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.

The target group of our program is the elderly people with special needs who need help, have problem with their health, with the physical condition of their body, who can’t do the everyday living activities by themselves (cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, etc.)

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