Novos Voluntários Europeus em Carnide

No dia 6 de Fevereiro a Junta de Freguesia de Carnide recebeu uma nova geração de Voluntários Europeus. É já pelo terceiro ano consecutivo que a Junta acolhe quatro participantes no Serviço Voluntário Europeu, uma sub-acção do programa Juventude em Acção que permite a todos os jovens entre os 18 e 30 anos realizarem uma experiência de voluntariado noutro país.

Durante 9 meses a Maria e a Laura da Espanha irão colaborar com os Espaços Jovens – ATL das Escolas S. Vicente de Telheiras e do Bairro Padre Cruz, a Miriam de Itália estará a trabalhar na Academia Sénior e a Katrina da Estónia estará a contribuir para o Departamento de Cultura da Junta.

Elas já começaram o seu voluntariado e, até ao final do ano, todos em Carnide terão a possibilidade de as encontrar pois farão parte da equipa da Junta nas actividades com crianças, jovens e séniores e também estarão presentes nos eventos sociais e culturais da Freguesia.

Damos desde já as boas-vindas a Carnide à Maria, à Laura, à Katrina e à Miriam e contamos que tenham uma experiência enriquecedora e de grande partilha junto da nossa comunidade!

Para mais informações sobre como funciona e como participar neste Programa como Voluntário ou Organização de Acolhimento, é só contactar a Associação: 914519264 / 217145520; sve@a-spin.pt, www.a-spin.pt.

A 1ª reunião das novas voluntárias com os seus tutores.

Can I ask you something? - vídeo final

Vejam aqui o vídeo final do projecto internacional "Can I ask you something?"! O projecto foi implementado no âmbito do Programa Juventude em Acção (sub-acção Jovens e a Democracia). No vídeo podem ver o que os participantes italianos e portugueses pensam acerca de questões como a Democracia, a Participação Activa e o 25 de Abril, entre outros. Aproveitem!

Vídeo do SVE no Nepal

Este vídeo foi realizado pela nossa voluntária SVE Sara Segurado durante a sua experiência no Nepal em 2012.

E tu? Não queres fazer o SVE? :)

Let´s do it! - selection results

Dear EVS Candidates,

After a long and hard process, we have managed to pre-select the candidates for the "Let´s do it!" EVS project at the Horas de Sonho Cooperative (2013-PT-5) and the Mãos do Mundo Association (2013-PT-3)! We have sent e-mails with further information to the pre-selected candidates today.

Between January 18th and 22nd, we received about 300 applications from enthusiastic candidates coming from all parts of Europe! They were all interested in becoming 1 out of 5 EVS volunteers hosted by Horas de Sonho and by Mãos do Mundo. We had the pleasure of reading some wonderful motivation letters and really impressive CVs and we must say that it was extremely frustrating having to choose just some out of so many worthy people! We would like to congratulate the pre-selected applicants who were contacted by e-mail earlier on today. However, the worth of a successful applicant is increased by the worth of those who didn't make it! We wish all the best to the non accepted applicants and, based on their applications, we are sure that they will not have difficulties finding a great EVS opportunity fulfilling their goals!

Thank you all for your kind interest and don't stop chasing your dreams!

Kindest regards,

Spin´s Staff

spinLX - selection results

Dear EVS Candidates,

After a long and hard process, we have managed to pre-select the candidates for the "spinLX" EVS project at the Spin Association (2012-PT-21)! We have sent e-mails with further information to the 11 pre-selected candidates today.

It was a real challenge to go through all the 150 applications we received for just the two vacancies we can offer at the moment. During the selection process we came across some great applications and simply great people. Unfortunately we are only able to host two more volunteers. If you have not been pre-selected for our project, please do not worry or resign! We are sure that among all EVS projects in Europe you will find the one meant just for you!

You might also be interested in knowing that we are currently looking for 5 EVS volunteers for our two local partner organizations. For more information, please read the calls: Horas de Sonho and Mãos do Mundo. The deadline for applications is on January, 22nd (this Tuesday!).

Kindest regards,

Spin´s Staff

EVS vacancy at Horas de Sonho (Lisbon, Portugal)

Associação Spin, acting as the coordinating organization, is currently looking for two volunteers for the February, 1st deadline.

