Beneath the Cover - Sint Maarten
Stichting Tur Cos Ta Posibel
Savaneta, Aruba
Description
We are looking for one exceptional volunteer to complete our team of 6 for a life changing experience. The project will take place in Point Blanche the prison of Sint Maarten (Dutch side) and MLC Juvenille centre here we will have equal number of detainees and international volunteers working on the creation, illustration and photography for a book we will create together - Beneath the Cover - where inmates from the wider prison population will have the chance to tell their story - either their past life or the future vision or maybe both. You will work along a group of amazing men who are open to changing the trajectory of their lives. We expect you to give alot but to gain even more. It is unlikely that this experience will not effect you for the rest of your life. To work on this project with these men is a priveledge, hence our search for a special volunteer. Please apply if you have skills in creative writing, poetry or spoken word and leading groups in this field.
Modalités d'hébergement, de restauration et de transport
You will stay in accommodation in a shared room - please tell us at application stage if you do not wish to share with a different sex volunteer.
You will be collected each day and driven to work
Meals at the prison with the detainees and have money for weekend and other meals
Please be aware the project is in Sint Maarten not Aruba delivered in partnership with Sint Maarten Development Fund & co-financed by United Office of Drugs and Crime.
Please see our website TO APPLY https://turcostaposibel.eu/recruitment-esc-individual-volunteering-in-a…
Formation pendant l’activité
You will have training around the Nelson Mandela rules & have an on-arrival training on arrival to Sint Maarten
You will be supported by United Nation Office of Drugs and Crime, point Blanche Prison, MLC centre and Tur Cos Ta Posibel.
There will be training throughout the activity, you will be training other volunteers to support the work with the wider prison population.
PLEASE APPLY VIA OUR APPLICATION PROCESS ON OUR WEBPAGE https://turcostaposibel.eu/recruitment-esc-individual-volunteering-in-a… WE WILL NOT READ APPLICATIONS VIA PASS
Profil du participant
An excetional volunteer - one of a kind with:
Skills needed to create a book reday for publishing
Skills to engage others and bring out their creativity
Skills to teach the core team how to continue this work when you leave
Ability to bring groups together for discussion (e.g co-ordinating a book club or movie discussion club)
Confident & mentally tough
Over 23 years old
Speak English (French and Spanish also beneficial)
PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE SKILLS OR NEED A VISA
IF YOU DO NOT COMPLETE OUR APPLICATION FORM AND SEND A MOVTIVATION LETTER WE WILL NOT REPLY
If you do not recieve any communication from us one week after the deadline please assume on this occassion you have been unsuccesful. If your application is incomplete or does not meet the criterea above we will not read it.
Dates de l’activité
Du 01/08/2026 au 30/09/2026
Lieu de l’activité
Pos Chiquito 70a, Savaneta, Aruba
Type d’activité
Équipes de volontaires
Nous recherchons des participants venus de
Albanie, Algérie, Allemagne, Arménie, Aruba, Autriche, Azerbaïdjan, Belgique, Biélorussie, Bonaire, Saint-Eustache et Saba, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Bulgarie, Chypre, Croatie, Curaçao, Danemark, Espagne, Estonie, Finlande, France, Groenland, Grèce, Géorgie, Hongrie, Irlande, Islande, Israël, Italie, Jordanie, Kosovo * UN resolution, Lettonie, Liban, Libye, Liechtenstein, Lituanie, Luxembourg, Macédoine du Nord, Malte, Maroc, Moldavie, Monténégro, Norvège, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Palestine, Pays-Bas, Pologne, Polynésie française, Portugal, Roumanie, Russie, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin (partie néerlandaise), Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Serbie, Slovaquie, Slovénie, Suède, Syrie, Tchéquie, Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, Tunisie, Turquie, Ukraine, Wallis-et-Futuna, Égypte
Thèmes de l’activité
Social challenges
Citizenship and democratic participation
Creativity and culture
Date limite de dépôt des candidatures
Délai de dépôt de candidature: 11/07/2026 13:00
Code du projet
2025-1-NL02-ESC51-VTJ-000347401