Long term volunteering project in Poland!

Location: Michałowo, Poland

Project name:Creative activities in Cultural Centre

Hosting organization: Cultural Center of Michalowo

Sending organization: “Common Sense” Youth Organization

Purpose of the project:The Culture Center in Michałowo- “GOK” is a municipal Cultural institution. We operate in the few premises and just recently had open professional audio/visual studio. We want to involve the volunteer in all our regularly activities and propose the following tasks: – support in all regulatory activities, workshops and events – support in preparation of cultural events and music festivals, exhibitations, conference etc. – support in administrative tasks (like creating posters, flyers, actualization on Facebook and website) – organization of indoor and outdoor activities for children (during summer holidays) – conducting own workshops in fields of arts, theatre, sound and music, photography, film, handicraft) – support activities in the village centres by organizing games for kids and hand-made art activities – support handicraft workshops in the Local product center in Sokole [CPL] – creating own events, circles of interests for kids, youngsters and/or adults.

Number of volunteers: 1 volunteer between 18-30 years old (Only Azerbaijani citizenship)

Project period  – 15/09/2020 to 14/09/2021 (12 months)

Deadline: 31st May 2020

How to apply? – Please get a registration number, apply through Youth Portal

All costs are covered by European Solidarity Corps

 No participation fee! 

Language: English

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements:

Volunteers will live in Michalowo, small village with 3000 inhabitants, in a flat together with other volunteers. Each volunteer has his own room, kitchen and bathroom is shared. In the accommodation the volunteer will find basic equipment (including bed sheet, towels etc.) . Living conditions will be simple. But we offer also stay in nice and quite environment close to nature and a lot of forrest. For food volunteers receive money each month and have to feed himself.

Application conditions and requirements for volunteering:

The volunteer should be interested in work with kids, youngsters and/or adults, needs to be creative and to have the ability to take initiative. • It is important, that the volunteer is likely to embrace the challenges, gain ability to activate and entertain others and is able to work in team and on its own • The volunteer should have a high motivation for learning polish language, since the role will involve direct contact with the public • This placement will be most suitable to someone who is open to live in the rural region without lots of comfort.