Call for Evs Volunteers in Spain

CALL FOR EVS VOLUNTEERS IN SPAIN RURALize YOU!

AREA: Healthy Diet, Happy Life

The GDR Valle del Guadalhorce is looking for 1 EVS volunteer motivated to work in the Area Healthy Diet, Happy life, with children and young people in a rural area, about rural development through non-formal educational activities.

Project title: RURALize YOU! Project dates: 02.05.2017 – 28.02.2018 (10 months). Location: Cerralba, near Pizarra (Málaga, Spain).

The Hosting and Coordinating Organization: GDR VALLE DEL GUADALHORCE

The GDR of the Guadalhorce’s Valley is a non-profit association created in 1996, in an interior area of Málaga, with the aim of promoting rural development working in different areas such as Youth, Gender Equality, Organic Agriculture and Farming, Sustainable Tourism and Environmental Protection, because we consider that an integral development is the best way to grow.

Thus, Social Innovation applied to Local Development is our way of working, considering people like the key for solving their difficulties whether they are social, environmental and economic problems, improving quality of life and meeting real needs of our territory. In 2009, our organization was recognized like "Social Innovation Spaces" as a result of our work on methodology "button-up". Therefore our main valour is to carry out the empirical application of hypothesis or theory in the territory and with the different sector.

The GDR of the Guadalhorce’s Valley has been developing a non-stop work in the youth field, being one of the most important areas in our organization.

We really believe on the power of people in order to transform and to add value to their territory at the same time that they grow, personally and professionally. Within this area, we work in different local and international projects such as “Peer to Peer Mediation” in high schools; the promotion of different training courses; the creation of strategies for the employment (such as network meetings or local workshops related to the improvement of the skills of young people in job search) and the mobility projects within the frame of European programme, mainly ERASMUS+.

We have a really wide experience organizing youth exchanges and training courses, we are also a sending, hosting and coordinating organization for EVS, having a really good experience implementing projects about different topics through non-formal education. The AIMS of RURALize YOU!

The goals of this EVS project are to dynamize our territory, increasing the opportunities for young people, their job, training and mobility opportunities but also giving value to their own resources and the possitive aspects of living in a rural area, while we open our minds to multiculturality.

Specifically, we would like to:

- AREA 1: Enhance the lingüistic skills of children and young people with fewer opportunities, through after-school activities and non-formal education.

- AREA 2: Promote the awareness about the importance of a healthy lifestyle and a healthy and balanced diet, based on local, organic and season products. This campaing will be focussed on children and young people, through workshops about cooking and organic farming at schools and young people from highschools.

- AREA 3: To create a Youth Space in our village, to boost youth participation and the exchange of good practcies, promoting also creativity to decorate this space with upcycling techniques, organizing different leisure activities for young people from Pizarra, in collaboration with the City Council of the Town.

Technical Information:

Accomodation and Location: Volunteers will be living in a single rooms in a shared flat/house with other EVS volunteers. This flat will be located in Pizarra (where there are a train station, bus stops, bars, supermarkets, shops, etc.).

Within our organization, we develop activities in 7 rural towns of the region Valle del Guadalhorce, however, this project will have its main place in Cerralba, which is a hamlet with about 1.000 inhabitants, located in an isolated area of the town Pizarra (9.201 inhabitants), which is half an hour from Málaga City. This unique situation will aloow the volunteer to live in a rural lifestyle, with the benefits that we have a wonderful wheather, fresh products and quiet lifestyle, but we also count with all the facilities like shops, supermarkets, sport centers, restaurants, etc. BUT, for the people who need to live in a city or who doesn’t tolerate the problems related to rural areas (limited means of transport and limited availability of schedules, limited modern facilities like cinema, big shoping centers, etc.), think well about this before applying!  Food Allowance and Pocket Money: Each volunteer will receive 150€ of food allowance and 105€ of pocket money.

Application: If you are a CANDIDATE FOR THIS EVS project, you can apply for the area: HEALTHY DIET, HAPPY LIFE, activities described below, even though you will also be supporting your EVS- mates with their tasks (always that it doestn’t require a specific knowledge) and you will also have common tasks.

To apply for this project, you have to fill the document PRE-SELECTION INTERVIEW, that you will find at the end of this document.

Then, write your CV and your Cover Letter in english, saying why do you want take part in the Area: Healthy Diet, Happy Life and send them to: [email protected] or to your SENDING ORGANIZATION, together with the PRE-SELECTION INTERVIEW.

 General Motivation Letter or applications will not be considered!

Then, we will contact you by email to do a Skype interview.

After that, we will also communicate the results of the selection process by email...so wait for the answer, and good luck! 

Deadline for Application: 30th March, 2017.

Our Contact:

Organisation: Grupo de Desarrollo Rural Valle del Guadalhorce

Area: Género y Juventud (Gender and Youth)

Address: Edificio La Huerta, C/Caña, S/N, 29569, Cerralba (Pizarra, Málaga). España.

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.valledelguadalhorce.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JuventudGuadalhorce/

Telephone: +34 952 48 38 68

Fax: +34 952 48 38 69 AREA:

Healthy Diet, Happy Life.

Project dates: 02.05.2017 – 31.01.2018

Nº of participants: 1.

