🌍🐴 European Solidarity Corps Volunteering in Poland – Supporting Hippotherapy Sessions in Warsaw 🇵🇱 | Care, Support & Empower Children ✨💛

🌟 About the Opportunity

This ESC volunteering opportunity takes place at Helenów Rehabilitation, Education and Care Centre in Warsaw 🇵🇱, a well-known institution supporting children, youth and adults with disabilities. The centre specialises in therapy for children with Central Nervous System dysfunctions and provides comprehensive support such as hippotherapy, physiotherapy, art therapy, music therapy and educational programmes. Volunteers play a meaningful role in helping therapists, supporting daily activities and assisting with hippotherapy sessions that have been running for over 20 years.

🐴💛 Main Activities

Volunteers support educators and therapists through:
✨ Assisting during hippotherapy sessions (walking with horses, supporting therapists, helping lead horses)
🐴 Caring for horses, basic stable duties and maintaining animal well-being
🎨 Supporting creative therapies such as art therapy, music therapy and recreational activities
👦 Assisting in kindergartens, schools and youth units
🌿 Helping with outdoor activities, integration games and educational tasks
🤝 Being a positive presence for children and young people with disabilities
Full details are available in the official infopack: https://www.spw.ngo/helenow-infopack

🏡 Accommodation, Food & Transport

Accommodation and financial conditions include:
🏠 Shared flat located on the host organisation premises
🛏️ Room may be shared with another volunteer (same gender)
🥗 Food allowance: 150 EUR/month (self-cooking)
💸 Pocket money: 180 EUR/month
🗣️ Language learning: Polish via OLS online platform
🚇 Local transport: Full Warsaw public transport pass
✈️ International travel reimbursement: 211–395 EUR depending on distance (higher for green travel)

🎓 Training & Learning

Volunteers benefit from multiple training opportunities:
👋 Orientation training (coordinator): introduction, integration and project overview
📘 On-arrival training with National Agency (5 days)
📙 Mid-term evaluation training (5 days)
📘 Final evaluation with coordinating organisation
🌍 Intercultural education, communication, cultural adaptation workshops every two months

👤 Participant Profile

Ideal volunteers are individuals who:
🤝 Are friendly, warm and easily build relationships
👦 Are motivated to work with children and youth with disabilities
🗣️ Have communicative English
🐴 Are physically active and able to walk several kilometres daily
🌿 Enjoy outdoor activities and nature
💛 Are reliable, patient and willing to learn
➡️ No prior experience with horses is required.

🌍 Eligible Countries

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

📅 Activity Dates

8 January 2026 – 23 August 2026

🔚 Application Deadline

Not specified

🔗 Application Link

https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/49138_en

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