Service Volontaire International - ESC: Team Volunteering in a Youth Center in Riga

About the local hosting organizationWe are the modern,active and open-minded young people from Riga(Latvia). We have groups of youth in Art,Photo,Video,Businness, Urban Folks,Green Folks, YF Sport
Young Folks LV is also non-formal learning space for useful competences and skills for young people. In Young Folks LV teenagers participate in different types of activities – trainings and workshops, volunteering and team work, travelling and youth exchanges. We are very encouraged to participate in the international youth projects and support our teenagers of 13-16 and youth 16-30 years old in setting up Youth Exchanges and Youth Initiatives under Erasmus+ programme. We are very interested in meeting new friends from all over the world, travelling, discovering new cultures and lifestyles, communicating in English and trying to learn other languages, getting new experience and great memories!
We started our new project of Youth Center of Social Entrepreneurship to foster young people employability and support their entrepreneurship spirit. We help our youngsters to develop their creative ideas and get financing in the local projects; we provide an opportunity to make own money through workshops; we organise non-formal education for languages and career guidance, and we support the volunteering activities.
In Young Folks LV we organised a nice and cosy youth space – YUMTA. It’s the best youth place in Riga for learning and leisure, and everybody is very welcome!
Young Folks LV in pictures — @youngfolkslvofficial
Young Folks LV in Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/YoungFolksLv

Presentation of the programmeYoung Folks LV is a non-profit organization based in Riga. Our goal is to provide a safe and supportive environment that discovers and develops the cognitive and creative skills of different target groups. We promote non-formal education and meaningful communication, creating a welcoming and inspiring environment alongside a friendly community. Since July, 2014, Young Folks has been an NGO, which presently presents one of the biggest and the most active youth organizations in Latvia. We invite you to the TEAM VOLUNTEERING project in the youth organization Young Folks LV in Riga, Latvia for 16 days. We invite you to volunteer in Latvia in the youth organization Young Folks LV to help us run an international camp for teenagers for 4 nights-5 days (approximately for 30-40 teenagers), as well as to prepare a youth festival for 150-200 people (the festival will involve all clubs of the organization, different ages, about 50 master classes, and different events will be prepared).

Local accommodationPlace and location: At Liberty - the hostel in the center of Riga, where you will spend a few days getting ready for the camp and festival. The hostel is located next to the YoungFolks office and is right in the middle of the old town. Veczemju klintis - one of the most beautiful places in Latvia. It is a camp place right in the woods 3 minutes away from the sea and beautiful caves. You will live there in tents ( that are provided) as well as we have the kitchen there.

RequirementsThe Participant profile: We expect young people between 18 and 30 years old who speak English from 9 European countries. You should be interested in working with adolescents and young people using non-formal education methods and be willing to work in an international team on a joint project. Your competencies can be quite varied, but you must tell us exactly what competencies you possess to make your volunteering work effective and useful for the project. We will list a few of them so that you understand how you can utilize your best sides.
Deadline: Application deadline: 18/05/2024

Extra info about the projectThe 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.

Price descriptionProjects from the european commission are free for volunteers