LETONYA 2011-02

LETONYA'DA AGH
Contact person : LCC World at Our Home
Organisation : The World at our Home
Location : Rezekne, Latvia
Deadline : 01/06/2011
Start : 01/01/2012
End : 31/12/2012

EI reference: 2010-LV-18

It is foreseen that volunteers will work together at the Language and Cultural Centre "World at our home". They will help each other to fulfil their daily tasks and realise their own ideas in order to aid in the provision of information for young people in Rezekne in the area of European awareness.
Our Centre works a lot with international projects and it could be interesting for our EVS volunteers to help us in our daily work; developing new contacts with European organizations in order to strengthen relations between the inhabitants of Rezekne and people from other European countries. This project will give our volunteers new knowledge and practical experience for their future.

Tasks
Furthermore, there will be the opportunity to attend language lessons (Latvian or Russian) in order to improve the communication process inside our organization, during daily activities and within the local community, enriching their personal skills and culture. Volunteers will work at the Language and Cultural Centre from Monday to Friday 14:00 till 20:00 to support our staff in the daily work. The main common task of our volunteers will be to interact with the local society sharing information about their own national culture, exchanging views on European culture, experiences in cultural work and learning some new things from each other. Other tasks of will be to help organise different intercultural activities, events, workshops and celebrations of the volunteers’ national traditions and visiting schools to present their countries. They will also help local young people to find their own EVS projects and lead interactive language activities. As well as this the volunteers will also take an active part in the regular work of the Language and Cultural Centre helping to promote and organise intercultural events according to our international projects and the special focus of the Youth in Action Programme and helping to maintain a basic service to inform young people visiting the cultural centre. During writing of our international projects, European exchanges, seminars and workshops they will also have the opportunity to add their own ideas and to help in the preparation of these events. They will also be in charge of developing the website of our organisation by adding information relating to exchange and seminars that our organisation has participated in or organised. We fully support interesting and new opinions and ideas from the volunteers. As a result they will have the opportunity to maintain and improve links with the other European Youth organisations through their contribution and interests.

Criteria
The volunteers will have to show interest and sensibility towards working with young people and adults and be able to use and show empathy, integrity and consideration. All skills which can allow them to develop new activities in our centre are welcomed. We hope they will be ready to take creative duties and be responsible and autonomous enough to propose, prepare and organise new activities and their own work according to these skills. Factors that will be important for the future volunteer work: - Be interested in European issues and/or art and cultural topics; - Like and be able to establish contacts with both young people and adults; - Have the ability to organise their own work and be ready for independent acting; - Have the ability to take initiative; - Speak English on at least a basic level (German or French may be useful as well); - Have basic skills concerning computers (Word, Internet…) All European sending and hosting organizations are invited for cooperation in EVS program.

Procedure
Please send CV and motivational letter to pasauleathome@yahoo.co.uk

Polonya 2011 - 02

Polonya'da AGH Projesi Gönüllü arıyor.
• Contact person: Maja Selan
• Coordinating organisation: Polska Fundacja im Roberta Schumana
• Host: Towarzystwo Opieki nad Ociemnialymi / The Society for the Care of the Blind in Laski: http://www.laski.edu.pl/
• Location: Warsaw, Poland
• Deadline: 06/05/2011
• Start: 01/10/2011
• End: 30/06/2012

We are looking for volunteers that would be motivated to work with teenagers in Laski, help them with everyday activities such as homework, going to lessons, organize their free time and possibly teach them their mother tongue.
Laski is a small town at the edge of Kampinos Forest, not far from Warsaw. There is a city bus that connects Laski with the underground line, which makes it accessible for volunteers to visit the city often. On the other hand, there is only one bus line (running approximately every 20 minutes) and one night bus that connect the town with the capital. It takes around 45-60 min to get to the center of Warsaw.
Laski Institution is an educational complex consisting of nursery, school, boarding school, music school and library. There is kindergarten and boarding school, for blind and severely visually impaired children and teenagers aged 4 - 19. About 300 youngsters, often from families in difficult situation, are taken care of by laymen, nuns, blind workers and volunteers.
The volunteers choosing to come to work to Institution for the Blind in Laski should take into account that the place is held by Franciscan Nunnery. The nuns are very nice and open, nevertheless, the volunteers should respect the existing rules and solitude in their host organization. As the volunteers would be living in a dormitory for staff located in the territory of the Institution, they should take into account that from 23.30 (the time of arrival of last buss from Warsaw) until 4.00 the gate is closed.


