Wolontariat EVS Portugalia

- helping the monitoring of environmental activities at local schools with youngsters aged 10 -15, which means that the volunteer will help in the carrying out of workshops of recycling, building artificial lakes, building feed-boxes for birds, exhibitions and school contests or study visits to areas of environmental interest

- helping the monitoring of environmental activities in the nature School with children aged 6-13, where the volunteer will be working together with a monitor and give his support in teaching the children how to do biological farming, feed the farm animals, sort out garbage and recycle, prepare food with ingredients they planted and build new things out of old ones.

- helping the monitoring of nature sports, with groups of young people aged between 15-25 years old. Since sports like climbing, rappel, canoeing, slide and paintball require very specific skills; the volunteer will be given specific formation and will never work alone.

The volunteer working time is flexible, according to the programmed activities, but in a general way, it will be according to a regular working schedule, from Monday to Friday, with free Saturdays and Sundays. In case there is a programmed activity for the weekend, the two free days will be on Monday and Tuesday.

The example of the working week:

Monday:
10.00 - Arrival at the Office of the Association.
Helping with the preparation of materials to be used in environmental activities at the Occupational Centre with kids in risk of social exclusion.
10.30 - Go to the centre together with personnel from Onda Verde
11.00 - Helping to monitor the recycling workshops with youngsters aged 10-15
12.30 - Lunch break
14.00 to 17.30 - Receiving formation and helping to monitor the outdoor Nature Sports with a group of youngsters (14-18 years old).

Tuesday:
10.00 - Arrival at the Office of the Association.
Helping with the preparation of materials to be used in environmental activities at the centre.
10.30 - Go to the centre together with personnel from Onda Verde
11.00 - Helping to monitor the workshops of artificial lake building with pupils aged 12-15
12.30 - Lunch break
14.00 to 17.30 - Helping to monitor the activities at the centre - biological farming with children aged 6 -13.


Wednesday:
10.00 - Arrival at the Office of the Association.
Helping to prepare the materials for a canoeing activity with youngsters aged 15-18.
11.00 - Receiving formation and helping to monitor the water sport activities together with the personnel from Onda Verde.
12.30- Lunch break
14.00 to 17.30 - helping to monitor the activities at centre with children aged 6 - 13

Thursday:
10.00 - Arrival at the Office of the Association.
Receiving formation and improving skills on Climbing and Rappel.
12.30 - Lunch break
14.00 to 17.30 - Helping to monitor the climbing activities. The volunteer will help the monitors to ensure the safety equipment and help the youngsters aged 15-18.

Friday:
10.00 - Arrival at the Office of the Association.
Maintenance of "a seedling nursery" - a place where we plant and grow several tree species. The volunteer will help in the cleaning, picking up of harmful seeds and water the trees.
12.30 - Lunch break
14.00 to 17.30 - helping to monitor the activities at centre with children aged 6-13 - sorting out the garbage, recycle and reutilization of materials.

Practical arrangements:

- Accommodation
Volunteer will be living in the house of COJ (Centro Ocupational Juventude). Will be provided own room and all conditions for cooking. Also all the hygienically standards are taken into consideration.
- Alimentation
Volunteer will be able to buy food what is necessary for every day's life and all food receipts will reimburse by hosing organization.
- Working hours
Volunteer will be working 30 hours per week.
- Holidays
Volunteer will have 2 free days per week and plus free days per month (20 free days per 10 months).
- Local transport
Volunteer will be provided with the local transportation necessary for work. The tickets will be reimbursed by hosting organization. In every days work public transportation will not be necessary.
- Language courses
Volunteer will be provided with Portuguese language courses in University of Porto - 2 lectures/week, with length of 2 hours for 4 months. At the end volunteer will receive also a certificate.

Our volunteers are chosen regardless of their ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation or political opinion, or any other professional degree qualification. The volunteer should only show an interest in issues related to environmental education, environmental protection and outdoor sports and youth work.

The project information is available on the EVS database on the Internet, so everyone who is interested in our project can apply.

The volunteer must demonstrate flexibility, willingness to work as part of a group and willingness to learn new things. Furthermore, it should be someone who likes to interact with people, is talkative and outgoing, while the majority of work is based on interpersonal relationships. We also require someone who is willing to take initiatives and show willingness to Portuguese culture and willingness to learn. Onda Verde is an environmental organization and therefore looking for someone who likes nature and sport and work on poverty and social exclusion of young people, because founded on the principles of Agenda 21 which emerged from the Rio Conference and that we endorse the host organization and work. For the selection process be more transparent, Onda Verde, before selecting the candidates, send an email to all candidates asking if they still have interest to participate and then subsequently selects the candidates who are interested. After the selection procedure based on CV and motivation letter all candidates are informed about the selection results.