The volunteer in charge of this area will develop different activities to promote local and season products, as well as a balanced diet and active lifestyle.

In order to do so, we will organize:

- Organic Farming in a Local Orchard: once a week, the volunteer will go to a local orchard with a farmer, to help them to cultivate, doing all the usual tasks of a farm: cleaning the fields, preparing them to cultivate, prepare the seeds, to plant the seasonal products, to water the orchard, etc.

- Organic Farming Workshops with schoolars: in different schools and also in the field of our office LA HUERTA. This workshop will be organized by our organization with the volunteer and we will also invite elder people from our village with knowledge in organic and season farming to support the activities with the aim of promoting intergenerational dialogue and exchange of knowledges.

- Cooking Workshops with local and season products, some of them, produced by themselves at the Organic Farming Workshops.

- Fruit Snack Stand at the Schools /High Schools: we want to promote healthy diet in high schools and schools of our town, so they can have other options apart from industrial bakery and other products sold in vending machines.

We also expect that these workshops will be held introducing some key words in English/French and the local language of the volunteer, to promote also the language skills of children and young people.

Profile of volunteer:

- Good English/French level (B2).

- Competences on youth and children dynamization. Interest in working with them.

- Some experience and interest in organic farming, interest for intergenerational dialogue and motivation to work with children and elder people.

 Experience in fields like farming, interest in cooking, working with children and youngsters, interest in healthy nutrition, environment, Non-Formal Education and Erasmus + projects will be well-valued.

Example of Weekly Schedule:

Hours Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday MORNING

Start Finishing Activities Activities Activities Activities Activities Activities Activities Hour Hour

Orchrad Workshop/Healthy Team Coordination + Youth Youth Dynamization at the Organic Farming in a Local Youth Dynamization at the 09:00h. 10:30h. LifeStyle Workshop at Dynamization at the office GDR Office Orchard GDR Office Schools/High Schools Active Tourism with Orchard Workshop/ Fruit local people (trekking, Preparation of Farming Youth Dynamization at the Organic Farming in a Local Youth Dynamization at the 10:30h. 12:30h. Snack Stand at activities proposed by Workshops GDR Office Orchard GDR Office Schools/High Schools local entities, etc.). Once a month Preparation of Cooking Organic Farming in a Local 12:30h. 14:30h. Spanish Lesson Spanish Lesson Lessons Orchard

AFTERNOON

Start Finishing Activities Activities Activities Activities Activities Activities Activities Hour Hour

Youth Work and Cooking Workshop with local Cooking Workshop with Cooking Workshop with 16:00h 17:30h. Dynamization (City youngsters/children local youngsters/children local youngsters/children Council+GDR) Youth Work and 17:30h. 19:00h. Dynamization (City Council+GDR) COMMON TASKS AND PROFILE FOR ALL THE VOLUNTEERS:

As a group of activities which will be common for all the participants, we have the Area of:

Youth and Children Dynamization

Within this common area we will develop different activities with the 3 volunteers with the aim of:

- Promotion of local and international mobility projects for youngsters within Erasmus + programme.

- Preparation and training of participants who will take part in Erasmus + projects: selection process, pre-departure trainings, information, etc.

- Support in the implementation of activities organized by the City Council of Pizarra for young people and children (concerts, music festivals, theatres, activities for young people during local events, etc.).

- Support in the implementation of youth projects of our organization in our region (youth exchanges, training courses, Mediation project, etc.). These tasks will consist on: Administrative tasks (especially in the previous months to the implementation of projects like Erasmus + or Mediation); logistical tasks during the projects; organizing and support within youth exchanges and TC, etc.

- Promotion of activities of Erasmus + projects and youth activities: social media, blog, web and other apps.

Common capacities and competences of all the volunteers:

- Motivation to work with young people from rural areas and to be involved in our organization.

- Interest in Rural Development.

- Capacity to build a trusting relationship with the youngsters.

- Capacity to work in a team with the other volunteers and the staff or the association.

- Some experience in the Erasmus + Programme and the organization of youth projects would be valued.

- Capacity to adapt to a rural environment. - Flexible with the work, since some of our activities will be developed during the afternoon or weekends and others will change depending on the month of the year or the local events active in that period...

- Creativity, enthusiasm, new ideas are welcomed!

Pre-selection Interview

Dear candidate,

Thank you for your application to our project RURALize YOU!

To understand if this project and your profile are suitable to each other, we would like to have some information about your motivation and interests, so please, answer the questions below and send back this form, together with your CV and Motivation Letter to : [email protected] or to your SENDING ORGANIZATION before the

30th March 2017

Some information about you

Surname Name

 Male Gender Nationality  Female

Date of birth Place of birth

E-mail Telephone

AREA 1. Healty Diet, Happy Life.

Please, give a short motivation of why you apply for the project: Why do you think you are the right volunteer for this area, Healthy Diet, Happy life?

Please, give a description of your personality, in particular focused on strengths/weakness, values, aptitudes.

What are your plans after EVS?

Other information:

Special diet: - Allergies: -

Any other information we should know:

Your sending organization:

EVS Database Reference Number:

Address:

Contact person:

E-mail:

Telephone number:

Skype:

Thank you for your collaboration!