• Please, find out more in the European accredited organizations' website under the number http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=58000795410

Duration: 9 months
Deadline for applications: 06.05.2011


Tasks
Most of the working tasks are related with volunteers support the regular staff members in one group of teenagers. Volunteers' tasks are directly related to those of the Institution (co-operation in managing musical, artistic and sport activities in children’s free time; helping to learn every day activities; helping children in their homework and during professional trainings by giving, for example, foreign language conversations *preferably German!). Volunteers contribute to the work with their ideas, personalities, skills and abilities. They will learn a lot about the life, needs and possibilities for young blind people.


Criteria
The most important is for volunteer to be motivated to work with youth, blind young people in particular and to be ok with specificity of working and LIVING in the boarding school, which is run by a catholic nun order (more info in the database description).


Procedure
We would like to apply with this project on 1 June deadline.The deadline to send your CVs and motivation for this particular organization is Friday, 6 May!

Domates Festivali ( Latomation)

Yer	Valencia / İspanya
Tarih	Ağustos
web	http://www.latomatina.es

Yaz aylarında evlerinde televizyon izlemek zorunda kalanlar iyi bilir, ağustos ayında kanallarda domates festivali haberleri dönmeye başlar. Festivalin görsel niteliği ve çok eğlenceli oluşu onu yazın haber fakirliğinden bunalan haber bültenlerinin gözdesi yapıyor. İspanya bu konuda gerçek bir hazine. Domates Festivali gibi Pamplona’da ki boğa güreşlerinden de haberdar olmayanımız neredeyse yoktur. Bu iki festival son yılların en popüler İspanyol festivalleri.

Festival 1945 yılından bu yana düzenleniyor. Nasıl başladığına dair pek çok rivayet bulunuyor fakat şu an geldiği nokta tarihinden ziyade ekonomik değeriyle ölçülüyor. Kasabaya büyük hareketlilik ve dünyanın her tarafından 40000 ila 60000 ziyaretçi getiriyor.   

Festival başladığı yıllarda birkaç kez çıkan olaylar nedeniyle yasaklanmış. 1957 yılında ki yasaktan sonra Buñol halkı bir tabutun içine büyük bir domates maketi koyup “Domates Cenazesi” adında bir organizasyon yapmış. Cenaze marşı eşliğinde yürüyen insanlar festivalin devamı için kritik bir müdahalede bulunmuş bu şekilde.

Festival günü sabahı, herkes kahvaltıdan sonra saat 11:00’de başlayacak domates yağmuru için kamyonların arkasından yürüyerek festival alanına gelir. İnsanların, alana yığılan domatesleri birbirine fırlatmasıyla başlayan festival yaklaşık 2 saat sürer. Domates savaşının başladığı andan itibaren herkes yalnız. Bazı katılımcılar şnorkel ve gözlüklerle bazıları ayaklarında paletlerle kendilerini bu denize atıyor ve Buñol kasabasını kıpkırmızı bir neşe kaplıyor bu 2 saat boyunca.

Festival’in çok önemli 2 kuralı var. Birincisi domatesleri ezmeden atma, ikincisi domatesten başka bir şey atma çünkü kimsenin kafası kırılsın istemiyoruz.

125000 kg domates bu küçük kasabanın kaldırımlarını, duvarlarını tamamen kırmızıya boyamaya yetecek kadar boya demek aslında ve bunun temizlenmesi gerek. Buñol’u domates kalıntılarından arındırmakta festival katılımcılarının işi. Domatesle yapılan mücadeleden yorulan katılımcılar yerel halkla birlikte bu temizlik kısmına da büyük çoğunlukla katılır. Temizlik bölümü festivalin en anlamlı sosyal içeriğinin ifadesi belki de.

