The Mission of the volunteer center is to engage volunteers to help people who need it.
Who is a volunteer?
A volunteer is a person who in his spare time without financial reward is giving their knowledge, skills and energy to benefit the people who need it. The volunteer may be any person over 15 years old, regardless of education or employment. The volunteer has the right to choose activity, duration and frequency of meetings. A volunteer does not replace the work of the staff, but is the companion and guide.
Volunteering brings not only help to others, but it is also an enrichment for the volunteers. This way they can get new friends, contacts, experience, spend your free time usefully, to appear in each new creative potential.
What is the task of the Volunteer Center?
To inform public about possibilities of volunteering
To help the institutions which are interested in volunteers
Searching and systematic support of the volunteers
What do we offer to our volunteers?
Information and advice for those who are interested in volunteering
Regular group supervisions under the guidance of qualified supervisors
Confirmation of voluntary service every year
Publication in the regional medias (newspaper, Facebook etc.)
The volunteer insurance against injuries during activities and damages
Reimbursement of expenses during the travelling to activities or just trips with clients
Voluntary contract
The possibility of a realization of your own ideas
Educational events, trips, excursions, meetings etc.
Where can you help?
Centrum pro zdravoně postižené kraje Vysočina
Offering social-legal advice, organizing events
Target group: people with various disabilities
Domov pro seniory Pelhřimov
A house for elder people who live there
Target group: seniors
Domov Jeřabina
Protected housing, day care center, home for people with disabilities, home with special regime, social therapy workshop
Where: Pelhřimov, Cetoraz, Počátky, Nový Rychnov, Starý Pelhřimov, Horní Cerekev
Target group: people with mental disabilities and behavioral disorders, people with autism
Farní charita Kamenice nad Lipou
Target group: seniors
Pěstounské rodiny kraje Vysočina
An organization that brings together and supports families who are willing to accept children who have not had a life of happiness living in their own family
Activities: filling in free time for children when meeting families
FOKUS Vysočina
Community team, sheltered housing, employment support team
Target group: people with mental disorders
Hodina H
An organization offering language conversations, leisure activities for children and seniors
Target group: children and youth, young people with fewer opportunities, seniors
Městská knihovna Pelhřimov
Public library
Activities: one-off events, book delivery, reading, library support, organization of exhibitions
Nemocnice Pelhřimov
Hospital
Spend time with long-term patients
Oblastní charita Pelhřimov
Charity, Home care in families, civic counseling, family center, personal assistance
Target group: seniors, adults, children
Sjedonocená organizace nevidomých a slabozrakých v ČR
Target group: Blind and purblind people
Svaz neslyšících a nedoslýchavých Pelhřimov
Target group: Deaf and hard of hearing people
Zvoneček
Target group: people with disabilities
Azyl Dej pac!
Family house for abandoned dogs, located in the small village Častonín
Activities: assistance with dogs walking, assistance in ensuring the house
Rodinné centrum Krteček
Center for mothers with children on maternity leave
Activities: filling in children's free time, reading
Dům seniorů – domov důchodců Pacov
Target group: seniors
Nemocnice Počátky, s.r.o.
Target group: seniors
Domov důchodců Proseč-Obořiště
Target group: seniors
How can a foreign volunteer be involved?
European volunteers are involved in activities of FOKUS Vysočina and other cooperating organisations, mainly in Pelhřimov. Volunteers organise leisure activities for clients, lectures about their country, work on the posters and promotional activities and various events like creative clubs or traditional baking of gingerbread cookies with the patients of the hospital in Pelhřimov.
Contact: If you want to become a volunteer, come join us! FOKUS Vysočina Volunteer centre in the region Pelhřimov: Vlaďka Brávková - Volunteer Coordinator, e-mail: dobrovolnicke.centrum-pe@fokusvysocina.cz, phone: + 420 606 029 727, Volunteer Centre is also on Facebook