Long term volunteering project in Palermo, Italy
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About the project
Long term volunteering project in Palermo, Italy
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Apriti Cuore is an association which operates in the field of minors, disability, immigration and social emergencies in agreement with the Municipality of Palermo. It was founded in 1999 by a group of youth belonging to Italian Catholic Action in Palermo, with the aim to create an innovative reality in the panorama of social commitment in Palermo, by offering several services to citizens through residential communities, aggregative centres for minors and adults with disabilities, and participation in local projects aimed at disadvantaged people. During these fifteen years, the Association Apriti Cuore Onlus has implemented more than 27 projects on the theme of minors, disability, immigration and social problems, art and theater workshops and training courses in collaboration with the municipality of Palermo and other associations in Palermo. Nowadays, Apriti Cuore manages a community for disable people, Casa Anch’io, which hosts people, both Italian
and foreign, with organic disability and psycho-physical vulnerability, providing them with daily assistance and support in individualized educational paths.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will support the staff in following tasks:
- daily support to young and adult disable people hosted in Casa Anch’io;
- recreational activities such as group games, excursions, and intercultural events, outdoor activities;
- after-school educational activities for foreigners;
- English language courses through non-formal methodologies;
- plan and implement, in cooperation with professional educators, socialisation activities aimed at young people with disabilities and aimed at the acquisition of relational skills (psycho-educational laboratories ...),
- artistic-cultural workshops aimed at stimulating creativity (design workshop ...);
- promoting volunteering through events in local schools or youth centres (with InformaGiovani)
- writing on the volunteers’ blog (InformaGiovani)
Volunteer should also develop personal project related to their volunteering experience and based on their interest and skills.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation arrangement
Accommodation in shared flat with other volunteers.
House is equipped with all needed.
Wi-fi available
🍲 Food
Food will be provided through monthly cash allowance.
⚠️ Requirements
One belgian volunteer required
Ideal candidate should meet the following requirements:
- strong motivation for working with young and adult people with disabilities
- open-minded, emphatic, multicultural approach
- ability to team working, proactivity and flexibility
- artistic (e.g. music, painting, drawing) skills are welcome
Compulsory: being signed in European Solidarity Corps database
ℹ️ Additional information
Travel costs (outward and return) are covered up to 275,00 Euro.
Volunteers will receive monthly pocket money of 150,00 Euro
Volunteers will be enrolled in Cigna insurance scheme, and will be provided with Italian online language
course (OLS), and two sessions of semi-intensive Italian course at University of Palermo.
Local transport tickets to reach working place will be provided, if needed
Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.
Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
SVI-SVE-APRITICUORE-ITALY
09/11/2018 → 06/09/2019
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–30 years old
Solidarity donation
0.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Palermo, PA, Italy
Italy
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken