ESC Project “EcoACT” – Bailesti, Romania

Dear members and colleagues,
We are looking for volunteers for European Solidarity Corps “ESC” project, that will be in Romania 1st May 2023 – 30th October 2023 (6 months).

If you are interested, please fill the application form through this link:
https://forms.gle/uUn8T4DL3yvsBLMT9

Deadline to apply: 6 April 2023
JORDANIANS ONLY
Location: Bailesti – Romania
Duration: 1 May 2022 – 30 October 2023 (6 months).

Profile of the volunteer:
– Aged 18 – 30 year old.
– Like and willing to work with youth.
– Active, open-minded, creative, innovative, responsible and motivated.
– Show willingness to learn and see other experience as a learning process.
– Basic level of English (being able to make herself/himself understood by the others– able to communicate).
– Having a Euro-pass CV and a tailored motivation letter for our project, work and community.
– Previous experience in volunteering work locally or internationally will be considered a plus.
– YOUTH with few opportunities (unemployed, not in school, few financial possibility ties, cultural / religious/gender obstacles etc.) will have priority and a tailored support plan.

Objectives:
The general objective of the project is to raise the awareness of 70 students on environmental protection measures and get them involved in the development, planning and implementation of 4 community Eco-friendly initiatives. By implementing the project we want, with the help of the volunteers, to promote to students from the high schools, through non-formal activities and workshops, the following 5 principles of environmental education:
1- Awareness: to acquire knowledge of pollution and environmental degradation.
2- Knowledge: to acquire variety of experience in, and acquire a basic understanding of the environment and its associated problems
3- Attitudes: to acquire a set of values for environmental protection.
4- Skills and capacity Building: acquire the skills for identifying and solving environmental problems. Further, to develop ability to draw unbiased inferences and conclusions.
5- Participation: To provide them with an opportunity to be actively involved at all levels in environmental community initiatives.
Activity of the project:
1. Rise awareness, knowledge and skills on ways to reduce, reuse and recycle.
2. Organize the school students to design, plan and implement in common 4 community eco-friendly initiatives.
3. Rise skills and competences of 5 volunteers on environmental education and the 3R`s (reuse, reduce, recycle) and in organizing and implementing activities that aim to teach others these skills.
4. Promote the European Solidarity Core and its opportunities to over 200 young people in Bailesti.

*Other aspects:
-Accommodation:
Volunteers will be accommodated in apartments, 2 / room, same gender room, will share a kitchen and bathroom.
Will be provided:
– 1 set of bed sheets, 1 pillow, 1 blanket /volunteer
– Cutleries, pans and other necessities for basic cooking to be shared between the volunteers
(kitchen equipment’s will be basic)
– Washing machine to be shared
– Local transportation: a monthly local travel bus pass will be provided for each volunteer.
-Financial Support:
The volunteers will receive a monthly food allowance and pocket money, at the end of each month.
Monthly food allowance: 150 euro/month
Pocket money: 90 euro/month
-Travel:
275 Euro provided for international travel (round trip).

*Plus:
– Mentorship process
– Language course
– Trainings
– Insurance
– Youth-Pass Certificate
* NO PARTICIPATION FEE
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