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Helping out in the center for bilingual children

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The experience

Support our educational center in Hannover and learn all about intercultural work in the middle of Germany.
There are plenty of tasks to help with, depending on your skills: crafts, cleaning, gardening, playing with kids, making videos, sorting out documents, supporting teachers while giving classes, painting walls etc.
You will meet here proactive people, who love their job and will gladly share their knowledge with you.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Child Care: Caring for, playing with, and spending time with children.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Requirements

Fluent Russian or Intermediate English

Over 20 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Lots of the things in our center are done on a voluntarily basis: that means everyone whom you are going to meet in the center does plenty of unpaid work.
Your possible tasks will depend on your skills.
You may help the teachers to prepare the materials for the classes or camps; support the teachers while they're giving classes, if necessary (help children to solve their tasks) and play with kids. You can also organize a workshop or a little activity for kids yourself.
Sometimes it is necessary to help us in the household - simple things like hoovering, washing the floor, taking care of our small garden and sorting out some documents.
Also other tasks like crafts, painting, building or designing something are possible.

Activities & Shift

We plan about 4-5 hours of work per day.
If you want, you can work also full day and take additional days off for that.
Our children speak Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Turkish and German.
Some of them understand basic English.
If you are really-really cool in teaching and don't speak any of those languages (English doesn't count - kids don't really speak it), we may try to find children which speak your mother tongue but this is rather an exception for some really really cool teachers seeking for a new experience.

Rules

We expect the volunteer to be home before 10pm in the evening during the working week in order not to disturb the neighbors.
Volunteers stay in a three-room flat, sharing it with the owners or sometimes with other volunteers. Here everything is like at home: an example, there is a fridge with groceries for everybody; some meals are cooked by hosts, and some can be cooked together.
We expect that you also take care of the place where you are staying.
If we see that something is dirty or not in place, we take care of it - and so should you.
If you like cooking, feel free to cook a traditional meal of your country for everybody, it will be very appreciated - we will buy all the ingredients.
Open communication is very important for us. If you don't understand something, if you don't like something, if you need something, do not hesitate to tell us.
See you in Hannover!