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Μια μοναδική ευκαιρία για όποιον επιθυμεί να βρεθεί για 5 μήνες στην Ισλανδία, να γίνει μέλος του προσωπικού της οργάνωσης SEEDS και να συμμετέχει σε όλες τις δράσεις της!
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EVS in SEEDS!
Project title: International Workcamps Leaders / Environmental Messengers
Dates: 01/05/2015 - 30/09/2015 (5 months)
Pocket money: 135€ per month.
Role and tasks of the volunteer:
The scope of activities for the volunteers will change during their stay in Iceland and can be chronologically clearly divided in the already mentioned four (4) different stages:
1. EVS Volunteers arrival. SEEDS will organise an on-arrival project-specific & language orientation training. During this time volunteers will be given enough tools and theoretical knowledge combined with practical tasks in order to prepare them for the stay and the activities on the field. Volunteers will be introduced to four main topics, the hosting organisation, Iceland, environment and leadership. Intercultural, recreational and integration activities will be organised with the active involvement of the volunteers.
During the first two stages volunteers will have weekends free and work will be carried out within usual week-working-days, Monday to Friday.
2. Before going to lead the workcamps, volunteers have a “pilot project” where experienced leaders & few EVS volunteers participate; the conditions are similar to those of the regular camps. This aims at building confidence within a comfortable environment (with few short-term volunteers, if any), to experience “in real” how a workcamp is run, to face possible challenging situations and to try out the tools given in stage 1.
3. On field work takes place when the camps are implemented. Workcamps are the most common form of short-term volunteering and are projects where a group of volunteers live and work together on a project which has been identified by a local partner. They generally last for 2 weeks.
There are different types of projects depending on the needs of our hosting partners and they can be:
- Nature conservation or environment protection: Ecological research, removing invasive growth, building of walking paths or hiking trails, cleaning of the coastline, reforestation and erosion control works, etc.
- Renovation and restoration. Construction or renovation of a building, monument or community building, etc.
- Cultural and sports events: Support of festivals, celebrations, gatherings or happenings.
- Agricultural projects: Organic farming, tree-nurseries.
- Awareness Campaigns and global education projects.
- Artistic projects
- Projects focused on environmental education
International workcamps bring together volunteers from different backgrounds aiming at building up understanding & encouraging peace while working for an identified need, groups range from 5 to 30 volunteers.
International Workcamp leader – roles and responsibilities:
The responsibilities and role of an EVS work camp leader will vary according to the hosting community and the type of project, but the following list gives an idea of what they could normally be responsible for:
* Helping the volunteers feel comfortable with the project, welcoming and talking to them, to establish a good relationship and to ensure they do not have avoidable problems, and that they remain happy with the project.
* Acting as the link between the volunteers, the hosting project and SEEDS, trying to ensure that the aims, needs and desires of all three can be compromised to provide the best possible result.
* Budgeting food and other costs of the volunteers.
* Motivating the group of volunteers to ensure that they are able to carry out the agreed programme, such as organising the day-to-day working schedule and ensuring that everyone gets to work on time.
* Co-ordinating arrangements such as meals and cleaning to ensure that the needs of the volunteers are met.
* Ensuring sufficient balanced food and other health and safety considerations of the volunteers..
* Involving everyone so that no volunteer feels excluded from the group or alienated from the project and managing the group dynamics so that it does not split into sub-groups.
* Providing the time and space for ideas to develop from within the group, particularly in relation to the social programme, but also having ideas for activities that can be organised for the group in the evenings.
* Feeding back SEEDS regarding the outcome and evaluations of the single projects.
Volunteers need to take enough days free (in average 4) between workcamps to rest and be ready for the next one. The workcamps will be carried out one after each other in stage 3.
The work in the field is extremely demanding and volunteers will be highly active, which requires a great deal of energy, enthusiasm, self initiative and ability to work under extreme conditions, travelling and moving very often, meeting new people and leaving them after relatively short time.
During this stage EVS volunteers will be under personal supervision of the organisation, contact will be constant through telephone and visits to the sites by SEEDS staff.
In all of our projects with local hosts SEEDS has a local on-the-site project coordinator, who is running the specific project and who knows the local circumstances at its best. The local on-the-site project coordinator has been informed and trained by SEEDS in the different issues that entail working with international volunteers, as the safety and risk assessment for the project to ensure all quality, learning, and welfare standards of each volunteer.
SEEDS signs contracts and written agreements with all of our partners around the country to ensure the quality of the projects and the learning content for the volunteers participating.
After the camps’ season, volunteers will return to Reykjavík and a structured evaluation of their experience will be undertaken. The feedback and input will be used in order to plan the next years and to raise the quality of the service.
Volunteers will work a maximum five days a week, for a maximum of 38 hours a week (between 7 and 8 hours a day). Weekends are usually free but if requested by the hosting projects, volunteers might work during the weekend and get days off during the usual working days, Monday to Friday.
Volunteers are entitled to 2 days of holidays per every month of service at SEEDS; usually we are flexible on this especially when family or friends visit the volunteers while in Iceland.
Insurance and language
The participant shall be registered for the EVS insurance scheme.
The participant shall carry out an online assessment of linguistic competences before and at the end of the mobility period, with the exception of native speakers.
The participant shall follow the online English language course in order to prepare for the mobility activity abroad. The participant shall immediately inform the organisation if he/she is unable to carry out the online course.
Additionally an Icelandic language course will be offered to the volunteers during their stay. It will be optional for the volunteers to participate in this course during their project, as most communication during their project will be conducted in English.
Accommodation and Food
Volunteers will stay in a shared flat (with max. 4 people per room) in Reykjavík and will return there for the breaks between the workcamps. They will most likely stay at Miklabraut 40, a flat that SEEDS owns since 2013, located close to the center of Reykjavík. In this apartment they can relax during their free time between camps.
During the workcamps, accommodation is provided by the local hosts and as they will move from project to project, the situation will vary according to the facilities available. SEEDS ensures that hosting conditions meet quality standards, so that both EVS and camp volunteers enjoy a good and safe place to live in the workcamps.
Domestic transport to the workcamps and back to the accommodation in Reykjavík will be provided by SEEDS. In the accommodation in Reykjavík SEEDS provides them with bicycles for their free time and local transport.
During the workcamps in the countryside, volunteers stay there for periods of usually 2 weeks and no transport to Reykjavík is available (no matter if they are close to the city as in Mosfellsbaer or far away as Egilsstaðir).
Food will be either provided by SEEDS, while volunteers find themselves in the accommodation in Reykjavík, or in the hosting projects during the different workcamps. Food shopping will be done according to SEEDS standard shopping list, ensuring that every volunteer has a balanced diet.
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