Valencia’nın küçük kasabası Buñol her yıl bu festivale ev sahipliği yapıyor.  Bölgenin geçmişinde pek çok ırk, uygarlık ve din var. Dünya üzerinde bu kadar keskin dönüşümlere uğramış kültürler çok  az gerçekten. Bunda Arapların İspanya’ya gelişi, Isabel’in engizisyonu, coğrafi keşiflerin payı hayli büyük. Hiçbir zaman, kabına sığamamış bir ülke İspanya. Politik olarak ta sosyal ve kültürel olarak ta yakın uzak demeden evrensel unsurlarla sürekli bir kontakt halinde.

Valencia ismi uzun süre hüküm sürmüş olan Arap yerleşimcilerden miras. Böyle bir kültürün parçası Buñol kasabası. Arkeolojik bulgular ilk yerleşimcilerin 50000 yıl önce bu bölgeye geldiğini gösteriyor. Kasabanın her tarafı yeşil alanlarla dolu. Festivalden sonra kasabadaki tarihi yerleri görmek iyi bir fikir olabilir. Parque de San Luis ve Parque Fina Luján parkları ile Buñol Kalesi görülmeye değer.

Önümüzdeki  Ağustos ayında festivalle coşan insanları “sizin için” buraya kadar geldik diyen bilmem ne haber muhabirinden takip etmek istemiyorsanız acele edin gezginler yollar ve festivaller beklemez

Ertuğrul Öztekin, Istanbul, 18.04.2011

Lyon Işık Festivali / Pete Des Lumieres

Yer	Lyon / Fransa
Tarih	08 Aralık - 11 Aralık
web	http://www.fetedeslumieres.lyon.fr/Home

Lyon, Cinderella masalındaki esas kız gibi. Üvey kız kardeşleri Paris ve Marsilya. İkisi de birbirinden arsız, masaldaki gibi çirkin olmasalar da bütün ilgiyi üstlerine çekme çabasındalar. İki kalabalık Fransız şehrinin ardından 3. en büyük şehir Lyon.

Tarihi milattan önce 1. Yüzyıla kadar uzanır bu şehrin. Rhone ve Saone nehirlerinin ortasında Fourviére tepesinin eteklerine kurulmuş. Yapay kanallarla idare eden şehirlere nazire yapar gibi iki büyük nehrin ortasında mağrur duruyor.

Işık Festivali,Lyon’a veba salgını zamanlarından, ortaçağdan bir miras. Rivayete göre 1643 yılında Lyon şehri sınırlarına kadar dayanan veba salgınından korunmak için halk Bakire Meryem’e dualar edip mumlar yakmış ve O’ndan merhamet dilemiş. Meryem dualarını kabul etmiş ve bütün Avrupa’ya cehennemi yaşatan kara veba Lyon’dan tek bir can bile almadan gitmiş.

Lyon halkı Azizeye şükranlarını sunmak için 1843 yılında şehre bir Meryem Ana heykeli yapmış. Bu tarihten sonra tüm Lyon ahalisi 8 Aralık gününden itibaren 4 gün boyunca pencerelerin önünde Meryem için mumlar yakmış. Festival, adını bu şükür mumlarından alıyor.

Bazı gelenekler günün koşullarına ve toplumun ilerleyişine ayak uyduramadığı için yok oluyor. Bazıları ise tam tersi, gelişme ile besleniyor. Lyon Işık Festivali teknoloji ile daha farklı bir kimlik kazanmış. Şimdi devasa binalar bütünüyle ışıklandırılıyor ve Rönesans sanatçılarının aksine bugünkü sanatçıların elinde çok büyük ekonomik imkanlar var.

Şehri çevreleyen nehirlerin üzerinde ki köprüler ve Notre Dame de Fourviére Bazilikası bile ışıklandırmalarıyla bu soğuk kış günlerinde sizi çocukluğunuzun sıcak masallarına doğru bir seyahate çıkarmaya yeter. Kaldı ki yalnız bu tarihi yapılar değil şehrin ara sokaklarındaki sıradan binalarda festivalin aydınlığına ortak olmak için ışıklara bürünür.

