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Le Gouvernement du Grand-Duché du Luxembourg

The organisation offers several group activities for 2025.

Here are the dates of arrival of ECS groups in 2025:

14.02.2025-15.04.2025 departure day
15.04.2025-07.07.2025
15.04.2025-18.07.2025 departure: for volunteers who like to work with children
14.02.2025-07.07.2025 or 18.07.2025 departure
07.09.2025-30.11.2025 departure

Park Istra is a charity project in a beautiful Istria peninsula. Our main goals are to promote solidarity and active citizenship and to empower volunteers who visit Park Istra.
Our mission is to help people in need and to support everything good that is happening in our region. We support best local organizations, great local projects and people with good ideas.
In 2021 our project Solidarity in Primorska was nominated for Salto Award as one of five best European volunteering projects.

Tâches du volontaire :

The fields of action on which volunteers will work are as follows:
HELPING LOCAL COMMUNITIES:
Park Istra will organize daily actions to help the inhabitants of Istria. The purpose of these actions is:
• supporting sustainable initiatives and projects that improve the quality of life in the region; • helping vulnerable groups of people; • promoting cooperation; • learning new skills and learning about Istria through a diverse volunteering work.
Examples of actions that we carry out include: helping organic farmers, renovating children’s playgrounds, helping green tourism initiatives collecting and transporting food for people in need, helping elderly…
SUPPORTING LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Many local organizations in our area have excellent ideas and a good knowledge of the needs of the local population. Unfortunately, they are often hindered by the lack of resources and staff, so we are there to help them.
Examples of our activities: • supporting regional Red Cross association; • supporting the Daytime
Center for the homeless in Bertoki; • assistance to Zveza Sonček in maintenance of their therapeutic center and working with users of their facilities; • help in the local Animal Shelter …
PRESERVING ISTRIAN HERITAGE:
Istria is full of natural and cultural wonders. Taking care for them is the basis of the preservation of local identity, the development of green tourism, and hence the creation of new quality jobs and the revitalization of the Istrian countryside.
Park Istra carries out the following activities for preserving the natural and cultural heritage of Istria:
• maintenance of cultural monuments, old houses, churches; • organization of clean-up
actions; • restoration of drywalls; • cleaning overgrown rural paths; • assistance in the care of protected natural areas; • promoting local products, traditional music, old customs and crafts.
EDUCATION :
Park Istra is an engine of non-formal education. Volunteers learn through a wide variety of work experiences, cooperation with other volunteers and with locals of all ages. In addition, we organize regular workshops for volunteers, visitors and local residents, such as: • afternoon workshops for
volunteers; • workshops for children and the elderly; • student practices for students from different countries; • free childcare for local children.
The purpose of our educational activities is: • to offer the transformative experience of selfless work for others; • to teach practical skills; • to offer new opportunities to vulnerable groups of population; • to raise awareness and disseminate good practices; • to promote Istria, its beauty and its culture.

Profil recherché

Project welcomes volunteers age 18 to 30 from EU and neighboring countries. The main characteristics that we will look for in volunteers is high motivation to help others, being ready to work hard and being able to live in an international community of volunteers. You don’t need any specific knowledge, just willingness to learn and try new things.

Culture, Travail social et éducatif

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