Long-Term Volunteering Projects in Latvia!

Location: Gulbene, Latvia

Project name: Volunteering project in Latvia

Hosting organization: Gulbenes Novada

Sending organization: “Common Sense” Youth Organization

Purpose of the project: This project is coordinated by the Gulbene Municipality Education Department. The European Solidarity Corps allows us to host four youngsters from different countries to have important intercultural and professional growth by doing long-term voluntary work, 10 months long (maybe even longer) for one of two preschool education institutions in Gulbene Municipality countryside. The project aims to provide a supportive environment for volunteers to work and gain intercultural experience, and personality development, offering a stable working structure in the organization, as well as the possibility to show initiative; to expand public knowledge about the European and local voluntary work promoting intercultural dialogue and expanding horizons. The main work areas are preschool institutions (kids from 1 to 7 years old), as well as initiatives in the local community. Main tasks are to help kindergarten staff; assist with different daily activities and organize different activities based on own ideas.

 Number of volunteers: 4 Volunteers between 18-30 years old (Only Azerbaijani citizenship)

Project period –  October|2024 to August|2025 (10 months)

Deadline: 21/06/2024

Please get a registration number, apply through the European Youth Portal, and apply by sending a CV and cover letter: to lauris.skenders@gulbene.lv and evs@csyo-az.org

ACCOMMODATION, FOOD, AND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS

The project financing will fully cover plane and bus tickets, but the purchase will be organized either by the volunteer or by the sending organization. Volunteers should arrive in the capital of Latvia – Riga when traveling by plane. Gulbene Municipality will provide the transfer from Riga airport to Gulbene. During the volunteering activities, local public transport will be available. The volunteer will get 5 Euros a day as pocket money (around), and 210 euros for food. We will help the volunteer to open a Latvian bank account. The municipality will help to organize all things related to getting a Latvian ID number in the migration department.

TRAINING DURING THE ACTIVITY

To organize different activities in kindergartens

Daily support for teachers

Work with the local community in villages

Work with the local public institutions, cultural centers, schools, etc.

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

Organise activities in kindergarten;

✔ Ready to learn and accept

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

communicate with others in English);

✔ Help teachers in kindergarten daily life

✔ Full of ideas for activities

✔ Work with local public institutions – youth centers, schools, cultural centers.

✔ Communicative and sociable

✔  An explorer

✔  Supportive and flexible

✔ Ideally stay for a year

How to get a registration number? – If you don’t have an account on the European Youth Portal, please watch our instruction videos from this Link

All costs are covered by the European Solidarity Corps

No participation fee! 

Language: English

Sending Organization Information 

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

OID number: E10200624

City and country of your sending organization: Sumgait, Azerbaijan

Person in charge (name and surname): Ramiz Aliyev

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