Beräich(er): Aarbecht am sozialen oder edukative Beräich, Déiereschutz, Ëmweltschutz, Kultur
Programm: Service volontaire européen
Organisation d’accueil:
Akdeniz Üçüncü Göz Eğitim ve Gençlik Derneği / Third Eye Education and Youth
Missioun:
Adress / Land:
Turkeye
Dauer: < 2 Méint
Ufank: à convenir
Schluss: à convenir
Typ vun der Missioun: Am Grupp
Aufgaben vum Volontaire:
The turtles’ season is between May and October, so in the rest of the time we give more attention to generating awareness about environmental protection, recycling, reusing, reducing among youth and children via theatrical plays, games, flash mobs, etc depending on our groups’ creativity. One of the most important priorities for the project is the promotion of active citizenship spirit, the empowerment of voluntarism and of the spirit of collaboration and solidarity to youth groups.
Volunteers will be accommodated in 2 flats and share the common space and the bedroom, mostly four people in one room. The flat is situated near the project area and has double bedrooms, a kitchen, living room and all other facilities. There are mainly sufficient materials in the flat. It is a good chance for volunteers to live in a multinational team and share their own cultures with each other. They can improve themselves to understand and respect for cultural differences more, also for improving communication skills in English, Turkish and more.
The volunteers have budgets for the shops for food and common needs for the flat. Shops consist of supermarket, butcher, organic shop and greengrocery. Budgets are combined by each volunteer’s food money all together.
Our Project is a short term (2months) multi-national group volunteering project.
Outdoor Activities Cleaning the Kazanlı Beach
-Preparing media about environmental protection
-Turkish Language support
-Meeting with local people and informative activities about environment
-Monitoring and Protecting Mama/Baby Sea Turtles at night between 22.30pm and 3.30am while Mamas are laying their eggs on the beach (between May and end of July).
Hatching starts by the middle of July. You must be physically ready for long night walks on the beach.
During Turtle Season, the volunteers clean the beach in the late afternoon and walk along the beach at nights to monitor and protect the Mama and Baby sea-turtles from the predators such as dogs, crabs, etc.
There are two kinds of activities for summer and winter season;
Summer activities (From May to October); The volunteers protect the mama turtles (from the dogs, mostly) all night long by dividing into two groups at the beach. There are two groups on night shift and usually determined by the numbers of volunteers via lottery. The first group’s working hours are between 10:30-3:30 and the second group’s working hours are between 00:30-5:30 (working hours may vary with time).
Later, the baby turtles start hatching. The volunteer’s mission is to find the baby turtles who are heading to opposite direction to the sea because of the artificial lights and collect them in the boxes for the purpose of saving them from the other animals which are not in the food chain of the turtles such as cats, dogs, snakes, birds, etc. After releasing the baby turtles to the sea by using torches to make them find their way into the sea. In other words, for being a light to them.
“Turtles never say thank you, you should have your own motivation.”
Cleaning the beach where the turtles lay their eggs and Turkish lessons continue all year long.
Gesichte Profil:
We are looking for participants aged between 18-30 who are eager to learn about protecting wild life and 3Rs and has no physical obstacles.
-Open to learn and respectful to cultural differences- has tolerance towards other cultures and differences.
After you send your interest to our project, we are going to send you an application form to be filled.
Äre Kontakt:
Elena Koroglanoglou
elena.koroglanoglou@snj.lu
+352 621 394 907