What can you do?
- Mentoring
Meetings between refugees and volunteers and spending leisure time together.
This involves primarily helping out with the Czech language, accompanying in dealing with authorities, attending cultural and sports events together and so on.
The content of the meetings depends on the arrangement between the refugee and the mentor.
Mentoring is intended for volunteers who can work with clients for at least six months and meet them at least once a week.
- Site visits
Visits to integration asylum residence centres where volunteers prepare leisure activities for clients.
This involves primarily organising trips, handiwork and sports for asylum residence centre residents, leisure activities for children etc.
Site visits are intended for those volunteers who cannot meet clients regularly but still want to help. Site visits take place approximately once a month. We always send out information about a new site visit and you can register for the date that suits you.
- One-time help
This means helping with the preparation of one-off events - conferences, discussions, public events and festivals and also helping with packing clothes for asylum residence centres or wrapping Christmas gifts.
These activities are irregular - they happen as needed. We send information about the upcoming events to people interested in helping on a one-time basis so they can register at their convenience.
Why be a volunteer?
You will help people who need it and spend your leisure time actively
You will be acquainted with new people and their culture
You will use your language skills
Volunteering can help you to see life from a different angle
What do you do if you want to be a volunteer?
- Complete the form (link to the form)
- Come for an interview when invited by our volunteer coordinator
- If we agree on cooperation, bring us your:
Criminal register certificate (not older than 3 months)
CV
- Once we receive all documents, we will enter into a volunteering agreement with you, you will sign our code of conduct, a non-disclosure obligation and an affidavit on integrity, and you can start working with clients.
What do we expect from our volunteers?
Independence and creativity
Willingness to take training and be supervised (once in 2 months)
Reliability and patience in keeping documents on activities with clients