Si chiama "Caritas home for refugees" il progetto del Servizio Volontario Europeo organizzato ed ospitato da Akzente International e Caritas in Austria e che e' ancora alla ricerca di un volontario. Il progetto partirebbe a fine estate, per una durata totale di 10 mesi. Se interessati, inviateci cv, motivation letter specifica (entrambi in inglese e su due file di testo distini) ed una vostra foto (su file immagine) attraverso questo form entro il 17 gennaio 2012. Dovrete, inoltre, compilare ed inviarci l'application form che trovate in allegato.

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Code: 2011-AT-17
Location: Salzburg, Austria
Start: 03/09/2012
End: 30/06/2013

PROJECT ENVIRONMENT
The head organisation of the “CARITAS” is a Catholic institution whose core belief is to try to help and support people in need. The "CARITAS Flüchtlingshaus" is actively involved in the work with refugees. We operate two homes for refugees in Salzburg and Puch, where we mainly focus on the social support of the residents. We want to give shelter to the refugees until the legal proceedings are finished and it is clarified what happens to the refugees. We work together with various other institutions devoted to ease the fate of the refugees: Amnesty International, Refugee Service of the Protestant Church and other initiatives, also within the national CARITAS network and cooperate on an international level with the UNHCR. Caritas offers a long-term EVS (10 months) for 1 volunteer.

The volunteer is directly involved in the institution of the home for refugees; where even the supervision and instruction of the volunteers takes place. Furthermore, there is the possibility to get to know the whole organisation of CARITAS in Salzburg, with its different institutions. Salzburg City has 150.000 inhabitants. As it is administration- and Shopping-centre it has everything you need, in a small area. (And even more... lots of tourist stuff in town centre.) The living quality is very high: nature (river, mountains, forests, lakes) in and around town; cycling is possible to almost every point in town along the river Salzach; pedestrian zones, ... Besides the world-famous 'Salzburger Festspiele' and 'Universit䴠Mozarteum' you can also find many low-cost and alternative cultural events. Salzburg has a very beautiful town centre with a very long history. Salzburg is also a students' town, where you can study almost everything. It's not one big campus, but spread over the whole town.

PROPOSED ACTIVITIES
- Tasks: General tasks for the volunteer will be organizing activities with and for the refugees in the project (within the possibilities of the hosting placement), assistance in the general running for the organisation, accompany inhabitants to authorities, instituions or hospitals and physicians etc. - Practical arrangements: Working hours and days off: 30 h per week, Monday – Friday, 2 consecutive days off per week. 2 days holidays per month for the duration of the project. The EVS will develop mutual understanding between people from many different cultural backgrounds. Especially in this project the theme European Citizenship will be tackled in many ways and will influence all people involved in a positive way of thinking and acting. - A timetable can look like this; 30 h per week: Monday: Assistance of the general organisation of the house, administrative support activities, German language course, supporting the youngsters by helping with their homework, leisure time activities with the refugees. Tuesday: Assistance of the general organisation of the house, administrative support activties, company of refugees to authorities/doctors/institutions, supporting the youngsters by helping them with their homework, leisure time activties with the refugees. Wednesday: Assistance of the general organisation of the house, adminstrative support activities, German language course, supporting the youngsters by helping with their home work, leisure time activties with the refugees. Thursday: Assistance of the general organisation of the house, adminstrative support activities, supporting the youngsters by helping them with their homework, mentoring – reflexion of the daily basis, the future tasks. Friday: Assistance of the general organisation of the house, adminstrative support activities, translating for the office staff and for the refugees, company of refugees to authorities/doctors/institutions, leisure time activities with the refugees.

VOLUNTEER'S PROFILE
We expect interest in working with people coming from minorities, interest in getting to know people from other cultures, the ability to listen to our clients. Advantageous would be: driving license B, foreign laguage skills.