Loimaa Power Cup, 31.5.-17.6.2025
Host organisation
Loimaa Evangelical Folk High School (LEKO) is a private educational establishment with an 85-year-long history. LEKO works in the fields of education, social, spiritual, developmental, welfare and hospitality locally, regionally, and internationally. This year, there are about 150 full-time non-Finnish national adult learners from 14 countries, who study Finnish language within the upper basic education program, or in courses.
During the volunteering team, the world’s largest yearly volleyball tournament for children and young people “Power Cup” will be organised between 5-8 of June, 2025 in Loimaa. More than 750 teams will take part in this four-day sports event. Some clubs from Estonia, Latvia and Romania have applied to this tournament already.
Volunteer's tasks
Volunteer's tasks consist of the following:
To enlarge EU values for LEKO community
- To present your country (15 min – tell, show, do) for LEKO students
- Take part in LEKO Sport Day
- Take part in Chatting Club in English with LEKO students
To support Power Cup tournament
- To learn about Power Cup
- To help to set up the tournament (to build the playing fields, draw the borders, set up tents, to organize eating and sleeping places, prepare and put out direction signs and others)
- To be a guide for some international teams or clubs
- To take over some Pop-up activities (in feeding, cleaning teams)
- To take part in dismantling of the tournament (to take off fields, to put down the used equipment, to take out all tournament staff from schools (as they served as a sleeping area), from sport halls and areas, what were rearranged for tournament purposes.
To work on own development
- Get better understanding about European Solidarity Corps
- Learn and act within Finnish culture, to get to know other cultures
- To follow up on your own development within the framework of YouthPass, in an international team.
Volunteer profile
We especially welcome applicants with little previous international experience. We are looking for responsible and flexible volunteers with willingness to help and cooperate in a team. The position is suitable for any English-speaking (in the level of conversation) young person aged 18-30. If you have some experience in team sports and/or work with kids and young people, it’s a plus but not mandatory.
We hope that the volunteers are positive, enjoy socializing and doing activities in a multicultural environment, with the wish to get some valuable experiences from Finland. The volunteers will help teams from different countries, for example Latvia, Estonia and Romania. Also in-country volunteers from Finland are warmly welcomed, and can apply to be team leaders if they wish, too.
Since the volunteers will work with kids and young people, a criminal record is required. Volunteers will mainly move around by bike, so some skills in cycling are beneficial (option to walk too). LEKO is unobstructed in the study area only, so unfortunately, we cannot provide a place for a volunteer who is in a wheelchair.
Accommodation and meals
The participants will share a room with another volunteer in the LEKO student’s dormitory. During working days, the food will be served in the school canteen.
Location and description of the area
LEKO is located in Hirvikoski, in a calm and beautiful village in South-West Finland, next to Loimaa town. It is located around 150 km from Helsinki, and 70 km from Turku.
You will have 2 working areas – LEKO school and Power Cup in the center of Loimaa town (4-5 km from LEKO). You can choose walking or bicycles. A minibus will be used in some special cases for bigger groups. Our work language is Finnish, but with the volunteers we use English. LEKO, as well as children and youth volleyball tournament Power Cup are addictive substances free areas.
More information
Project is supported by the European Solidarity Corps. Participation is free of charge, as well as board and lodging. Volunteers need to stay the full duration of the project in order to get pocket money (7 euros per day) and travel costs reimbursed (up to a maximum of 28-580 euros depending on the distance).
Volunteers will be chosen based on the application below. Fill in the form in English language.
Apply asap, by 21st of April, 2025