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Tasks description
Hosted volunteersThe volunteer's tasks will be:
- Collecting the disabled at their homes and accompanying them to the centre, where they will carry out their activities. Once finished the activities, the volunteer should accompany them back home.
- Accompany and help in the development of the activities (both sport and leisure time activities.)
- Encourage them during their group activities.
- Carry out activities with the disabled.
- Accompany them during the cultural visits and outings.
Typical Day:
Morning activities:
- 10:00 - Collecting the disabled at their homes.
- 10:30 - Arrival at the centre and activities.
- 12:00 - Leave the centre.
- 12:30 - Accompany them to their homes.
Afternoon activities:
- 16:30 - Collecting the disabled at their homes.
- 17:00 - Arrival at the centre and workshops.
- 18:30 - Leave the centre after the creative leisure time activities.
- 19:00 - Arrival at the sports centre and assistance during the sport activities.
- 20:00 - Bring the disabled home.
On Monday morning, the volunteers will have an evaluation and weekly-work planning meeting with the organisation's management group.
Occasionally, when there are sport competitions (which take place on Saturdays), the volunteers will accompany the disabled to these events. In this case, the volunteer will have a free day during the week in compensation for the hours worked on Saturday.
Holidays: As the activities are carried out following the school calendar, the volunteers will have the same holidays as the schools: Christmas holidays, from 22nd December to 8th January and one week in Easter.The volunteers will receive a monthly allowance to buy the food they wish. We consider that the volunteer's diet is a very determinant factor of how he/she adapts. We therefore consider that it is better for the volunteer to receive an allowance to purchase the food in order to ensure a continuity of his/her normal diet.We wish the volunteer to take part in the Spanish language lessons at the Official Languages School. In case this isn't possible due to the dates or to the great demand for these language courses, the Organisation would sign up the volunteer in a Spanish course at the Leganes University or will find a private teacher, who would teach the volunteer the Spanish language and culture.The volunteers will receive the necessary training for the tasks they will be carrying out and will also be supplied with the necessary material and tools.
Furthermore, we consider that personal support is absolutely necessary whilst participating in the project, because the volunteer will be working in a different social environment. In order to attend to these specific needs, the organisation has a teacher who will attend the young volunteer's demands whenever it is required.
The guidance offered by the tutor is essential, and it shouldn't only be a technical training, but the tutor should become a trustworthy friend of the volunteer. In order to achieve this degree of closeness, in addition to the daily contact between them whilst carrying out the normal tasks, individual weekly meetings between the volunteer and his/her tutor are arranged.
- Collecting the disabled at their homes and accompanying them to the centre, where they will carry out their activities. Once finished the activities, the volunteer should accompany them back home.
- Accompany and help in the development of the activities (both sport and leisure time activities.)
- Encourage them during their group activities.
- Carry out activities with the disabled.
- Accompany them during the cultural visits and outings.
Typical Day:
Morning activities:
- 10:00 - Collecting the disabled at their homes.
- 10:30 - Arrival at the centre and activities.
- 12:00 - Leave the centre.
- 12:30 - Accompany them to their homes.
Afternoon activities:
- 16:30 - Collecting the disabled at their homes.
- 17:00 - Arrival at the centre and workshops.
- 18:30 - Leave the centre after the creative leisure time activities.
- 19:00 - Arrival at the sports centre and assistance during the sport activities.
- 20:00 - Bring the disabled home.
On Monday morning, the volunteers will have an evaluation and weekly-work planning meeting with the organisation's management group.
Occasionally, when there are sport competitions (which take place on Saturdays), the volunteers will accompany the disabled to these events. In this case, the volunteer will have a free day during the week in compensation for the hours worked on Saturday.
Holidays: As the activities are carried out following the school calendar, the volunteers will have the same holidays as the schools: Christmas holidays, from 22nd December to 8th January and one week in Easter.The volunteers will receive a monthly allowance to buy the food they wish. We consider that the volunteer's diet is a very determinant factor of how he/she adapts. We therefore consider that it is better for the volunteer to receive an allowance to purchase the food in order to ensure a continuity of his/her normal diet.We wish the volunteer to take part in the Spanish language lessons at the Official Languages School. In case this isn't possible due to the dates or to the great demand for these language courses, the Organisation would sign up the volunteer in a Spanish course at the Leganes University or will find a private teacher, who would teach the volunteer the Spanish language and culture.The volunteers will receive the necessary training for the tasks they will be carrying out and will also be supplied with the necessary material and tools.
Furthermore, we consider that personal support is absolutely necessary whilst participating in the project, because the volunteer will be working in a different social environment. In order to attend to these specific needs, the organisation has a teacher who will attend the young volunteer's demands whenever it is required.
The guidance offered by the tutor is essential, and it shouldn't only be a technical training, but the tutor should become a trustworthy friend of the volunteer. In order to achieve this degree of closeness, in addition to the daily contact between them whilst carrying out the normal tasks, individual weekly meetings between the volunteer and his/her tutor are arranged.