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Coordinating organization Hosting organization EUROPEAN VOLUNTEERING SERVICE Dear friends and EVS enthusiasts, With this invitation we would like to inform you about the free EVS places NGO Tripin offers as a coordinating organization in cooperation with hosting organization NGO stichting AAP in Almere. We are applying to the youth in action program for two EVS volunteers. The project will be applied for on the 1 st of February 2011 deadline and will start on the 1 st of May 2011 till the 1 st of May 2012. What : European Voluntary Service in Stichting AAP, Almere. When : 12 months, 1 st of September 2011 - 1 st of September 2012. How many : Two EVS volunteers from any EU member state. How to apply : Send your motivation letter and CV to evsaap@tripin.eu ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN THIS EVS PROJECT Coordinating organization: NGO Stichting Tripin Tripin is active now for six years in Almere. Tripin her goal is to help organizations with making their work more international. There could be said that Tripin gives other organizations the opportunity to give a whole different dimension to their work. Hosting organization: NGO Stichting AAP AAP is a European sanctuary for exotic animals. The animals that end up with AAP often come from illegal trade, research laboratories, circuses, illegal zoos or directly from private people. The foundation specializes in hosting apes and monkeys. Other small exotic mammals can also find a shelter there, including raccoons, skunks and prairie dogs. When they arrive at AAP they often have been seriously abused and severely neglected. At AAP the animals receive the professional care needed for their recovery. Its aim is to make the animals mentally and physically healthy and to place them in a more natural environment, such as in a natural enclosure or in a renowned zoo.
Originally, AAP served as a temporary shelter only. However, AAP has developed a special retirement plan for those apes which cannot be placed anywhere else. It consists of the Islands in Almere, which were put into use in 2001, the Chimpanzee Complex, put into use in 2006, and the Primadomus project in the south of Spain which is just put into use one or two years ago. SOCIAL AND WORK ENVIRONMENT As EVS volunteer at AAP you will be part of a large group of volunteers that work with AAP. The volunteer will be in close contact with the other volunteers. AAP is located on the country estate from Almere. It is a beautiful area with different organizations working with nature. There is a biological farm, a place where youngsters get informed about nature, a place where children with fewer opportunities can have a free vacation and of course AAP. This country estate is located 8 KM from the city center. A website with information can be found here: http://www.aap.nl/. We also want to point out that AAP has a special house in one of the residential areas of the city. Here you will live together with other EVS volunteers and with other volunteers who work at AAP but have nothing to do with EVS. This gives you a good opportunity to participate in social activities and learn more about the Dutch culture. AAP also organizes different meetings for all the volunteers and friends of the organization once a while. As coordinating organization Tripin will arrange the necessary things like the obligated training courses for EVS volunteers, language courses, pocket money etc. (if you want to know more about your rights as an EVS volunteer, please download the youth in action program guide) Tripin wil also be a social platform to get in touch with EVS volunteers from other projects and activities held by partner NGO’s in Almere and the rest of the country. ACTIVITIES The volunteer is working in a very active and flexible foundation. Despite there is a project description, the volunteer will have a lot of personal freedom. This means that there is enough space to grow in the organisation besides the fixed activities. Of course the foundation will give a structure in which the volunteer can find his challenge. The volunteer can learn how it is to work in a field with a small power-distance. If there are things that you think can be changed to benefit the organisation in the volunteering work you are doing, you are more then welcome to share your opinion with the teamleaders. Because AAP and Tripin prefer to have volunteers for 1 year. The volunteers will have the oppurtunity to grow in the organization. Also there are possibilities to see all the aspects of working in AAP. For example to take care of the animals for six months and the other three months work in the technical service. Or help with promoting activities. There will be fixed patterns and tasks you have to perform on the application form but after some time there will be oppurtunities to change tasks. This kind of changes will be
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