As its name indicates it, the SVE allows to leave for Europe as a volunteer.
What is an European volunteer? It is an at least 18 years old person and of at most 30 years, who wishes to work voluntarily within an European association for period varying from 6 months to 12 months. Every project is the object of a contract of activity between the volunteer, a sending organization and a reception organization (sometimes also a coordinating organization). The volunteer can leave in all the countries of the European Union as well as the Norvege, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Turkey, but also Southeast Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia); Eastern Europe and Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldavia, Russia and Ukraine) and the Mediterranean partner countries (Algeria, Palestinian Authority of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia).
The projects are very varied. For example, in the Youth Center of Haskovo (city in the South of Bulgaria), we are at present three volunteers (Melchior, who comes from Germany, Egiya who comes from Latvia and me, Adeline, from France) and we are going to work with children from 2 to 7 years old in schools and orphanages to propose them artistic activities. You can also find missions in touch with animals and nature conservation, or still with old persons, or organize sports activities in a center for teenagers, work in a cultural center … The variety of projects allows each to find a suitable match.
The volunteer has no salary (he is not there to replace an employee free of charge, he is a volunteer) but he is completely taken care. The European Commission gives some money to the national agency of every country which has to itself redistribute this money in every organization welcoming a volunteer. The reception organization thus supplies with some money for the food, with the pocket money for the exits (the amount varies according to countries) and an accommodation to the volunteer. The sending organization pays the round-trip ticket of the volunteer.
2) Role of each
The SVE allows collectivites and associations to developper partnerships in Europe, to encourage the echanges of experiences and practices. A help for the local developpement of activites non profit-making is egalement prevue.
Role of the national agency
The national agency of every country is responsible for the accreditation of oganisations for their projects. She has to make the link between the Committee Europeenne, reception organizations and of sends and the volunteers themselves. She organizes also for every volunteer training courses in the host country: an on arrival training which aims to inform the volunteers about the host country, an evaluation in middle-course which allows to exchange experiences with the other volunteers and to make a first balance sheet and a gathering before the depart of the volunteer in his country of origin to make a final balance sheet.
The national agency intervenes also in case of conflict between the volunteer and the body of reception
Role of the sending organization
To become a european volunteer, you have to contact an organsime of sending in your country of residence. They will help you has to find a project, has to postulate(apply) and has to make all the demarches necessaires for your project has the etranger. They have to egalement preparer you in the depart and take charge of your assistance(audience) (in case of disease for example) before, during and apres the SVE. Between moment or we begin has to postulate(apply) the depart, 5 has a project and has 6 months can ecouler. Once the project finds you have to wait 3 months before leaving, to regler all the questions of insurance(assurance), validation of the project...
The list of the projects of reception is available for consultation at the following address:
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm
Role of the reception organization
The organization of reception has to supply to the volunteer a personal assistance(audience) (accommodation(housing), allowance, food) and linguistics (price(lesson) of compulsory language(tongue)). The volunteer will have egalement a guardian who can help him(it) in case of probleme.
At the conclusion of the SVE, a meeting of evaluation is organized in the country of sending. The volunteer receives a certificate "Youthpass" which describes and confirms the experience(experiment) of not formal learning. An activity of follow-up, the duration of which cannot overtake one month, can be realized in 6 months which follow the end of the activity SVE abroad.
Role of the volunteer
The role of the volunteer is first to be enthusiast, to participate and to help the reception organization in the realisation of its projects, to bring its experience, to share its culture and of to be open-minded to discover a new culture.
3) To leave
Why leaving ?
To discover a new country, a new lifestyle and a new culture; learn a new language(tongue), have a different experience, to work in a new way, learn more on the others and on itself, return at home with another glance, to feel citizen of Europe, acquer news skills, put itself in the service of a project of general interest.
Are you ready to leave ?
If you are ready to leave your family, your friends, your customs for some months, if you with envy to confront with a new culture and one the other way of thinking, if you are ready to surmount the difficulties due to the culture shock, to the problems of understanding, to the language then you can begin to prepare your bag !
How to leave ?
-Find a sending organization
-Look and select projects on the basis of data
-Send letters in support of application with a CV to English (bases of English are often asked, even if there is not of pre-required (studies or work experience) to be voluntary.)
-Once the found project, it stays three months to prepare everything (wait of the confirmation of the national agency, the insurance (assurance), the plane ticket...)
4) Youth Center and Eurodesk
Youth Center, steers by Sir Deyan Yanev is a municipal structure which tries to make the children participate and the teenagers has the life of the city, proposes them sports, artistic activites and educatives such as : Bulgarian traditional dances, music (singing, piano...) astronomy, history and ethnography, theatre, painting... The center also tries to make the young people participate in general activities (organize activities with the children in orphanages, or center "Marina" for disabilities persons). The Youth Center has several programs dedicate in young people : echanges of young people, voluntary europeen service, football against the racism...
In Youth Center, Lilyana Popgeorgieva takes charge of the office Eurodesk and her organization International Youth Volunteering Center. Eurodesk is a European network allowing the young people, the professionals of youth informations and the professionals of education to find informations on possibilities offered in Europe (studies, jobs, training courses, exchanges, partnerships). An intranet network uses by all the partners Eurodesk in Europe allows to exchange informations and of return in touch with the other organizations easily.For more information, you can go on the following site : http://www.eurodesk.eu/
IYVC (International Youth Volunteering Center) welcome europeens volunteers to participate has united activites with differents partners (schools, orphanages). Lilyana takes charge also of sends of Bulgarian volunteers to Europe.
- What is the role of Eurodesk ?
- How was born the project and since when does it exist ?
- When did you welcome your first volunteer ?
- What role plays the volunteers, for whom do you expect from them and what activities do you propose ?
- What is your role in this project ?
-Have you sent bulgarians volunteers abroad ? Where and to make what ?
-What balance sheet for these persons ?
- What balance sheet do you pull volunteers that you welcomed ?
Interview of two volunteers at the end of mission: Nicolas, French and Ania a Pole
- Why did you want to leave for SVE ? For what did you wait ?
- Why did you choose Bulgaria and Youth Center ?
- What were your projects here and which was your role ?
- What are your feelings after this project ? The more and the less
- Which difficulties you met : language(tongue), culture, project, persons, communication …
Interview Svetla, mentor
- What is the role of a mentor for you ?
- Why did you decide to become a mentor ?
- What are your expectations ?
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