Location: Germany
Hosting organisation: Friedehorst
Sending organisation: “Common Sense” Youth Organisation

Purpose of the projects: 

In the Tagesförderstätte the offers in the departments work, employment and support take place in 16 different groups. These are divided into: Support groups, creative groups, work therapy groups, and individual workplaces. The different professional groups from handicraft, pedagogy, care and therapy work together in the day support centre in an interdisciplinary way. In addition, they provide project-oriented activities mainly in the afternoons, including the theatre group, garden group, music group, cooking group, rhythm group and discussion group. Your responsibilities include:

  • Support the team in small group-oriented offers for severely and multiply disabled adults who could neither find work on the free labour market nor in a workshop for disabled people.
  • Providing small activities for the participants, including own projects on topics that you are interested in
  • Support in everyday life such as, the need-oriented accompaniment of the participants.
  • Promotion and support of therapeutic measures, e.g. wheelchair training, gait school, physiotherapy
  • All includes from time to time the assumption of basic care activities under guidance, (e.g. serving meals, fetch and bring services, Handing out meals, Washing dishes)
  • Promotion of outdoor orientation, accompaniment/organisation of leisure activities
  • Planning and implementing events together with the other volunteers for the community of Bremen

Project period – 01.10.2024 – 30.09.2025

Deadline: 07.04.2024

How to apply? –  Please get a registration number from the European Youth Portal and fill out the application form

All costs are covered by European Solidarity Corps

No participation fee! 

Language: English

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements: 

Plane and bus tickets will be fully covered by the project financing. Accommodation is provided with overhead costs included. You will be accommodated in a flat or a house in Bremen with 4 other ESC volunteers. You will have your private bedroom and share the kitchen, bathroom and other spaces in the flat/house with other volunteers. Accommodation details will be provided to shortlisted candidates. Travel expenses are covered with a certain limit. The volunteer’s monthly allowance includes food, pocket money and local transport.

Application conditions and requirements for volunteering: 

✔ Between 18 and 30 years;

✔ Possess good command of English (ability to clearly understand and

communicate with others in English);

✔ Communicative and sociable.

✔ Ideally stay for a year

Sending organisation information 

Name of the sending organisation: “Common Sense” Youth Organisation 

OID number : E10200624

Person in charge (name and surname): Ramiz Aliyev

E-mail of the person in charge: evs@csyo-az.org