SCI’s Long Term Volunteering (LTV) programme gives the possibility to stay abroad from 3 to 12 months, working in a project that co-operates with the local SCI-branch or partner.
There are a large number of working possibilities: with disabled people, disadvantaged youth or ethnic minorities, in an ecological community, in a local SCI office, or an orphanage.
Long Term Volunteering is not only a work, but also an experience of living abroad learning from the culture and the people, getting deeply involved with the project and its ideas.
The term LTV is used in SCI to refer to all the volunteers committed to a project for more than two months. The volunteer is provided with food, accommodation and some pocket money and is usually covered by a basic SCI insurance. Travel costs to the project are generally covered by the volunteer. There are no age limits to be an LTV. If you are interested in being an LTV please contact your
local branch.
European Voluntary Service
European Union has a special programme for volunteering called
European Voluntary Service (EVS). It’s part of the YOUTH IN ACTION programme, which promotes the mobility of young people through international activities with a non-formal education dimension such as youth exchanges, voluntary services, youth initiatives and training of youth workers.
EVS projects are now open to people between 18 (in some cases from 16) and 30 years from EU countries and from the so called
Programme countries.
At the moment about half of the LTV positions in SCI are financed by EVS. This means that the travel, insurance, pocket money and the language course are paid by the European Commission.
Further reading:
general information on how to apply for a long term volunteer project.
