Coordinating Organisation: Akwedukt Association
Where: Kwidzyn and Gardeja, North part of Poland
When: Autumn project might be postponed of two months, depends of situation in Europe.
Duration: 12 months
Topics: Education/ Culture/ Social work

Deadline: 10 de SEPTIEMBRE

General information
Kwidzyn is a capital of the powiat located in Pomeranian Voivodeship
on the river Liwa and even by Polish standards
Kwidzyn is an old city, and one with a rich and interesting history…
Kwidzyn is a town with about 40. 000 inhabitants, with several
additional thousand residing in the surrounding rural areas,
located 100 km from the Baltic Sea to the south.
It is situated also about 100 km from Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia,
which are historical and cultural destinations in Pomeranian region.
There is a good bus connection between Kwidzyn and these cities.
The development of the town is based on strong industrial structure – production of paper and electronic
industry.
Kwidzyn is surrounded by beautiful and rich forests, with nature reserve and lakes. Beside that there are
strong fields of non-governmental actions. We have organizations like scouts, ecological, cultural, musical
and the theater. Both adults and youth will find a place for spare time and hobby development. Beside
that we have cinema and theater and other cultural places like restaurants. There is also a big sport center
with football pitch, basketball and tennis courts and mini golf course.
The inhabitants of Kwidzyn are mostly middle class. People work in big factories in Kwidzyn or they run
their small local businesses. There is no University in Kwidzyn, that is why you can find here mostly youth
till 19 years old and adults over 25. Target group of the projects are citizens of Kwidzyn, students, family
with children and pensioners. We work in all the city, directly working with different organizations.
Headquarter of our organization is situated in the center of the city. Next to the old town, shopping center,
park, restaurants and churches.
Volunteer will be accommodated in the rented apartment, 10 – 30 min walk from the office. There will be
a shared bedroom, kitchen and bathroom for a volunteer

VOLUNTEERS MISSION
Our 12 months ESC programs allow young people to experience living abroad whilst learning and
contributing to a world, with support from the European Solidarity Corps programme. This is a great
opportunity to join meaningful work and learning while your food, accommodation, travelling, pocket
money, insurance and mentorship are covered.
The main missions for the volunteer will be:
1. Educational and pedagogical activities plus promoting non-formal education methods,
2. European cultural openness and various forms of cultural education,
3. Joint project with the 16 volunteers in the 8 different hosting places.

The volunteer will work full time with the team of the Hosting Organization from Monday to Friday, on
minimum 32-hour week basis. They might be asked to take part in evening gatherings with the students
and locals. From time to time, the volunteer will have the opportunity to work in associated schools,
kindergartens and local institutions with the other ESC volunteers in order to build a common projects
and events.
We are looking for energetic and motivated candidates with a proactive, creative and problem-solving
attitude, at least basic knowledge of English and organisational skills. A creative persons who enjoys
speaking in front of a crowd and who is motivated to develop events and activities that strengthen the
integration between polish and international students, kids, youngsters. Ready to work with people in
different age, not scared of daily routine.
The volunteer must be mature, open-minded and able to work based on his/her own initiative, but also
work in close cooperation with the staff at the project. The volunteer should be prepared to work also in
the evenings and sometimes weekends – depends of events. Much of the work, a volunteer will be doing,
is to encourage young people to participate in civic life as well as to develop their personality and
European identity.
All volunteer’s task: providing workshops according to volunteers skills, experiences, interests (movie,
handcraft, IT, acting, ecology, languages, others), organizing after school activities for youngsters – leading
language group, intercultural learning activities – culture evenings, and summer and winter camps for
children and so on.

