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EVS Project at Messzelátó Association, Budapest, Hungary
Messzelátó Egyesület would like to host 2 long term volunteers from September 2013 for a period of one year.
We would prefer to hire volunteers who speak proficient English and/or Hungarian.
We would prefer to hire volunteers who speak proficient English and/or Hungarian.
Who we are?
Messzelátó Association, Hungary
Messzelátó Association, Hungary
Messzelátó Association was founded in 1999. Our goal is to realize a diverse, value-driven sustainable society based on cooperation and active communities.
The main focus of Messzelátó is ‘sustainable city life’ in which we aim to bring back sustainable methods to modern city peoples’ lives that are still used in rural areas. On our practical workshops we teach preparing our own soaps, cosmetics, bread, cheese, pasta etc. We use environmental friendly materials and also teach up-cycling garbage. We run national campaigns promoting eating seasonal, local, healthy food. We are interested in urban gardening: we are a part of a community garden, we teach balcony gardening and worm composting. We work with a wide range of groups from elementary students to elderly adult learners in our workshops.
We have 3 staff members, 40 active supporting members and more than 300 registered volunteers. We are a community that learns, thinks and acts together.
Application process:
- Fill in our form. We don’t want you to write a motivation letter – please put down all your motivation to this form!
- Instead of a regular CV we prefer you make a video or a Prezi about yourself. We ask you to send their links in the above mentioned application form. (For another project we created some guides for our favorite online tools: Prezi and PicMonkey. You find them attached to this page.)
- Please try and send us a references as well. You can send us their links in our application form. The best is if your introuduction will contain this! 😉
Application deadline: 31.03.2013.
Selection will be hopefully be made by 15.04.2013.
Selection will be hopefully be made by 15.04.2013.
If you have any questions, send them to evs (at) messzelato (dot) hu. Please do write in the subject of your e-mail: “EVS Messzelátó 2013”!
Volunteer tasks
Here we describe what usually a volunteer can be assigned to in our project. This is a kind of menu – when starting the project we consult with the volunteer what is his/her interest, which tasks would he/she want to take. So please look at this list as a list of opportunities and tell us in your application what you would be interested in and why you would be good at it! If you have your own project idea, tell us too!
- He/she can be responsible for the content of the organisation’s webpage/Facebook page/green newsletter and blog writing, helps in office administrational work and offers support to our coordinators in planning and realising green communication campaigns.
- He/she can be responsible for assisting the organisation in on-going workshops and the educational projects of the association, and helps in making new workshops related to sustainable urban living. She/he can participate in our educational program that includes giving lectures and imparting training in environmental fields.
- The volunteer can be also included in the Association’s day to day work and has also the possibility to join the other projects of Messzelátó about which further details can be found on the above mentioned webpages.
The chosen volunteers should be able to develop project ideas and coordinate his/her own projects. They should be available to EVS for one year starting from September 2013. It is an added advantage should you have experience in these fields, should you be good in computer graphics (if you can edit website or brochures by using Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign or other relevant programs) and/or should you be able to organize projects on your own and possess some knowledge about community media, and in writing newsletters and articles.We would be nore happier should you be fond of gardening and/or hiking.
More info:
- In the EVS database,
- on our webpage: www.messzelato.hu or
- In the blog of our current volunteers: www.messzelato.tumblr.com