📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The project involves a volunteer in a community center in Milan, where he/she will work for the inclusion and integration of refugees and asylum seekers. The community center is a place where people in need can address the staff to get support. The center also organizes activities for the community, such as workshops, events, discussion, movies, etc.. The volunteer will be involved in a very dynamic environment, in a service where he /she will experiment the multicultural and intercultural dimension of urban areas in Italy. He/she will gain key competences like intercultural communication, mediation skills, conflicts management and exploitation of differences, but also key competences, such as team-work, leadership, problem solving and crisis management. The volunteer will live in a social housing, which is also part of the project as it offers a social dimension of living where all the involved people cooperate in solidarity to start the process of growth and change.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer will live close next to “Sentiero” Social Housing, in the Lambrate neighborhood (just outside the city center). The place promotes coexistence of different social categories fostering the interaction and the creation of new solidarity contacts between the beneficiaries. The volunteer will share the apartment with another volunteer/student. The accommodation is a spacious studio flat, provided with all the comfort needed and wifi connection. The food will be provided by the Social Housing (every month extra money will be given to the volunteer).
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteer will attend a training cycle including the on-arrival training, a mid-term seminar and an evaluation seminar. During this seminar he/she will have the possibility to meet all the volunteers hosted by Diaconia Valdese. In fact Diaconia Valdese has several project of international volunteering, lot of them in the villages Torre Pellice and in the neighbor village Luserna San Giovanni. Furthermore, as foreseen from ESC project, the volunteer will attend the seminars organized from the Italian National Agency.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We look for a volunteer, aged between 18 and 30 year old. The project does not require any special skills, expertise or previous experience. The volunteer has only to be motivated, interested in the project, willing to challenge himself and get out of the comfort zone. The volunteer need to be ready to learn and start a process of change. She/He will need to be enthusiastic and willing to start a great new adventure.
Deadline: Application deadline: 23/05/2022
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.