📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The project “Healthy Social Volunteering: ESC for active lifestyle, citizenship and social equity” aims to encourage young people participation, and it will focus on migration and refugees, social inclusion, active and healthy lifestyle on socially vulnerable fragile groups. The team volunteering will be in the city of Mazzarino, Sicily, will host a project related to the reception of migrants and refugees. The activities will be related with the territory and the environmental component, such as almond harvesting activity in the camps, workshops on recycling, reuse and eco-sustainability, but even seminars about legality and the fight against the mafia. ESC volunteers will implement these activities together with the young refugees, and in collaboration with the guests of the Refugee center. The activities will have place in different cities and rural part of Sicily as Mazzarino and Riesi.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be in a big house managed from the refugee center I GIRASOLI, the rooms and bathrooms will be shared. Breakfast will be served at the hostel. the food will be provided by the project, the volunteers will cook using the kitchen of the house.
🎒 Leisure activities
On arrival training; specific training lead by the hosting organizations.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: Volunteers should be: interested in supporting organizations working with and for vulnerable people; interested in the topic of the project (social inclusion, integrations, migrants and refugees); aged 18-30; ready to interact with people with different kinds of vulnerability and different social and economic background; willing to actively participate and be flexible, participating also in manual work; open-minded, sociable, empathetic.
Deadline: Application deadline: 31/05/2023
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.