🌟 Project Overview

Join this powerful ESC opportunity in Novi Sad, Serbia 🇷🇸, hosted by EKUMENSKA HUMANITARNA ORGANIZACIJA (EHO) in cooperation with ADRA OPS. As a Sport Assistant, you will support daily care, education, and psychosocial activities for children experiencing poverty, neglect, or street involvement. Through sport and structured play, volunteers help children develop teamwork, emotional resilience, communication skills, confidence, and positive habits essential for reintegration into school and society. Working alongside educators and social workers, volunteers contribute to inclusion games, small sports competitions, outreach activities, and awareness-raising actions promoting children’s rights and fair play.

🌍 Eligible Countries

🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇧🇬 Bulgaria, 🇭🇷 Croatia, 🇨🇾 Cyprus, 🇨🇿 Czech Republic, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇪🇪 Estonia, 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇫🇷 France, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇮🇸 Iceland, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇱🇻 Latvia, 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein, 🇱🇹 Lithuania, 🇱🇺 Luxembourg, 🇲🇹 Malta, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇲🇰 North Macedonia, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇷🇴 Romania, 🇸🇰 Slovakia, 🇸🇮 Slovenia, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇹🇷 Türkiye

📅 Activity Dates

01/01/2026 – 31/12/2026 (total duration: 52 weeks)

⏳ Application Deadline

Not specified

💼 What You Will Do

🏃 Organize sports sessions, games and physical education activities
🤝 Support children’s emotional development, teamwork and cooperation
🎯 Promote confidence-building, healthy habits and positive routines
⚽ Design small sports competitions and inclusion games
🧒 Assist in the Day Center’s daily routines
🌍 Join outreach activities in public spaces with educators and social workers
📢 Help deliver awareness-raising activities on children’s rights and fair play
💬 Create safe, structured, playful environments for learning and growth

🏠 Accommodation, Food & Transport

🏡 Volunteers stay in a fully furnished shared apartment in Novi Sad with private bedrooms and shared kitchen, bathroom and living areas.
💶 Monthly allowance of 470 EUR covers meals, communication and transport.
🚇 Public transport provided for daily commuting; EHO cars available when required.
💛 Volunteers receive strong logistical, emotional and safety support throughout the project.

🎓 Training During the Activity

📘 Pre-activity and ongoing training on child protection, communication and team dynamics
🧭 Field-work methodology and community engagement principles
🏀 Preparation for safe, inclusive, sport-based psychosocial activities
🌱 Continued guidance to ensure meaningful learning and responsible participation

👤 Participant Profile

Active, empathetic, adaptable individuals who enjoy working with children and believe in sport as a transformative tool. Ideal candidates value social inclusion, teamwork, patience, resilience and intercultural understanding.

🔗 Application Link

https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/49193_en

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