Actividad ONCE


Actividad ONCE

ONCE. Delegación Territorial de Cantabria

Santander, Spain

The application deadline has passed.

Activity description

-Accompaniment to people with visual impairments to help them run daily tasks (bank, doctor, shopping); -Helping them to participate in activities organized by ONCE (accompany them from their homes to ONCE and back home) and support in different workshops: ceramics, reading, yoga, dance etc); -Accompaniment in excursions or hiking, in big events and celebrations in which people without self-autonomy or family support would not be able to participate; -Going for a walk with them (to the beach, to the park…) offering company. -Helping with promoting the ESC programme and active citizenship within Ser Joven organization (coordinating organization).

Konaklama, yemek ve yol ayarlamaları

Shared room in a shared flat with other ESC volunteers. The flat is located 5 mintes walk from the main bus/train station, 10 minutes walk from the ONCE headquarters and the city center. Monthly pocket money (150 euro) and food money (150 euro). Local transportation card used for volunteering services as they often require moving around the city.

Training during the activity

Training course by the ONCE on the history, aims and functioning of ONCE; the meaning and importance of voluntary work; relation with people with blindness and visual impairment; techniques of accompaniment to people with visual impairment; types of visual impairments. OLS Spanish course and the possiblity of having Spanish course with local volunteers in the coordinating organization Ser Joven.

Participant profile

Motivated, with physical and mental condition compatible with project duties; i.e. a person with no mobility problems and motivated enough (sometimes, the project activities can seem routine), Flexible Able to motivate a person with visual impairment to go out and enrich their social life. Ready to live in a shared room with another European volunteer. Basic level of Spanish is an asset Previous experience with people at risk of social exclusion or experience as an animator or youth leader is welcome.

Activity dates

03/06/2024 ila 14/09/2024 arasını kapsayan sürede toplam 14 hafta


Activity location

c/ Burgos 3, 39008, Santander, Spain, 39008 Santander Spain


 Individual volunteering


Looking for participants from

Belçika, Bulgaristan, Kıbrıs, Çek Cumhuriyeti, Danimarka, Estonya, Yunanistan, Finlandiya, Fransa, Hırvatistan, Macaristan, İrlanda, İzlanda, Liechtenstein, Litvanya, Lüksemburg, Letonya, Malta, Hollanda, Norveç, Polonya, Portekiz, Romanya, İsveç, Slovenya, Slovakya, Ukrayna, Türkiye, Sırbistan, Karadağ, Cezayir, Bosna Hersek, North Macedonia, Avusturya, Almanya


Activity topics

Sosyal zorluklar

Vatandaşlık ve demokratik katılım

Sağlık ve refah


Deadline for applications

Son başvuru tarihi: 22/04/2024