Sunnahof is a limited liability company and an affiliated company from an association founded 1967, called “Lebenshilfe Vorarlberg”. Sunnahof is situated in Göfis, near Feldkirch, Austria.
Our general principle is “people need people” no matter if you have any disabilities or not. Our work focuses on the uniqueness of each human being and the belief that the society depends on each individual person and each individual person depends on the society.
Sunnahof is an institution for people with light intellectual disabilities and behaviour problems from the age of 16 until retirement. Our core objective is to prepare this target group for the regular employment market. Therefore, Sunnahof provides four biodynamic working areas with naturalistic working conditions.
Those four working areas are:
– agriculture
– plant nursery
– carpentry
– gastronomy with a farm shop
All together, we engage over 60 people with light intellectual disabilities and behaviour problems. Furthermore, Sunnahof offers a housing service for around 20 people with disabilities which include different possibilities of assistance.
Our staff is educational and subject-specific trained a basic requirement for our concept. It enables us, on the one hand to handle an agriculture with 60-hectare arable land and plenty of animals, to produce a variety of wooden products only per order, to receive about 5000 visitors per year in our gastronomy and to grow and sell 500 different species of plants.
And on the other hand, it qualifies us to accompany people with disabilities on their way to the regular employment market.

Tâches du volontaire:

In terms of learning opportunities, the volunteer will have a varied role and therefore gain invaluable experience and skills for working with people with light intellectual disabilities and behaviour problems. On that course, they will learn a lot about their way of life as well as about disability issues and issues facing the local community.

They will also learn how to work with people with disabilities and how to increase their skills and promote their independence. Furthermore, they will gain access to the work as a farmer, carpenter, gardener and in the café/shop.

The role of the volunteer will be to work with our employees and people with intellectual disabilities and behaviour problems.

There are many different things to learn as a volunteer at Sunnahof. Every working area has its learning possibilities and challenges.

Apart from the working area, the volunteer will be involved in attending people with intellectual disabilities and behaviour problems. That’s the core area of the project.

One weekend a month, all volunteers will have the duty to take care of the animals at the agriculture area. For this task, the volunteers can take their two free consecutive days off during the week.

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We are looking for open-minded people who want to collect a lot of experiences in the daily work with people with intellectual disabilities and behaviour problems. We expect that the volunteer is highly motivated. Moreover, the volunteer should have a stabilized personality so that they are able to encourage and accompany people with disabilities to realise their potential and abilities.