ESC in Rustavi (Georgië)

Field of long term activities:

– To help in running the GYE office. This task involves arranging practicalities, preparing leaflets about the activities, preparing monthly organizational newsletter, updating the GYE website and other little jobs depending on the need of the organization.

– To run conversation courses in English for local youth. The aim of the conversation clubs in English is to motivate the children and youth to learn the language and to not be afraid to speak foreign languages. The courses are led in cooperation between a local volunteer from GYE and an ESC volunteer. Volunteers do not need to be good at English – their role is to create an international environment and informal atmosphere – games, role plays, etc. If the volunteers are interested, they are welcome to organize conversational clubs in their mother tongue.

– European club – to foster young people’s sense of European citizenship, to raise volunteering awareness among Georgian youngsters with fewer opportunities and less-privileged backgrounds. Volunteers can tell or make presentations, culture days about their countries, European Union and European Citizenship, promote ESC, raise European awareness, etc. Volunteers will present the information in informal way as well as organize informal games and quizzes about a chosen topic and short games to fight prejudice against minorities or people anyhow different.

– Once in a week (2 hours per time) the volunteers will go to one Rustavi daily Centre-“Sapovnela”-, where he/she will accompany the teacher and help her/him out by organizing games for the children (with fewer opportunities), telling them about his/her country, promoting EVS and raising European awareness. 

– Video club – to lead GYE Video club together with local youth. Basic skills in audiovisual field and interest in media are requested but not obligatory. The volunteer will get a chance to gain new skills of working with video equipment, video editing programs and local community.

– 2 hours a week – spreading information about ESC and the “Erasmus+” Programme. This will be done in forms of  advertising campaigns about ESC (together with the other  ESC volunteers), meetings with youngsters in local schools to speak about own activities and promotion of the “Erasmus+” Programme.

-“Art club”- volunteers will work with local youth, to develop basic handicraft skills:  The program would be: 1. Make a lamp cover and lampion 2. Coloring on a scarf and t-shirts 3. Picture frames with little stones 4. Bijou 5. flower pots and stands.

– Weekly meetings on Mondays of the whole GYE team where we evaluate activities from previous week, discuss the plan for the coming week in detail, divide tasks and responsibilities.

– To assist or lead activities during the public events: Earth Day, International Day of people with disability, eco campaigns, Pop-Star event, etc.

– To assist GYE project coordinators in organizing different European projects under the Erasmus+ program (youth exchanges, trainings, etc.) 

–Logistic and technical work support.

– During summer period we will have both indoor and outdoor activities. Volunteers will take part in different kinds of outdoor activities — youth ecological, thematic and international camps, hiking, and workshops. We expect them to be fully involved in every stage of these activities – planning, preparation, realization, evaluation. 

 

 

Food: The volunteer will receive 90 euros as food allowance each month, directly from the hosting organization. 

Accommodation: All the costs related to the accommodation will be supported by the hosting organization. Volunteers will share the flat with other volunteers situated in a housing estate – about 5-10 minutes walking distance from the town center. The flat is newly reconstructed and has a good condition for living. There will be 3 volunteers, all of them will have their own room. The bathroom, kitchen and living room will be shared. The volunteers will be given money to buy their own food. There is a kitchen in the volunteer flat where they can prepare meals. Shops and restaurants are close-by (a 2-5-minute walk).

GYE office and Volunteers apartment is located next to each other- in the same building. This means that volunteers won’t have regular expenses for the local transport. 

Out of it, the hosting organization will provide additional allowance to cover all the tasks that require some local transport expenses. As well, there will be an option to have a bicycle for daily use.

Upon arrival, the volunteer will receive intensive Georgian language course (totally 162 hours), organized by the hosting organization. The first 2 months, there will be 3 times a meeting with the teacher, the other meetings will be organized twice per week. The length of each lesson will be 1.5-2 hours.

The volunteer will work 35-40 hours a week, from 11:00 till 17:00. The weekend is free and the volunteer will get 2 additional days off per month (according to ESC rules).  The volunteer will also have days-off based on Georgian national/religious holidays.