Festival son 13 yıldır tarihini ifade eden dini kimlikten bağımsız olarak kutlanmaya devam ediyor. Yani bu görsel şölen artık tüm inançların ortak mirası. Şehrin karakterini yansıtan La bibliothéque de la cité (Şehir Kütüphanesi) dış cephesindeki ressam ve yazarların resimlerinin ışıklandırılması ile bir kat daha güzelleşiyor.

Lyon şehri ve Işık festivali kilometrelerce yolu sırt çantalarıyla geçen sizlere rengarenk ve sımsıcak bir kış masalı vadediyor.

Ertuğrul Öztekin, Istanbul, 04.04.2011

Belçika 2011 - 01

Belçika'da ortağı olduğumuz AGH projesinde yer almak ister misiniz?

Proje Kodu: 2011-BEFL-4

Proje Detayları: http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=18000287109

Son Başvuru Tarihi: 31 Mart 2011

Proje Başvuru Dönemi: 1 Haziran 2011

01/07/2011 – 30/06/2012 tarihleri arasında gerçekleşecek.

Mail adresi: info@imso.be (Başvurularınızı bu mail adresine yapınız.)

Dear Bahadir, Many thanks for your respons. We sended our application form by the end of march 2011 (last delay 1/04/2011) and normally we will be selected as the last 9 years. I send you hereby copies of the application form and an exemple of the annexe to comlete by you, if possible after selecting a good candidate. We would expect the candidate to start on 1/07/2011 ans finish 30/06/2012. Please ask me if necessary complementary information. In the meantime I received a lot of candidates'application but since these are not supported by Gençtur, I did not accept these.

With kind regards

Pierre Ketelaer M.D.

Slovenya 2011 - 03

Slovenya'da AGH projesi gönüllüler arıyor...

Proje Son Başvuru Tarihi: 25 Mayıs 2011

Proje Başvuru Dönemi: 1 Haziran 2011

Contact person: Youth center Litija

Coordinating organisation: Youth center Litija

Host: Youth center Litija: http://www.mc-litija.si

Location: Litija, Slovenia

Deadline: 25/05/2011

Start: 03/10/2011

End: 30/09/2012

MULTI MEDIA EVS PROJECT IN LITIJA (SLOVENIA)

In June deadline Youth center Litija will applay for EVS project that will start in October 2011 in Litija (Slovenia), and would last one year.

With the project we would like to contribut in establishing of our multi media center, so the project will have multimedia theme.

For detailed information of project environment and our organization check us on: http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=66000156301

Tasks

Main goals of the project and tasks of volunteer are: - leading of 2 new multimedia projects, - cooporating in desinging of MM content on our web site, - tapeing of 5 short documentary films about bigger projects of Youth center Litija, - cooporating in short experimental movie, - being part of workshops for art and reportage photographing

Criteria

Have ambitions in tapeing films, photographing, web site arrangeing (Multi media in general)

Procedure

Candidates that are intersting for the project please write us on mc.litija@gmail.com for more informations and send us CV and motivation latter as soon as possible (till 25.5.2011), so we could already start to arrangeing all the neccesery procedures.

Letonya 2011 - 01

Letonya'da AGH projesi gönüllüler arıyor...

Proje Son Başvuru Tarihi: 17 Mart 2011

Proje Başvuru Dönemi: 1 Haziran 2011

Contact person: Alexander Oleinikov

Coordinating organisation: JASMA

Host: Social Care Centre "Jelgava": http://www.vsaczemgale.gov.lv/par-mums/centra-filiales/67-jelgava

Location: Jelgava, Latvia

Deadline: 17/04/2011

Start: 01/06/2011

End: 01/02/2012

It's a bit specific, but full of opportunities with the right motivation:

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=50000187318

Duration: 8 months

Start: June 2011

Place: Jelgava, Latvia

Languages: latvian, russian

Target group: adults with mental disabilities

Questions welcome, san@jasma.lv or jasma@jasma.lv.

