📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Radicà is a non profit organisation settled in Calvene (VI), a small town in the north east of Italy, about 30 km far from Vicenza and 100 km far from Venice.
It mainly provides educational services and activities for children with fewer opportunities and youth to promote equal opportunities and active participation at local level.
The mission is to promote rights and equal opportunities for all minors and young people, through diversified educational services and activities. It is made up of 21 worker-members.
The regular activities are:
- reception and territorial education services for children and young people with fewer opportunities including social difficulties (for example families in a state of hardship);
- non-formal education of young people, with particular attention to promoting the active participation of young people and from learning to participation;
- active citizenship and legality.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteer will be involved in the activities carried out in a community for children with different kind of problems (called CONTRADA) It welcomes children aged between 6 and 17 (sometimes older, in specific cases), which are (or whose families are) in temporary difficulties and, for a lapse of time determinate within a specific project, need the daily accompaniment of some educators. Both parents and social services are fully involved in the construction of the educational path during the entire stay. Specifically in the first period of the service he/she will help the educators in everyday life of children with difficulties related to problems of the family of origin and personality, which can lead to behavioral, relational and psychological disorders, carrying out the following activities: • to support the educators in daily tasks (meals...) • to participate in the community life through the organization of community games,music, outdoor activities also with hourses and donkeys
🏠 Accommodation on site
• Food: all meals and food are available in the community (it is possible to share the meal with community’s guest but also to take ingredients and to prepare its own meal using the food of the community). It’s possible to buy extra food (about 25 euro per month) • Accommodation: single bedroom in one of the Contrada’s structure – small house (in this context Contrada is a little road with several structures designed and built up in the last 30 years to create an enviroment based on familiar and neighbourhood features) • Local transport: the organization provides a bicycle.
🎒 Leisure activities
• Language support: it will be organized an Italian language course for the volunteer with a professional teacher (80 hours). Also the volunteer will have the chance to use the Online linguistic support, an online course provided by EU • Trainings and support: guaranteed by the sending, receiving and coordinating organizations. At the arrival of the volunteer a welcome training will be organized together with the all group of the volunteers in Schio and Bassano del Grappa (duration 2 weeks).
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: • creative, patient and proactive person; • a friendly, communicative and active attitude; • wishing of developing interpersonal relationships; • strong interest in volunteering and to have intensive experience of work with youth and children suffering; • willingness for live in a small, traditional and provincial village in the countryside; • open to live an experience of autonomy (ready to deal also moments of solitude) • open-minded and with a responsible attitude to better understand the learning process and the rules of cohabitation
Deadline: Application deadline: 24/01/2022
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.