A. Project environment: profile of the organisation and local community
" Outline the project environment for the suggested voluntary activities, including the local community where the project will take place (e.g. geographical, social and economical environment).
" If the host placement is located in a live-in community, please include the rules and conditions that apply also for the volunteer.

Velo is situated on the coast of the Corinthinan Gulf, 15 km West from Corinth, in the Peloponnese (South Greece). Velo is a municipality with 8200 inhabitants and 7 villages around. The surroundings are very green and most of the locals are employed working in fields (vineyards, citrus fruits). Some small tourist enterprises are also in the region.The county of Corinthia is situated only 50 km west of Athens and it is very easy and comfortable to travel back and forth.
The volunteers will stay in a full-equipped flat and with all the facilities for cooking.

B. Proposed activities for EVS volunteers
" Describe what you can offer to volunteers in terms of service and learning opportunities.
There are no special knowledge, qualification needed from the volunteer. Full training will be provided.
The volunteers will have special guidance and support from the staff and the members of the municipality and from the coordinator organization, in all the cases of highly demanding tasks. From the staff the volunteers will get a high standard support and training, they will prepare them for the activities.
In order to facilitate their work and integration, volunteers will join an obligatory Greek language training from the begining of their voluntary service.
The mentor and the youth advisor will give them a high standard personal support.
We would like also to develop the volunteers' responsibility, creativity, knowledge, and skills and to help them to be prepared if the wish to work in this field. They will also gain more self-esteem and compassion through creative work.
The certification of the volunteers' experience, achievements will be included in the YOUTHPASS certificate at the end of the project.
Our goal the volunteer to acquire during their stay is: European awareness - they will work with national and international youngsters in teams and through this intercultural experience they learn to be tolerant, working in team, to cooperate and communicate.
In addition, they will acquire experience and skills, which may prove useful skills for their professional future. Our objectives to host volunteers are to introduce them to the local community, to develop the understanding of the European and international cultural context, to provide informal intercultural education and experience to youths, encouraging their social integration, their active participation and to offer them new means of expression and communication through the voluntary work.

" Please, explain what will be the role of EVS volunteers in the host organisation.
The EVS volunteer's role will be to provide additional support to the instructors and other staff at the centre, working closely with qualified staff who will provide support and supervision at all times. This will provide the opportunity for the EVS volunteer to share their own culture with children and young people staying at the centre, the centre staff and with the local community. This will bring a new, international dimension which will benefit everyone.
The aim of hosting international volunteers is to establish an exchange of knowledge and to let young people know about this opportunity that the Youth in Action program provides. International volunteering is good to bring different cultures together, to diffuse the existence of development projects and to exchange experiences and knowledge. A volunteer from a foreign country could be an excellent opportunity for our local community, mainly for the youngsters to overcome language and cultural difficulties and to learn from each other. Moreover this project gives great opportunities for cooperation with the staff and the members of Ä.Á.Å.Â. and will be benefit for our local volunteers, because by working together with someone who comes from a foreign country, they will learn the values of tolerance, equality and acceptance.

" Describe the activities in which the volunteers could be involved and the activities the volunteers could create in your organisation. Give examples of typical activities for the volunteers.
The tasks for each volunteer will be adjusted to his/her personal abilities and needs. We would like to stress that none of the tasks can be seen as employment substitution, moreover we would like to stress the importance of giving ideas, taking initiatives by the volunteer. The host and the coordinating organization is open for new ideas and support the initiatives.
Kindergarten project:
The voluntary work takes place in the kindergarten of Municipality of Velo. In our school can participate children in between 2- 5 years old. Our motivation to host EVS volunteers is the support and help in the every day work of the kindergarten. This includes helping in the fine-art workshop, painting lessons, theatrical workshop, playing games with the children, to take part in the workshop in the subject of tastes (sweet, salty, bitter and sour), join the trips, excursions and helping in the kitchen of the kindergarten. The volunteers will assist the staff in the daily childcare and organise his/her own small project depending on his/her skills and ideas (e.g. music, handicraft, theatre, games etc). A further important aspect of the project is to give the volunteer the opportunity to put into the practice his/her ideas and to reflect upon this with experienced staff of our school. Our main aims are the introduction of new activities taken by the volunteers for the daily life of the children, the promotion and contact with new cultures, especially from the volunteer origin, moreover to develop the artistic abilities of the children and to help the teachers in their activities.

