Stowarzyszenie BONA FIDES i ICIRLD poszukują wolontariuszy na projekty EVS w Armenii . Zgłoszenia (CV oraz list motywacyjny w języku angielskim) prosimy przesyłać na adres [email protected]

Zgłoszenia przyjmujemy do 20 sierpnia 2014 roku.

COORDINATING ORGANIZATION: ICIRLD („International Center for Intercultural Research, Learning and Dialogue” NGO)

HOST ORGANIZATIONS: Tteni Cooperation/ CCMS/ Flight

PLACE: Goris/ Alverdi/Vanadzor

DURATION: 12 months

SERVICE DATES: 5th September 2014 to 4th September 2015

PLACEMENTS: 6 volunteers

AGE: Above 18 years old

„Opening up the European Gateways in Armenia” is a group EVS project involving 6 EVS volunteers from Poland doing their EVS service in 3 receiving organisations in 3 different towns in Armenia (Goris, Alaverdi, Vanadzor). The EVS volunteers will be doing their EVS service for 12 months starting from September 2014. The themes of this project are European Awareness, EU Awareness and Urban/Rural Development. EVS volunteers will run European Clubs in 3 towns of Armenia, including deprived urban areas.

Volunteers’s activities

This project involves an EVS activity hosting 6 EVS volunteers in 3 different receiving organsiations in Armenia. We consider this as 1 Activity because the activities and tasks that the volunteers will be doing in 3 different organisations are similar and they all have a common task/activity – European Club. The EVS Service for all the EVS volunteers will be for 1 year (12 months) starting on the 1st of September 2014 and ending on the 31st of August 2015. The towns the volunteer are: Goris, Alaverdi and Vanadzor. 6 EVS volunteers will be sent by Bona Fides to the following receiving orgasnaitions accordingly:

-„Tteni Cooperation” in Goris (2011-PL-29): receiving 3 volunteers with fewer opportunities

-„Center for Community Mobilisation and Support” in Alaverdi (2013-PL-38): receiving 2 volunteers -“Flight” educational

– cultural and consulting NGO in Vanadzor (2013-PL-33): receiving 1 volunteer All the receiving organisations have a European club and volunteers will spread European values throughout Armenia.

20-30% of all the volunteers’ activities will be within this club operated in all the 3 receiving organisations: The Activity duration will be broken into different thematic months (let’s say „European Cooperation”, „Intercultural Communication”, „European Projects” etc.). During these months sets of different thematic activities (exhibitions, action days, movie screenings, and round tables) are organized for and by young people. EVS volunteers will work together with the coordinators of the clubs and other staff members to identify the most topics that are of a high interest and concern for young people. The concrete tasks of the volunteers here will be: -identification of an interesting discussion topic for local young people -together with the staff of host organisations preparing discussion materials/presentations for the club meetings -preparing and disseminating announcements of these activities for young people -together with members animating club meetings for young people and preparing short reports of these activities -disseminating promotional and information materials on European Youth programs and structures (in particular on YiA) Activities within the European Club is a common project which all the receiving organisations. Apart from these activities the volunteers will have other tasks (60-70%) to implement. The tasks are flexible and will be final tuned when volunteers will be identified. For detailed and clearly defined tasks, please have a look at the EI numbers in the EVS database. The followings are only the fields of activities due to limit of characters of this form:

-Tteni in Goris (2011-PL-29): The organsiation runs various activities and volunteers will have the following tasks:

A. Language and Culture Clubs (English and Polish): -helping facilitate these clubs -presenting their cultures -using various methods for English speaking club

B. Arts, Crafts and Creativity: -help the organizers of crafts workshops in working with children. -participate in preparation of various types of public events dedicated to national crafts festivals

C. Intellectual Games and Contests -participate in organization of regular contests in the format of “What, When, Where?” games. -prepare thematic sets of questions on selected themes -help in animation of the games and contests

D. Charitable activities in nearby villages -help in the activities

-CCMS in Alaverdi (2013-PL-38): The Host organisation implements various activities aimed at community development in deprived urban and rural areas in Lori region. CCMS implements educational, capacity building and other activities for young people to make them active members of their communities. The tasks will be: -visiting the deprived urban and rural communities and assisting CCMS in community development projects -interacting with community inhabitants and assisting in identifying community problems and later on assessing needs through various methods -assisting in designing eco-tourism in the region which is in stage of development -finding partners, available funds and new methods of community development in other countries using Internet through partner networks and other sources -assisting in planning and developing of media and communication mechanism on projects -helping in updating the English part of the CCMS website

-FLIGHT NGO in Vanadzor (2013-PL-33): The receiving organisation runs youth clubs and publishes a youth social newspaper “Flight”. The youth clubs are run by its active members for local young people. There are the following thematic clubs: cultural and language, journalism, ecology, literature, psychology, social work. The volunteer can be involved in any youth club/s s/he prefers. Concrete tasks of the EVS volunteers will be: -Assisting and running the youth club/s s/he prefers -Assisting in developing English version or English part in the youth social newspaper “Flight” and English part of the host organisation’s website

Recruitment Process The host organsiations will host volunteers who are above 18 years old. As the hosting placenemts are in excluded areas, it is quite natural that volunteers should be matured (as described above) in order to be able to cope with the difficulties of the disadvantaged areas which might have quite a very different realities of their culturally different origins. Therefore, we will consider hosting volunteers who are above 21-22 years old who might be more matured and understand deprived community life. It will be much effective for the volunteers’ learning process if they are matured. This project will include only 3 young people with fewer opportunities hosted by Tteni Cooperation in Goris as they are the most experienced (among the partner receiving organsiations) in hosting EVS volunteers and have competent staff to provide quality learning, safety and logistical support to the volunteers. Tteni Cooperation will arrange appropriate and extra mentorship (reinforced mentorship) for the volunteers in order to: -create continuous evaluations and conversations with the professional -give extra support to the volunteers regarding their needs (emotional and psychological) We will also give importance for the gender balance of the project to ensure that equal number of male and female volunteers will be selected. We will make this n official criteria during volunteers’ selection/recruitment process. We will try to involve 3 female and 3 male volunteers in the project. When we make the announcement and put call for the free EVS placements, we will take this criteria seriously to insure gender balance in the project.