EVA – Empowerment through Volunteering Activities

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Associazione I Girasoli
The non-profit organization “I Girasoli” was founded in 2004 and, as pointed out by its certificate of
incorporation, it has always been involved, through its activities, in solidarity and support towards people who are
in difficult situations and social marginality, promoting respect, autonomy and overcoming obstacles to the
achievement of full and inviolable human dignity.
"I Girasoli" is a non governamental organization which, at present, is in charge of several SPRAR (Protection
System for Asylum Seekers, refugees and humanitarian protected) projects.

💼 What the programme involves

The volunteer will support the work done by Associazione I Girasoli and the activities organised jointly with its local partners in Sicily.
The activities will be the following:
• support in the organisation of cultural events and art workshops
• collaboration in kinder garden management
• help in unaccompanied minor centre management
• help in cultural centre management
• organization and support in managing workcamps in fields confiscated to mafia
• support in the communication tasks: promotional posts about workcamps/international volunteering activities on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, website in order to spread awareness on volunteering possibilities;

• share testimonies about volunteering experience through (article on InformaGiovani volunteers’ blog, taking part in activities of dissemination and exploitation of results that might be organised by the sending organization after the end of ESC activity)

• volunteer will use her/his own ideas, creativity and experience to develop his/her own personal project/activity relating to the work of the Receiving Organisation

The service will be approximatively 30/35 hours per week, including language preparation.
The volunteer is entitled to two consecutive free days per week and two days of holiday per month.
Holidays should be mutually agreed between the volunteer and the organisation.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteer will be hosted in double-room shared with another volunteer. Flat consists of 2 double-rooms, common living room, kitchen and 1 shared bathroom. This is equipped with all needed (water, electricity, heating, furniture). Free wi-fi is available in all working places. Accommodation is located in city centre and well connected to town hot spots and working places.

Pocket money will be provided for food an individual support.

Travel costs (outward and return) will be covered up to budget limit (according to distance band calculator) after receiving supporting documents (booking confirmation, boarding passes, local tickets). Reimbursement will be done on the basis of real costs up to the mentioned limit.

TRAINING DURING THE PROJECT
• On arrival training and Mid-Term Evaluation organised by Italian NA.
• Online Linguistic Support (Italian language)
• 2 sessions of semi-intensive course of Italian language (University of Palermo)

VOLUNTEERS’ PROFILE
• age between 22 and 30 years
• ability to team working, open-minded, interest in multiculturalism
• creativity, proactivity
• flexibility (to be able to adapt from office tasks to practical tasks such as managing group of international
volunteers)
• accommodation (periodically or for some days) in order to respect the activity plans (be adventurous!)
• drive licence (and bravery on driving big cars) and digital skills are welcome (i.e. Photoshop or other
graphic software, video-editing, MS Office Word, Excel, Power Point)

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