Development Instructor - training social work and practical development skills in Denmark and Africa

DRH Holsted is preparing Development Instructors, with all necessary skills and knowledge, for volunteer work in development projects in poor countries.

During one of the 18 or 24 months programs of alternative study, students will be based in the Danish DRH School in Holsted where they will prepare during study sessions, practice work in different social care insitutions in Denmark and development work in projects running in African countries.
In the end of the program, students will get a B-certificate in “Fighting with the Poor” or in “Pedagoy& Fighting with the Poor” emited by One Wolrd University in Mozambique in association with DRH Holsted.
The purpose is to train Development Instructors to be active and competent creators and instructors in Development both for children with special needs in Denmark, and at their projects in Africa.
Theoretical studies during the first year in Denmark are divided into three different periods: 1. Denmark Period 2. Raising Awareness 3. Africa - Project Skills Practical studies and work: The practical studies and work are carried out at the school of accommodation and consist of various tasks such as: teaching, social work, maintenance and promotion work, but also cleaning and dishwashing. Basically the Development Instructor (DI)will be taking part of running the school in all of its aspects together with the staff at the school. The DIs will also take part in organising cultural-, musical- and sportive events, working with maintenance at a building weekends and put up a theatre plays. In Africa: In the 8-month period as a Development Instructor at a Humana project in Angola, Mozambique or Malawi, the DI will have the possibility to work with people in some of the poorest parts of the world. You will - in a group of three DIs - choose a specific project and will specialize your preparation towards this during the last six months of your stay in Denmark. In Africa you work in your "Trio" closely together with the project leader and is expected to take your part of the responsibility for a successful running of the project.

- You are open-minded, flexible and motivated to do something good for others.
- You are interested in helping children and young people with special needs and from various backgrounds.
- You are eager to learn and gain experiences in new and unfamiliar work situations.
- Furthermore, you are a hardworking person
- There are no specific academic requirements - but if you want to enroll for the "Double B Certificate in Pedagogy and Fighting With The Poor", you need to have passed 12 years of school. (We do have another DI program which does not have 12 y school requirement)
- You will be hired as a volunteer by one of our three schools in Denmark - Your volunteer salary will cover pocket money (700 Dkr) as well as all expenses related to the program. Periods of fund raising are also included in the program. The rest of the money is spent on the studies in Denmark and the flight tickets for Africa, insurance, vaccination etc.
- During the time at the Humana project in Africa you receive food and accommodation and pocket money (about 700 Dkr).
- You pay an enrolment fee of 400 GBP. Welcome!

THE DEVELOPMENT INSTRUCTOR PROGRAM / 24 months / B-certificate in Pedagogy & Fighting with The Poor
We are looking for people to start in the August Teams in the “Small Schools” in Juelsminde, Nakkebølle, Bogense and Boserup – all of them offering a program with

- 12 months of intensive social work with marginalized youngsters combined with studies as long distance university students at One World University
- 8 months sevice module working at a Humana People to People project in Mozambique or Malawi
- 4 months evaluation, exam and camp future period back at the school center in Denmaark incl. presentation tour and Bringing it to the Public work in Europe

Fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Poor
We do not engage in a struggle against an abstract phenomena called poverty. We do engage in the concrete struggle side by side with the people, who are the Poor.

Nature does not, but societal developments of certain sorts do, produce the Poor. To root out the cause of the conditions for the Poor can be done as an action of man. With the base for the struggle being the Poor engaged in changing his own fate, we join forces with the Poor, governments, and progressive forces nationally and internationally in a collective effort to transform and in the long rung erase the existence of the conditions of the Poor.