Mira

 

You are between 18 and 30, you want to be a volunteer, you are interested in art and photography, you want to work with volunteers from Germany, Portugal and Slovenia with youngsters from Normandy, France? You are all of the above and plus you are from the adventurous type and you are free to start the project in the beginning of October 2012 and to stay 9 months!

 

All of this is possible thanks to the apporved European Voluntary Service project. Its starting date is October 1st and we need urgently one volunteer. In EVS projects all the accommodation, food and activity costs as well as pocket money are covered. The programme reimburses also 90 % of the travel expences.

If you are the one motivated volunteer don’t lose time and read the project description below, prepare your CV and write your motivation letter in English. Send all the documents to Natalia to longterm@cvs-bg.org.

 

There is no deadline but the project starts just in few days, so we expect you to be very quick!

 

Project description:

Who? The organization “R?seau des MJC Normandes / RMJCN” (Network of youth and cultural centers in the Normandy region) located in France is looking for one volunteer for its project 2010-FR-5.

For who? A motivated youngster between 18 and 30 years old interested by art and culture, curious, open-minded, and who likes working in a team. Driving license would be really good!

What ‘s the RMJCN? The RMJCN helps its affiliated associations, as well as its staff, to set up their projects, particularly for the children and the young people.

What’s the project? It will be a collective EVS hosting on the topic of Art and Culture with 3 other volunteers from Germany, Slovenia and Portugal.

To do which Activities?

  • Follow-up of a common project done with the other volunteers one day per week
  • Doing videos and photos reports concerning the collective voluntary service
  • Presentation in front of the different organizations of youngsters from 12 to 17 years old
  • Sharing his/her experience, culture, motivation, feelings in the different youth and cultural centers and leisure centers of the region

 

Where? In France; Normandy Region. The city where you will be is called Yvetot (about 8000 inhabitants). Yvetot offers all services (administrative and health services) and leisure (cinema, restaurants, cultural centers…). A train joins Paris to Le Havre (1h1/2 from Paris and less than 30 mn from Le Havre and Rouen), several bus lines (one goes to the see). It is a tourist area which offers many possibilities. The accommodation is a nice flat where everyone has its own room. You’ll have to share it with the 3 other volunteers.

How long? 9 months

When? From 1st of October 2012 (very soon!) until 30th of June 2013.

 

We are waiting for you!

 

Please, send your CV and motivation letter to:

Natalie Zhivkova – longterm@cvs-bg.org

 Posted by Mira at 22:49 Comments Off on Urgent: We need 1 volunteer for an approved EVS in France
 

If you are between 18 and 30 years old, you want to be useful, to volunteer and you don’t know what to do the next year, read this information for an approved EVS project which is looking just for its volunteer. May be that’s you…

Here is some short info on the project:

Activities dates: 5/09/2012 – 4/09/2013

Duration: 12 months duration (t culd start a bit later)

Place of activities: Tours, France – Compagnons Batisseurs Bretagne Etablissement Centre

Website of the organization: www.compagnonsbatisseurs.org

HEI ref number: 2010-FR-186

 

Role and tasks of the volunteer:
The activity support of the project is around housing and precarious living conditions of numerous families in rural or urban areas. The main activity is the family building sites, that is to say making works with the families: preparation and realisation of the work together, meals taken in common and activities with children when possible.

In Marseille most of the works are focused on painting, laying wallpaper, electrical repairs small plumbing repairs, internal arrangements: installation of shelving… If the technical support is fundamental, it is only the support to an educational approach, in mobilizing the families. This help is hardly quantifiable, and is different from a person to another. Most of the families are composed by lonely women with children, marginalized couples with or without children.Volunteers are responsible for technical realisation, work and life organization on the site with the support of a technical animator.

Volunteers could also be in charge of the co-animation of international workcamp. It is an important moment of the voluntary service during which they have to co-manage the workcamp and a group of young people technically and educationally (preparation of the meals, dusting, getting food, logistics…). The volunteers can also co-organize some short workcamps during week ends. They are a pretext to support associative life of the regional association putting together active members, partners, volunteers, families…).

The volunteers have the possibility to get involved in the national or regional life of the association in participating in meetings or in the Executive Committee which corresponds to their inspirations and to their demand to develop a real and active European citizenship. The EVS coordinator, the EC and the whole association are concerned by accompanying all the volunteers in their discovery of the association and its functioning.

If you are interested contact Natalia at longterm@cvs-bg.org as soon as possible!

 Posted by Mira at 12:20 Volunteer news Comments Off on Urgently looking for a volunteer for approved EVS project in France
 

The Slovene Branch of SCI (Service Civil International) Zavod Voluntariat is looking for 2 EVS volunteers. The volunteer will be involved in the activities carried out by Zavod Voluntariat. During the summer months he/she will be participating on international work-camps and will help organizing and conducting youth exchanges and other similar projects. During the winter months he/she will help organizing promotional activities, help with the workshops and trainings for volunteers and with the  social activities for our Club of volunteers (which organizes different social events, workshops and exhibitions, films different promotional and documentary videos etc).

