Project activities takes place in a small borough (Kõue borough) in Harjumaa. Kõue borough has 2 bigger villages and current project will take place in one of then called Habaja. Habaja is approx. 50 km from the capital city, Tallinn and it has around 600 inhabitants (including smaller neighbouring villages). It has its own shop, library, kindergarden, post office and school.
Most of the inhabitants of the village go to work outside of the village, either to neighbouring borough or to the capital. Biggest employer in the area is municipality itself with all of its institutions (schools, libraries etc). Important role in the area also has agricultural production. Area is with rich and varied nature.

EVS volunteers work will be connected with all community and most likely will directly or indirectly influence majority of the population.

Volunteer will work with 2 different target groups:
- youngsters in Habaja Youth Centre
- children in Habaja kindergarden
The volunteer's activities are divided into several parts, which also consider volunteers preferences and abilities. These activities will vary from time to time, depending on the season and school holidays and also on the projects that hosting organisation is running.
The volunteer will work with 2 different target groups: preschool children in kindergarden and youngsters in youth centre
Volunteers tasks are divided in three big groups depending on the target group and content of the work:
" Working with children in local kindergarden
" Working with youth in the youth centre/streets
" Working for youth (work in office, starting and creating new projects)
Working with the children in local kindergarden means mainly assisting staff of the kindergarden during the lessons and playing with the children.
Working with youth, EVS volunteers main activities are connected with assisting the youth workers: help to organize events for kids and youngsters - art, handicraft and music activities, outdoor and indoor activities, intercultural evenings etc.
While the volunteer is in the office he/she will have the option to choose which activities and task he/she wishes to participate in, this allowing for the personal interests of the volunteer to be taken into consideration. We hope this level of flexibility will provide a large variety of activities for the volunteer, while broadening the personal experiences of the volunteer.
The option for a personal project will always be available to the volunteer, together with the assistance of his/her mentor a personal project can be developed. It could be organising summer camps, youth projects, starting with new study group or something else.
The volunteer will never be given tasks that are beyond his/her abilities, and most of the time volunteer will work together with his/her Mentor. Over a period of time we hope the volunteer will request more responsible tasks, and together with the guidance of his/her mentor, more responsible tasks will be given.
A normal week for volunteer will be from Monday to Friday 34 hours per week. Normally volunteer will have free time on the weekends, but due to some activities the volunteer maybe required to participate in activities outside the normal working hours. In these cases we would trade normal working hours, for extraordinary hours, with the approval of the volunteer.
Volunteers tasks during the EVS project:
1. Assisting in youth centres everyday activities
Communicate with youngsters; helping in study groups; do activities with them and also teaching- drawing, acting, walking, make food etc; create new study-group; find new leisure time activities; teaching his/her mother tongue for study groups participants; organising new indoor and outdoor activities
2. Helping in office:
Assisting in developing new projects and participating in planning & preparing process and afterwards in activities and evaluation; communicate with cooperation partners; organising different activities for the youth centre clients; help to organize different trainings for the members, staff, youngsters etc.
3. Helping in kindergardens work
Playing with children; helping teacher during the lesson; helping teacher to prepare for the lesson; taking care of children
Volunteer's week plan:
Monday: 09.00-12.00 Kindergarden (3h)/13.00-17.00 Office (4h)/ language course
Tuesday: 10.00-13.00 Office (3h)/15.00-18.00 kindergarden (4h)
Wednesday: 09.00-12.00 Kindergarden (3h)/15.00-19.00 Youth Centre (4h)/ language course
Thursday: 15.00-21.00 Youth Centre (6h)
Friday: 15.00-21.00 Youth Centre (6h)
We would like to receive volunteer, who is open minded and tolerant. She has to be interested of working with children and youngsters and shouldn't be afraid to live in small community. We are ready to host both- female and male volunteers and age is not important, nevertheless we see that person who is coming to volunteer in our project is mature, since working in a small community with different target groups is not always easy. Also we wait from the volunteer some own initiative and creativity to come up with new ideas and suggestions.