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Estadisticas Gratis

EVS project - Grain Art
Integration through Art - 2009-ES-66

GENERAL SELECTION CRITERIA OF THE VOLUNTEER

Volunteer profile:
The priorities of Grain Art, regarding the profile of the volunteers are for them a person:

• Dynamic and motivated, with initiative and eager to learn,
• Interested in social issues, human behaviour, human history and cultures,
• Interested in living in a rural area,
• With flexibility and ability to work individually and also in a team,
• With assertive and empatic comunication habilities, 
• Opened to know and meet persons from diferent origins, opened to the diversity.
• A basic knowledge of Spanish would be needed in order to integrate rapidly to the community.
• We will give preference to candidates who haven't had a previous experience abroad, but who have taken part in workshops or activities in centres for people in risk of social exclusion, and /or be active in the socio-art-cultural association world. We have no requirement regarding the age, gender or nationality of the volunteers.
• It is preferable, if he/she has a driving licence.

• To encourage social and laboral inclusion to people with less opportunities
• To give form and life to art and culture.
• To actualize the heritage
• To create resources for the education and to estimulate the creativity and communication.

• Social and laboral inclusion
• Education and formation
• Social cohesion and imigration
• Culture, heritage, art and creativity.

• Golden land: was a place for people with disabilities, working with silversmithing and woodcrafts. The organisation has been working with the project for the last three years.
• Red Sky: occupational workshop of laboral insertion for people in risk of exclusion (illness, drug-dependents, social problematics, etc) working with papercrafts and cartoncraft. This is a permanent project, that moves the rest of the projects and activities.
• Desert lights: It is a vocational training program for newcomers youngsters, mainly Berbers. This project is aimed to dinamize his own culture and to foster his social and laboral integration.
• Footprints of sand and life: this is a ludic and educative workshop aimed at discovering and taking advantage of the signs of Berber writing “tifinac”, based in the language, the poetry and communication, involving different artistic techniques.
• Growth pathways: this is an educative, ludic and didactic proposal to create experiences around the interculturality, the integration of people and the cohesion social. We are doing an educational programme for teachers, educators and mentors.
• A world to share: this is an educative proposal working with ceramics, with its formal, symbolic and anthropological contents. The starting point is the Berber culture and the local culture. The arrival point is the universal culture.
• Courses: different levels introductory courses of silversmithing and woodcrafts for youngsters with disabilities, inspired in the berber culture.
• Heritage: different works, studies and collection of cultural heritage from the city of Tortosa or from Terres de l’Ebre area, for example the project “Medieval markets”
• Services for organisations and companies.
• The secrets of good life: talks about drugs prevention in educational centres of elementary and secondary education.
• Milieu Plan: participation to the milieu plan run by Catalan Government in educational centres through workshops like “Footprints of sand and life”.

GENERAL TASKS OF THE VOLUNTEER

Trainings and suport:
The volunteer will receive the necessary information to carry out his/her activities, as well as about the structure of the hosting organisation.
Grain Art can offer to the volunteer training in silversmithing, woodcrafts, papercrafts and cartoncraft.
The volunteer will assist to Spanish classes every week, between one and three hours a week, depending on the availability of trainings and on the needs of the volunteer. After the adaptation period, the volunteer will be able to assist to catalan classes. He/she will be put in contact with youngsters in order to realize language exchange once a week.
The volunteer can assist to all the activities, talks and workshops organized in the schools by the hosting organisation, where he can learn pedagogy, technical knowledge, social and develop its personal competencies.
Through the relations with the organization staff, the volunteer can learn about the diferent cultures represented, about the reality of newcomers population and persons with disabilities or social problems, and about the laws, rules, costums and day-life of Spanish society.
One person from the staff of Grain Art will be the volunteer's work supervisor, with whom he/she will meet regularly to evaluate and plan its work.
The tutor of the EVS volunteer is a volunteer of obre't'ebre, who followed a special training from our National Agency. They will have regular meetings with the aim of evaluating the project and its conditions and to sole any conflict.

Tasks: The main purpose of the volunteers participation will be to help in paper craft, carton craft, wood craft and silversmithing artistic work and realize a cultural and social study. The time of the volunteer can be divided in 3 parts:

• WEEK: about 30h/week of work + 1-4 h/week of language training and language exchange
• SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: holiday. Depending on the week there will be trips with young people to get to know the “Tierras del Ebro” region.
• HOLIDAYS: Local and national holidays, and 2 free days a month with previous concertation agreement with the supervisor.