If the project is approved, it will start on 1st of January of 2013 and will last for 12 months. The organization is looking for a reliable, communicative and a very motivated volunteer, who wants to gain new knowledge that he/she could later on apply in future professional and personal activities and situations. It’s very important that the volunteer is used to working in a team, that he/she is sociable, has a sense of humour and is flexible in different situations (e.g.: to propose/invent some additional activities in a time when there won’t be any other specific activities on the agenda and prepared to give an extra hand in a period full of current activities.).

Volunteers who have experience, or would like to learn more about web design, graphic design, newspaper editing and video production (filming, editing) are especially welcome!

 

Interested volunteers should  send the following documents:

  • Application form
  • CV
  • Motivation letter
The filled in documents send to our Longterm Volunteering coordinator Natalie Zhivkova at e-mail longterm@cvs-bg.org. If you have any questions concerning the project or EVS activities, feel free to address them to her as well.

Here you can download the detailed project description and the application form.

Project description_EVS_Zavod_Voluntariat

Application form_EVS_Zavod_Voluntariat

The deadline is August 31st, so don’t hesitate and apply now!

 Posted by Mira at 11:31 Volunteer news Comments Off on 2 EVS volunteers for “Volunteers for Volunteers 2013” project in Slovenia
 

Few months ago ended Judit Vas’ one-year’ volunteer project in CVS Bulgaria. Here, here and here you can read more about what Judit did during here EVS service (European Voluntary Service). She has already gone home in Hungary, but to all the future EVS volunteers in Bulgaria she left a so called guidebook with information on EVS projects, Bulgaria and her own experiences. Moreover, Judit liked Bulgaria so much that she came back! We wish to thank her one more time and to wish her luck in her future projects.

In the attached file you can read the guidebook.

 

 Posted by Mira at 10:14 Volunteer news Comments Off on EVS volunteer in Bulgaria? All you need to know – personal experience
 

 

CVS Bulgaria is looking for participants for a volunteer workcamp in September. The camp is a cultural experiment and the goal is to put contemporary people in the surrounding the Thracians lived centuries ago. This includes getting to know their cuisine, traditions, martial arts and habits of the ancient culture. During the work camp the Bulgarian National Television will shoot a documentary about the adventure.

The dates are 13-27 September. Details about accommodation, food, conditions, work and study topics in the “Rhezos” work camp you can find in the following link.

Please note that in SCI volunteer workcamps we try to keep the gender balance. Until now there are more female volunteers that applied for the workcamp, so we are specially appealing to the male volunteers to apply for this adventurous workcmap.

So already looking forward to spend 2 weeks in beautiful surroundings reproducing the life of an ancient civilization? If so, contact immediately our placement officer Sofiya at placement@cvs-bg.org. If you are not familiar with the idea behind workcamps feel free to explore our page about it.
 Posted by Mira at 15:06 Volunteer activities Comments Off on Volunteer Workcamp: Rhezos – In the steps of old civilizations
 

International Secretariat Office bell in Antwerp.
For SCI ring 3 times…

 

Service Civil International (SCI), a dynamic, international volunteer organisation dedicated to promoting peace and intercultural understanding through international volunteer projects all over the world, is currently looking for an International Secretary to strengthen its office team at the International Secretariat in Antwerp, Belgium.

The main tasks of the International Secretary are: managing the office and staff, administration, supporting branches and international working groups, external representation, fundraising and networking, propose and execute new projects, and take initiatives for the accomplishment of the Strategic Plan of SCI.

The organisation is looking for someone with strong leadership and communication skills, intercultural experience, vision, creativity, proven staff management skills, entrepreneurial attitude, and experience on international civil and voluntary service organisations.

Here you can find more detailed information about this call for International Secretary as well as about the application procedure.

 

 

 Posted by Mira at 08:51 Volunteer news Comments Off on SCI looking for International Secretary
 

The updated vacacies list for long term volunteering positions in SCI is out there. Inside you can find volunteer projects in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Mediterrenian region. The positions are divided into European Voluntary Service projects (EVS) and Long-term volunteer position in SCI. Note that there is a difference between the two types of projects in terms of financing.

So, have a look, read carefully and pick what’s the thing that you would do voluntarily for a longer period. Once ready with that, contact our long-term volunteering coordinator Natalia Zhivkova. You can ask her all of your question at longterm@cvs-bg.org.

And attached are the actual vacancy list and the application form!

