Bona Fides Association and Pi Youth Association are looking for 1 participant from Poland or Polish resident to join our European Solidarity Corps project in Izmir, Turkey and have an opportunity to work with young people and organize courses, seminars, workshops, etc.
To apply please fill this application form: https://forms.gle/74hFfwsju83ieHKdA and send your Curriculum Vitae to the following emails: joanna.budny@bonafides.pl and anna@bonafides.pl.
- Location: Izmir, Turkey
- Deadline: As soon as possible
- Duration: 4 months
- Mobility period: May 2023 – August 2023
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
As Pi Youth Association, we work under 3 main topics. These are, “Strengthening the Local Youth”, “Youth Rights” and “Youth Problems”. Our efforts towards strengthening the youth includes; courses, seminars, workshops etc. for 15 to 30 year old people and these activities are being held mostly in İzmir. Each month, we plan these activities and organize them in our association’s training hall. Currently we organize them online due to Covid-19 but we’re planning to continue our activities physically in the second half of 2021. We also expect to see personal efforts towards our “Strengthening the Local Youth” goal from the volunteers we will host through this project. We will organize spare time activities such as; language workshops, speaking clubs and self-improvement workshops in various areas for them. Just like everything else, these activities also do get planned monthly and organized on a weekly basis. This also includes our work with volunteers. In our activities, we mostly use non- formal learning methods but sometimes we use formal methods too. Our office is located at the center of the city, therefore it’s possible to get there without a vehicle change from all central districts. This allows us to reach so many youngsters in our city which is important for us because, currently almost a million youngsters between the ages of 15 and 29 reside in İzmir. Before Covid-19, we are able to reach out more than 500 local youngsters through our regular activities on a weekly basis. And we plan to to achieve the same in the upcoming period too. Just like our all other activities, the activites we will organize through our volunteers will target local youth between the ages of 15 and 29. Since this target group mostly includes university students, people who benefit from our activities the most are university students between the ages of 18 and 25 and %60 of them are women.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES
– Each and every volunteer will work together with a project leader and a project assistant (contact person). These two people will support our volunteers throughout their project.
– Each and every volunteer will be provided with mentor support, to get assistance outside of their project activities and to make their lives easier.
– Each and every volunteer will get an orientation training at the beginning of their project. Through this training, they will be informed about; our association, our other work areas, our team, aims and activities of this project, our emergency action plan and lastly, the tools and systems we use as an association.
– Each and every volunteer will be provided with a laptop computer, a worktable and a personal storage to use them in their activities.
– Our volunteers will be provided with the tools and equipments they may or will need during their activities.
– When our volunteers arrive or leave İzmir, one of our members will accompany them on their way to/from airport.
– In the first week of our volunteers’ project time, their respective mentors will accompany them on their way to the office.
– We will keep the track of residence permit appointments for our volunteers.
– Our volunteers will also have Cigna Health Insurance.
This is our weekly schedule for our volunteers during their project:
MONDAY
-Off Day-
TUESDAY
10.00 – 11.00 Volunteer-Mentor Meeting
11.00 – 12.00 Scheduling Weekly Activities
12.00 – 13.00 Writing Blogs
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 16.00 Preparation for the Activity
16.00 – 18.00 Organizing Speaking Clubs for the Local Youth (English/Polish)
WEDNESDAY
10.00 – 12.00 Digital Design and Photography Training
12.00 – 13.00 Writing Blogs
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 16.00 Preparation for the Activity
16.00 – 18.00 Organizing Speaking Clubs for the Local Youth (English)
THURSDAY
10.00 – 12.00 Digital Design and Photography Training
12.00 – 13.00 Writing Blogs
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 16.00 Preparation for the Activity
16.00 – 18.00 Organizing Speaking Clubs for the Local Youth (English/Polish)
FRIDAY
10.00 – 12.00 Turkish Language Course for volunteers
12.00 – 13.00 Writing Blogs
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 18.00 Volunteers’ Individual Project Time
SATURDAY
10.00 – 11.00 Preparation for the Activity
11.00 – 13.00 Workshop events for the Local Youth (Thematic)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 16.00 Preparation for the Activity
16.00 – 18.00 Workshop events for the Local Youth (Thematic)
SUNDAY
-Off Day-
ACCOMMODATION AND OTHER ARRANGEMENTS
TRAVEL
The ticket travel from Poland to Turkey will be reimbursed following the rules of European Solidarity Corps projects.
ACCOMODATION AND FOOD
The organization will provide to the volunteers pocket money and food money, so accomodation and food are covered.
PROFILE OF THE VOLUNTEERS
The volunteer has to be between 18 and 30 years, with: good integration capability; willingness to share experiences and cultural habits. The organization is looking for someone with strong communication skills, a person who deeply desires to stay with young people trying to improve their reality. The participant should be open mind, creative and enthusiastic person, all of these features are necessary to work with younger!
Check more information about Pi Youth Association here:
Check more information about the project in Infopack:
Check information about the project on European Solidarity Corps portal: https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/placement/31293_en