Founded in 1957 the Special School in Kwidzyn main goal is to prepare teenage pupils with disabilities for
work and independent life, using a diverse curriculum in addition to traditional class like math and writing
class etc., we have practical class (cooking, gardening) and therapy class (horse therapy, physical therapy),
sport class (swimming pool, basketball), and creative class (drawing, pottery).
The main aim of the volunteers is helping with the organization and conducting educational, rehabilitative
and caring activities with the teenagers with light, moderate, significant and deeper mental disabilities as
well as the ones with coupled disabilities as well as giving intellectual support in the young people
everyday duties.
Special School with Work Adaptation Classes, for people with moderate and severe intellectual disability
and conjugate disability up to 24 years old. Fields of education with practical classes in local companies:
– helper of the gardener and arborist,
– cook’s helper,
– business worker assistant,
– daily life practise.
Revalidation and Education Department for children with severe intellectual disability up to age of 25 – 4
departments Classes include in particular:
– learning how to establish social contacts,
– communication with the environment – AAC,
– movement improvement (swimming pool classes, sensory integration, physiotherapy, horse riding),
– implementation to achieve the optimal level of independence,
– developing interest in the surroundings, strengthening activity.
Suggested activities for the volunteers:
● helping a teacher with varied educational and caring activities; assisting kids in daily routine;
● taking care and assisting during the curricular and extracurricular classes: at the swimming-pool,
hypo therapy, after-school clubs, hikes and school trips, hydrotherapy, rehabilitation during
mobility improvement classes;
● preparing various didactic materials for classes;
● giving support to the teacher and students in the Adapting to Work classes – pottery, cleaning,
gardening, cooking;
● helping in the organization of the out of school activities and events (the scouts, competitions
etc.).

Kindergartens are functioning as a caring, educational and instructive centres. They are the places where
healthy and disabled kids have fun together. They provides every child the opportunity to have fun and
learn in a safe, friendly place where everything is tailor-made for their needs and development. It shapes
the emotional resilience in children with different physical and intellectual capabilities. Kindergartens are
building children’s knowledge about the social world.
Volunteer will take part in the following activities:
● participating and helping in daily work: preparing activities and games for kids;
● helping during lunch, in daily hygiene, accompanying and watching after the kids during the walks
and while staying in public places(cinemas, museums, theatres etc.);
● helping kids get dressed for outside activities;
● helping the assistant during breakfast (setting and clearing the table, giving food to the children)
● Lead games and activities for children, music classes, -playing with the children;
● attend and conduct classes in English;
● assist in working with children with disabilities;
● decorate the school before any programme;
● taking part in ESC promoting projects, workshops, presentations

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can! – this is motto of organisation. Flow
Foundation work as a Crisis Intervention Centre and place of social integration of children and youth
from difficult environments. It works as a place where we citizens can always turn to for help in various
crisis situations. Delivers activities such as legal advices, psychological consultations, social counselling
or parenting skills workshops but also individual corrective and educational programs for people using
domestic violence are developed and implemented and educational workshops for various groups
(pregnant minors, the disabled, the elderly).
Volunteers work might be:
● helping in all education activities, with professional educators and social workers,
● working with the young people on the field of art, ecology or sports and others,
● organizing work with the youth on the field of developing hobbies, interests, organizing leisure
time activities for the youngsters; language clubs (usually English) for children and adults as well;
● organizing and coordinating simple works like gardening, repairing things etc., art classes,
supervisions.
● office work and individual ideas

-Travel cost: 275 EUR

-Pocket money 120 EUR

-Food money 100 EUR

-Accommodation: We are renting 4-5 flats for our volunteers in Kwidzyn. Every house consists of 2-3 rooms some of which can be shared by 2 volunteers. The kitchen and bathroom are always shared. It is possible to share a mixed gendered flat.

Every flat has an internet connection – the internet in every flat has a different speed but enough good for Skype conversation or watching movies.

Flats are free for volunteers, our organization is paying the rent and the common costs like electricity, water, heating, garbage and internet.

Due to the different size of the bedrooms and in terms of equal rights volunteers can change a room every 4 months so that every volunteer in the flat has a chance to live in a bigger room. This possibility needs to be discussed with the coordinators and all the flatmates.