Following are excerpts from EVS accredited organisations database (see

link above)

Project environment

The project will be placed in the Social Care Centre "Jelgava". is

situated in the suburb of Jelgava - the city with 65 thousands

inhabitants (the 4th biggest in the country), which is 42 km from the

capital city of Latvia, Riga. The city itself is multicultural, with

many cultural, sport, or education opportunities. It has also the

university, making Jelgava also a student city.

The Social Care Centre works with people with mental disabilities, who

are inhabitants of the Centre, and has all the facilities needed,

including the garden with walking and play areas.

There 2 main structures of the Centre, namely, the boarding house

("pansion"), with around 250 people with mental disabilities living on

every day basis, and the "Half-way house", where people with mental

disabilities are learning and preparing for independent living and

including in the society, all together there usually are around 12

people living there. While in the boarding house its inhabitants are on

full care of the Centre social workers, in the Half-way house the role

of social workers is to help their inhabitants to learn how to take care

for themselves, also, these people are working in the city of Jelgava,

going to work and coming back every day. The boarding house and the

Half-way house are separated units, and the latter has its own rules for

inhabitants and social workers working in.

Both the boarding house and the Half-way house provide number of

workshops and activities for their inhabitants, such as music and

theatre workshop, crafts, cultural events, excursions and visits.

Tasks

Short: It involves a lot of organizational work - workshops and such, but also might be some help needed to the staff of the facility. There is infrastructure and numerous possibilities for volunteer's initiative. Proposed activities for EVS volunteers Volunteers will have a wide range of opportunities to get involved in working and supporting the life of the Centre inhabitants. - In the boarding house, volunteers will be able to support the work of theatre and music workshops. An extremely valuable addition to these workshops would be the introduction of volunteers' own cultures, with songs, dances, games, and other ways to get in touch with the boarding house inhabitants. -As in the Centre the cultural events are organised for most of the holidays, and also on the other occasions, volunteers will be able to come up with their own ideas and realise them together with the inhabitants and work staff of the the Centre. -In the Half-way House, volunteers can get involved in crafts workshops, both learning together with the inhabitants and helping them learn new things (e.g. sewing, knitting, painting on clothes and dishes, etc). -Also, in the House, volunteers will be involved in helping the inhabitants to learn practical self-sufficiency skills, as cooking, cleaning, etc. - The Centre is organising visits and excursions for the inhabitants to different places, both in the city of Jelgava, and in the country, and there volunteers together with social workers will be accompanying and supporting them. In all workshops and activities a responsible social worker is present and volunteers in this case will be able to support them, propose and realise new ideas, teaching and learning new things. At the same time, for volunteers this will be a great way to know more about Latvia, its culture, history, and nature. During the project, volunteers will be more than welcome to suggest and realise own ideas for new workshops and activities, and especially we are looking forward for active games, sport, and outdoor activities, as the Centre has all the facilities and equipment, but at the moment the social workers have lack of capacities in organising that.

Criteria

Short: we need someone motivated to work and realise ideas in a home for mentally challenged people. The activities to undertake require no special skills or knowledges, yet they need strong motivation. So we expect a volunteer to have desire to undertake such activities, devote to them and learn from his/her experience. A volunteer requires no special training, though it is a beneficial for the volunteer to have had a first encounter before leaving for the project to soften possible shock. No language skills whatsoever are required. Basically the Sending Organisation is required to evaluate a volunteer's motivation and ability to undertake the activities, and to facilitate the preparation before leaving for the project. We advise Sending Organizations to be fair and open about the recruitment, meaning to make the vacancy available to the major public, not to apply discriminative restrictions such as gender, sexuality, race, religious beliefs, educational and social background and so on. Age restriction may apply due to psychological factors. Also all candidates can contact us for details and clarifications. Also we see it as the Sending Organization's duty to facilitate the preparation of selected volunteer, e.g. finding possibilities to participate in similar activities (where people with mental disabilities are involved), in their home country, providing additional information on the Youth in Action program, our project, hosting country and so on, as well as full assistance for an advanced planning visit. We also ask the Sending Organization to keep in touch with the volunteer during the project to monitor his/her progress and provide assistance in case of need.

Procedure

No special form, a volunteer may apply by sending a cv and motivation to jasma@jasma.lv