Help homeless people in Finland as a volunteer in Blue Ribbon Found.

Activity description

Volunteers of Sininauhasäätiö have a priceless value in our homeless´ people's everyday life by giving their unconditional love and time. Do you want to help the unfortunate ones, while gaining essential work experience and new contacts to your network? Join Sininauhasäätiö´s volunteers. Sininauhasäätiö offers various kinds of volunteer work tasks among the homeless, immigrants, or the otherwise disadvantaged ones. We are looking for 3 volunteers for the practical work with our customers and 1 office worker for the fundraising. Practical work volunteer works in a shelters for homeless people, in supported housing units and organizes free time activities for our customers. Office work volunteers helps in a social media tasks, writes blogs, fundraising tasks and campaigns and learn project- and marketing work in practise.

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements

Volunteers live in a rented flat in Helsinki with room mates. Shared bathroom and kitchen. / Family accomodation. Food money is paid to S-group card which you can use for supermarkets or restaurants.Volunteer gets the city card for public transportation inside Helsinki.

Training during the activity

Volunteer gets introduction to the work during the first days and also on arrival- and midterm training. Monthly meetings for volunteer are offered and two refreshing days for volunteers twice in a year. Mentor will be in touch regularly.

Participant profile

For practical work volunteer should have will to help people in a weak situation. Positive attitude and open mind for learning new! For office work: Marketing skills or interest are big bonus, social media skills, writing skills, brave and unyielding character big plus! Positive attitude for life needed!

Activity dates

A total of 52 week(s) during the period 01/09/2024 to 31/08/2025

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Activity location

Elimäenkatu 5, 00510 Helsinki Finland

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 Individual volunteering

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Looking for participants from

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Algeria, Estonia, Egypt, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Georgia, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Iceland, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Libya, Morocco, Moldova (Republic of), Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Russian Federation, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Kosovo * UN resolution, British Antarctic Territory, Anguilla, Aruba, Saint Barthélemy, Bermuda, Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba, Canary Islands, Curaçao, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Greenland, Guadeloupe, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cayman Islands, Saint Martin (french part), Martinique, Montserrat, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, St Pierre and Miquelon, Pitcairn, Réunion, Saint Helena, Sint Maarten (dutch part), Turks and Caicos Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Territories, Virgin Islands (British), Wallis and Futuna

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Activity topics

Social challenges

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Deadline for applications

Application deadline: 31/05/2024

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