A. Project environment: profile of the organisation and local community

The various environment of Arad had offered good conditions for habitation since the dawn of time. The great ecomonic development of Arad brings it in 1834 on the rang of free royal town. The industrial revolution its based on the spectacular development of the fields of ecomony based on manufacturing the local industry such as food industry, wood and clothing industry.
On behalf of the democracy and market economy, Arad is becoming again an area of prosperity at the west gate of the country.
Although the local authorities support the initiatives of non-guvernamental organisations, the European Service of Volunteering was not well implemented or not enough, so that the young to have an initiateve to develop a project.
Because the voluntary activity has to include contacts with the local comunity, we want that trought this project the STUDENT ORGANIZATION ARAD to make come true such project also in the local comunity of Arad

The organisation which will host the young envolved in the Europeean Service of volunteering is for the town of Arad. So that the volunteer will develop his activity in this town and in its close whereabouts.

B. Proposed activities for EVS volunteers

Once the volunteers arrive, the persons responsible of this project, inside OSA, will try to make it easy to them to get use to the new community by having lots of free time activities. The members of OSA will give the chance to volunteers to meet the parteners around the country. There will be organised visits with learning porpouse in different cities where those organisations are developing there activity.
For an efficiant communication and the establishement of an interpersonal relationship between the volunteer and the local comunity and for furfilling efficiently the activities proposed in the project, OSA will give the opportunity to take an romanian language course.
Nevertheless to enjoy even more the free time, OSA will contibuite to an informal education of the volunteer by envolving him in different activities and projects of the organisation that will take place during their staying in our town ( dance and drawing class, theatre)
Please, explain what will be the role of EVS volunteers in the host organisation.
Once envolved in the organization the volunteers will have to obey some internal rules, but this thing won't be forbbidenable.
The volunteer will have the opportunity to establish connection between the organisation, town or home country and the hosts.
In this way the possibilities of receiving new information runs in both ways.
Both the members of the local organisation and the volunteers will be able to exchange information and so SEV will be transformed into an experience. After this excerience the non-formal the volunteers will contribute to the personal developement.
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 activities that the volunteers will performe will be in different areas such as cultural, sports, socially, environment
The activities can be acomplished either individual, either by group. The individual ones are extremely important for the learning experience, individual support, highly impact on the personal development and deep oportunities of valorisation into the local community. Those in group will allow the volunteers to attend by group to local activities.
The volunteers will activate in Romania for 6 minths, during this time there will be a schedule by OSA and the volunteer will be aware of this when he will attend to this project. Generally the activities will be structured in this way: the first two months he will be familiarized with the local community and the environment and with the activities he will performe, the next two months he will activate and he is allowed to ask for help to the OSA members, and in the last two months of the project the activities will performed by the volunteer and the follow up activitys of the project will be established During this time the volunteer will be supervised and sustained in the activities he will performe and will spend a lot of free time with the OSA members.
The group SEV activities need a strong partenership with the organizatory stucture of the event. All the duties of the volunteer have to be tight to the event , but he doesn't have to stop at this. At his will, he can propose new ideas. Some exemples are: getting information to write a book on the town of Arad, or having a charity theatre play. During the time of his stay in Arad, the volunteer will have the opportunity to attend on every project of OSA. The volunteer will attend to courses, worh-shops and free talks at OSA and other OSA parteners. The volunteer will have the opportunity to come with new ideas to emprove the project. During this 6 months the volunteer will be an active member of OSA and will have the opportunity to activate in all projects and activities of OSA.

C. Volunteer profiles and recruitment process

The recruitment proces will be accesible and fair.
OSA will give the opportunity to all the youth that are willing to apply to this project no matter of their belonging to an ethnic group, a religios group or their sexual or politic orientation. There is no need to have a certain education or experience. Speaking english does not offer an advantaje.
OSA will establish partener-ships with other organisations in EU to offer the posibility to apply this project to all those who want to attend.
D. Special needs (if applicable)

At this time our town does not have the possibility to host young people with disabilities.
Some of the problems that might be are the acces ways into buildings and public transportation. OSA will be able to host only volunteers cu low georgaphic or economic posibilities and will offer the opportunity to apply to the project.
In conclusion to those problems, OSA wants to establish a partener-ship with the organisations that send volunteers and with the volunteers so that this issue is to be clarified.
E. Risk prevention, safety and protection

To provide the volunteer with a pleseant staying, OSA will assign a person for each one to help if some problems appear. The volunteer can relay on every member of OSA during the time in Romania.
The appartement that is available is ensured and in a friendly neighbourhood. In case of desease, there will be a medical doctor who will provide medical treatement.

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