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ESC project at Funkibator
About Funkibator association
Funkibator Ideell Förening is a local association started in 2011 and is the result of a development center project called Funkibator. In the county of Kronoberg there are a few youth organizations within the field of disability so we decided to start one ourselves. It is a regional organization and our main target group is children, youth and young adults and people up to the age of 40. Funkibator Ideell Förening is for people regardless of diagnosis as we want to focus on the activities and not the diagnosis. Our goal is to become a national organization and establish the organization all over Sweden. We offer different activities in the organization and our motto is that it should be concrete, fun and social. Some of our activities include leisure activities for young people with disabilities; monthly activities such as mini educations, inspirational meetings. Other activities have included bowling, wheelchair handball, movie night, winter holiday sports camp, summer camp, badminton, study visits etc. We feel it is important that our target group meet new people and gain a bigger network, both digitally and in real life. We also cooperate with Växjö municipality and offer summer jobs for disabled youth. Växjö is a small city in the south of Sweden with a municipality of 80.000 inhabitants. The office of Funkibator association is in the city center of Växjö and is very close to the bus and train station. The offices are wheelchair accessible.
Funkibator is part of Nätverket SIP, an umbrella organisation with the base in Växjö. SIP stands for Social change in Practice and focuses on building a more equal and democratic society through new ideas that have an impact on the community.
Accommodation: room in an apartment with shared bathroom and kitchen or room in a host family with shared kitchen and bathroom.
Working times: the volunteer usually work during weekdays but sometimes they work on weekends and evenings. The volunteers work max 35 hours per week, including Swedish lessons.
Activities for volunteers
Some activities for the volunteers:
- Prepare, set up and lead weekly activities for members and other participants, physical or online
- Prepare rooms and equipment for activities lead by others, physical or online
- Work with Zoom
- Assist in different weekly activities with themes of workshops, education, art and creation, movie events, animal activities
- Help develop Funkibator's online shop - take product pictures, upload information in the page, etc.
- Gardening&Outside work
- Working with social media
- Assist during video game evenings for youngsters
We are looking for two volunteers who:
– Enjoy working in a team with people with different backgrounds and needs
– Are flexible and creative, enjoy both office work (planning, meetings, brainstorming) but also enjoy participating and organizing activities with people and other more practical tasks
- Think outside the box
- Enjoy hosting events and leading activities
Future vacancy: 1st September 2022 – 31st August 2023
Unfortunately we are not recruiting new ESC volunteers at this moment. If you are interested in this project, you are welcome to check this page (or the European youth portal) later on, around spring 2022. When the application time will come, you can send us your CV and a motivation/cover letter (both documents in English) to funkibator@globalakronoberg.se. Applications should be sent to us before the deadline in the European youth portal.
To know more about Funkibator: https://www.funkibator.se/
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