ERASMUS FOR VIPS (VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS)

Πώς θα σου φαινόταν να ζήσεις για 4 μήνες (Μάρτιος – Ιούνιος 2017 )στο πανέμορφο Arad της Ρουμανίας δουλεύοντας εθελοντικά σε οργανισμούς που ασχολούνται με την υποστήριξη ατόμων με προβλήματα όρασης; Και όλα τα παραπάνω γνωρίζοντας ότι όλα σου τα έξοδα είναι καλυμμένα;

To You in Europe σε συνεργασία με τον Οργανισμό Ofensiva Tinerilor, σε προσκαλούν να λάβεις μέρος σε ένα ξεχωριστό πρόγραμμα Ευρωπαικής Εθελοντικής Υπηρεσίας, που θα σε βοηθήσει να αναπτύξεις τις προσωπικές σου δεξιότητες, προσφέροντας ταυτόχρονα στο κοινωνικό σύνολο.

Το πρόγραμμα χρηματοδοτείται από την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση και το Erasmus+ και καλύπτει στους 8 συμμετέχοντες (2 εθελοντές από κάθε χώρα: Ελλάδα, Ισπανία, Ιταλία, Τουρκία) διαμονή, πλήρη διατροφή, αεροπορικά εισιτήρια, ασφάλιση και ένα μηνιαίο χρηματικό ποσό για τα προσωπικά έξοδα του εθελοντή.

Ακολουθούν όλες οι απαραίτητες πληροφορίες στα Αγγλικά.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

Developing an educational project which will deal with the inclusion of at least 40 visually impaired young people from Romania in their local community; the project will fight against their discrimination by making the community aware of the difficulties they face and will make them acquire competences for their personal/social/ professional lives; The following activities will be done in Arad during the stages:

A. The development of communication workshops in the languages of EVS volunteers with the visually impaired young people. Examples of methods that will be used: sound theatre, simulating a radio show, touch and guess the object, games adapted to VIPs such as playing cards or balls with make sounds, etc
B. The development of digital literacy workshops. Examples of methods: interactive workshop, ITC workshop, listening to tutorials workshop, etc.
C. Accompanying the visually impaired persons to social, cultural events and to activities that take place in the nature. The EVS volunteers will accompany the VIPs to different activities such as: – social activities (parks, pubs, cafes, clubs, NGOs, etc. to participate in different activities/events they organize); – cultural activities (concerts, theatre plays, launching of books, literary cafes, etc); – activities that take place in the nature (visits to parks, the Mures Floodplain Natural park, forests where there will be used games to discover different plants, sounds of animals etc; moreover there will also be part of different outdoor games adapted to them and in activities such as theatre labyrinth, learning to make a backpack, to install a tent, games with balls etc.).
D. The development of fundraising campaigns for visually impaired young people that might abandon school due to different difficulties of economic nature and not only. Some examples of methods: creating a blog/website for fundraising, organising public events, organising an exhibition with objects created by the visually impaired young people followed by an auction, etc.
E. The development of an awareness campaign for the local community in which to make the citizens of Arad aware of how difficult is the life of a VIP and to fight discrimination. Examples of methods: organising an event in Arad in which different citizens will be blindfolded using a scarf and will be asked to walk around the city, try to buy different small objects, try to cross the street, etc; organising a campaign in which the EVS volunteers will try to gather signatures so that the traffic lights in Arad are adapted to VIPs through some sounds, word cafe with VIPs, life library method etc.

PRACTICAL INFO

Arad is situated on the West part of Romania, 50 km far from Hungarian border, being the 13th biggest city of Romania, with around 200.000 citizens. In the past Arad was called “little Vienna” because the architecture from the center of the 2 cities were quite similar. The river that runs through the city is called Mureș.

IMPORTANT ASPECTS:

Accommodation –2 persons/room, with access to a bathroom (common), a kitchen (common) and other utilities.

Meal – you will receive a monthly food allowance so you can arrange your own meals.

Local Transportation – you will receive a monthly tram ticket valid on all tram lines.

Internet – you will have access to internet.

Εάν σε ενδιαφέρει να περάσεις 4 αξέχαστους μήνες στη Ρουμανία προσφέροντας εθελοντικά και αποκομίζοντας νέες εμπειρίες, στείλε μας το βιογραφικό σου και μια σύντομη συνοδευτική επιστολή στην οποία θα αναφέρεις τους λόγους για τους οποίους θέλεις να λάβεις μέρος στο συγκεκριμένο project.
ΠΡΟΣΟΧΗ! Και τα δύο έγγραφα πρέπει να είναι στα Αγγλικά και επισυναπτόμενα σε μορφή word ή pdf.
Τα στέλνεις στο youineurope.evs@gmail.com.και στον τίτλο του email γράψε “ERASMUS FOR VIPS- ARAD + το όνομα σου και το επίθετο σου.”.

Η ημερομηνία λήξης των αιτήσεων είναι η Πέμπτη 19 Ιανουαρίου 2017.