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European Solidarity Corps

The power of together

New ESC opportunity in Sofia, phase 3

NATSIONALNA ASOTSIATSIA NA RESURSNITE UCHITELI

SOFIA, Bulgaria

Description

OBJECTIVE: Formation of knowledge and skills to support youth employment and motivation for professional realization of young people at risk of dropping out of school. The tasks are organized in 5 clusters: school work - acting as a co-teacher or a teaching assistant to one of our resource teachers/psychologists; office work - contribution to the daily work of our office, including maintaing a volunteer blog and FB account; summer school - direct work with SEN students during an annual event organized by the Regional Center for the Support of the Process of Inclusive education; youth work - organizing some events with other youths; multicultural dialogue - organoization of a cultural evening, going to festivals, ets. You can see what our volunteers did here: https://nettshow4.wixsite.com/volunteering

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements

Accomodation is organized in a condo with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a shared kitchen and a living room. We cover all costs for the condo - rent, heating, electricity, water, so on. We provide money for your daily needs - pocket money and money for food. In addition, we provide a free card for the public transport. You organize and pay the on-ward transport by yourself and once here - we reimburse the spent sum up to the threshold set by ESC programme. We organize and pay the return travel.

Training during the activity

The training oportunities are provided mainly with the help of mentors during the work process. Further, when we have any event, we invite our volunteers, either.

Participant profile

We are looking for motivated young persons age 18-30, 2 girls and a boy. As our work is focused on children and youn persons in vulnarable situations, we prefer our volunteers to have some experience and/or background in teaching, pedagogy, psychology, social work and similar. We are looking for open-minded, communicative persons who are ready to live by them own. They shall speak English at B2 level - we are not looking for perfect English but we have to be able to communicate freely with them.

Activity dates

A total of 44 week(s) during the period 01/10/2024 to 31/07/2025


Activity location

57 Georgi Benkovski Str, SOFIA, Bulgaria


Individual volunteering


Looking for participants from

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, United Kingdom, Türkiye, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Iceland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Canary Islands, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, North Macedonia, Norway, Romania, Montenegro, Moldova (Republic of), Serbia, Sweden, Ukraine, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, Cayman Islands


Activity topics

Social challenges

Education and training

Employment and entrepreneurship


Deadline for applications

Application deadline: 31/10/2024 22:59