Voluntariado en verano de corta duración en Rumanía para trabajar con niños

Tasks&activities

The main activities of the project ReAnimate will be connected to clinic and social animation. The volunteers will work with following categories: the group of beneficiaries contains of children that are hospitalized with light illnesses (aged 3-15) and children and youngsters living in foster homes (aged 13-18). For hospitalized children the main need is to get a boost of happiness and good mood through animation and games, for having better chances of getting over their illness and to overcome the trauma of spending time in hospital.

For the youngsters and children in orphanage the main aim is to socialize with foreigners, improving communication skills and developing friendly and non-violent attitudes. The other side of project is devoted to volunteers themselves, by improving their language competences, to gain experience is working with vulnerable categories of children and youngsters, to develop competences in animation, to learn how to work in a team, more specifically in an international team, to get experience in working in multicultural environment.

In the first week of their service, the volunteers will receive training from the staff of the organization regarding animation and games: ballooning, origami, face painting, juggling and list of resources to find other tools and games to do with each target group of the project. Starting with the second week, the volunteers will go to the hospital for hospitalized children. In some days, they will have activities also in a kindergarten. The children going here come from rural areas and very poor and disorganized families. The main responsibilities of the volunteers will be:

– To research for games and animation activities to implement with children in the hospital, foster homes and kindergarten;

– To prepare their activities before going to the activities;

– To organize animation activities, 4 days per week, with the children forming the target groups of this project;

– To evaluate their activities at the end of every week;

To take part in Intercultural presentations as well as to make in presentations in schools, in this way practicing their oral speech in English.

Any idea for a personal project that is connected with the objectives of Jiggle Juggle will be encouraged and supported by the hosting organization.

Criteria

Team for Youth Association sketched the general features for the profile of the candidates, according to the activities proposed. The candidate should be between 18 to 30 years, from France, Italy, Spain and Hungary that have as main characteristics the need to learn/improve their level of English, from very poor to at least low intermediate, willing to experience a multicultural environment and to volunteer abroad, to explore other cultures and to work with people from disadvantaged backgrounds (economically and socially), to be trained to grow personally and to learn and teach non-formal methods. It is preferable that the potential candidate can motivate themselves to get involved with Team for Youth Association and have the initiative to organize new activities individually or with an international team.  Feeling comfortable with the idea of being the center of attention, comfortable to answer the curiosity of others about them.  Being an ambassador of their culture, willing to talk and make presentation about their country.

 Being decided to analyze situations, communicate about problems and seek solutions to make things work better, both for themselves and the others, being proactive and confident.

 Being willing to learn and develop themselves, in an intercultural team.

The activities of the project do not require advanced language competences in English. A very basic level of communication that allows the volunteer to get around in a foreign country would be more than enough. The project targets young volunteers between 18 and 30 years that come from difficult economical background: unemployed, school drop-outs, coming from poor families. We do not have the facilities to host disabled volunteers or volunteers with strong social problems.

Practical arragements

The volunteers will benefit from the full support of the Team for Youth Association staff and local volunteers in promoting, preparing and implementing activities. Team for Youth Association will also provide for the volunteers a mentor, as well as Romanian and English language teacher.

The volunteers will share a flat with other long-term volunteers and there might also be the case of sharing one room with two beds. The volunteers will receive 450 RON (approximately 100 €) for food and 250 RON (approximately 60 €) pocket money, both wired in their account.

To avoid lack of budget management, Team for Youth Association decided to pay the Food money at the beginning of the month and Pocket money on 15th date of each month. Team for Youth Association will also provide a Romanian SIM card for phone, charged monthly, WI-FI available in the apartments and in the office as well.