Stowarzyszenie Bona Fides i hiszpańska organizacja Grup Balear d’ornitología i defensa de la naturalesa poszukują wolontariuszy na projekt na wyspie Minorka, w Hiszpanii.
Jeżeli oferta jest dla Ciebie interesująca zapraszamy do aplikowania. Prosimy o przesyłanie CV oraz listu motywacyjnego w j. angielskim na adres: [email protected] oraz [email protected] (zgłoszenie należy wysłać na obie skrzynki mailowe).
Zgłoszenia przyjmujemy do 31 sierpnia 2014 roku.
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Sending association:
Bona Fides Association
ul. Warszawska 19
40-009 Katowice
POLAND
Natalia Podbielska
Start of the project: February 2015
Duration of the project: 10 months
Place: Maó, Minorca Island, Spain
Proposed activities for EVS volunteers:
GOB Minorca has a variety of projects for the European volunteer in which he or she can take part mostly with a team of professionals and volunteers who have already spent time working in these areas. The volunteer will have at his or her disposal all of the organisation’s locations: the central office in Mahόn, which is in a converted windmill originally for grinding flour in the 18th century (a point of interest for tourists); the nursery garden for autochthonous plants situated near the industrial estate of Mahόn; the Recuperation Centre for wild animals in Ciutadella; the market garden in Es Migjorn, alloted to GOB for projects for both training purposes and for developing local horticultural varieties, etc. The volunteer will have a training session on arrival bearing in
mind the particular tasks to be carried out with the organisation. The volunteer project aims to work across the whole of the organisation. The volunteer will work under the tutelage of the different people responsible for each project, and will thus be able to get to understand the complete variety of work undertaken by the organisation: The Centre for Wild Animal recuperation, Environmental Education, Vivarium of Autochthonous plants, central office help, Voluntary work, etc.
The project would like the volunteer to take part for approximately 35 hours per week (which here includes the language courses) within the organisation. These will be mostly in the mornings, but on some days or at certain times of the year, the activity will take place more in the evenings. A language course is offered at the Official School for Adults (Spanish for anyone who does not speak it) of three hours per week during two evenings. Equally, there is the possibility of learning Catalan with someone from the “Bank Time”, a very common way of learning languages in the Minorcan community. We would like the volunteers to be involved in different projects. They can help at the Recuperation Centre at least once a week, and equally at the nursery garden for autochthonous plants. The different types of work of the organisation vary depending on the time of the year. During the school terms (October to June), the volunteer will assist the Environmental Education Service in courses for school children, with suitable activities (excursions, etc.). During the spring when there is a great demand, they will help with the campaign to train volunteers to care for bird chicks. In the summer they will help with visitors to the Recuperation Centre as well as expanding on ideas for children’s activities at the Centre. They will also be involved in the special volunteer days in the project for custodial agriculture. An important part of their tasks will be helping in the management and reinvigoration of volunteer programmes which already exist in the organisation. Through this method of involvement for obtaining environmental technical knowledge (botanical, nursery garden, veterinary, biodiversity, environmental education, etc), the volunteer will be able to develop his or her social skills such as initiative, self-sufficiency, creativity (for developing activities of his or her own design and execution), the ability to adapt to new situations, working with an organisation, leadership (of other volunteers), etc. Also, the volunteer will be able to increase his or her language competency as much with Spanish (weekly classes) as with Catalan (a form of exchange at Minorcan’s Bank Time).
Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:
The volunteer who wishes to participate in the project must demonstrate a high level of motivation in order to do the work which is carried out by the organisation on the island. The person must be keen to learn on environmental matters with a ethos of life similar to that which is promoted by the organisation. What is most important is for the volunteer to have the enthusiasm for working in a team and for being an active citizen. It would be valuable if the volunteer has participated in volunteer work previously. It is not necessary to have a high level of knowledge of environmental matters, but it is important to be interested. We are looking for an independent person with initiative who can adapt to the frequent changes of work situations which take place within the organisation. The person should be open minded with no rigid views and be able to accept new ways of working together when necessary. We would appreciate that the person has a driving licence which will be very useful for the activities of the organisation (and facilitate the volunteer’s own mobility around the island). It is also necessary that they like animals and be able to be near them (for tasks in the Recuperation Centre), and though their confidence will increase it is important not to feel any initial repugnance with the creatures. The volunteer should have the ability to work outside in the countryside and although the work is not hard they should be physically able to do it. A minimum of English is required for to be able to communicate with the supervisors and the organisation staff. We wish to make contact with sending organisations active in the society in which they are involved. It is not necessary for them to be environmental organisations but we would like to establish a relationship with organisations interested in exchanging working methods. There will be a selection committee who will evaluate the covering letters and curriculum vitae of the candidates. In any case, we would like to know a sending organisation that is responsible for volunteers of a level that can evaluate people with aptitude to be part of the European Volunteer project.