The "Evangelische Jugendwerk Blaubeuren" a protestant youth organisation is based in Blaubeuren, a small town in the region Alb-Donau.
The main application areas are: varied offers of leisure facilities for children and youngsters, the coffehouse with cultural activities for youngsters, the apprenticeship and further education of volunteers and a number of cultural events. As an institution of the protestant church it is also our task to minister worships and diakon aufgaben. Our team consists of three full time employees, one secretary and a volunteer. But prior the work is done by volunteers. Responsible for the youth association is the voluntary board of management, that is made up of young people from the congregation.
The youth association employes young people in voluntary service since five years. Because of the good experiences we made with our volunteers and the positive feedback from them and all people working with the volunteers we are encouraged to continue and intensify voluntary service.

Blaubeuren is an economic centre surrounded by small villages near Laichingen. The city of Ulm is easily reachable by public transport in about 20 minutes. Blaubeuren offers popular sights like the monastry and the beautiful landscape of caves and the popular lake "Blautopf", you can do rock climbing as well (look at the web-site www.blaubeuren.de). There are coffehouses and bars, but also the cultural summer-scene and traditional festivals.
Blaubeuren is a meeting point for youngsters of the rural area because of the grammar school. The youth club and a wide spread of bonds offers attractive programms especially for youngsters. There is also a big offer of leisure facilities: swimming pool, library, shopping facilities, youth hostel, pre-historical museum, boarding school and the adult education centre that creates an atmosphere of a typical small town in Germany.

The motivation of the protestant youth association is to admit volunteers to offer them an interesting and varied field of work. Furthermore the cooperation with young people affords new impulse and ideas for the youth work and supports intercultural learning.
The tasks are very diversify and affords to get easily in contact with other young people. Openness, inde-pendent and responsible working is important for this field of work. There is a scope for develop-ment to create own projects but also the competent tutorial by a social worker. The volunteer will do practical work and administration tasks. Furthermore there is a special educational offering for the volunteer and meetings with other volunteers to get in contact and work on projects together.

Practical activities are:
- collaboration in holiday activities and holiday camps (prearrangement/ workshops/ guidance of the
participants)
- collaboration in the youth-coffehouse (kitchen/ guidance of the pupils/ organisation)
- planning and accomplishment of events, actions and projects
- creation of the culture - and movieprogramm in the youth-coffehouse
- barservice in the youth-coffehouse

Administration activities are:
- correspondence
- management of material
- design of the homepage
- public relationship (textcomponents, flyer, poster)
- collaboration in boards, commitees and teams

Special educational offers are:
- basis course in leading youth groups
- training pc-course (word, internet, web-design)
- first-aid course
- special topic seminars
- workshops (creative courses, cooking, invironmental-protection ..)
- excursions

We are looking for young people who
- enjoy working with youth
- like working with others
- are reliable, committed and creative
- want to learn for life and their future professional care

The Kreisjugendring aids all young people that likes to work in an organisation of youth-work in the Alb-Donau-Kreis.
The volunteer should be aged between 18 and 30 years. Also he or she should be interested to spend 6 - 12 months in Germany and be willing to learn the German language.
The international volunteering should be used to make self-experience, to get to know yourself, adept your own ideas and talents, be open for everything that's new an power for something you are assured.

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