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  • You have a keen interest in furthering your career in international affairs? You are into the international policy realm ?
  • Different communities are at different stages of development; either the communities are facing underdevelopment in many areas either they need to work more on improving their status quo.
  • Volunteering abroad means also intercultural learning through intercultural communication and multi-linguism.
  • The lack of human resources in this field of care giving is a common situation in many parts of the world.
  • Volunteers are of great help when it comes to school tutoring. They offer assistance to build in necessary supports for children, at the same time improving their own pedagogical skills.
  • The volunteers will have, obviously, an impact on the organization in which they will be working.
  • Volunteers can practice their skills as fundraisers to sustain an already existing project, or to initiate sponsorship campaigning for a various range of issues, from social to environment.
  • The extra-curricular education is a very useful tool in volunteer work to bridge the gap between informal and formal education.
  • The International Volunteer Day has been celebrated on the 5th of December 2010 in the center of Targu Jiu by 60 EVS volunteers

Why doing World Wide Volunteering via EVS?

Annually, thousands of youths worldwide choose to do it- either it is your gap year, you feel are willing to experience new cultures, you want to strengthen your social skills and increase your employment chances, www.yesforevs.eu platform is ready to assist you through your life time experience in Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Caucasus, European Union in areas such as international affairs, community development, intercultural communication and multi-lingvism, care giving, school tutoring,organizational development, fundraising, extra-curricular education.
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Inmaculada Camerero

EVS volunteer in Romania
Where am I come from? I'm from the World; Why? Because I love to know new cultures, new languages, new people, and take all the good things and mix it with my culture. What is my passion? Work with children and young; Why? Because they are the future, and we should show them the ability to think by themselves, in order to live in the freedom. Why these EVS? Because is a big opportunity to get to know other culture by working with children. For me EVS is a learning, teaching, cultural and human experience. Inma, from Spain.
 
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Worldwide volunteering vacancies

Open call for a 5 months social group EVS, 01.08.12-31.12.12

Regional Association for Rural Development is preparing a Group EVS application with a duration of 5 months starting with 1st of August 2012, until 31st of December 2012.
S.A.V.E – Social Awareness and Volunteering in Europe, is a 5 months EVS project that will gather 6 volunteers from Programme and Partner Countries in order to promote social awareness, tolerance and acceptance for youngsters with less opportunities by cultural diversity and non formal educational methods.

The volunteers will be hosted in Targu Jiu and will run most of their activities within the different Support and Social Assistance Centres from Targu Jiu and 2 surrounding communities Targu Carbunesti and Rovinari. All Social Care institutions are subordinated to the General Direction for Social Assistance and Child Protection Tg Jiu, institution that signed a partnership agreement with ARDR for the development of volunteer activities.
To get more information on this proejct you can read the Open Call here.
ORGANIZATIONS must send these document: Part III by fax to number +40 353 805 988 or email alexandru.diaconescu@ardr.ro
Volunteers must ask their organizaitons to send the above documents and they also must submit their CV.
Final deadline for sending the documents is 30.01.2012.

 

 

 

Regional Association for Rural Development is preparing a Group EVS application for a dynamic and challenging project that addresses all young people, regardless of gender, religion, social or educational background. The project is to take place in the rural areas of Gorj County, Romania.
The EVS service will last 9 months starting with 1st of September 2012 until 31st of May 2013.
There are 20 available placements for youngsters originating from Programme, Partner Countries and other countries in the world. The intercultural dimension of the project will be enhanced by the presence of 20 volunteers coming from Africa, Latin America, Europe and Caucasus
For complete info about the project download the open call from here.
For complete info about us, the HO, visit the EVS database here.
For complete info on our previous EVS projects, visit here.
VERY IMPORTANT!!! If you are SO you must submit this document and if you have EI number, you are required to submit this document also.

 

Youth Empowerment Program- YEP

The ideas on cooperation in the youth sector in between the EU , Africa and Latin America is is in line with the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership- A Joint Africa-EU Strategy and Latin America Regional programming document 2007-2013 but also with the specific papers that touch on youth volunteering, White Paper on Youth, European Youth Pact and the newly launched strategy "Youth – Investing and Empowering".. Read further

 

 
 

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