are common rooms, which are available for several persons.
The tutor of the project meets the volunteer periodically in order to accompany progress and to help the volunteer with the solution of probably arising problems. Additionally the tutor guarantees the receive of continual support for the volunteer.
Volunteers receive each necessary support for the realization of their tasks and enough time to get into the new job.
During the integration in the local district and the project surrounding field the volunteer will be supported.
The co-ordinating organization ensures that the volunteer participates in the on-arrival-training and the mid-term-meeting.
EVS- volunteers receives an appropriate language training during their stay, which is organized by the coordinating organization.
Co-workers of the co-ordinating organization look after the volunteer and will take care. They are also organizing meetings, which take place every 4-6 weeks, where all volunteers of the region meet each other. In special meetings they become acquainted intensively with the German culture. In the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the EVS a conversation between the volunteer, the tutor and the co-ordinating organization takes place and there are special meetings only for the tutors, where they can exchange their experiences.