📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The host association “Rubin Carter” was founded in 2008 and from 2013 runs a community gym, with the aim to guarantee economical accessibility to sport for all in the expensive city of Milan. The gym “Hurricane” supports several projects in which an upright fair play represent the natural prevention to discrimination and racism. The gym is completely self managed by the athletes and the coaches, that created and built up it independently in a daily development. The activities ar continuously increasing and with the help of workcampers in the past two years there were realized a second floor of the gym and an outdoor workout area. Now it’s time to build up a Club House for the socialization before and after trainings, to share and organize new sport and social projects.
💼 What the programme involves
The international volunteers group will help the local volunteers to dispose of trashes, clean up, rebuilt walls, pave floors, do plumbing and electrical works, painting, decorating, setting up the Club House... a lot of hard works! In the free time you can also enjoy the sport classes of boxe, yoga, martial arts, tai chi, break dance, capoeira, theater, belly dance… We will organize workshops about the practice of self building and public moment of community working.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted at the “Space of Mutual Aid”, a community squat that hosts a lot of social projects and the co-housing of tens of families from all over the world. Here there is one large apartment (130 square meters) entirely dedicated to the volunteers without distinction between males and females. There will be hot water in the bathroom. You can use the Wifi in the building, but not in the room. The food will be prepared together by the volunteers and you can also eat vegetarian.
📍 About the location
Milan, Italy
⚠️ Requirements
open only for partners of NOMADS project, will be open for all after the 10th of May.
ℹ️ Additional information
Milan. The nearest terminal is Milan Linate Airport (LIN) the second international airport of Milan but you can also fly on Milan Malpensa (MXP) and Bergamo Orio al Serio (BGY). The airports are well connected with the city by coach and railway. The nearest underground stop is “Lotto” on the red or purple line.