Beräich(er): Aarbecht am sozialen oder edukative Beräich, Déiereschutz, Ëmweltschutz, Kultur
Programm: Service volontaire européen
Missioun:
Adress / Land:
Mersin, Turkey
Dauer: < 2 Méint
Ufank:
Individuell ofklären
Individuell ofklären
Schluss: à convenir
Typ vun der Missioun: Am Grupp
Beschreiwung vun der Missioun:
The turtles’ season is between May and October, so in the rest of the time we give more attention to generating awareness about environmental protection, recycling, reusing, reducing among youth and children via theatrical plays, games, flash mobs, etc depending on our groups’ creativity. One of the most important priorities for the project is the promotion of active citizenship spirit, the empowerment of voluntarism and of the spirit of collaboration and solidarity to youth groups.
Volunteers will be accommodated in 2 flats and share the common space and the bedroom, mostly four people in one room. The flat is situated near the project area and has double bedrooms, a kitchen, living room and all other facilities. There are mainly sufficient materials in the flat. It is a good chance for volunteers to live in a multinational team and share their own cultures with each other. They can improve themselves to understand and respect for cultural differences more, also for improving communication skills in English, Turkish and more.
Aufgaben vum Volontaire:
During Turtle Season, the volunteers clean the beach in the late afternoon and walk along the beach at nights to monitor and protect the Mama and Baby sea-turtles from the predators such as dogs, crabs, etc.
There are two kinds of activities for summer and winter season;
Summer activities (From May to October); The volunteers protect the mama turtles (from the dogs, mostly) all night long by dividing into two groups at the beach. There are two groups on night shift and usually determined by the numbers of volunteers via lottery. The first group’s working hours are between 10:30-3:30 and the second group’s working hours are between 00:30-5:30 (working hours may vary with time).
Later, the baby turtles start hatching. The volunteer’s mission is to find the baby turtles who are heading to opposite direction to the sea because of the artificial lights and collect them in the boxes for the purpose of saving them from the other animals which are not in the food chain of the turtles such as cats, dogs, snakes, birds, etc. After releasing the baby turtles to the sea by using torches to make them find their way into the sea. In other words, for being a light to them.
“Turtles never say thank you, you should have your own motivation.”
Cleaning the beach where the turtles lay their eggs and Turkish lessons continue all year long.
Winter activities (From October to May); when the baby turtles finish hatching and reaching to the sea, the winter activities start. Our volunteers keep cleaning the beach on weekdays. Besides this, one day is Turkish lesson class, and they also do workshops on weekdays. Workshops are about the activities for raising awareness about environmental protection, life circle of sea turtles, 3R (reuse-reduce-recycle) etc. And they are raising awareness mostly in public, in middle-high schools and in kinder gardens. For the middle and high schools they are having presentations in English (if there are language classes, they usually have priority) and for kinder gardens, volunteers perform theatre. The subject is still about the environment, and it depends on the group’s creative capacity. And sometimes we are making events with kids from schools, the municipality and with the other local organizations, and we clean the Kazanlı beach together. In this case, the people that we are trying to make more aware of environment protection experience on the field with our European volunteers.
If there is a chance, we visit the recycling factory and turtles hospital in Mersin.
The volunteers will be active in the project for 35 hours per week (language lessons are the part of it). Arrival and departure days do not make the part of volunteering time. The volunteering schedule may also vary with time – some periods will be more busy, and some will be much more flexible. During the planning of the activities, the volunteer has to build up together with the host organization.
Gesichte Profil:
We deeply wish to let this Volunteering Projects place open for young people with a strong motivation to be a volunteer, and to continue after their Volunteering Projects to be volunteers in their life and hopefully keep in touch with our organization and their sending organization.
Äre Kontakt:
Elena Koroglanoglou
elena.koroglanoglou@snj.lu
+352 621 394 907