1. Participating in the fine-art workshop (the volunteers will work in the field of handcraft using materials such as pastel, paper, different kind of nuts, collage, clay…etc. and they will help to make constructions. The staff of the school welcome new ideas and initiatives from the volunteers)
2. Taking part and help in the painting lessons (the volunteers will help the children to use pencil, water- color. This lesson has the goal to prepare the children for writing, to give the motion of writing in their hands and fingers.)
3. Workshop about the four tastes (sweet, sour, bitter, salty) - in this workshop the staff and the volunteers will carry out non-formal tasks for the children to make them understand and realize the differences among these tastes.
4. Theatrical workshop (they will help to organize theatrical games from fairy tales, puppet shows, they can give their ideas for the best materialization of the performance)
5. Music- kinetic workshop (the volunteers will help the staff to realize games in order to develop the motion culture of the children.)
6. Games with the children (these games are organized by the teachers and the volunteers and have the role of non-formal learning experiences and acquire everyday attitudes by processing situations taken from the everyday life appropriated to the child's age. This activity can include open air actions such as making a small garden with the children, planting flowers, vegetables…etc. There is a big play-room with many toys, table-games, facilities for painting, handcraft, they can find man-sized dolls that show different kind of characters like the mother, father, actor, princess…etc. Furthermore we have small cars in order to imitate the traffic in the big play-ground.)
7. Take part in trips, excursions (these trips and excursions are leaded in zoo, theatre, in the nature but also we visit local preliminary schools in order to help in the first contact of the children with the school.)
8. Helping in the kitchen of the kindergarten (this task includes helps to prepare and share the breakfast and the lunch for the kids moreover they have the possibility to learn how to run and manage the kitchen of a kindergarten, furthermore to learn recipes from the Greek cuisine but also they have the opportunity to cook food that is characteristic of their country such as cakes, some sweets, traditional meals...etc. All the materials and tools are provided by the host organization.)
9. The volunteers will participate in the work of the Information office in Velo, which provides information about the Youth Program. The volunteers with the staff will give information about the Youth Program, make the voluntary service more attractive for the Greek youngsters giving live example with their participation.
We would like to stress that we are open and we welcome ideas and initiatives from the volunteers. Our goal is to develop the international understanding of the children, we would like to give them the way of thinking from this early age when they can adopt new things easier that they can cooperate and communicate with people from other countries by overcoming language difficulties and cultural differences. In this way we can fight against racism, xenophobia and discrimination. We would like to encourage the volunteers to come up with ideas and carry out in cooperation with the staff of the school for the benefit of the children, the teachers as well as the volunteers themselves and we would appreciate if the volunteers brought games, music, short movies, pictures from their countries, about their countries.
The volunteers will work every day (Monday to Friday) from 8:00 to 14:00. If it's needed sometimes their working time will be extended but in these cases they will take day off by arrangement. During the voluntary service the volunteers have two weeks vacation and the Saturdays and Sundays are free as well. The volunteers have the possibility to take the breakfast and lunch in the kindergarten with the teachers and the children.

Athletic centre project:
The voluntary work takes place in the Athletic centre of the Municipality of Velo.
EVS volunteer will provide additional support to the educational staff team, which includes qualified and trainee teaching staff and activity instructors- such as basketball trainer, volleyball trainer, mini-soccer trainer, tennis trainer and a secretary - and will be involved extensively with the groups who visit the centre.
The centre has been successfully running for three years with all the departments like:
-basket: 3 departments, participating from 6 years old to adult, there are two teams; - volleyball: 2 departments for women; mini-soccer: 2 departments, participating from 6 years old to 14 years old; -tennis: 6 departments, participating from 6 years old to adult.
The centre staff will welcome the opportunity to support international volunteers at the centre as a way of broadening the horizons of their work as well as of the local community and the members.

Activities that the volunteers could be involved:

The volunteers will work directly with the groups who visit the centre for most of their working time.
- They will help and support the trainers' work
- They will take part in the training sessions
- Helping to organize competitions in basket
- The volunteers will help in the promotion of the centre in the schools, local community
- They will make presentations and join the activities of the Youth Information Office

The working hours are from Monday to Friday at 15:00 - 21:00. Saturday and Sunday are free; moreover the volunteers can take two weeks vacation during the voluntary service.

The volunteers would be involved in a wide range of outdoor activities, spending much of their time working directly with the members, under supervision of qualified staff. This is a great informal learning opportunity for the volunteer to develop their interpersonal skill and also their knowledge of sport activities issues.

Timetable of the athletic centre and the volunteer:
Monday: 15.00 preparation work, 17.00-18.00 junior basket class, 18.00-19.30 'mini' basket class, 20.00-21.00 adult basket class
Tuesday: 15.00 preparation for the activities 17.00-18.00 'mini' basket class, 18.00-19.00 junior basket class, 20.00-21.00 adult basket class
Wednesday: 15.00 preparation for the activities 16.30-18.00 volley class, 19.00-20.00 adult basket class
Thursday: 15.00 preparation for the activities 16.00-17.00 volley class, 18.00-19.00 junior basket class, 20.00-21.00 adult basket class
Friday: 15.00 preparation for the activities, 16.00-17.00 junior volley, 17.00-19.00 volley class, 19.00-21.00 basket

Monday-Wednesday- Friday: 18.00-19.00 soccer (age 6-10 years old)
Tuesday-Thursday- Friday: 19.00-20.00 soccer (age 10-14 years old)
Tennis: every day from 15.00-19.00

C. Volunteer profiles and recruitment process
Please describe the profiles of volunteers you would like to receive in your organisation. Include information on how you ensure an open and transparent recruitment process as well as the overall accessibility of EVS to all young people. Consider further information about the type of sending organisation you want to cooperate with. This information can help the match-making between volunteer candidates, sending organisations and your organisation.
The volunteers should be really interested and motivated to participate in the activities. Communicative and creative skills would be an advantage. He/She should be able to work independently (under supervision from our staff), ready to take responsibility and take initiatives, to be flexible and to have adaptation skills. The volunteers have to be able to share the apartment with other volunteers.
D. Special needs (if applicable)
If your placements are open to hosting volunteers with fewer opportunities, please provide information about the competence, experience and infrastructure and (human or other) resources available in your organisation to accommodate and support them.
E. Risk prevention, safety and protection
Please describe how you will guarantee a safe living and working environment for the EVS volunteers, how you will prevent risks and crises and how - in the case of EVS volunteers aged 16 or 17 - you ensure appropriate supervision, child safety and protection.
The coordnating organization has a great experience working with EVS long term as well as short term volunteers and note the importance of the personal support the volunteer. For the best realization of the project and to prevent the crisis situations the host and coordinating organization pay big attention on the communication with the volunteer on the everyday base. All the volunteers will be supported by the mentors and youth workers that are involved in the project. The mentor has privet conversations in case of problem, the volunteers can turn to the mentor any time with their questions.
The accomodation provided is high standard. The volunteer will be ensured of their safety during the working time as well as the other activities.

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