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Finland Finland: ESC: Helsingin lyhytaikaiskoti ja työpaja Lyhty ry/ Workshop Cafeteria IPI

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  • Porthaninkatu 13, 00530 helsinki, finland
  • Local currency : Euro member countries (EUR / €)
  • Timezone : Eastern european summer time
  • Local time : 10-07-2025 19:21:00
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About the local hosting organization

Lyhty ry is a non-profit association founded in 1993. Lyhty ry's ethical goal is to promote the well-being of developmentally disabled individuals, their families, and the whole society. Lyhty ry organises accommodation and housing services, a learning environment for young adults, inclusive work and day activities in textile, outdoors, culture, café, media, music and general workshops, events, and cultural and recreational activities. Lyhty ry examines and modifies its activities in order to reach its ethical goal, and is therefore an innovative and active participant in social development. Lyhty has received approximately three volunteers per year for over 20 years. We expanded our volunteering programme in 2020 by receiving 10 volunteers every year from all over Europe through the European Solidarity Corps programme. The aim of Lyhty's volunteer project is to improve the status of developmentally disabled people in our society, promote understanding and solidarity between different cultures, and offer the volunteer an opportunity to learn about care work. Working with Lyhty often affects your value system and might clarify your future plans. Many volunteers become interested in care work, particularly in the field of developmental disabilities. Here is a link about volunteering in Lyhty Assosiation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0jLoip_eVs

Presentation of the program

We are looking for a volunteer to work in a café workshop. Café Workshop provides adults with intellectual disabilities a day and workplace in the café area. The Café Workshop offers a wide variety of jobs for people with intellectual disabilities who require different support and educational backgrounds, such as cash register work, preparing food/baking and desk cleaning. The aim of the café workshop is to find meaningful activities for each workshop that matches their skills. The Café Workshop is located in Kallio, Helsinki. Through working with people with intellectual disabilities, their involvement with the local community and society are increasing. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ipikulmakuppila/

About the accommodation

The volunteer will receive every month money for food and gets meals from Lyhty ry. Volunteer will have a room in a shared accommodation with other volunteers. The accommodation will be fully equipped and electricity, water,gas will be covered by the hosting organization. The volunteer works 5 days per week from Monday till Friday, 35h per week. Working hours are 9-16. There is an entitlement to holidays for 2 days per month, altogether holidays days that can be taken after consulting with the Lyhty’s team. Volunteer gets the public transportation card from Lyhty.

About the leisure

The volunteers will have a mentor working with him/her trough the year. Volunteers will meet other volunteers regularly. Volunteers have private meetings with the project coordinator depending on need of each volunteer. In the beginning of the year volunteer needs to do the hygienic card test for alimentation security. We provide organizations own first aid course as well as first aid guidance at workshop. Watch our Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0jLoip_eVs

Requirements

The Participant profile: Good social skills and motivation to work with people with intellectual disabilities are important. The work can be dynamic at times and requires such mentality. It is important to have the motivation to learn Finnish language. The participants have learned e.g. the following things: Responsibility, guidance, the field of developmental disability, equality, organization, organization of activities, language skills, cultural knowledge, dignity, resilience to pressure, flexibility, social and health care, cooking, cleaning and housekeeping etc.
Deadline: 18/07/2025 23:59

Extra information

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?
  • Training before and after the project
  • Health insurance during your project
  • round-trip travel reimbursement
  • accommodation and food
  • pocket money
  • language course
  • Return Week-end
  • Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.