ONCE Cantabria
ASOCIACIÓN SER JOVEN
ONCE-Delegación Cantabria
Santander, Spain
Description
We are looking for VOLUNTEERS that will help with: accompaniment to visually impaired people in order to help them in daily tasks, like going to a bank, visiting a doctor, running errands and so on as well as helping them to participate in the activities organized by the ONCE organization (accompaniment from their houses to ONCE headquarters and vice-versa and support in ONCE workshops: ceramics, theatre, book reading…, accompaniment during sightseeing excursions or hiking, accompaniment to events, shows and celebrations…)
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Accommodation (shared flat AND SHARED ROOM), local transportation (travel card), monthly pocket money (180 euros), the Spanish training course for foreigners, food money (150 euros), mentor, an opportunity to carry out a personal project, international work team.
Training during the activity
At the beginning of the activity, all volunteers are offered a special training course by specialists in the rehabilitation of ONCE members with recent visual impairment, in which they learn: the history aims and functioning of ONCE as an institution and different services it offers, the meaning and importance of voluntary work; relation with people with blindness and visual impairment; techniques of accompaniment to people with visual impairment; types of visual impairments.
Participant profile
We are looking for motivated persons, whose physical and mental condition is compatible with project duties; i.e. a person with no mobility problems and motivated enough (sometimes, the Project activities can seem routine); flexible (the activities have no fixed timetable, as they mostly depend on the needs of ONCE members); communicative, willing to learn or improve Spanish language, able to motivate a person with visual impairment to go out and enrich their social life.
Activity dates
A total of 43 week(s) during the period 01/02/2026 to 30/11/2026
Activity location
C/Burgos, 3, Santander, Spain
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine
Activity topics
Social challenges
Citizenship and democratic participation
Health and wellbeing
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 05/12/2025 23:59
Project code
2025-1-ES02-ESC51-VTJ-000347004