#Planet4Youth. Adults with intellectual disorders
The Blessed J. Matulaitis social center
Blessed J. Matulaitis social center
Vilnius, Lithuania
Description
Group is dedicated to integrate and assist mentally challenged and disabled people and their families. Also there are organized educating and leisure activities. The volunteer participates in all activities with disabled, helps individually, goes together to shop, assists in cooking, helps in a work sessions. After disabled people leave the volunteer has a day evaluation together with worker. Volunteers participate in a city events, retreats, summer camps, work camps, are leading person for disabled when they go to basketball match, concerts, theatres, café in the city. All tasks will be discussed with volunteers to find the best way for volunteers and organization. Any initiative of volunteers will be encouraged and supported to help our organization to develop. For more information about project activities please contact project coordinator Aurelija via e-mail solidarity@matulaiciosc.lt.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Project provides a travel costs reimbursement from volunteer country of residence to Lithuania and back home after the project. The amount of reimbursement depends on the distance between sending and hosting countries. Volunteer will live in a shared apartment together with other volunteers or students. All the utilities are going to be payed by the organization. Volunteers are going to be provided with monthly amount of food and pocket money and a local transportation monthly ticket.
Training during the activity
Volunteer is going to have few type of training: - pre-departure meeting or training organized by the sending organization before the departure; - On-arrival training organized by Lithuanian National Agency during the first month of arrival. Depending on the origin country some of volunteers are going to be provided by the training after they will come back to their countries. Our organization during a year period has about 3 weekends seminars where we are preparing Lithuanian volunteers for working in our organization. So most of these seminars will be available for EVS volunteers as well.
Participant profile
We don’t ask you to have a lot of experience in the field where you are applying. We don’t ask you to have an educational degree or a high level of English (even if you can have all of that). But we ASK you to be motivated and be able to explain your motivation. We also ask you to be able to stay in Lithuania during all the time of a project that you chose. And you also should be 18-30 years old and never been a participant of long term EVS or ESC volunteering project.
Activity dates
From 01/10/2025 to 14/08/2026
Activity location
Matulaičio a. 3, Vilnius, Lithuania
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine
Activity topics
Social challenges
Environment and natural protection
Education and training
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 30/09/2025 23:59