A. Project environment:

The Centre in Rumia is situated 20 km away from Gdynia (Poland) one of the Tricity (Gdansk, Gdynia, Sopot), is well communicated with the city, the region and the whole Poland. Gdynia is situated by the sea, is a young modern city, near Gdansk with its over 1000 year tradition. In Rumia there live almost 45 thousand people.
In our Centre we organize workshops for people with intellectual disabilities, who are unable to take up a job. Those workshop activities are aimed at rehabilitation, which leads to an overall development of each participant. The workshops take place in therapeutic studios under the direction of instructors. The works which are created during these classes have great artistic value. The instructors' role is just to support and the works are made and framed by the artists themselves.
In the Centre we work in workshop groups. Our Centre is open five days a week (Monday to Friday) and works eight hours a day. We have got many years of experience in cooperation with local volunteers. We would like to invite you to our Centre.
Volunteers will live in a flat specially rented for them and fully living up to their needs. There they will have all the possibilities to live and cook on their own.

B. Proposed activities for EVS volunteers:

First of all, it will be your task to cooperate with the person in charge of a workshop group (especially theatre one). There are a lot of such groups. They perform a number of artistic activities. While working together with the group leader and with the disabled people you will learn how to make a stained glass or a cloth. You will also learn how to weave a wicker basket, get down to painting and sculpture, make all sorts of things out of paper and how to cook healthy and delicious meals. Other skill that the volunteer can learn is the ability to accompany the handicapped people in their self-dependence process at work.
You will have a chance to see and use the methods of activating elderly and also give your own ideas. You will have an opportunity of experiencing a close contact with people you will work with, and its healing effects on both of you.
We would like you to help organize exhibitions of arts, theatre performances, sports competitions, dancing parties and other types of integration events. In the framework of workshop activities we will arrange meetings during which you will have the opportunity to present your native language and culture.
We cooperate with local schools. It is very important for us that a volunteer from abroad should help us to make local community aware of the achievements and skills of people with disabilities. We would like to organize meetings, sightseeing trips, language courses and talks with young people.
We are open to your ideas and proposals. You will also help to organize holiday camps for children, acting as a group leader's assistant. If you don't speak our language, that is not an obstacle to working with disabled people. You will find it possible to overcome a lot of barriers. We will enable you and other volunteers from different countries to acquire new skills, exchange your experiences and develop your potential. We would like you and others to get to know our country, culture and language.

C. Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:

We would like you to be:
- willing to cooperate with disabled people (we will welcome a volunteer with an earlier practice),
- open to new experiences, full of ideas,
- artistically talented and imaginative,
- spontaneous, cheerful, creative and responsible,
We would be glad if you had any theatre experience.
Although we are the catholic organisation, the religion of the volunteer does not matter. We are open for people of different faith

D. Risk prevention, protection and safety:

During the realization of the project it is incredibly important to prevent conflict situations because well-being of each person is essential for us. Not to let any conflicts occur, as a host organisation, we take on many different verbal and nonverbal activities to make the work pleasant and peaceful for everybody taking part in the project. Extremely important thing seems to be choosing supervisors for the volunteers very conscientiously, especially looking for his or her fluent communication with others. The supervisor, as a detached person who is not involved in the project, can be invited as help to solve some conflicts concerning the volunteer.

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