📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Piano Locale Giovani (PLG) operates in Northen Italy local communities, managing some Youth Community Centres and promoting school-based projects, cutural and professional skills development for people from 11 to 35 yo. PLG's new project, started in 2015, focuses on issues like prevention, socialisation and has recently introduced activities promoting cultural and professional networking together with young people's direct engagement in their communities. PLG operates in collaboration with a network of small municipalities: to pursue its goals, the territorial and social context plays a fundamental role and for this reason since 1994 PLG has worked with local organisations and institutions to propose efficient solutions to the needs of young people, families, adults in need and disable pp.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will plan and organise artistic and cultural events in collaboration with the local community of Mezzago (Monza Brianza), Piano Locale Giovani operators and teenagers taking part in its projects. The volunteers will attend theatre and improvisation workshops organised by the local company Improvincia, will realise a radio programme on yradio.it, the webradio run by teenagers involved in PLG projects, and a documentary in cooperation with the “Bloom”, a cultural club which is going as well to host the activities throughout the camp. These three different projects will conclude into a final event in which the outcomes are shared and shown with/to the local community.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteer’s accommodation will be at the public sports centre, in separate rooms according to genders, with showers and toilets. You will sleep on cots. Internet connession is guaranteed according to national operators (Wind, Tim, Vodafone). The meals will be provided from the municipal canteen: lunches and dinners will be shared with Italian teenagers and the social operators. The municipal administration will take care of cleaning the common spaces. At the beginning of the camp, work shifts will be agreed and estabilished. Sleeping bag and towels will be necessary since not provided.
📍 About the location
Mezzago is a small town located in Lombardy, 15km away from Monza, 30km away from Milan and Bergamo, not far from Como Lake.
⚠️ Requirements
Please consider that the events will be organized by the same volunteers together with the Italian teenagers and the social operators. Thus, you should be very motivated and proactive in following the whole path of events organization and realization.
ℹ️ Additional information
Since the workcamp is based on the concept of community life, common rules will be decided by the whole group of volunteers by their arrival on site. Wi-fi wil not be available in the common areas. The dorms will be in the the school rooms, in the town centre: you will sleep on cots provided by the Civil Protection. ATM is available 50m away from the school. Please bring your own sleeping bag and/or blankets. Our partners: www.aeris.it www.bloomnet.org.