European Solidarity Corps - Volunteering Activities: Project Description Sunnahof Tufers

European Solidarity Corps - Volunteering Activities:
Project Description
Sunnahof Tufers
Voluntary Project: Sunnahof Tufers

Number of volunteers: 4
Project duration: 04.09.2023 – 31.08.2024
Project Topics:
• Agriculture
• Inclusion - equity
• Access for disadvantaged
Contact (where to send the application):
Name: Susanne Sparr

Email: susanne.sparr@aha.or.at
Phone: +43 (0)5572 52212-24
Hosting organisation:
Sunnahof Lebenshilfe Vorarlberg GmbH, Göfis, Austria
Supporting/Coordinating organisation:
aha – Jugendinformationszentrum Vorarlberg, Dornbirn, Austria
Project description:
Sunnahof is a limited liability company and an affiliated company from an
association founded 1967, called “Lebenshilfe Vorarlberg”. Sunnahof is situated
in Göfis, near Feldkirch, Austria.
Our general principle is “people need people” no matter if you have any
disabilities or not. Our work focuses on the uniqueness of each human being
and the belief that the society depends on each individual person and each
individual person depends on the society.
Sunnahof is an institution for people with light intellectual disabilities and

behaviour problems from the age of 16 until retirement. Our core objective is to
prepare this target group for the regular employment market. Therefore,
Sunnahof provides four biodynamic working areas with naturalistic working
conditions.
Those four working areas are:

- agriculture
- plant nursery
- carpentry
- gastronomy with a farm shop
All together we engage over 60 people with light intellectual disabilities and
behaviour problems. Furthermore, Sunnahof offers a housing service for
around 20 people with disabilities which include different possibilities of
assistance.
Our staff is educational and subject-specific trained a basic requirement for our
concept. It enables us on the one hand to handle an agriculture with 60-hectare
arable land and a lot of animals, to produce a variety of wooden products only
per order, to receive about 5000 visitors per year in our gastronomy and to grow
and sell 500 different species of plants.
And on the other hand, it qualifies us to accompany people with disabilities on

their way to the regular employment market.
Tasks of the volunteer:

The volunteer will work five days a week, 34 hours a week including German
course. S*he will have two days holidays per month.
In terms learning opportunities, the volunteer will have a varied role and
therefore gain invaluable experience and skills for working with people with
light intellectual disabilities and behaviour problems. On that course they will
learn a lot about their ways of living as well as, disability issues and issues
facing the local community.
They will also learn how to work along with people with disabilities and how to
increase their skills and promote their independence. Furthermore, they will
gain access to the work as a farmer, carpenter, gardener and gastronome.
The role of the volunteer will be to work along with our employees and people
with intellectual disabilities and behaviour problems, mainly in ONE of our four
working areas: agriculture, carpentry, plant nursery or gastronomy+farm shop.
There are many different things to
learn as a volunteer at Sunnahof.
Every working area has its
learning possibilities and
challenges.
Independent from the working

area, the volunteer will be involved
in the work and attendance of
people with intellectual disabilities
and behaviour problems. That’s the
core area of the training.
Agriculture:
The work is characterized by mainly
outdoor jobs and substantial work.
Examples are mucking out the barn,
intersperse hay, feeding and caring for the
animals, maintaining work, preparing
goods for the farm shop.
Plant nursery:
Also the work in our nursery plant is
branded with substantial work and outdoor
jobs. Examples for possible tasks are repotting,
weeding and plant reproduction.
Carpentry:
The carpentry requires accurate work and
craftsmanship. Engineering wood boxes, drilling,
sanding and mounting are main tasks in our daily
affairs.
Gastronomy + farm shop:

Customer contact and friendliness are key
qualifications for this working area. Tasks can
include preparing meals, baking cookies, washing
the dishes, decorating, tidying, accept and deal with
deliveries and so on.
Each volunteer will work in one area during the year. We also expect that our
volunteers do a small project at Sunnahof. The aim is to get to know each other
better and to intensify the contact with people with disabilities a little. This can
be small projects or activities like for example: creating a special cooking day
with meals from your country or playing games with the team, for example a
hide and seek in the surrounding area, to come close to nature by every sense.
➔ One weekend a month, all volunteers will have the duty to take care of the
animals at the agriculture area. For this task, the volunteers can take their two
free consecutive days off during the week.
Volunteer profile:
We are looking for open minded people who want to collect a lot of experiences
in the daily work with people with intellectual disabilities and behaviour
problems. We expect that the volunteer brings in a high motivation. Moreover,
the volunteer should have a stabilized personality so that they are able to
encourage and accompany people with disabilities to realize their potential
and abilities.
How to apply:
Please write a mail with your CV (incl. picture of you, date of birth,...) and
motivation letter to susanne.sparr@aha.or.at. After the application deadline we
will have selection rounds with the staff. During those selection rounds it’s
possible that you will be contacted for further information through mail, phone
calls or zoom!
Don’t forget to add the name of the project when you apply for it!
Practical arrangements:
The volunteer will live in a house next to the host organisation with the other
volunteers. S*He will have a room on her*his own and share a bathroom and
kitchen with others. The infrastructure with trains and buses is easy and quick
and s*he will also have a bicycle at his*her disposal. The volunteer will receive
a ticket for free use of any public transport in the whole region of Vorarlberg
during the complete time.
Support during the voluntary service:

The volunteer will have regular meetings with her*his tutor in our organisation
to talk about the development of the project, task assignments, general
wellbeing, problems, wishes, etc.
The Supporting/Coordinating Organisation will hold a monthly evaluation

meeting with all volunteers in Vorarlberg. At the end of the project, we will
together with the volunteer evaluate the project, what s*he has learned and
which competences s*he has gained and as a result fill out the Youthpass.
Furthermore, there will be a final personal evaluation meeting with the
Supporting/Coordinating Organisation.
Related links:
Website:
http://www.sunnahof.or.at/
Project description on the European project database:

https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/placement/33742_en

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European Solidarity Corps - Volunteering Activities:

Voluntary Project: Sunnahof Tufers

Contact (where to send the application):

Name: Susanne Sparr

Sunnahof is an institution for people with light intellectual disabilities and

Those four working areas are:

And on the other hand, it qualifies us to accompany people with disabilities on

Tasks of the volunteer:

Independent from the working

Gastronomy + farm shop:

Support during the voluntary service:

The Supporting/Coordinating Organisation will hold a monthly evaluation

Project description on the European project database:

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