EVS PLacement in almere, the netherlands - Youth Networks

IMPORTANT NOTICES BEFORE APPLYING FOR SENDING ORGANISATION
• For preparation the SO is obligated to buy the book called ‘the Undutchables’ .
This book is very important to prepare the volunteer coming to The Netherlands.
• Sending costs are transferred to the SO after approval of the final rapport by the
National Agency.
• SO and CO pay both 5% of the travel costs, as only 90% is reimbursed by the
National Agency.
• We are not able to pay the arrival travel ticket up front. The volunteer or SO is
responsible for this. As soon as we opened a bank account for the volunteer we
will make a bank transfer with the reimbursement. This after receiving of the
invoice and other travel documents we will transfer the reimbursement
immediately.
• We are not able pay the return ticket up front. The volunteer or SO is responsible
for this. After receiving of the original invoice and other travel documents and the
acceptance of the final rapport of the EVS project by the National agency we
make a bank transfer to the SO with the total amount.
IMPORTANT NOTICES BEFORE APPLYING FOR VOLUNTEER
• The volunteer is obligated to keep a BLOG on youthnetworks.eu about
developments in the EVS. One entry every two weeks is desired. English is
preferred, but the native language can also be used. This BLOG is used for the
dissemination of results in the EVS project.
• Tripin provides language courses one hour a week for three months. After this the
volunteer can continue the language lessons, but has to pay a fee of €10 a month.
Please note that for German(ic) languages these language lessons are maybe a bit
easy. The courses are focused on basic communicating skills and pronunciations
in the Dutch language.
• For your transport you will receive a bike to move through the city. Also in winter
times you will use a bike.
• As we already wrote before: You will have to share a room with another
volunteer. Please be aware of this fact.
• It is very wise to save some money before coming to the Netherlands. The pocket
and food money is decent for EVS, but won’t leave you a lot of space to explore the
Netherlands. If you really want to enjoy your EVS, explore the country and meet
up with other EVS volunteers in other cities we would highly recommend to have
some other resources then the basic EVS allowances. The other fact for this
advice is that your insurance on EVS is not paying for any healthcare in advance
as long as you are not administered in the hospital. This means in practice that
you have to pay in advance for your healthcare and have to wait weeks before
AXA is reimbursing the money to your bank account.