📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The cooperative works on welcoming and integration, social accompaniment aimed at the recovery of autonomy, conflict mediation, community development and urban regeneration. The main target groups are foreigners, refugees and asylum seekers, minors and adults of Roma origin, unemployed people, citizens resident in conflict zones, elderly and young people. Volunteers will be involved in LabSestante: Officina di Comunità. LabSestante: Officina di Comunità, providing services and projects with the aim of favouring the development of a sustainable and innovative welfare for the well-being of the local communities. It is this a space of encounter and intercultural exchange
in which through laboratories are promoted pathways of inclusion and participation to the life of the
community, other than a moment of exchange and contamination between the different regulars
and inhabitants of the district.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer will live in a shared flat in Padova with other international volunteers or local/Italian people, will live in a single or double room upon availability and have the use of a kitchen, bathroom and of the common spaces of the house (wi-fi is not always guaranteed). He/She will monthly receive some money to buy food and the pocket money. He/She will have a bus card to move around in the city.
🎒 Leisure activities
A part from the OLS provided by the program, we will offer internal Italian course and help the volunteer to find an integrative Italian language course in Padova, if needed. The volunteer will receive specific training about the topic of integration of refugees and related topics (educative relationship and educative projects, team working, mediation of conflicts, participative tools).
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: Volunteers with different backgrounds such as age, gender, previous experience, study path, and so on will be welcome. And there will be no discrimination against gender, religion, political or sexual orientation. However, the knowledge of Italian language will be appreciated. Talents and skills related to storytelling, videomaking, photos and communication in the social field are much appreciated.
Deadline: Application deadline: 25/09/2022
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.