📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Croce Rossa Italiana is part of the International Red Cross Movement, whose main aim is to alleviate the suffering of those in crisis, regardless the ground of their discomfort. At national level, Croce Rossa Italiana involves almost 140.000 active members, operating through a network of local Committees that can better address the needs emerging from each and every community. In particular, Croce Rossa Italiana – Comitato di Cingoli was born as a Group of the Volunteers of the Red Cross of Macerata in 1993 and then recognised as a separate Committee in 1998. It can count now on the support of 403 volunteers among the three main cities in the area: Cingoli, Apiro and Monte San Vicino. As regards the youth area, the Committee can count on a group of 90 youngsters, who organise a lot of activities in the area, especially projects and campaigns regarding responsible drinking. After the earthquake that damaged the southern Marche region in 2016 and 2017, the work and commitment of the Committee of Cingoli has increased in order to offer help to all its neighbouring areas that had a lot of problems not only in the period of the earthquake but also after: reconstruction is not easy, not only in terms of re-building but also emotionally. Nowadays, the Local Committee is also involved in the management of the health emergency connected to COVID-19. Even if the area of Cingoli was less affected by the pandemic than the northern province of the Marche region, the Red Cross has been supporting the local community, both during the lockdown and after, mainly by supporting the people that were in isolation and could not communicate with anybody.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers are involved in the activities organized by the Local Committee of Cingoli, which is located within the area affected by the earthquake between 2016 and 2017. The volunteers WILL NOT be involved in emergency situations and WILL NOT deal with First Aid interventions.
ACTIVITIES DURING COVID EMERGENCY TIME:
Support and social animation during the transportation of patients from hospitals, retirement homes, for people who need cures, medical support, and COVID-19
Groceries distribution to the people who are in quarantine, or that cannot move from home
Medical supplies distribution
Support to the local Caritas for the distribution of food to the people in need
Support to the local retirement home
Support to the hospital for the queue while waiting for the blood tests during mornings
Support to the staff work during the registration and booking for the vaccines
NORMAL TIME:
Support the care of elderly people with disability
Sanitary & safety assistance at events
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation will be in the house rented by the Receiving Organisation, in the city centre. The volunteer will be accommodated in double room divided by gender. The flat will be shared with the other volunteers and has all the needed facilities (washing machine, fully equipped kitchen and internet connection. Bed sheets and blankets will be provided by the Receiving Organisation.
🎒 Leisure activities
During the service, the volunteers will have the right/duty to take part to the On Arrival Training and Mid Term Training organised by the italian National Agency.
Besides that, the Red Cross will provide the volunteers with all the needed training to use the equipment and to fulfill the tasks.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: Red Cross promotes the values of inclusion, humanity and solidarity: the most important aspects will be motivation and desire to learn and develop themselves: this is an opportunity to enrich our local community and ourselves with the personality, the ideas and the cultures of the volunteers. We expect from the volunteers the desire to learn and express their potential. They have to be open and available to communicate and cooperate with other volunteers. They will be dealing with different target groups, mostly elderly, so we will ask them to be respectful, patient and not to discriminate.
Deadline: No application deadline
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.