Roquetes Civic Center

  • Vacancy for EVS Volunteer in Spain

  • Contact person: Susana Ibañez
  • Coordinating organisation: obretebre
  • Host: Roquetes Council: http://www.roquetes.cat
  • Location: Roquetes, Spain
  • Deadline: 06/09/2012
  • Start: 07/01/2013
  • End: 07/06/2013

  • The volunteer's project will be divided in three sections inside the Civic Centre.
    Which are the tasks of the volunteer in the library?
    Helping the users according to their needs (formative, informative, research, educational, etc.)
    Helping the coordination of the youth section material in order to know the documental funds; book loan service
    Personal project: On wednesday mornings he/she will have the possibility to realize activities and develop his/her own personal project related to the three sections of his/her project (library, centre xirinxina and youth department)
    Helping the youngsters of the Xirinxina centre with their homeworks and the informaiton research in the library
    Helping in the setting of exhibitions, the book day (Sant Jordi) and other cultural activities
    Which are the volunteer's tasks in the Centre Xirinxina?
    A. Hosting, lunch break and ludic activities
    B. Tutoring from 17.30 to 18.30: the group will be divided in two groups according to their age (6-9 year olds and 10-12 year olds) with a maximum of 10 children per monitor.
    C. Games and free time activities, workshops etc. when the children have done their homework: the activities' topic changes in a periodical cycle , for example: recicling, the cultures, peace, nature, etc.
    On wednesdays the smaller children go to the storytelling activity of the library, the bigger ones play football on thursdays.
    D. Gathering of the material used and farewell:
    Traditional festive days are celebrated (Castanada, Christmas, Carneval). Activities with these topics are established.
    Which are the volunteer's tasks in the Youth Department?
    (*)2,30h a week he/she will support the activities of the Youth Deparment. These hours can be concentrated in one day or divided into two days.The workdays at the Youth Department can change as it depends on the planning of the schools as the activities are destined to the youngsters of the town. The volunteer will be informed beforehand about his/her timetable.
    Some examples of the activities realized by the volunteer in the Youth Department are: talks in schools, promoting actvities for youngsters, supporting the staff organizing basic courses of computing, etc. At the end of march a party of social integration for the youngsters is organized by the youth department leader whom the volunteer will assist.
    During the whole year courses in the youth centre and the ce

Tasks

The volunteers will offer support in the different activities yet they can also develop their own initiatives in personal projects. They can start a project depending on their interests with the help of his/her co-workers aiming at the promotion of reading, youth and child integration, etc

Criteria

If you are coming from one of the 27 European member countries and you like this project, than do not hesitate and send e-mail with your motivation letter, CV and portfolio with the phrase “Roquetes_EVS” in the e-mail header box to EVSroquetes@gmail.com

Procedure

We will make the selection by september. We will have: -Skype interview -QUestionaire
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