Below you can read the EVS project description of the Slovenian branch of SCI (Service Civil International). Zavod Voluntariat is looking for 2 volunteers for a 12-month project starting on 1st January, 2012.

The work will be very diverse. It will include working in the office of Zavod Voluntariat during the winter months, promoting the organisation and its activities, organizing events, training volunteers and so on. During the summer the volunteers will take part in the international Zavod Voluntariat project all around Slovenia such as workcamps, youth exchanges and others. More info – below.

The European Voluntary Service projects (EVS) are sponsored by the European Comission and the expenses of the volunteers during their project are covered by the host organisation.

If you are interested in this project send us your CV and motivation letter, why you want to join exactly this project. Send your documents to Snezhina Kozareva, cvs-bg@bluelink.net.

The deadline for sending your documents is 3th August 2011.

If you want to recieve more information about the project or European Voluntary Service you are more than welcome to send your question to Snezhi, who is the EVS responsible in CVS-Bulgaria.

Zavod Voluntariat is looking for EVS volunteer in EVS project »Volunteers for volunteers 2012«

Activity:

The volunteer will be involved in the activities carried out by Slovenian SCI branch Voluntariat. During the summer months volunteer will be participating on international work-camps, 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 activities for our Club of volunteers (which organizes different social events, workshops and exhibitions, films different promotional and documentary videos etc).

Working hours will be flexible, depending on the activities. The average working hours will be around 6-8 hours a day.

When:

The application will be sent to Slovene National agency on 1st of September of 2011. The project will start on 1st of January of 2012. We expect the volunteer to participate on the project for 12 months.

The group:

The volunteer will mostly be working together with the staff of Zavod Voluntariat and occasionally with representatives of partner organizations and local volunteers. There will be two EVS volunteers involved in the project…

Accommodation:

The volunteer will have his/her own room in an apartment shared by another EVS volunteer and possibly by other Slovene students.

Location:

Most of the activities will  take place in Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia. Some of the activities will however take place in cooperation with different organisations in smaller places in Slovenia. Additional activities, mostly seminars and trainings, will take place around Europe.

Who are we 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.). Volunteer will also need to have a lot of self initiative, since you will be »your own boss« in coordination and implementation of 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?

The deadline for applications day is 3Th of August!

Till now we have travelled to the South (Botswana) and to the East (Sri Lanka – Southeast to be exact). Now it’s time we appreciated the culture and traditions of the West and the good old Europe. The evening ofThursday, June 9th is going to be dedicated to Ireland. We will talk about some seminars and trainings that CVS-Bulgaria volunteer took part in. Additionally we will show you some pictures and there will be discussions about Irish culture, nature and so on. If the organizers are lucky and skillful enough, we would have the pleasure to try some tasty Irish food.

We start at 6 pm on 9th June in the Hungarian Cultural Institute (16 Aksakov Str). This time there is a small entrance fee of 2 BGN to cover the costs for the organization of the event (food mainly).

We are expecting you!

Here you can find the description of an European Voluntary Service (EVS) project in Greece. The project name is “Promovolu” and the host organisation is the Greek SCI branch – SCI-Hellas. If you are interested in the project, please send us a CV to cvs-bg@bluelink.net no later than 20th May.

If you have any questions concerning the EVS and its conditions or the project itslef, please do not hesitate to contact Snezhina Kozareva at cvs-bg@bluelink.net

Project title: Promovolu

EI code: 2010-GR-23

Coordinating and Hosting organization: SCI-Hellas

Place: Athens, Greece

2 volunteers:

Project starts: 4 March 2012

Project finishes: 3 January 2013

2 volunteers:

Project starts: 4 January 2013

Project finishes: 3 November 2013

The hosting organization and the venue

SCI Hellas is the greek branch of Service Civil International, a volunteer organisation aiming to promote peace and international understanding and solidarity through the realisation of short or/and long term volunteering projects as well as the participation in training seminars and international campaigns. SCI believes that all people are capable of living together with mutual respect and without resource to any form of violence to solve conflicts. SCI Hellas is active in EVS since 1999 and has been hosting, co-ordinating and sending organisation.

The activities that SCI Hellas usually organizes include:

(a)    – international workcamps

(b)  –  long term volunteering services

(c)   –  trainings / seminars on volunteering and related issues

(d)  –  international awareness campaigns.

SCI Hellas is also a member of the Greek International Year of the Volunteer (IYV) Commission. Finally, we are involved in the Youth and Unemployment Working Group of SCI, a network that works with disadvantaged young people through youth exchanges and EVS ST projects.

The project will take place mainly in Athens, at the office of SCI Hellas. During summer workcamps and, if present, youth exchanges, the volunteers will move to the respective locations.

The role of the volunteers

The work of the Promovolu volunteers will be divided into three phases.

The first one will be from the beginning of the service until May (winter phase), the second one from June until August (summer phase) and the third one from September until the end of the service (autumn phase).

