Portugal

1249

Begin: 01-10-2012

End: 31-07-2013

Vacancies: 2

Length: 10 mes(es)

application deadline: 21-05-2012

Funding: Aprovado

Monthly Subsidy (Pocket money): 95 €

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Short description: Centro João Paulo II is a residential home for disabled people with national scope with capacity for 192 residents that was founded on 13th May 1989.

The hosting organisation supports children, young people and adults with motor disability and also people between 2 and 45 years old (at the time of the internment) with mental disability and the priority is given to people with no family or institutional support.

The aims of the hosting organisation are the promotion of a family environment and provide the care needed to the maintenance of life quality of disabled people. These aims are completed with new attitudes and a bigger openness to the exterior in a way that the users of Centro João Paulo II develop in a healthier way,

In Centro João Paulo II are living at the moment 192 residents and are supported by around 190 workers. The residents are divided in 16 residences that are known as modules. In each module live 12 people.

The Centro João Paulo II develops occupational activities with therapeutic aims like: specific therapeutic activities (snoezelen and hippotherapy); occupational activities (a newspaper, library, playroom and occupational activities room); sports activities (boccia, water adapted activities, indoor rowing, adventure sports and traditional games) and recreational activities (visits, walking, religious activities, parties and summer camps).

Centro João Paulo II is located 2 km from Fátima that is part of Ourém council. Fátima, is located 120 km from Lisbon, 180 km from Oporto and 300 meters above sea level in the mountains of Aires e Candeeiros.

Fátima has 71, 3 km2 and around 15.000 inhabitants. It’s main activities industry (marble and wood. The town has a considerable number of shops and stalls selling all kinds of religious articles, and the streets of the town have plenty of hotels, hostels and restaurants.

It is worldwide known for apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima to the three little shepherds in 1917. For this reason, Fátima is an important peregrination centre for catholic world. Fátima Sanctuary hosts thousands of people from all over the world. From May to October, on 13th day of each month, about 6 million pilgrims run every year the pathways of Fátima to be closer to the place where three little shepherds – Jacinta, Francisco and Lúcia – affirm to see Virgin Mary.

The construction of Fátima Sanctuary promoted the local development and due to that reason is a city since 1977. In Fátima is also possible to find several religious monuments like: Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Church of Fátima, Houses of Little Shepards of Fátima, Wax Museum and Etnographic Museum of Aljustrel.

The presence of a coordinating organisation in this project is important for the success, mainly because the hosting organisation don’t have experience in EVS projects.

Centro João Paulo II is involved in a lot of projects and activities where EVS volunteers can be involved and have large experience and a motivated team that will give the necessary support to the volunteer.

Profile: The profile of the volunteer will have general requirements: self-motivated, dynamic, versatile, good mood, flexible, with self initiative, creative, with handwork skills, willing to take on new challenges, openned to work with people of all backgrounds and cultures; enthusiastic to participate in the project; mature to work and to relate to a group of disabled people; willing to develop new activities and with sense of responsibility.

We will look for volunteers who are interested in working with a commitment to volunteering, with interest in social field, and had chosen our project because of the experience and development they will gain not only because it's in Portugal.

Tasks: The volunteers will take part in many different tasks, according to their interests, abilities and skills that will be planned together with the staff and the mentor. The target group of the project will be children, young people and adults with disabilities.

So, the specific tasks that volunteers can be involved are:

- Participation in therapeutic and leisure time activities: the volunteers will have the chance to participate in the regular activities helping the residents to accomplish the activities. The activities are run inside and outside the organisation: specific therapeutic activities (snoezelen and hippotherapy), occupational activities (a newspaper, library, playroom and occupational activities room), sports activities (boccia, water adapted activities, indoor rowing, adventure sports, traditional games) and recreational activities (visits, walking, religious events, parties, summer camps).

- Meals Time: The tasks of the volunteer can include helping in giving the meals to the residents, but most important, helping in creating a friendly, funny and home environment during the meal time. This can include establishing healthy conversations with the residents, inquiring about their activities during the day.

- Support in health routines: help the staff to assure that the residents can take care of their health routines (shower, washing teeth, get dressed, etc) and assist them when is needed.

- Promote European Voluntary Service and other youth activities: the EVS volunteers should give visibility to their own EVS activity, in order to motivate other young people to participate on EVS and in other youth activities as youth exchanges. With this purpose they can organise exhibitions, presentations in schools and in youth clubs, etc.

- Personal project: according to the spirit of volunteering, learning and sharing that sets the philosophy of hosting an EVS project, the EVS volunteers will have the freedom and will be challenged to promote a personal project, an original idea or whatever they desire that comes in accordance with the regular philosophy of the institution, either in the formerly mentioned areas, or in different ones, for which they can count with support and monitoring from the staff of the hosting organisation and ProAtlântico’s team.

- Participation in the planning of the work: the volunteers will attend to the planning meeting where the specific objectives and activities are defined on a regular basis. In these meetings they can propose ideas to implement, propose solutions for specific problems, become aware of the working methodologies of the organisation, place their doubts or questions about the work, evaluate, etc.

The tasks weren’t designed to achieve profit, because the organization is non-profitable and doesn’t intend to make financial gain from its activities.

Schedule: The schedule of the volunteer will be 35 hours a week, 5 days a week with 2 days off (usually Saturday and Sunday but it can change according to the needs of the volunteer and the hosting organisation). The volunteer and the hosting organisation will agree one schedule between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. having in mind 6 hours each day in total of 30 hours a week.

Conditions: Concerning the stay of the EVS volunteer, Centro João Paulo II will provide accommodation in the central building of the organisation with all the conditions needed.

The hosting organisation will provide food during the entire project, by giving all meals in the canteen of the organisation.

The volunteers also may find a variety of eating choices in Fátima (small local restaurants, supermarkets, local food markets, etc.). The members of the hosting organisation will help him/her become familiar with these resources.

A monthly allowance (pocket money) is provided by the coordinating organisation to the volunteer.

The coordinating organisation ProAtlântico – Associação Juvenil will provide a monthly allowance to cover local transports and extra expenses of the volunteer.

Documentation: CV and Motivation Letter

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