Female General Volunteer with focus on tailor space, The Victoria Community center: Women’s and Kid’s space At Glocal Roots

Glocal Roots is a grassroots organization operating in Greece and Switzerland since 2019, our solution: breaking the dependency cycle by building resilience and autonomy. We build structures and networks that support displaced people to become resilient, autonomous and self-reliant again!

Since May 2022 we are running a Women’s and Kid’s space in Athens. In our Center we offer a clean, safe, and supportive community space every day. Children can enjoy their time in our child-friendly area, which is equipped with arts and craft materials as well as many toys to play with. In the designated textile maker space, we offer refugee women the opportunity to attend sewing courses, sew independently. or become part of our sewing project (for very good seamstresses). Besides that we offer different activities depending on the skills of the volunteers and the needs of the women visiting our center.

Doing your internship with Glocal Roots gives you the opportunity to combine an academic internship with gaining very practical on the ground experience in a grassroots organization working with refugees. Parts of your internship will be focused on developing your communication skills, the other part will be supporting the rest of the team through general volunteering. This means you will also do shifts in the Victoria Community Center where you register people, work with children and make everyone feel welcome in the space.

Key responsibilities of the job include:

• Maintain the sewing space (overlock machines etc.)
• Overseeing the work of our tailors
• Offer sewing classes to beginners
• Prepare fabrics and materials for the tailors
• Support with logistic tasks concerning the tailor space (placing orders, research materials and potential partners)
• Providing appropriate support and guidance to children in the Kid’s space
• Providing social support including maintaining an environment that builds the confidence, resilience and self-esteem of women and children
• Attend weekly team meetings
• Remaining flexible based on the project needs
  Prepare creative and simple activities for children to run in the space
• Support with the distribution of sanitary products
• Remaining flexible based on the project needs
• Cleaning of the spaces after your shift along with the rest of the volunteer team
• Assist with social media and communication content creation with focus on the tailor project

Your desired set of skills:

• Fluency in English is required, French/Arabic/Farsi or German is an asset.
• An awareness and interest in migration issues and sensitivity to working with vulnerable communities
• Motivation and passion for working alongside a dynamic and hard-working team

Volunteers are responsible for covering transport costs to and from Athens. Shared accommodation with single rooms can be provided in our volunteer flat for €10 per night.