Spain: ESC: Vidas compartidas (Shared lives)

About the local hosting organization

Sant Lluís Town Hall, through its youth service in Molí de Baix, offers its services since 1997 as a youth center. Since 2005 it widened its target population to not only youth but also children and families. Sant Lluís is a little town in the south-east of Menorca (on the balearic islands, on the mediterranian sea) From a pedagogic standpoint, Molí de Baix promotes services, programs and activities that encourage active and dinamic participation, through an inclusive, egalitarian, free and respectful perspective. Aiming to contribute to the development of social habits as autonomous and critical-thinking beings. Through an experience based plan, contributing to an integral kind of development, gaining skills and abilities in a fun, recreational manner, to ease participants the transtion into the different stages of their vital development. A diversity of throughlines are designed from a social and educational project, to educate children and youngsters for a new sense of global ethics, aiming towards social and plural cohesion we live in nowadays. The current team includes 6 people to carry out every task: a coordinator, two directors of activities, two youth leaders, and one social youth leader.

Presentation of the programme

Volunteer at the senior citizens' residence. Development of tasks related to the promotion of daily activities for the residents. Some of the tasks involved are handicrafts, activities and games, drawing and painting, dancing, singing, animation and adapted gymnastics as well as excursions. However, you are not responsible for medical care.

About the accomodation

You will have your own single room and you will share a house with 3 more volunteers. It has 2 bathrooms, 2 living rooms, kitchen, terrace and 2 single rooms and 1 double room. And it is equipped with electrical appliance and Internet connexion. The house is close to the Elderly Centre and Molí de Baix (our organisation). - 35 hours/week of activity. - 2 days/month of holidaysr. - 300 euros/month for food and personal expenses (cash). - around 300 euros for travel costs - Own bike - Bus card. - Health insurance (HENNER).

About the leisure activities

Spanish lessons on OLS learning website Languages classes (Spanish and/or Catalan) at the adult education centre. EVS trainings on arrival and on midterm.

Requirements

The Participant profile: We are looking for volunteers interested in health and wellbeing of senior people; somebody who likes to socialize, to plan and organize activities and specially somebody who loves engaging on conversations and loves to listen to elderly people. We also look for people down to earth, with work ethic and also teamwork capacity, humble and willing to provide our organization with kindness and no drama. Can credit some Spanish communicative and comprehension skills.Deadline: 01/09/2026 23:59