Voluntary Youth Leaders Wanted

national | miscellaneous | event notice Thursday April 26, 2007 12:20 by Grace Walsh - Voluntary Service International teenage at vsi dot ie 30 Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1. 01-8551011

Youth Leaders with International peace NGO wanted this summer

Would you like to work as a youth leader with VSI and empower young people to act on issues such as climate change, peace and conflict, human rights, sutainable development, anti-racism and much more?

We are currently looking for voluntary youth leaders to work on our teenage programme. That will mean supervising, interacting and facilitating the development of young people on volunteer days, weekend trips and 10-day international exchanges in Ireland, Spain, France and Belgium.

Time committment: One evening meeting a month in the VSI office, availability for one or less weekend a month, for leader training from May 23rd - 28th, and one 10-day exchange in July. Expenses will be paid.

Please contact the VSI ofice by Monday 30th of April if you are interested.

You must be over 21 and willing to undergo a garda clearance check.

Voluntary Service International is the Irish branch of Service Civil International, a worldwide peace movement started in 1920 in the aftermath of the First World War.

Voluntary Service International was founded in 1965 after several projects in the late '50s. Since then VSI has undertaken a wide variety of voluntary and community work throughout Ireland and has sent volunteers to similar projects in over 50 countries worldwide.

OUR VISION: Our vision is a world of peace, social justice and sustainable development, where all people live together with mutual respect.

OUR MISSION: Our mission is to promote peace, social justice, sustainable development and intercultural understanding through volunteering in Ireland and internationally.

OUR VALUES: We base all our work on the following values:

• Volunteering - in the sense of acting out of self-initiative, without seeking material reward and for the benefit of civil society, as a method and a statement for social change, whilst never competing with paid labour nor seeking to contribute to strike-breaking
• Non-violence – as a principle and a method
• Human Rights – respect for individuals as stated in the universal declaration of Human Rights
• Solidarity – international solidarity for a more just world and solidarity between human beings at all levels
• Respect for the Environment – and the ecosystem of which we are a part and upon which we are dependent
• Inclusion - to be open and inclusive to all individuals who share the aims and objectives of the movement, without regard to gender, race, colour, religion, nationality, social status, sexual orientation and ability
• Empowerment – empowering people to understand and act to transform the social, cultural and economic structures that affect their lives at all levels
• Co-operation – with local communities as well as other local, national and international actors to strengthen the positive potential within civil society as a whole