ESC: Empowering Local Communities through International Volunteering

The main goal of the project is to match international volunteering with the empowerment of the local
community in which the volunteers will live in.
The project is configured as an opportunity for discussion, exchange and growth both for the four hosted
volunteers and the local community, not intended only as a physical and figurative place of hosting, but as an
"educating" community that contributes to the development of skills and knowledge of all participants in the
project.
In turn, the local community benefits from the meeting and cooperation with young European volunteers
who, with their commitment, enthusiasm and passion, will contribute to the regeneration of a territory with
actions of solidarity and civic commitment.
Through the project we want to demonstrate with concrete actions that solidarity, mutual support,
cooperation, the taking care of the common goods and of everyone’s problems is a win-win strategy, we all the
involved parties take benefit. This is a practice that brings solidarity intothe local community, solidarity as one of
the value on which Europe is founded, which must be rediscovered as a keyword of the associated life, and that
can ensure that local contexts and European Union are connected without fractures, around shared goals.
The objectives of the project are:
1. to support the activities dedicated to children and contribute to the cultural program of the socio-cultural
center Il Cantiere;
2. to facilitate knowledge of the cultures of European volunteers and migrant communities present in the
territory through recreational and aggregative activities;
4. to develop teamwork and organizational skills in volunteers through the implementation of events of
territorial animation, in both formal and informal contexts;
5. improve communication skills and abilities to decode verbal and non-verbal languages in multicultural
contexts, through formal, non-formal and informal activities;
6. developing the spirit of initiative and entrepreneurship, social and civic competences "to ensure resilience
and capacity to adapt to changes" through moments of active participation inthe life of the local community;
7. to support the migrant communities that live in the area;
8. to do activities that promote interculture with both young people and adults.