Ofensiva Tinerilor is looking for volunteers for the
EVS group project
“Branding Europe - Celebrating Diversity”October 9, 2007
Period of the stage: 6 months, starting in April 2008. Number of volunteers: 15.
The volunteers will be involved in:
- developing specific youth activities in youth centers from Romania , in 6 counties (Rosia Montana , Bucuresci and Abrud – Alba county, Arad - Arad county, Zemes-Bacau county, Schela-Galati county, Albeni–Gorj county, Suplacu de Barcau-Hunedoara county) ;
- preparing promotional materials for rural areas from Alba county, promoting local arts and cultures;
- setting up local museums, preparing local public debates with some authorities and stakeholders, recording local songs, stories, dances;
- implementing Corporate Social Responsibility activities;
- facilitating the access of the children from 10 kindergartens to the European cultural diversity volunteers helping children to create songs, play games, learn words from a foreign language, prepare theatrical plays, participate in different contests, etc.
Daily work is scheduled for 6 hours/day. Our volunteers are encouraged to come with new ideas, youth initiative, or other kind of projects which can be suitable with our organization.
Volunteers' age: 18 - 29.
A normal level of English is advisable to exist.If you are interested, please send a CV with photo and a motivational letter to ofensivatinerilor@gmail.com before 18th of October 2007. You are sure that we receive your application when you get a confirmation email so if you do not have it perhaps there are some problems with emails so try again. As soon as I have an email from interested persons, I will send more details about procedure, steps, etc.
If you have any questions you can contact us at ofensivatinerilor@gmail.com, center1.org@gmail.com or 0040722977094, 0040 722 8113 01, 0040 357 4085 24, Sorin and Daniel .
Organizations are especially encouraged to apply with more than one volunteers if they have more persons interested in these projects.
Take care, according to the Youth in Action rules every sending organization located in a Programme Country or in a SEE Country must be accredited and have a reference to an approved Expression of Interest (EI).
Other details for the project:
We are looking for volunteers from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine. We are also open to host volunteers from other countries according with Youth in Action Programme rules.
Our volunteers are going to be a member of a youth team and he/she will work in a Intercultural environment, non-formal, helping to:
- Improve his abilities to work in a team
- Learn a new language, getting information about another culture;
- Improve his level of tolerance and understanding;
- Improve his knowledge about European opportunities in Youth field;
So, our volunteers are going to put his contribution in opening new opportunities for the young people from our local community.
The mentor will have a regular meeting with our volunteer and every time when is needed.
We are going to organize different evaluation sessions with programme coordinator and with the mentor to see results and difficulties that appeared and if there are some problems, to be solved. These sessions will take place once in a two weeks period. In addition, in connection with objectives, which we had, at the end of the project we can make a final evaluation, which can be very useful for our organization and our volunteer.
Accommodation: The accommodation for our volunteers is going to be in a room from a flat in Arad, together with a member of our organization or/and other volunteers, 1-2 persons/room.
Food: In a discussion with our volunteers we will establish the best option for her/him, choosing from opportunities which we are going to give: food from a local canteen, in an university or high school, food from month allowance in he/she wants to prepare himself/herself the meals ;
Organisations description: Ofensiva Tinerilor: (EI – 2007-RO-6)
The association Ofensiva Tinerilor is a youth organization of the Romanian citizens who are a Polish national minority and it was founded in September 2004, an organization whose activities take place in the intercultural area and in the area of protecting the rights and the culture of the Polish community from Romania.
The association Ofensiva Tinerilor in the area of protecting the human rights is developing a program of information, consulting and supervising regarding the citizens’ right to express and assume without any restrictions their ethno-cultural and religious identity according to the Convention- frame regarding the protection of the national minorities and the other documents and international documents concerning this field. In this perspective as a communication and presentation line the pilot site had been launched www.ofensivatinerilor.ro and a partnership had been made with the Center of the Juridical Resources being attached to SOROS Open Network.
The association OFENSIVA TINERILOR is involved in partnerships with other youth structures, and its members participated several times in activities such as youth exchanges mainly in Poland. Hence, the members of our organization have a very rich intercultural experience being volunteers or participants to many activities even in the frame of some non-governmental and civic youth organizations as The Romanian Scouts, Millennium Center, AEGEE etc.
