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As a volunteer in Katowice, you will focus on community building, ecological tasks, and working with children and people with disabilities. You will engage with local groups, organise events, and promote ESC projects. Your tasks will include:
2. Healthification and Beautification of Katowice:
3. Sensorial Inclusive City Campaign:
4. Supporting Local Institutions:
We are looking for citizens or residents of European countries between the ages of 18 and 30 who are open, motivated, solution-oriented, and value teamwork. Volunteers should be passionate about making a positive social impact, supporting inclusion, and building a stronger community.
Volunteers will live in shared four-bedroom apartments close to Katowice’s city centre. Each volunteer will have their own room, and kitchen, bathrooms, and living areas are shared. The costs of accommodation, rent, bills, and internet are fully covered. Volunteers will also receive a monthly food allowance, pocket money, and a travel card, in addition to a free Polish language course. The cost of travel is reimbursed according to ESC guidelines.
About us
We are public benefit organisation, which for 14 years has been actively building and supporting groups of inhabitants and local leaders, teaching local officers how to conduct an open and effective dialogue with inhabitants and non-governmental organisations and enabling young people to gain new experience through volunteering.
Our association is seated in Katowice and focuses its attention particularly on this city, however we also carry out activities throughout Poland.
Our mission
We wish that Polish villages, country towns and cities would be pleasant places to live in, and open to the needs of their inhabitants. If this could happen, the involvement of individuals in activities for the local surroundings is important as well as presence of reliable authorities who act in open and transparent way and take into account the voice of their inhabitants in decision making process.
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