Volunteer for youth activities and children day-care, Estonia
Volunteer for youth activities and children day-care, Estonia
Working mainly supporting the projects in the youth organisation and once in a week in a children day-care. The candidates have to have some experience in youth programmes, group work and organisation skills; web design is a good add value for the applicant
As the proposed EVS project consist of activities quite different from
each other, we see it as a advantage due to volunteer has possibility to
learn new things in different fields. In day care she/ he can get
experiences in working with children. Working in the office and
preparing projects etc, is valuable experience for volunteer as members
of our organisation are experienced in (international) youth/social work
and from them there is possibility to learn a lot. Also working with
own iniative projects for sure would be very useful for volunteer as
she/he will get full support from our organisation side.
Since our organisation is very small, then the volunteer will be full
member of our organisation and will get full support from organisation
side.
Volunteers tasks:
Volunteer have 3 sort of tasks during the project:
1. Activities in child care center in the university 60%
2. Work in the office with international projects 30%
3. Volunteers own initiative projects.10%
Working in the child care centre:
Childcare centre is opened from Monday to Friday from 10.00 am to
16.00pm. It is meant for students of the university who are parents,
also for teachers. Parents can bring their child to the day care for 3-4
hours per day while they have lectures, exams or have to do research in
the library. In the day care centre there will be one professional
worker and one local volunteer. During the time children spent in day
care, they have possibility to play; deal with educating activities etc.
Volunteer will work directly with children under the guidance of the
professional worker.
Working in the office:
In the office volunteer have different tasks which are also depending
his/her skills and experiences. Mainly office work consist of preparing
different activities like seminars, youth exchanges and for that
volunteer can collect and prepare materials, communicate with partners
and participants, help to write applications etc.
Initiative project
Depending of the volunteers' experiences, knowledge and wish, there is
always possible to organise his/her own initiative projects. It can be
different study groups in child care for older children and in the
weekends, projects with our cooperation partners in Estonia or as well
abroad, preparing youth project etc.
Estonia
Long term
12 months starting in July 2011


