DRUSTVO ZA STRPNE ODNOSE EKSENA
SENTJUR PRI CELJU, Slovenia
⭐️ Activity Title
Volunteering in Social, Educational and Community Programmes of Društvo Eksena
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🔷 Activity Details
Description
NGO Društvo Eksena carries out three main programmes: Eksena Daily Centre for Children and Youth, Eksena Psychosocial Counselling Programme, and Eksena – Dementia, Hand in Hand. Volunteers may be involved in all three programmes or focus mainly on one programme, depending on their interests, experience and agreement with the hosting organisation. In the Daily Centre, volunteers support children and young people through creative workshops, educational activities, games, sports, homework support and activities that strengthen social skills and inclusion. In the Psychosocial Counselling Programme, volunteers help with preparation of materials, spaces, awareness-raising and community activities. In the Dementia programme, volunteers support workshops and social activities for elderly people, people with dementia and their relatives. Volunteers work only in a supportive role, under the guidance of staff and mentors.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
You will be accommodated in a flat close to us. You will have your private bedroom and share the kitchen, bathroom and other spaces in the flat/house with other volunteers. As an ESC volunteer, you will receive health insurance, monthly pocket money for food and other expenses. Volunteers have international health insurance and travel to the volunteer location is covered to a certain amount. In addition, the hosting organization will give the volunteers pocket money allowance once a month. Local transport : local bus / free bike hire system (provided by municipality).
Training during the activity
NGO Društvo Eksena will appoint a mentor for volunteers. The mentor will provide personal support to the volunteer, and will be available in crisis or conflict situation and support volunteers in various situations and assist with self-directed learning, including Youthpass. The supervisor will support volunteers’ in work related tasks. Upon arrival the volunteers will receive an introduction and on-arrival orientation, description of community and project and customs. There will be daily language learning opportunities. We offer inclusion activities and additional support.
Participant profile
- knowledge of intermediate English
- interest in actively using and creating content on social media channels
- excited about international mobility experience
- interested in holding various workshops in our activities
- communicative, open, motivated, creative, self-reliant, enthusiastic, eager to learn and to share knowledge/skills and enjoy working with children and youth and/or elderly people
- willing to participate actively in projects and activities
- open minded and be ready to live in a rural setting and open to cultural differences and intercultural learning
- volunteer with fewer possibilities
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🔑 Key Information
Activity dates
A total of 52 week(s) during the period 01/08/2026 to 01/09/2027
Activity location
Cesta Leona Dobrotinska 2, SENTJUR PRI CELJU, Slovenia
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Territories, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo * UN resolution, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, North Macedonia, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saint Barthélemy, Serbia, Sint Maarten (dutch part), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, St Pierre and Miquelon, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, Wallis and Futuna
Activity topics
Education and training
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 01/08/2026 16:00
Project code
2026-1-SI02-ESC51-VTJ-000401013
🔗 Official Project Page
https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/52696_en
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