If you are a young person living anywhere across Europe and searching for an interesting volunteering work to help the community in Croatia, then this is an ideal opportunity for you to be one of 10 volunteers will join the ESC Team Volunteering "Green Fingers" in Zagreb, Croatia. This project is organised by OAZA organisation from Croatia and funded by the European Solidarity Corps programme of the European Union.
About the Volunteering
The “Green Fingers” is an ESC opportunity that will bring together a volunteering team and the group to maintain urban school gardens in a few primary schools in Zagreb and outside of Zagreb, organizing Garden festivals for local communities and cleaning needed areas and restoring them to their natural habitat.
The physical activities during the volunteering project will include:
- Gardening in school gardens: involves some physical work, getting dirty or wet, coming in contact with insects etc.
- Promo activity: a public awareness event in the open-air
Volunteering actions: cleaning local areas and restoring them to their natural state
- Organising Garden festivals: creating space for intercultural exchange as volunteers present their countries and cultures through workshops
- Organising and holding intercultural event for the broader public
- OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: personal project – an opportunity to develop and implement a personal idea that will support the achievement of volunteer’s learning goals
Eligibility | who can apply?
- Young people aged between 18-30 years old from one of the following countries ( Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain)
- Having interest in environment protection, creative expression (DIY, arts and crafts etc.), sustainability, vegetarianism, healthy diet and lifestyles
- willing to contribute to the local community by volunteering
- highly motivated and proactive
- Ability to talk in English at least basic level
- Eager to work with children and the local community and organiseworkshops in a non-formal way
- keen to learn about gardening
- Ready for doing a physical work outside, insects, getting dirty etc.
- willing to take part in a vegan challenge during the project
Expenses and Benefits
- Participants will be accommodated in a hostel in shared rooms with 6 other volunteers, shared bathrooms and kitchen
- Vegan lunch in working days
- Participants will receive food allowance to cover the cost of breakfasts, dinners on working days and weekends
- Each participant will receive 10 EUR per day
- Participants from EU countries should get the European Health Insurance Card, for non-EU residents, they will receive HENNER insurance
- Participants will get free Public transportation card in Zagreb
- Your international travel expenses will be reimbursed according to the distance between your home and Croatia according to the following limits:
- for travel distance between 100 and 499 km: 180 EUR / person, +30 EUR extra for Green travel.
- for travel distance between 500 and 1999 km: 275 EUR / person, +45 EUR extra for Green travel.
- for travel distance between 2000 and 2999 km: 360 EUR / person, +50 EUR extra for Green travel.
- Calculate your budget from HERE
- IMPORTANT: keep all your travel documents! Online boarding passes and tickets for reimbursements. No documents = No reimbursement!
- IMPORTANT: Please send your travel proposition per e-mail to the organisers and wait for their confirmation before purchasing your tickets!
- Participants are entitled to receive a YouthPass certificate after the project where you are expected to self-assess your own learning and you can add it to your CV.
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