Proposed activities for EVS volunteers:

Our organisation's main aim and motivation is to bring in a new element of the contact with a European culture. We wish to create new partnerships with a positive influence on the local community. We intend to prepare enough space for volunteer's new ideas and experience. He/she can take a course of the Czech language, a training for camp organisers, a climbing training.

The volunteers can participate in the following activities:

- Teaching the youth of Nachod and the Czech-Polish frontier area about the EU programmes for youth, with accent on Youth in Action and the Eurodesk database

- Organising workshops under the Youth in Action programme for secondary schools in Nachod

- Building websites about European programmes for youth - in English and German

- Intercultural programmes in the HEC Youth Club - "Heart of Europe Club"

- Promotion and graphic compilation of data

- Help with preparing and organising leisure events, summer camps, etc.

- Help with preparing and organising of spontaneous and occasional events
(for schools, nursery schools, the public)

- Workshops for dance, ceramics, language, art and music

- The volunteers can bring their own ideas for activities and can use their own
skills at work - lead some workshops themselves, having Decko staff only as a tutor.

Suggested activities:

Monday: English for small children (5 - 7 years)

Tuesday: volleyball (6 - 10 years), Take It Easy - English conversation (15 - 30 years)

Wednesday: Shooting (8 - 12 years)

Thursday: HEC - a European youth club (15 - 18 years)

Friday: ICM - a youth information centre: an open club for youth (8 - 18 years)

In the mornings, occasional activities for kindergartens and primary schools; organisational help at public events.

The accommodation for volunteers is situated close to the main building, in a house in the garden of Decko.

The language course will take place in Decko, with an experienced teacher.

Meals - the volunteer will get the money for food; he/she usually prepares breakfast and supper at home and takes lunch (the main meal of the day) in a local restaurant together with other Decko employees.

Pocket money - the volunteer is given pocket money in cash at the beginning of each month.
The mentor - will be fully at the volunteer's disposal. The person speaks several world languages.

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:

Volunteer profile: We expect a comparably independent, creative and adaptable young person, able to work in a team.

Volunteer offer advertisement: Our project is found in the Eurodesk database; the project description there contains possible activities of the volunteer in our organisation.

Compliance of organisation needs and voluteer interests: the volunteer should be interested in children and activities for them.

Working with children necessitates volunteer's ability to communicate patiently, his/her positive attitude to children, and his/her social abilities such as open-mindedness, empathy, tolerance and cooperation.

Volunteer activity is no job position: The volunteers will help with activities run by Decko staff or by external instructors. However, they will take over no responsibility. The presence of a volunteer will give the activities a European dimension and enhance the clients' interest in European culture and in other young people's lifestyle.