European Volunteer Program in Poland

Topic name	European Volunteer Program in Poland
Place	Bialystok, Poland
Duration	01.10.2011-15.05.2011
Age	18-30
Required Documents	CV and  Motivation letter
Deadline	June
Description	1) PROMOTING EVS EVS volunteers will prepare and distribute informative materials They will prepare workshops to be run in schools, with the aim of providing information about the European Voluntary Service. They will organize special events where EVS and other voluntary activities could be promoted The European volunteers’ task will be also opening and running EVS Info Point/European Area at the Foundation. During the opening hours of the Info Point the volunteers will give information about programs for youth mobility, especially about EVS and collect CVs of possible candidates. The volunteers could also offer consultancy about EVS experience. 2) OUR WEBSITE, OUR CHRONICLE The volunteers could help us translate our Polish website and update it. They could also write a diary/chronicle of the main events happening in the Foundation. The diary/chronicle, a traditional paper book with text and photos, will be available to all guests visiting our Foundation. Besides, they can also write a blog/forum to share the news with anyone who visits our website.  3) TANDEM LANGUAGE LEARNING Volunteer’s responsibility would be to organize meetings of tandems (or meetings of more than two), where people interested in learning some particular language could meet at the office of Foundation of Education and Creativity on a weekly basis to exchange their knowledge. Volunteer’s tasks would include: informing about time and place of the meetings; planning future meetings. 4) MOVIE DISCUSSION CLUB - CINEFORUM The volunteers, with the support of Polish people working in our Foundation, will organize projections of movies from different countries, dealing with various social and culture issues. After the movie, the audience will have a discussion. 5) BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER BBBS is a program in which volunteers are matched with children from dysfunctional families. The task of the European volunteers will be to organize special events to promote this program in Białystok and integration events for volunteers and children/teenagers taking part in the BBBS program. 6) FACING DISABILITY The task will be to promote EVS for disable people and help them search for and prepare for the projects.  7) OUR LANGUAGE SCHOOL The task of EVS volunteers will be to promote the school, to help coordinate the groups, add ‘social’ dimension to the courses.
Other	The volunteers will learn how to prepare and lead discussions, presentations, graphic materials, prepare and conduct projects, work with refugees from Chechnya, the disabled people and work in a team.
E-mail:	ngo.volunteerdepartment@gmail.com

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