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• Become a ROCKYOURLIFE! trainer

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  Basel, Bern, Chur, Fribourg, Lausanne, Lugano, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Winterthur or Zurich

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  Year-round

  
  education user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  Students in Switzerland are required to prepare a suitable follow-up at age 14 for what they plan to do after they graduate high school. This is a tall order assignment: around 13% of students fail to develop an immediate plan for what they intend to do after they complete their compulsory schooling. This in spite of the fact that there are more vacant apprenticeships than school leavers. The ROCKYOURLIFE! mentoring program offers one-to-one support and facilitates mentoring relationships between equals, giving all young people the same chance to develop their professional potential. Do you want to make a valuable contribution by helping young people to foster their talents, regardless of their socioeconomic background? As a ROCKYOURLIFE! (RYL!) trainer you will be supporting mentors and their mentees (tandems) with career guidance and in developing their potential Become a ROCKYOURLIFE! trainer and expand your social and training skills while assisting our mentoring tandem on their journey.

• Caritas-Bergeinsatz. Help mountain farming families in need

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  The whole of Switzerland

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  Year-round

  
  social user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  Volunteers help Swiss mountain farming families who are experiencing an emergency due to accident, illnesses, pregnancies, or some other hardship. Help with a range of occasional work such as hay making, farm work, animal care, household chores, childcare and the like, and experience the joy of the simple life in the mountains.

• The translation team at the voCHabular association

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  The whole of Switzerland

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  Year-round

  
  education user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  The voCHabular association has developed a self-learning tool in the form of a book and an app to help people with a refugee background integrate into Swiss life. Vocabulary, explanations and instructions must therefore be translated into different languages. The first edition of voCHabular is available in English, Arabic and Persian. We are currently working on translations into Amharic, Tigrinya, French and Turkish, and other languages are under consideration. The voCHabular website is also translated into the relevant languages. All of this is made possible by our fantastic translation team. The project is managed by a young interdisciplinary and intercultural team of over 60 volunteers. It includes various people with a refugee background and different residence statuses, who provide valuable input on the development of content, translations, the app and the ongoing development of voCHabular. VoCHabular is therefore itself an integration project. Other projects are published on UBS Helpetica.

• WohnFit

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  Stadt Zürich

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  Year-round

  
  social user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  In a housing market as competitive as Zurich's, finding suitable accommodation is much harder for those affected by poverty. Adequate living space is essential for social and economic inclusion and for escaping poverty. WohnFit is looking for volunteer mentors willing to spend six months helping social welfare recipients in Zurich to find an apartment.

• Rafiki – contact persons wanted

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  online oder telefonisch

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  Year-round

  
  social user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  Rafiki – contact persons wanted for the long-term unemployed. As part of the project “Rafiki” (Swahili for “friend”), we are looking for volunteers to support and advise participants as required with questions and concerns about professional integration. The participants are all employed in the private sector and are working towards meeting the minimum requirements for a permanent position or formal vocational qualification.

• Mwalimu – specialized training for the long-term unemployed

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  Biel oder Bern

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  Year-round

  
  education user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  Mwalimu – specialized training for the long-term unemployed As part of the project “Mwalimu” (Swahili for “teacher”), we are looking for volunteers to support and, if needed, advise participants in the final stages of preparing to enter the world of work. The participants are all employed in the private sector and are working towards meeting the minimum requirements for a permanent position or formal vocational qualification. We are also looking for volunteers to prepare and deliver remedial classes tailored to participants’ needs. A teaching qualification is desirable but not necessary.

• Coaches for people with ambitions to pursue further education and training

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  online

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  Year-round

  
  education user Free spaces available time Year-round recurring

  EDUCA SWISS is the Swiss foundation for promoting and financing education. We help people to develop, budget and carry out their own further education project. If needed, we also arrange student loans and mentors to help bring the project to life. We are looking for worldly-wise volunteers to coach our candidates in developing life and financial goals. Would you like to volunteer and advise people from lower-income backgrounds on how to plan their own further education project?

• Special Olympics National Summer Games, volunteers

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  St. Gallen

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  16.06.2022

  
  social user 43 spaces are still free time 19 days remaining until

  Special Olympics National Summer Games SG 2022 –volunteers, 16 June 2022. The next National Summer Games organized by Special Olympics Switzerland will take place from 16 to 19 June 2022. Athletes with intellectual disabilities will compete for medals across 14 different disciplines. The National Summer Games 2022 in St. Gallen is a powerful symbol of our commitment to inclusion: with and for our special athletes, in the heart of society!

• Special Olympics National Summer Games, volunteers

  location

  St. Gallen

  calendar

  17.06.2022

  
  social user 42 spaces are still free time 19 days remaining until

  Special Olympics National Summer Games SG 2022 –volunteers, 17 June 2022. The next National Summer Games organized by Special Olympics Switzerland will take place from 16 to 19 June 2022. Athletes with intellectual disabilities will compete for medals across 14 different disciplines. The National Summer Games 2022 in St. Gallen is a powerful symbol of our commitment to inclusion: with and for our special athletes, in the heart of society!