VOLUNTEER IN RINCÓN DE BENISCORNIA

Start: 06.09.2024

End: 07.08.2025

The schedule of volunteer activities will be between 30 and 38 hours per week, from 8:45 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Occasionally, once a month, it will be necessary to come in the afternoon, 3 hours maximum, to help in activities organized by the school community. And once throughout the project, a Saturday morning presence will be required.

Volunteers are welcome to actively participate in all activities proposed by the school community and to propose other activities that motivate them, as well as to develop personal projects that help them to grow and learn. This participation will always be guided and supported by the teachers in charge and by other people from the school community involved in the project, tutoring the learning derived from this participation. We would like to welcome a volunteer who could help us in the daily tasks of our community. We value responsibility, autonomy, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.

We also appreciate that the volunteers like to travel by bike (since there is not much public transportation) and work in our garden preparing the soil, planting, weeding, watering,... It is also important for our project that they are not looking at their cell phones in front of the children. Some of the activities in which the volunteers will be able to participate will be:

- Vacation Schools: Christmas, Easter and Summer (late June and July), support in the organization and preparation of spaces and materials.

- Activities programmed by the AMPA: Once a month, in the afternoon, help in the preparation of events for the educational community.

- Opening and closing of school doors: It is very important to be punctual in arriving at school.

- Remodeling and naturalization of the school space: Painting walls, installation of furniture.

- School garden: Planting, watering and harvesting tasks.

- Collaboration with the school magazine and the radio program, even designing a specific section or podcast on the European program.

- Daily welcome to families: Accompanying students to leave their things and enter the classroom and to leave the classroom at the end of the daily activity.

- Lunchtime preparation: Picking up lunch, and collecting students for the dining room, preparing the dining room space: setting and clearing the table (cutlery, water pitcher, bread, plates and glasses), preparing salad and fruit, setting the dishwasher, picking up and cleaning the space, cut and prepare fruit for lunch.

- Being in the Library at recess, supervising silence and order.

- Care of the school space: Helping to maintain order, cleanliness and structure of the spaces.

- Workshops: Organization and collaboration in workshops (cooking, reading, music, theater, crafts, dance, art, podcast, magazine, etc.).

- Open Day: Collaboration with the school community in the preparation of the Open Day, which will be on a Saturday morning, management of food, music, spaces and activities.

- Field trips with the school community: Games, care for the environment, waste collection, etc.

- Recycling: collaboration in waste separation and recycling.

- Art: Development of artistic processes such as drawing, painting, modeling, ceramics, photography, collage, etc., in order to provide the center with a comfortable and welcoming environment.

- Creation of manipulative educational materials.

- Preparation of the setting and structure of the educational spaces.

- Exchange of experiences with the school community and people from the surrounding area.

- Education for Sustainable Development Program: Circular economy activities, care for the environment, collaboration in the creation of a group for the consumption of local and seasonal artisan and/or organic food, promotion of the use of bicycles and the creation of an educational and leisure space in harmony with the natural environment.

- Collaboration in the creation of a friendly climate of respect, tolerance and empathy, as well as in the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

- Collaboration in other local volunteer work and with people from other associations that interact with our school.

- Collaboration in different projects developed by the School.

In addition, our volunteers will participate in the following activities:

- Promotion of European and mobility projects and programs among the young people of the Region of Murcia, as well as among the users of our organization.

- Participation in workshops and presentations of the European Solidarity Corps (CES) program in youth organizations, secondary schools in the city of Murcia and the University of Murcia.

Our volunteering project seeks to promote the values promoted by the EU and the ESC Programme, such as solidarity, equality, justice, respect, fight against exclusion and xenophobia, etc.

Practical arrangements: The schedule of the volunteer activities will be between 30 and 38 hours per week. The volunteer will work max. 38 hours on 5 days per week.

Holidays: According to the rules of ESC, volunteers must have 2 working days off per month.

Accommodation: The volunteers will live in a room in a shared flat located in the city of Murcia together with other volunteers. The room and the flat will be fully equipped, and electricity, water, gas and internet will be covered by the lead organization (till the amount of 30€ per volunteer).

Pocket money: The volunteer will receive the monthly rate foreseen by the Spanish NA, 186€ per month.

