Discover Luxembourg 3.0
Service national de la jeunesse
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Description
Through planned activities, the participants will learn the understanding of inclusion of people with disabilities and how it can be lived. They will have the possibility do discover the everyday life in institutions and how their day is organized. The participants will be given the opportunity to assist the staff in their daily routines. The first three days will be dedicated to an on-arrival training. During this training, the volunteers will get to know each other, as well as the supervisors. They will also have the opportunity to meet other volunteers from a different team project, since they will be accommodated in the same facility. The second and third week, the focus is on inclusion. The participants will have the chance to discover the life in diverse institutions where people with disabilities live, work and support the staff members on a daily basis. After that week, volunteers are invited to plan and implement activities themselves. All this while discovering Luxembourg.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
The volunteers will be lodged in three different Youth Hostels: YH Luxembourg, YH Esch, Scoutchalet Mondorf. The participants are supposed to self-organize and per-finance their travel to the venue with the support of the sending organization. The individual budgets available will be determined by the rules of the ESC guide. Travel costs will be reimbursed after the arrival in Luxembourg. All volunteers and sending organizations are asked to make use, as far and as much as possible, of environmentally friendly and sustainable travel options: i.e. train, bus, car-sharing Food will be provided.
Training during the activity
There will be a Team of 4 supervisors and there will always be at least 1 available.
Participant profile
The participants must have a basic level of English and should be autonomous enough to live on their own for most of the time. They should be open minded and not have any fear of contact with different groups of people. Since the participants will be hosted in three different youth hostels, they should be flexible to move around a lot and make use of the free public transport. Participants should be motivated to invest their time, knowledge and competences in the foreseen project. Plus, since the project offers a variety of different activities, they should be open to a different time schedule every week and contribute to the organization of the week by sharing their own ideas. In short, the requested competences/skills : creativity, open to learn new things, autonomy and basic English skills.
Activity dates
From 03/06/2025 to 03/07/2025
Activity location
33, Rives de Clausen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Activity type
Volunteering teams
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia
Activity topics
Social challenges
Health and wellbeing
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 08/04/2025 00:00