EVS opportunity for one european youth in the Tecklenburg Youth Club from Germany
EVS opportunity for one european youth in the Tecklenburg Youth Club from Germany
The volunteer job is to bring a international atmosphere into the youthcentre in order to wake interest in other cultures and different ways of life.
A.
Seat of the hosting project is Tecklenburg. The city of Tecklenburg has
9.537 inhabitants. Te four districts Brochterbeck, Ledde, Leeden and
Tecklenburg are belonging to it. He city is placed in direct near to
the Teutoburger forest and this is the reason, why the city of
Tecklenburg got the recognition to a climatic health resort in 1974 and
a Kneipp´s cure resort in 1999. Because of its placement Tecklenburg is
popular especially for tourists at home and abroad. The next bigger
cities are Münster and Osnabrück, which are 30 km in the distant each.
B.
Because of the youthcare Teckelnburg insists four different
Youthcentres, the volunteer will of course work in every institution.
In every Youthcentre the program and the working time is adapted to the
visitors. In Brochterbeck and Tecklenburg one to two times a week the
Childrens club takes place, where children between 6 and 12 years can
participate, and some times a week the club for the youngsters takes
place. The childrens clubs opening hours are between 3 and 6 o clock in
the afternoon, the youngsters clubs opening hours between 4 and 8 pm.
Partially the centres open at the weekend, but this will be discussed
with the volunteer and will be agreed wilth free time in the week. .
The volunteers job is to bring a international atmosphere into the
youthcentre in order to wake interest in other cultures and different
ways of life. In this case direct contacts and meetings with the young
people from the European neighbourhood are imperative and useful. The
volunteer is integrated in the educational team and will support the
general pedagogic and organizational work in the youth centre. The
tutor will look after the volunteer and will meet him regularly during
his stay. The volunteer will also be supported by the team to be
integrated in the project, the land and the culture.In the youth centre
the volunteer has the opportunity to create an own project. He or she
can discuss these own ideas with the youngsters. The work in the
project will be orientated to the abilities and interests of the
volunteer. He or she will take part in all activities of the youth
centre.
Tasks
:- to initiate an own project with the support of the team
- to be the person for the youngsters in the centre to turn to
- to offer freetime-activities
- to develop work with girls
There will also be work in the weekends. This times will be agreed with the volunteer in advance.
C.
The volunteer should be communicative and not be frightened to get in
contact with new people. He should have the ability to work in a team.
It would be good, if the volunteer has experiences in the work with
children und youngsters. Creativity, ideas and own initiative are
desirable. Knowledge in the work with computers and the internet would
be helpful. We are working together with every kind of sending
organization. Organizations, which are working with children an
youngsters would be advantageous.
D.
E.
The local hosting organization provides an appropriate accommodation
possibility for the volunteer. According to the place of the project,
the volunteer will live in Ibbenbüren or Westerkappeln in a dwelling,
which many 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. Between the tutor and the volunteer periodically conversations
will take place 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.For the first time in the project a training plan will be
arranged. Volunteers receive each necessary support for the realization
of their tasks and enough time to get into the new job. The training
plan will help in the integration in the local district and the project
surrounding field.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. The
youth-welfare-office has developed some quality-standards, which
includes the on-arrival-conversation and the mid-term-conversation and
also a questionnaire , which is to be filled by the tutor and the
volunteer in the beginning of the EVS.
Germany
Long term
6 month starting September 2010


