VOLUNTEER IN FELICIANO SÁNCHEZ

Start: January 2025

End: July 2025

The schedule of volunteer activities will be between 30 and 38 hours per week, from 9:00 to 15:00 from Monday to Friday.

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 entrepreneurship.

In the center we have been developing a dynamic of a living and active school for nine years now, so it would be interesting for the volunteer to share with the project a respectful look at childhood where to accompany with love and firmness.

We also appreciate that volunteers like to travel by bike and scooter, and work in our garden preparing the soil, planting, weeding, watering,... It is also necessary for our project that volunteers do not use the cell phone in front of the children.

Some of the activities in which the volunteers will be able to participate will be:

- Accompany students pedagogically in the presence of the teacher they are accompanying at the time.

- Activities programmed by the AMPA.

- Entrance and exit of the school: It is very important to be punctual on arrival at school to accompany at the meeting points.

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

- School garden: Planting, watering and harvesting tasks.

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

- Being in the playground during recess accompanying the children of the school.

- 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, etc.).

- Open Day: Collaboration with the school community in the preparation of the Open Day, management of food, music, spaces and activities.

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

- Recycling: collaboration in the separation and recycling of waste.

- 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 environment and structure of educational spaces.

- Exchange of experiences with the school community and local people.

- 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 ecological food, promotion of the use of bicycles and 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 (ACTIVE LISTENING).

- 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.

Our volunteering project seeks to promote the values promoted by the EU and the CES Program, such as solidarity, equality, justice, respect, the 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 Cartagena 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 Feliciano Sánchez Saura, is a public school located in Barrio Peral, Cartagena. The school teaches infant and primary students whose profile has diversified in recent years. This diversity implies the need to adjust to new circumstances by adapting the curriculum according to the needs, to which is added the added difficulty of the lack of knowledge of the language in some students.

In our center, the teaching staff has decided to work fundamentally through an active, participative, manipulative and competent methodology, giving special importance to the psychological/emotional aspect and to the education in values in a transversal way.

Our mission is to provide and facilitate the integral development of our students in a respectful environment where autonomy, self-determination, responsibility and active learning are the most important aspects.

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

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 Feliciano Sánchez Saura, the volunteer's context of action 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, where he/she will pedagogically accompany the students in the presence of the teacher he/she is accompanying at that moment.

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

- Manipulative mathematics with presentations of materials

- Music and artistic activities as a 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 in guided and autonomous proposal, 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 the establishment of a climate of respect, tolerance and empathy, as well as peaceful and restorative conflict resolution (active listening).

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

These lines of action allow volunteers to fulfill themselves and grow if their ideals and aspirations are aligned with solidarity and with the other principles of the ETUC (respect for human dignity and human rights, a just 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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