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Bernu un jauniesu biedriba "Liepajas Jaunie Vanagi"
Liepaja, Latvia
Description
Your main task will be prepare, plan, organize and most important - lead indoor and outdoor activities for local kids and “New Leaders Academy” for teenagers. As well prepare place where activities will happen and your working space. It’s max 40 hours of work per week. It’s 8 hours per day. Also you will have a chance to teach kids your language. All activities is going to be organized in non-formal way, using a lot of fun and creativity. So you need to prepare program, run it and support each other. You will work in team with 12 ESC volunteers from different countries. Please note, that you might need some extra time for planning activities. The work is hard, so prepare for it. Also weather conditions could be challange, cause summer here is sometimes ends even before it starts. And summer in Latvia is very different then summer in your countries. Big chance of rain, cold and almost no sun. Your projects will ends with day of evaluation.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Volunteers during their stay in Liepaja will be provided with accomodations in dorms (3-4 persons per room, same gender, same project), pocket money, food money, hot lunch during activities, unlimited public transport tickets in Liepaja, support of mentors, insurance, latvian language lessons (optional). Travel costs will be covered based on ESC limits.
Training during the activity
Volunteers MUST be ready to spend first 5 days in outdoor camp with basic infrastructure, preparing their own food and try to survive in deep forests in Latvia in On-arrival training to build team with volunteers and project leaders. During project participants will have chance to participate in different trainings for self development and to do shadowing in different proffessions choosed by themselve.
Participant profile
• Aged between 18 and 30 • Good communication skills in English (basic knowledges of latvian language will be taken as adventage) • Able to commit 2 months to volunteering in another country • Computer literate • We are particularly open to young people with fewer opportunities (geographic, economical etc.) • Basic knowledge of non-formal education • Open-minded with a good sense of humour • Familiar with outdoor activities and team building basics • Big bonuss if you are familiar with video making skills and know how to work with camera and after editing clips in one movie.
Activity dates
From 14/07/2026 to 28/08/2026
Activity location
Klaipedas 96a, Liepaja, Latvia
Activity type
Volunteering teams
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine
Activity topics
Education and training
Creativity and culture
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 15/04/2026 23:59
Project code
2024-1-LV02-ESC51-VTJ-000206092