🇵🇱 ESC Volunteering in Poland 🐈 Caring for Cats at a Homeless Animal Shelter 🐾

Description

🐾 LOVE CATS? MAKE A DIFFERENCE! 🐱

Join Homeless Animal Shelter for a 7-month volunteering adventure in Poznań, Poland, helping homeless animals find comfort, trust and care!

Play and socialise with cats, clean their spaces, create toys and enrich their environment. You may also help dogs and rabbits and take part in educational activities promoting animal welfare.

Be prepared: shelter life is not just cuddles! It requires patience, responsibility, regular cleaning and genuine commitment.

📅 4 January – 4 August 2027📍 Poznań, Poland

📖 Interested? The ONLY way to apply is to read carefully infopack and apply via the application link "APPLY HERE" inside this: INFO PACK ⚠️

Leave a paw-shaped impact 🐾

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements

🏠 Accommodation: Volunteers will stay in a student dormitory in Poznań, in a room with a bathroom shared with occupants of another room. The kitchen is shared with other residents on the floor.

🍽️ Food: Volunteers receive €10 per day as a food allowance and pocket money to cover their daily needs. Allowance will be send each month on the EUR bank account.

🚋 Transport: A local public transport card will be provided to help volunteers travel around Poznań.

✈️ Travel: International travel costs will be reimbursed according to the European Solidarity Corps rules.

Training during the activity

Volunteers will receive practical training at the Homeless Animal Shelter(Hosting Organization) on animal care, health and safety (H&S), daily care routines and basic first aid for animals. CIM Horyzonty, as the Leading Organisation, will provide an introduction to the European Solidarity Corps, its values, principles and participants' rights and responsibilities. Volunteers will also attend the On-Arrival and Mid-Term Evaluation trainings organised in Poland by the Polish National Agency for Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps.

Participant profile

We're looking for responsible, motivated participants aged 18–30 who are citizens or legal residents of EU countries and Associated Countries(North Macedonia, Island, Liechtenstein and Turkiye), genuinely interested in animal welfare and willing to learn.

Motivation to work with cats demonstrated in the APPLY HERE link inside this: INFO PACK ⚠️ is essential. Volunteers must have no cat or cat hair allergies and be ready to spend 6–7 hours a day, 5 days a week, working with animals at different times of the day and night.

The activity requires patience, commitment and readiness to take on regular, independent responsibilities, including cleaning, feeding and maintaining animal spaces.

Participants must not be afraid of dirt, unpleasant smells or routine tasks. Communicative English and/or Polish are sufficient to communicate with the team.

Activity details

Activity type

Individual volunteering

Activity dates

From 04/01/2027 to 04/08/2027

Location

Kobylepole 51, Poznań, Poland

Deadline

15/12/2026

Project code

2025-2-PL01-ESC51-VTJ-000377065

Topics

Looking for participants from

30 countries can apply. The activity takes place in 🇵🇱 Poland.