Long Term Volunteering – Vacancies List July 2012

Application Form LTV 2011-12

 Posted by Mira at 22:01 Volunteer news Comments Off on Looking for volunteers: long-term
 

 

Partners and SCI branches from Kosovo, Serbia and Germany are organizing an exciting follow up of a 2011 youth exchange called Art in Action. The participants should use creative tools and activities to prepare and implent a raising awareness campaign on human rights in the area of Plemetina, Kosovo. The project is open for participants from Serbia, Kosovo and Germany and all other countries. The dates are September 16-26th.

In the attached files you can find more info about the project and to fill in the form. Interested people from Bulgaria should send it to the organizers’ e-mail address gaia.kosovo@gmail.com no later than August 1st.

Call for participants_GAIA_Art in Action_2_2012

Application form_Art in Action_2_2012

 Posted by Mira at 21:00 Comments Off on Art and human resources – 10-day’ international workshop in Kosovo
 

On Wednesday (May, 2nd) we organized a surprise goodbye party for our EVS volunteer Judit Vas. No matter how strange it feels, one year has already past since the beginning of Judit’s project on promoting voluntarism in Bulgaria. She was a very important part of the team and she will be missed a lot, but there is no place for sad feelings. From now on we will work on future mutual activities weather here or in Hungary or sowhere around the wrold!

Here you can read what Judit has to say for her last few months spent in Bulgaria working on her project.

The last part of my EVS

I think one reason to do EVS is the opportunity to try so many different things. In the past few months I had a chance to participatе in the Sofia International Film Festival as a volunteer. It’s a very good feeling to see something from inside. We can’t imagine how many people work in a project just to make everything perferct for us. I was a member of the group of 50 volunteers. In the morning time we took the newspapers to the cinemas, restaurants; and in the afternoon and in the evening we were waiting for the guests in the entrance of a cinema. Here I could use my very small (almost nothing) Bulgarian knowledge, but I noticed that almost everybody speeks in English in Sofia. In that time I saw so many movies, which was great. Sometimes I didn’t understand the director and the movie, but March was a very good month with new people, lots of movies and new friends.

This film festival was a two in one project where I met with new EVS volunteers who just came to Sofia; and sometimes I asked the people to talk in English because I didn’t understand everything in Bulgarian. Than they asked me why do I speak in English. I expained so many times that I am an EVS volunteer from Hungary, and I was talking with them about volunteerizm.

In the same time I continued the work with the orphan kids every weekend. They are amazing. If you just look in to them eyes you will see the love and the sadness in the same time. I don’t know how can people leave them. If I could, I would adopt all of them. With this kids we are cooking, playing, we have some art workshops and if the weather is nice we go out to a park and play with them there.
Few weeks ago I took some kids to a theater performance about the Bulgarian winter and spring. They enjoyed it so much, they were smiling, laughing, and I was so happy in that time, because I took part in this miracle to see so many shiney eyes. I love this kids, I hope they will have a nice life.

In April we had a youth picnic in Zapaden Park. For me this park is one of the most beautiful place of Sofia where young people can meet, where families can spend a whole day, where children can play. It’s out of the busy city center, far from the voice of the cars. We crossed the forest and spend some time there but unfortunately the weather was against us.
In the end of April we organized a Hungarian cultural and youth evening together with the Hungarian Institute. First we started with Hungarian dance lesson, than we continued with Hungarian folk tales. Later there was a presentation about CVS and the workcamps. We finished with some team games and good Hungarian wine.

And now I am a little bit sad, because I have to say that it is the end of my EVS. This one year went away, it was the best year of my life with friends, with adventures in my favorite country Bulgaria. I have only one and a half day here, and now I don’t want to go back to Hungary at all. I will miss everybody and everything from here. It was the best decision in my life to go to EVS, and now it’s the hardest thing to say goodbye to my friends, to my second home. I should be very happy now, because I was one of the lucky people who participated in EVS, and I am very happy because of it; but in the other hand it’s hard to leave Sofia. Thanks CVS-Bulgaria, girls, Youth in Action! Thanks for all! I will never forget this year in Sofia, a half of my heart will stay here. And I’ll be back soon!

 

 Posted by Mira at 10:17 Volunteer news Comments Off on Bye Judit and see you soon!
 

Our two cheerful interns Zhala and Mani chose few workcamp suggestion especially for you. What, where, when you can find out in the attached file.

How to apply for a volunteer workcamp? Probably you are already familiar with the procedure – browse through the suggestions, choose, fill in the form and send to placement@cvs-bg.org. In case it’s the first time you hear about a volunteer workcamp, you can learn more from the following link.

In case in the weekly suggestions you can’t find your workcamp, DON’T PANIC! There are hundreds more in the Service Civil International Workcamps Database. Here you have the opportunity to tailor your search for countires, dates, topics and so on.

And now read carefully the conditions to participate in a workcamp and fill in your application form. In case there are more questions, feel free to use the above mentioned e-mail. Our charming placement officer Sofiq will help you!

So, browse, dream and apply! 🙂

 

 Posted by Mira at 09:59 Comments Off on Weekly workcamp suggestions