Freiwilligendienst in slowakischem Waisenhaus

Sobald wie möglich soll dein Freiwilligendienst in einem slowakischen Waisenhaus losgehen. Das Projekt dauert bis Ende Oktober 2010. Wenn dir die Projektbeschreibung weiter unten gefällt und du bis Oktober Zeit hast, dann melde dich ganz schnell bei uns. Gib in jedem Fall gleich alle Kontaktinfos an, damit wir dich ganz schnell erreichen können.



Detský domov

Project environment
Vranov nad Top¾ou is located in the northwest part of Eastern Slovakia Lowland in the upper part of the region called Zemplin between the rivers of Top¾a and Ondava near Poland and Ukraine borders. The town is situated near the second biggest town in Slovakia Košice and town Prešov. The town is a starting point for trips to the Ve¾ka Domaša water reservoir.
In the town of Vranov nad Top¾ou live 26 thousand inhabitans. There live Slovak, Czech, Roma, Rusyns, Ukrainian people. The religions represent mainly Roman Catholics, Greek Catholics, Lutherans.
The town is an economic centre of the area. A famous person from Vranov is Jan Figel, a politician, the European Commissioner of Education and Culture.
Children´s Home is situated 100 meters from the centre of Vranov nad Top¾ou. It is not far for children and youth from Childrenœ Home to the schools, cultural and educational centres, cinemas, sport centres, banks or hospital etc. Our Children´s Home consists of one main building and 2 other houses. One is situated near the main building and the other one in the town of Humenne near Vranov nad Top¾ou /25 km/.
In town Vranov nad Top¾ou we have primary schools, a lot of secondary schools, possibilities to spend free time for example: ice rink, swimming pool, cultural centres, cinemas, internet cafés etc. You can find more information on www.vranov.sk . The town organizes a lot of cultural and sports events during the year.

Please explain:
" what you can offer to volunteers in terms of Service and learning opportunities,
" what will be the role of EVS volunteers in the Host Organisation,
" the activities in which the volunteers could be involved and the activities the volunteers could create in your organisation. Please give examples of typical activities for the volunteers.
The main aim of this project is possibility for young people from Europe to know other country, culture, meals, language and manners. The volunteer will learn some new facts about the life of children who do not have parents, will gain new skills in child care in this organisation. Volunteer will make new friends. Volunteer can utilise their own ideas on EVS project. In our project volunteer will lead children and youth in the leisure activities /such as painting, dancing, sports actvities, singing, playing games/ with help of the employees of Children´s Home . The children can talk, play games, do activities together with the volunteer, which will offer them and enable them to receive new ideas from the children activities.
Aims of the project
1. We would like to offer a chance for volunteers - young people from Europe, to get to know our country Slovakia, nature, countryside, culture and care of children and youth people.
2. To give a chance for children and young people from the Children´s Home to get to know other countries and cultures via volunteers and their activities in our organisation.
Daily programme:
MONDAY - FRIDAY
06,30 - 07,00 - getting up
07,00 - 07,30 - breakfast in families /help with breakfast/
07,30 - 08,30 - departure to schools / they are 15 minutes by walk from the home/.
Children are accompanied during the walk, this walk must be safe and the volunteer
will go with the other workers together to school and take care of younger children
08,30 - 10,30 - free time
10,30 - 11,30 - language course in the Slovak language
1st-3rd month - 3 times a week
4th-6th month - twice a week
7th-12th month - once a week

Time for learning new ideas, gaining various experience, skills,……..
In case the volunteer does not take the Slovak language course and he/she will visit Centre of Leisure Time in Vranov nad Top¾ou from 10,30 till 11,30 where they can receive new skills how to prepare leisure time activities for children and youth or go and visit similar institutions for inspiration and receiving basic practical experience from painting and go and see dancing groups for learning the dances /typical Slovak folk, modern, etc./ and she/he can have a possibility to work with a PC /to make posters, preparation for game activities for afternoon/, the Internet and phone /volunteer can use it for communication with the sending organisation, with friends and for finding ideas for work/, too at home
12,00 - 13,00 help with cooking lunch with an educator
13,00 - 14,00 accompanying children from schools to the Children´s Home by walk together with worker
14,00 - 16,00 3 times a week a leisure time - activities with children for example singing, playing, dancing, sports activities, each week in a different group dependence of age /every week the volunteer will have to change the group/family/ of children/
twice a week - art, painting, creative activities for children - 1 x with younger and 1x with older children
16,00 - 18,00 leisure time
18,00 - 18,30 dinner in families /help the educator with preparation/
18,30 - 20,00 3x a week sports and games /handball, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, etc./ for underage mothers aimed at relaxing exercises such as dancing, aerobics, yoga, dancing group
20,00 leisure time
SATURDAY : FREE TIME
SUNDAY: FREE TIME
The volunteer will work 5 days a week, together it is 32.5 working hours a week.

The Children´s Home takes part in grants in which we organize theme activities and activities for children with health and educational problems.

Our volunteer is to arrange the organisation of free time activities for the children and youth, and thus is a helping hand to the educators in this field. At the same time, he/she is to bring in their own ideas, activities, their own cultural and national dimension.


