EVS opportunities in after school activities for children in Czech Republic
EVS opportunities in after school activities for children in Czech Republic
We are looking for volunteer interested in work with children (mostly in age 3-10) on the position as assistant of leader in after-school club and preschool,leisure activities as sport classes, art and crafts, flute classes, drama (acting) classes, language classes,first aid classes, assist to disabled student mainly in sport activities and Feuerstein classes,trips,after school activities - preparation of all activities - Work with comunity sport classes, Volunteer Fire Brigade with children and youths, -Cooperation in the environmental and other projects of comunity as sport contest,dramatic performance
The main activity are regular work with children, youth
and young families. There are 90 hobby groups opened for more than 1000
children and young people and more than 50 parents. We also organise 20
summer camps for more than 700 children every year. Next, we organise
occasional and open events for the community, for example kite
competitions, Halloween parties, spring celebrations, winter games...
etc. There are seminars and schooling with experts opened too. We take
an active part in organising of numerous culture, sport and charity
events, for example The Terry Fox Run, Children to Children, Valentines
ball. We organised 135 similar events for almost 20 thousand
participants last year.
We are interested in involvement of
children and young people in the public life and we enforce their right
to be a part of the public life. Children and young people are
encouraged to adopt responsibility for their recent and future society
in Czech republic and whole Europe by forming their own Children
Parliament.
The cooperation with schools of all grades and
NGO's in our region is very important. Together we organise numerous
competitions and sport events. We are prepared to give 31 competitions
for more than 1500 participants and the same number of spectators this
year.
Youth centre is situated in a beautiful
building surrounded with a large park. There is a playground, open air
cirque, a fireplace with benches in the park. Everything in the
building and park is tailored to interests of children and young people.
There are the special rooms for music, painting, pottery, dancing, work
with computer, exercise, reading or relax, even for bouldering and
archery.
Our centre is opened every working day from 8AM to 20PM, we organize some events for public during weekends.
Most of staff is able to speak English.
We
expect an active, comparably independent, creative and adaptable young
person, able to work in a team. He/she must be able to communicate in
English, willing to educate him/herself and to actively contribute to
the activities of the center.
Working with children necessitates
volunteer’s ability to communicate patiently, his/her positive attitude
to children, and his/her social abilities such as open-mindedness,
empathy, tolerance and cooperation.
Accommodation of volunteer
The volunteer has her/his own room in a three rooms flat.
The room is fully furnished; there is a TV, radio.
He/She
has to share the bathroom with a washing machine and equipped kitchen
with two other volunteers. The volunteer has to self-manage the room,
building a reciprocal cohabitation, as responsible as possible.
Food
The
volunteer can use the equipment of the center kitchen or the kitchen of
the house to prepare food or take a lunch in a restaurant together with
staff of the center. He/She will get the costs for food.
Language training
The hosting organisation will manage Czech language course in city.
Czech Republic
Long term
01.09.2011 -30.08.2012


