Long term ESC project in Czech Republic!
Location: Vyškov, Czech Republic
Project name: Living with others and for others
Hosting Organization: Charita Vyškov
Sending organization: “Common Sense” Youth Organization
Purpose of the project: We are looking for a 2nd volunteer for our organization Charita Vyškov who would work in our Relief Service. The mission of the Relief Service is to provide care in the form of a residential service for people who have reduced self-sufficiency due to chronic illness, disability or age otherwise being cared in their natural environment. It is help for caring families – for the necessary time to they rest we take care of their loved ones. At this time, the volunteer will spend time with clients who feel lonely, need to support and activate. The volunteer will learn to work with less self-sufficient clients and the principles of social work. The purpose of such work is also to activate clients by creative action, by support of motor skills. It leads to the development of not only the client’s activity but also the development of the imagination and creative skills of the volunteer as well as the development and search for possible ways of communication.
Number of volunteers: 1 volunteer between 18-30 years old (Only Azerbaijani citizenship)
Project period – 20/09/2019 to 31/08/2020 (1 year)
Deadline: 10th September 2019
How to apply? – Please get registration number and apply through the Youth Portal
All costs are covered by ESC
No participation fee!
Language: English
Application conditions and requirements for volunteering:
Although we are a church organization we are open to every person, who respects our religious focus. The volunteer should be able to work with old people who are often forgetful and timid because they don’t know what will happen with them. He/she should also be creative to develop what our clients have already forgotten but what will return them to their youth. We will also demand some self-sufficiency from him/her. Communication is a key element of our work. It is possible to communicate these languages in our organization: Czech, English, German, Spain, Croatian or Italien.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements:
This 2nd volunteer will share accommodation with the 1st volunteer (a boy from Germany) in furnished apartment with WIFI. The Reliefe service is far from the apartment about 3 kilometers. Volunteer can use city buses or a bicycle (cycle path through the park). As a standard, we provide lunch, pocket money (5€ for every day), free weekends and community with other volunteers from around, as well as the opportunity to grow personally and gain life experience.