Because of our project activities, the volunteer has to be a mature and responsible personality, with communicable English.

About our organization and EVS environment:

Our organization is situated in Banska Bystrica, a city surrounded by mountains, rich in history, culture and nature beauty (http://eng.banskabystrica.sk/). It is also a city where many young people come to study on our university.

Since 2004, our organization has rich experience with hosting EVS volunteers from various countries, with mainly positive J experience. We put efforts to continualy upgrade the level of our project for the mutual satisfaction of our community and the volunteers.

Volunteer placement in our centre will include (amongst other tasks but also in consideration of volunteer´s own ideas and capabilities):

• Living together with 1-2 other EVS volunteers in a flat close to the city centre
• Working in office planning and support activities
• Working (most often) with disabled children and/or adults
• Organizing various workshops for kids and youngsters
• Presenting EVS experience, home country and personal skills to various audiences
• Assisting during sport, language and subject competitions in secondary/high schools
• Study of Slovak laguage
• Development of own volunteer´s project(s)
• Nonformal and informal activities, adventures, meetings with other young people
• Vacation upon agreement

The Important thing is that EVS in our organization is usually influenced by how the volunteers want it to be and how their work develops – we support our volunteers in their ideas and try to be helpful in reaching their objectives, if they are compatible with our aims and activities.

Rules for the volunteers:
The volunteers will be required to respect common safety, traffic and house rules, and to
- respect their work tasks and working hours
- report the reasons of their absence ahead or (in unpredictable cases) as soon as possible to person responsible
- avoid the use of alcohol and/or drugs before and during their presence at workplaces and premises of the hosting organization, it´s partners or other co-operating institutions

Working hours, days off:
Working time will not exceed 30 hours a week. The volunteers will usually have weekends off. If they take part in activities during the weekend, they will have extra time off. For each month of their EVS, volunteers can have 2 days off (appart from weekends). Other vacations may be arranged upon agreement with hosting organization.

Accomodation:
The volunteers share a flat which is about 10 minutes walking distance from the town centre. Shops and restaurants are close-by (a 5-minute walk). There is a fully equipped kitchen in the volunteers' flat, where they can prepare meals. There are pillows, blankets and a washing machine available as well.

Local transport:
The main office for volunteer activities is reachable by feet (approx. 20 minutes walk). If necessary, regular daily transport to and from the office by bus shall be reimbursed by hosting organization.

Proposed activities:
Organizing creative games and workshops for children and young people
- Working with mentally and/or physically hadicapped children, youth and adults: games, drawing, entertainment activities, discussions, workshops, seminars, various forums, language conversations, summer camps, handworks, and similar activities...
- Working with children from gypsy and socially disadvanteged families: clubs for children and youth (activities about drug abuse, family live, puberty, leisure time activities, distributing old clothes…
- Developing volunteer´s own project connected to or compatible with our activities
- Preparing and running EU workshops for students or pupils. This includes presenting the information about EU, the Youth in Action Porgramme, the EVS activities in a non-formal way as well as organizing informal games and quizes about European countries and short games to fight prejudice aganist minorities or people anyhow different
- Assistitng during sport and language competitions of pupils and secondary school students
- Taking part in irregular activities of CVC-JUNIOR such as international youth exchanges, trainings, various events in the youthfield ...
- Helping young people find the information they need, answering their questions and helping them find information on the internet
- Collecting information on a variety of youth related topics (e.g. working abroad, travelling, studying, jobfinding and help with presenting it in an attractive way (on paper, website, exhibitions)
- Reaserching an updating information material, making leaflets and posters to make people aware of the programme, helping to create promotional materials