Host: Cooperativa Horas de Sonho (2013-PT-5)
Coordinator: Associação Spin  (2012-PT-21)
Project name: Let´s do it!
Activity start date: 1st June 2013
Activity end date: 31st May 2014
Vacancies: 2
Application deadline: 22nd January 2013
Application consists of: CV and project-specific motivation letter
Application sent to: sve.horassonho@gmail.com

“Horas de Sonho” is a social solidarity Cooperative working in the field of children’s attendance. The organization is settled nowadays in Carnide where the administrative office and almost all Departments are based, however, their area of work includes all the Lisbon city. The organization´s mission is to provide support to families especially through children’s social babysitting. The target group are mainly children aged 2-4. You can watch videos (in Portuguese) about Horas de Sonho here and here.

Generally, the volunteers will: 

• provide information about Horas de Sonhos’s projects to local people and new associates; 
• search and collect information as well as answer to requests for information through other channels of communication such as website, blog, facebook and others; 
• collaborate in updating the Association’s website with contents; 
• give support to daily management and simple administrative procedures of Horas de Sonho’s projects, both indoors and outdoors; 
• one of the volunteers will help out primarily at the Community Center and the other at the Community Store. 

For more information on the tasks proposed to the volunteers, please have a look at the full call for participants.

We are looking for volunteers aged 20-30, open minded, eager to learn about new cultures and lifestyles, as well as to participate in the proposed project activities with the local community. It is not required to have any particular degree of formal education, but to have positive and proactive attitude, show tolerance, flexibility, motivation and enthusiasm. In this project, age and maturity are important due to direct work with children and families in the neighborhood. We encourage applications especially from youngsters who already have some experience in working with children and are willing to know more in depth the work developed with families from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Special remarks (please read carefully):

• read the full call for participants
• we only accept complete applications that contain all the required documents
• the subject of your application e-mail should be "Community Center" or "Community Store" (depending on which one you would prefer to help out at)
• add the contact details of your Sending Organization to your e-mail
• we can´t consider applications sent after the deadline
• send your application to sve.horassonho@gmail.com, applications sent through other communication channels (Facebook, Youthnetworks, etc.) will not be considered
• due to the high number of candidates, we are only able to contact the short-listed candidates (in order to invite them for a brief Skype interview)
• all the other candidates will be informed about the selection results by January, 26th through our blog.

EVS vacancy at Mãos do Mundo (Lisbon, Portugal)

Associação Spin, acting as the coordinating organization, is currently looking for three volunteers for the February, 1st deadline.

Host: Associação Mãos do Mundo (2013-PT-3)
Coordinator: Associação Spin  (2012-PT-21)
Project name: Let´s do it!
Activity start date: 1st June 2013
Activity end date: 31st May 2014
Vacancies: 3
Application deadline: 22nd January 2013
Application consists of: CV and project-specific motivation letter
Application sent to: sve.maosdomundo@gmail.com

“Mãos do Mundo” (Hands of the World) is a Youth Association dedicated to sociocultural animation and psycho-social support. They are committed to supporting others in building up a network of affection and mutual support that will make it possible to break barriers and face life obstacles. The organization´s main aims are to promote and provide social and cultural animation and psycho-social support for the community of Carnide (a neighborhood of Lisbon).

As Mãos do Mundo has three different target groups and works with several different projects, we have divided the tasks and activities of the volunteers in three different categories, namely:

1. “1 Gesture… 100 Missions” project
2. Music project “Children and Juvenile Choir”
3. Communication and Image of Mãos do Mundo

For the description of the tasks proposed to the volunteers, please read the full call for participants. 

We are looking for young motivated volunteers aged 18-30, open minded, eager to learn about new cultures and lifestyles, as well as to participate in the project activities in the local community. It is not required to have any particular degree of formal education, but to have positive and proactive attitude, show tolerance, flexibility, motivation and enthusiasm. In this project, the capacity to work in a team will be highly appreciated (both within the hosting organization and with the local partners in Carnide). We encourage applications especially from youngsters who already have some experience in volunteering or in working with children, youngsters and elder people and are, at this moment, available to commit to a long term experience of volunteer work abroad and willing to know more about the work developed in psycho-social animation sector in a special community of Lisbon, Carnide.

Special remarks (please read carefully):

• read the full call for participants
• we only accept complete applications that contain all the required documents
• mention the name of the project in the subject of the e-mail
• add the contact details of your Sending Organization to your e-mail
• mention the project category you are applying for in your application
• we can´t consider applications sent after the deadline
• send your application to sve.maosdomundo@gmail.com, applications sent through other communication channels (Facebook, Youthnetworks, etc.) will not be considered
• due to the high number of candidates, we are only able to contact the short-listed candidates (in order to invite them for a brief Skype interview)
• all the other candidates will be informed about the selection results by January, 26th through our blog.