Volunteering in a foster home - Volunteers from Italy
PROATLANTICO - ASSOCIACAO JUVENIL
Casa Pia de Lisboa
Estoril, Portugal
Description
8492 - Casa Pia de Lisboa (CPL) wants to promote the rights and protection of children and young people, especially those who are in danger or at risk of exclusion. This project will take place in Centro de Educação e Desenvolvimento Santa Clara. Each foster home offers protection in maximum to 14 children and young people young people, under 18 years old that were victims of maltreatments. Eg of activities: -Animate and implement leisure time activities (eg. sports, music, singing, dance, theatre, handicrafts, watching movies, thematic conversations, etc.) -Accompany children in outside activities of the foster home (ex: go to the doctor, take children to/from school/playground/cultural places, etc.) -Motivate children/youngsters to study -Propose and implement specific activities related to the period of the holidays -Help with the meals -Help with events of fundraising (fairs, concerts, etc) - Help in the house
Ordninger for innkvartering, mat og transport
ProAtlântico will provide €5 to cover costs of food and extra expenses during non-working time. During working time the receiving organization provides suitable meal in the organization’s facilities, which is based on a Mediterranean diet. ProAtlântico provides accommodation in an apartment, University residence, hostel, hosting family in multiple bedroom with fully equipped kitchen, toilet and living room - electricity, water, gas, TV and Internet are covered by the project. The volunteers will have towels and bed clothes. A monthly local transport allowance is provided by the RO.
Training during the activity
on-arrival training - mid-term training - OLS - Other important subjects
Participant profile
In general, the profile of the volunteers must be very human, self-motivated, creative, open minded, tolerant with self-initiative, willing to take on new challenges, very flexible and ready to help in different tasks, with good adaption to different realities and ready to live with different conditions and environments they are used to in their original country. The volunteers must be highly motivated to work with children with a difficult past and social background. Is expected the volunteers have a positive attitude, patience and good listening capacity.
Activity dates
Fra 01/10/2019 til 27/09/2020
Activity location
Estoril, Portugal
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Italia
Activity topics
Social challenges
Education and training
Creativity and culture
Deadline for applications
Søknadsfrist: 15/07/2019 23:59