The youth organisation “SOCIAL ACTION” from Vilnius ( Lithuania ) is looking for young motivated people to volunteer in social projects. We are going to apply for 1st of September deadline. All projects start in December 2010 and continue for 7 months. Please send applications of volunteer (CV and motivation letter) until 20th of August. For more information you can contact us by e-mail: Ta e-poštni naslov je zaščiten proti smetenju. Če ga želite videti, omogočite Javascript. , or by phone: 00370.6702.5576
Our projects:
1.Caritas of Vilnius archdiocese. Shelter for homeless people and ex-in-prisoners (waiting for the new number).
Number of volunteers: 1 (better to speak Russian).
Period: 15th of December 2010 - 15th of July 2011
Info about the project: Homeless people live in the shelter, here are also some activities proposed for them. The stuff is composed from young people who are working in an innovative way with social disadvantaged people.
Task of volunteer:
• to help in organising some work therapy activities, various handicrafts for homeless people
• to assist stuff in developing life skills of target group
• to help stuff in daily activities and administrative work to organise additional activities
2.Caritas of Vilnius archdiocese. Mother and child shelter (waiting for the new number).
Number of volunteers: 1.
Period: 15th of December 2010 - 15th of July 2011
Info about the project: The mother and child shelter is located in the old town. Young girls with their babies up to 1 year have a living place, they get opportunities to learn in a school, and they have leisure activities in the shelter.
Task of volunteer:
• to help in organizing work therapy proposals for young mothers
• to assist young mothers in taking care of their babies
• to organize art therapy proposals to raise self awareness of young mothers
3.Blessed J. Matulaitis family help center. Day care center "Biciuliai" (2010-LT-8).
Number of volunteers: 1.
Period: 15th of December 2010 - 15th of July 2011
Info about the project: The day center is for the children of the preschool age (from 3 to 7 years). The group for children is working every working day and is constant. The pedagogic is based on catholic principles.
Task of volunteer:
• to look after the children (help them to eat, to dress, to go outside)
• to play with children
• to create and participate in art projects with children
• to participate in a group process where children are actively communicating
• to participate in meetings with educators working in the group
• to look after the common order (to put dishes to the dish washing-machine, to clean the room and other)

“Jugendwerk der AWO Württemberg e.V.” (2010-DE-79) in Stuttgart, south of Germany, is looking for volunteers (at the moment we cannot host volunteers from Spain, France, Latvia, Croatia or Turkey and also not from non European countries) for 1st september 2010 deadline. Beginning: 15.03.2011.

The Jugendwerk der AWO Wurttemberg (JW) is a non-profit NGO with the focus on nonformal education, youth camps and projects for children and young people. The main objective is to support young people in their process of personal development and education besides school and university, to improve social, educational, (inter)cultural and other skills and competences.
In general the volunteer should be 18-25 years old and have a driving license. Besides the volunteer has to stay here for 12 month. The work in the Jugendwerk will be a lot of office work which means organizing projects, email correspondence, helping the office staff etc... But it also means taking part in our intercultural project “Active Culture”, which takes part every second week, or become leader of our youth camps. There is – unlike as you can read in our description in the database. If you want to do your EVS here you should be willing to work in a team. Additionally we think the volunteer should have interest in intercultural work and motivation for intercultural projects.
If you have any volunteers who are interested in these projects, please send an e-mail with letter of motivation, CV and a photo and with all the contact details of your sening organization (!!) to Ta e-poštni naslov je zaščiten proti smetenju. Če ga želite videti, omogočite Javascript. . Deadline for applications is 20th of August.


Stephan Kelm, Tanja Reißer and Laurine Barthelay
Jugendwerk der Arbeiterwohlfahrt
Württemberg e.V. Olgastr. 71