PERCENTAGE DIVISION OF ACTIVITIES
5% - using PC
5% - access to the Internet and telephone
15% - language course
10% - volunteer´s own creativity, initiatives, ideas,
10% - accompanying children from schools
10% - art groups
10% - leisure time activities
10% - relaxing groups
10% - gaining art skills
10% - supporting the volunteer and meeting with the mentor
5% - meetings with the manager and workers in Children´s Home

Note:
After three months we enlarge access to the Internet and telephone and reduce the course in the Slovak language.
Volunteers will regularly take part in the educators´ working meetings.

Holidays during EVS: The volunteer will have 20 days of holiday during 1 year of EVS. He/she can spend this in Children´s Home or can travel and see new towns, areas, countries, etc.

Accommodation:
Volunteer will live in a youth hostel.
There is a single flat - 1 room, a kitchen, a bathroom, a toilet, a corridor and a separate entrance
A single room - a day-bed, a wall system furniture, a TV set, a radio, a small kitchen unit, a cooker, a fridge, a microwave oven, kitchen utensils, a bath, a washbasin, a laundress, a corridor.
Food:
We offer three types: 1. all day board can be served in dining room at the families
2. separately in their own kitchen
3. combination
Support:
Volunteer will have full support from all the workers of our organisation.
We offer a responsible person for volunteers who will be at their disposal mainly in the first months. It will include providing information about the town, seeing a doctor and going to offices. At the beginning he/she will stay with volunteers during weekends until they make some new friends. This person will be a contact person between the home´s management and volunteers. If any problems arise, he/she will help to solve them.

EXPERT ASSISTANCE:
In case of an interest we are able to provide a graphic artist who will help to gain or to enlarge knowledge and skills in art education.
If volunteers show an interest to learn to dance in order to help with a dance group, we could arrange visits in dancing groups in the region where they can gain knowledge and skills and learn new types of dances.
All activities of volunteers will be carried out in the presence of educators or responsible persons.

Opportunity:
- use possibility to cooperate with russian and roma´s minority, he/she will have oportunity to
learn how to be tolerant with different etnic group
- work with children and youth
- pick up skills in this leisure time activities
- intercultural learning - contact with public
- to prepare his/her own little project
- to know about traditional Slovak food and folklore, history

Motivation and EVS experience
The Detský domov -/in English Children´s Home /has previous experience in sending EVS volunteer because we´ve been taking part in this programme since 2006 .
This project has the main aim to let European young people know another country, a different culture with its meals, language and manners. In this way volunteer will get to know new facts and learn new skills. We would like to export our culture and traditions and make foreigners know about the beauties of our country.
Moreover, we have decided to join this project because we think that this could be a way to enrich our organization with other cultures and ideas. For this purpose volunteers during their EVS are taking part in the activities and of our organisation, considering their interests and skills, and are being encouraged to promote their own ideas to create new activities or to improve the existing ones.
Working in our organization enables them meet new people and make friendships easier. We would also like to be the sending organisation and to give a chance to young people from our organisation to participate on the EVS projects in different parts of Europe.
The Children´s Home has obtained accreditation as the Sending Organisation under European Voluntary Services in 2005. Later in that year we sent a young adult as the EVS volunteer to Greece. He then, after the completion of the voluntary service, successfully realised a one-year project also in Greece - Future Capital . This successful person showed a very good adaptation to other communities, he can now speak English and Greek. He is on Cyprus at the moment, having a career promotion in organising free time activities, and left the Children´s Home in autumn 2007. We cannot imagine a better and more universal way for such young people from children´s homes how to learn and become independent in their lives. He left the home after over 10 years well prepared thanks to this opportunity. After he departed, another young adult from our Children´s Home has expressed his earnest interest in EVS. We consider this way of gaining self-independence a very progressive and unique one. This is our main motive - to support and help adult children interested in this programme on their way of independence.
Description of the organisation
Children´s Home in the town of Vranov nad Toplou is a governmental institution which provides permanent social and educational custody and guardianship for children with mandatory institutional education from the birth to 25 years of age and then up to their independence but no longer than the age of 25. The capacity of the home is 60 children and young people. There are children with mandatory institutional education who were chosen from unsuitable and unbearable family environments.
The Children´s Home provides elementary institutional care, boarding and maintenance. It also arranges culture, recreation, afterschool and sports activities. Our duties are to give children and young people accommodation, food, care, preparing for school and education, free time activities and psychotherapy. We provide medical and educational care, too. Educational process is carried out on the basis of Christian education respecting the Chart Of Child´s Rights. After the age of 25, we help these young people to find accommodation and jobs because they have to leave the Children´s Home.
In our home we live like in 5 professional families. In such a professional family live an educator, the children and young people (about 10 or 12) between the ages of 1 and 25.
The Children´s Home is active in finding compensatory care such as personal care, custody, adoption in homeland or abroad. It also helps the children to return to their original biological families.
There live children who attend primary, secondary and special schools. The children´s needs are various and depend on their mental and physical abilities. Our home has a grass playground for many sports activities, sand-pits, fitness gym, Internet cafe, mountain bikes, zone of free relaxation.