Upgrade your skills and gain new competences for yourself as a volunteer, as well as for your organisation by joining our training sessions!
We offer 2 online training programmes:
Ethics and safety while reaching beneficiaries October 31, 10:00 - 13:30
The art of communication, November 4, 17:00 - 20:30
Join one or all 2:
Apply here https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSdTSvrl7UJ5Z.../viewform
Organisations and volunteers who are emotionally supporting people in a crisis, need extra knowledge and resilience. After the training course you will know:
Do people experience emergencies and pandemics similarly?
When volunteers should help and when leaving something out of the volunteer’s scope is still compliant with ethical principles?
How far SARS-CoV-2 spreads when you sneeze?
In which places the virus is spreading the most and why?
How can you help others during the pandemic safely?
The educational program consists of:
Online workshop / October 31, from 10:00 to 13:30
Three modules and discussions
Knowledge self-assessment
The programme will be moderated by:
Zane Linde-Ozola, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Latvia
Aija Vilde, Medical Doctor, Infectious Diseases Specialist
Working language: English
All training sessions will be conducted in Zoom.

Organised by “Paliec majas” (more about the organisation: https://paliec-majas.lv/) and Initiative together against COVID19/People for people (more about the organisation: voluntar.md)
The project received development cooperation financing from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia in 2020.