Hosting organization: Affido – pflegefamilien | kinderdörfer | familienarbeit gmbh
Period: Starting June 2024
Where: Thal bei Graz, Austria
Vacancy: 3 Volunteers
Brief description: The Children’s Village is a youth welfare institution that takes care of children and young people who cannot live with their original families. About 40 children between the ages of 7 and 18 live in the Children’s Village. The staff consists of psychologists, teachers, social workers, youth workers, etc. Volunteers will learn about the Austrian social welfare system,
improve their social skills, and get an insight into social work, educational and therapeutic methods.
Application Deadline: June 2024
Participant tasks:
-Meet children after school with staff
-Cook
-Do housework
-Studying
-Playing with children
-Accompany children on excursions and organize activities
Participant profile:
-Willing to work 35 hours per week in afternoons
-Previous experience in work with kids
-Communicative and eager to learn German
-Empathetic, mature, and responsible
-Tolerant and trustworthy
-Driver’s license is a plus