Project has been already approved by the National Agency.

The project will take place in the Podlaskie region of Poland, with the coordinating and planning centre in Bialystok, in the Foundation of Education and Creativity. There will be 4 volunteers coordinated in this project. EVS volunteers will be accomodated in a dormitory in Białystok. Each of them will be offered a room of his/her own.

Proposed activities: Volunteers will work will mainly consist in working with Chechen refugee children and conducting workshops/presentations in Polish schools (promoting EVS, raising awareness or the refugee issue, promoting tolerance and multicultural cooperation). We would like to involve EVS volunteers in the following activities:

– working with refugees and asylum seekers in a reception centre in Białystok

– lessons about human rights, stereotypes and refugees, aiming at raising the society’s awareness of the refugee issue (in high schools, junior high schools and primary schools throughout the region of podlaskie)

– activities integrating Polish and Chechen children

Interested? Send your CV and motivation letters to biuro@mentoring.pl (contact person: Katarzyna Jackiewicz) until 21st May 2012.

After the deadline we’ll contact the selected candidates and their sending organizations. Please, put the contact details of your sending organizations in your applications.