📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The cooperative Piano Locale Giovani works in small communities of northern Italy, near Milan, and manages centers that promote youth initiatives. It also administers the Protection System for Asylum Seekers and Refugees. In the last years, Italian local communities have been hosting groups of asylum seekers, whose difficult pursuit of inclusion is not always welcome by the locals. A climate of intolerance is spreading, sometimes because of poor information or intentional disinformation. That's why the Cooperative aims at leading the local community to overcome prejudices and rediscover the value of hospitality and the richness of diversity.
💼 What the programme involves
In Ornago (Monza e Brianza), the volunteers will help at the organisation of an art festival that encourages encounter and exchange between migrants and the locals. The volunteers will collaborate with Piano Locale Giovani, a group of teenagers and a a group of asylum seekers to organise the realisation of a murales on a wall of the municipal socio-cultural center, theatrical and musical performances, a living library, that is, direct testimonies of the persons who migrated, etc. Different strategies to involve associations and citizens will be carried out to create the event.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be accommodated inside the socio-cultural center of Ornago, in mixed rooms, male and female.
📍 About the location
The workcamp will take place in Ornago (Monza e Brianza), in Lombardia North Italia, near from Milan and Bergamo.
⚠️ Requirements
Considering the nature of the festival, creativity, imagination, artistic spirit and skills will be very welcome.