During the Winter phase the main tasks of the volunteers will be:

• Promotion of SCI and voluntary work to the public via open days, seminars, presentations etc. The volunteers will assist local volunteers in organising such activities. Includes help in the edition of SCI’s e-newsletter and website.
• SCI Hellas organises half day EVS presentation events, addressed to interested youth. The Promovolu volunteers will assist in the events with the aim of sharing experience with local EVS candidates and providing them with firsthand knowledge of the reality of being a long term EVS volunteer.
• SCI works with local communities, or other associations for the organisation of volunteer programmes. The volunteers will assist in establishing links with other NGOs active in field of SCI interest. Presentations and visits in situ are included.
• Volunteers are encouraged to develop personal voluntary projects in relation to relevant issues (such as Refugees, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, social exclusion, gender issues, peace education etc.) depending on their interest. Former Promovolus have developed so far projects on conflict resolution education, history of international volunteering in Greece, inclusion of socially disadvantaged volunteers in international volunteering, awareness campaign on visa and international volunteering, cataloguing and setting up a library and a permanent exhibition, promotional leaflet of SCI-Hellas, etc.

Whenever possible, all SCI work is done by working groups or teams of volunteers.

In the Summer phase, the volunteers will participate in SCI summer workcamps and, if present, youth exchanges, and assist in the preparation and follow up of those camps/exchanges. The first month (June) depending on the opportunities available and on the interest of the volunteers, they will receive:

-workcamp management training,

-co-ordinator training,

-will learn group dynamics and

-conflict resolution techniques.

It is not known at this moment, how many and which are the workcamps that SCI Hellas will organise next summer. Some time before the workcamp (early June) visits in situ are needed to check the conditions and agree with the co-operating organisation on the facilities that should be provided for the smooth running of the project. The volunteers will participate in those visits too.

During the Autumn phase, each volunteer will be involved in Reporting and evaluating the workcamps s/he has participated and the whole project. The volunteers will assist in compiling the statistics of SCI Hellas for the annual report of SCI, in organizing the evaluation meeting of Greek volunteers who participated in SCI workcamps during the summer, proposals for follow up and prepare the ‘first’ edition of the e-newsletter of SCI Hellas following the exchange season, where there is quite some information to be shared. Additionally at this time of period volunteers will organise in cooperation with the members of SCI-Hellas promotional activities for the organisation and volunteering generally as well as contacts with organisations and municipalities for new workcamps. This is the period for them to develop their own projects as well.

It is a fundamental intention of SCI Hellas to provide adequate preparation training to all volunteers, both local and international, before embarking in the realization of volunteer tasks within the organisations’ aims. In addition, it is SCI Hellas modus operandi to divide and share volunteer tasks among small groups of volunteers that would support each other and learn group work in practice in the materialization of those tasks. In such a way it is a mutual enrichment in knowledge and practice from/by the organization, from/by the local volunteers and from/by the Promovolus.

Volunteers will be trained and supported in order to develop their tasks either through specific training courses (on topics such as Organisation of open day events, Edition and running of SCI Hellas e-newsletter, Camp-leader training etc.) or in the form of an ongoing informal supervision and support by the task responsible in SCI Hellas.

Practical information

The volunteers will be hosted in a flat where they will stay in double or triple room and they will share common spaces (living room, kitchen and bathroom).

They will receive monthly pocket money (95 euros) and food money (at least 160 euros) to buy their own food. All local and, if needed, international travel expenses related to the implementation of the project will be covered by the hosting organization.

At the beginning of the service the volunteers will be introduced to their mentor, who will hold regular meetings with them to help them reflecting on their learning process and will be also available at any time in case problems or crisis arise. A supervisor of the tasks from SCIHellas will be in charge of training and helping the volunteers so that they can develop their tasks.

Volunteers will work maximum 6 hours per day, 5 days per week. During workcamps or whenever they will be asked to work 7 days per week, they will get two extra days free after the end of the activity.

In relation to holidays the volunteers will be off for Christmas, Easter, National Holidays and a holiday time (total of 2 days per month of service).

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In the attached (below) file you can check out the new offer of the week with workcamps in Europe. Notice that this is only the team’s choice and there are many more workcamp projects on the SCI search engine website www.workcamps.info. Browse it and you will see there are a lot of offers all over the world!

If one (or more) of the workcamps strikes your attention (no matter from the offer of the week or from the search engine), fill in the application form and send it to cvs-bg@bluelink.net. Note that there is a administrative fee to take part in a workcamp and the volunteers cover their travel costs. You can read more about the workcamp conditions here.

There are no deadlines, but faster you are, the better chance there is to be chosen for your wish workcamp!

If you have any questions, please, do not hesitate to contact Vera (our placement officer) at cvs-bg@bluelink.net!

Offer of the week

CVS Application Form – Workcamps 2011