Food: The volunteer will receive 184€ for food every month.

Local transport: Every volunteer will have a chance to choose a bike or bus card provided by the hosting organization if it is needed.

Language support: The volunteer is entitled to receive language support with an online platform, as stated on the ESC programme guide.

Medical insurance: The volunteer will be covered by a private insurance that will cover all the expenses not covered by the public health system (health, accident and civil liability insurance).

Travel costs: The volunteer will receive financial support for travel from his/her country to Spain and from Spain to his/her country once the project is completed, up to a maximum amount established by the European Commission according to the distance band.

Visa and residence permit fees: The volunteer will receive financial support for visa arrangements (if required).

Deposit: The volunteer will have to make a 370 euro deposit that will be reimbursed once the project is ended and the volunteer leaves tidy, clean, and with no damage in the private room and common areas, and if the volunteer doesn't leave the project without a justified reason before it ends.

Anyone interested after reading the info above, fill in the ONLINE APPLICATION FORM and attach their CV and motivation letter (in English or Spanish).

This project is aimed at young people between 18 and 30 years old who have not participated in any European volunteering project (EVS or ESC) before. We will give priority to the selection of young people with fewer opportunities.

The selection will be made based on the attitude, the willingness to participate, the motivation and the commitment to the values of the project rather than knowledge and skills of the candidates .

We value the responsibility, the spirit of initiative, the patience and the ability to step back from interpersonal conflicts in order to deal with them more effectively, and the enthusiasm and willingness to participate in the different activities offered.

No young person willing to participate in our project will be excluded for any reason (economic difficulties; social or geographical obstacles; cultural or ideological differences; sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, gender and gender identity, etc.).

Our educational center, CEIP Rincón de Beniscornia, is a public school located in a small hamlet very close to Murcia (less than 4km) and located in the heart of its orchard, in an area with its own characteristics, culture and idiosyncrasy. This town has approximately 1000 inhabitants.

In our center, the faculty has decided to work primarily through an active, participatory, manipulative and competent methodology, giving special importance to the psychological/emotional aspect and education in values in a cross-cutting manner.

Our mission is to provide and facilitate the integral development of the students in a respectful environment where autonomy, self-determination, responsibility and active learning take main relevance.

Our vision as an educational center is to become a creative, inspiring and innovative organization that integrates all the people of our educational community in interaction with the environment around us. Therefore, our action is aimed at students, faculty, families, educational community, immediate social and cultural environment and other agents that collaborate or are involved in a more timely manner.

Some of the values of our center are: respect, action, empowerment, involvement, creativity, responsibility, autonomy, self-determination, cooperation and sustainability, in order to acquire a meaningful and experiential learning that includes all dimensions of the human being, giving special relevance to the psycho-emotional dimension.

The volunteer activity consists of an enriching exchange of knowledge, values, experiences and skills between the volunteer and the social and human context where he/she develops his/her volunteer task. In the specific case of CEIP Rincón de Beniscornia, the context of action of the volunteer will be determined by the following lines of action, which are framed in our Educational Project:

- Learning by projects, by tasks, learning situations or through play, art and creativity.

- Workshops that promote different skills: theater in the classroom, creative writing, radio podcast, storytelling or magazine.

- Manipulative math.

- Music and artistic activities as the main tool to enhance creativity.

- Education for sustainability, ecological transition, circular economy, respect for the environment and solidarity.

- Space for learning through play and for the development of the innate curiosity of each individual.

- Mixed groups of different ages.

- Small groups and inclusive teaching respecting the different needs of the students.

- Educational community, where the family actively participates in collaboration with the environment.

- Intergenerational education. Involvement of the elderly in our environment in the day to day of our educational life.

- Priority in establishing a climate of respect, tolerance and empathy, as well as peaceful and restorative conflict resolution.

- Cross-cutting work on education for physical and psycho-emotional health and education in values.

These lines of action allow the volunteer to realize and grow if his or her ideals and aspirations are aligned with solidarity and with the other principles of the ESC (respect for human dignity and human rights, fair and egalitarian society, pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice and equality).

As a participant, the European Solidarity Corps allows you to learn through non-formal experiences, improve existing skills or acquire new ones for your personal, educational or professional development.

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