EVS in LATVIA !!!!
biLALyAvAs
Bilal YAVAS
Youth Projects Coordinator
Konya Provincial National Education Directorate
Contact person: LCC World at Our Home
Organisation: The World at our Home
Location: Rezekne, Latvia
Deadline: 01/09/2011
Start: 01/03/2012
End: 31/12/2012
EI reference: 2010-LV-18
The Language and Cultural Centre is looking for volunteers from European and Neighbouring countries and it is foreseen that volunteers will work together at the Language and Cultural Centre "World at our home". They will help each other to fulfil their daily tasks and realise their own ideas in order to aid in the provision of information for young people in Rezekne in the area of European awareness.
Our Centre works a lot with international projects and it could be interesting for our EVS volunteers to help us in our daily work; developing new contacts with European organizations in order to strengthen relations between the inhabitants of Rezekne and people from other European countries. This project will give our volunteers new knowledge and practical experience for their future.
Tasks
Furthermore, there will be the opportunity to attend language lessons (Latvian or Russian) in order to improve the communication process inside our organization, during daily activities and within the local community, enriching their personal skills and culture. Volunteers will work at the Language and Cultural Centre from Monday to Friday 14:00 till 20:00 to support our staff in the daily work. The main common task of our volunteers will be to interact with the local society sharing information about their own national culture, exchanging views on European culture, experiences in cultural work and learning some new things from each other. Other tasks of will be to help organise different intercultural activities, events, workshops and celebrations of the volunteers’ national traditions and visiting schools to present their countries. They will also help local young people to find their own EVS projects and lead interactive language activities. As well as this the volunteers will also take an active part in the regular work of the Language and Cultural Centre helping to promote and organise intercultural events according to our international projects and the special focus of the Youth in Action Programme and helping to maintain a basic service to inform young people visiting the cultural centre. During writing of our international projects, European exchanges, seminars and workshops they will also have the opportunity to add their own ideas and to help in the preparation of these events. They will also be in charge of developing the website of our organisation by adding information relating to exchange and seminars that our organisation has participated in or organised. We fully support interesting and new opinions and ideas from the volunteers. As a result they will have the opportunity to maintain and improve links with the other European Youth organisations through their contribution and interests.
Criteria
The volunteers will have to show interest and sensibility towards working with young people and adults and be able to use and show empathy, integrity and consideration. All skills which can allow them to develop new activities in our centre are welcomed. We hope they will be ready to take creative duties and be responsible and autonomous enough to propose, prepare and organise new activities and their own work according to these skills. Factors that will be important for the future volunteer work: - Be interested in European issues and/or art and cultural topics; - Like and be able to establish contacts with both young people and adults; - Have the ability to organise their own work and be ready for independent acting; - Have the ability to take initiative; - Speak English on at least a basic level (German or French may be useful as well); - Have basic skills concerning computers (Word, Internet…) All European sending and hosting organizations are invited for cooperation in EVS program.
Procedure
Please send CV and motivational letter to pasaul...@yahoo.co.uk
biLALyAvAs
Bilal YAVAS
Youth Projects Coordinator
Konya Provincial National Education Directorate
Dear Organizations!
I am sending you project description about our free EVS places in organization "Ceribu sparni" (Wings of hope). We would like to let you know that at the 1st September 2011 we are going to apply for EVS project "I am in 4".
Project details:
Contact person: Dace Zariņa
Organization "Cerību spārni" ("Wings of hope")
Location: SIGULDA, Latvia
Number of wanted volunteers: 5-7
Deadline: 20/08/2011
Start: 01/01/2012
End: 31/12/2012
Information for Volunteers
To be a volunteer:
• you have to be at least 18 to 30 years old
• you have to be available for 12 months
• you have to be able to speak English, Russian or Latvian at least at a basic level of understanding
• you have to have a sending organization (if you don't have one already you can search on the electronic database at: http://ec.europa. eu/youth/ evs/aod/hei_ en.cfm )
•you have to send a CV (photo is necessary), and a motivation letter emphasizing your interest and motivation in relation to the project you are applying for and some words about your background.
• you have to be interested to carry out various activities in the field of mental, phisical health, social work and work with youth – we also consider prior experience in the field as an advantageous point
Please, make sure that you mention any serious – chronic health problems, allergies, etc.
Also, make sure that you send us your contact details (phone number, e-mail, other relevant contact like Yahoo messenger ID, Facebook, etc.) as well as a contact of your sending organization if you have it (or as soon as you will have it)
Note that, developing initiatives, being positive, energetic, communicative, friendly, talkative, smiling and patient person as well as “team-worker” are all considered as “wanted” features.
You have to be flexible to take on a great variety of tasks and to be ready for spontaneous reactions towards the needs of the young disabled people.
In attachment you can read the project and our organization description.
Please, if you have any interested volunteer in working in the field of mental health, phisical health, social worker, youth worker than interested volunteers should send me their applications directly toevs_l...@inbox.lv by 20th of August. In your application must be included the CV, a personal motivation letter where volunteer could explain how does he see himself in social and volunteering life. Please add also your photos. After 20th of August we will finish selection of volunteers and will prepare the application form and activity agreement with the sending organisation and volunteer and apply to the national agency for the September 1st deadline.
Looking forward to receive applications from volunteers willing to come to Latvia... :)
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Best wishes,
Dace Zarina,
Organization "Cerību spārni",
tel. +371 29490242
Instituta street 5a,
Sigulda, Latvia,
LV-2150