📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Odoardina is one of the 7 care centres for disabled people managed by the social cooperative named LO STRADELLO (www.lostradello.it). It s a day care centre for people with different kind of disabilities (physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental). The day care centre provides a range of social services for about 20 people with disabilities (aged 18 to 64 years) from 09 am to 04 pm, from Monday to Friday. The general purpose is to help people with disabilities to live in their communities and to promote independent living, giving the opportunity to develop relational, social life and employment skills in accordance with their individual needs. YAP organizes international workcamps in Odoardina during the summer period since more then 10 years and the international volunteers are really well welcome by the staff and the people of the day care centre.
💼 What the programme involves
International volunteers will support social workers and volunteers of civil service organized activities for people with disabilities: games, workshops and activities aimed at encouraging self-expression, communication and interpersonal relations through song, music, drawing and painting, beauty salon, crafts with paper recycling, swimming pool, day trips and cleaning the house. Volunteers can also be programmed to maintain a small kitchen garden. Volunteers will work from 08:00 to 16: 30 from Monday to Friday. International volunteers and the leader of the labor camp, at the end of assets and over the weekend, will remain alone at Odoardina Service and will be responsible to independently manage the space and the equipment made available to them. Please bring the games, the good ideas and all that you can use to create a nice atmosphere in their free time and on weekends.
🏠 Accommodation on site
International volunteers will live in an apartment with kitchen, bedrooms and bathroom. The apartment and the day center are located in a big old country house surrounded by beautiful farmland, 6 km from Reggio Emilia. On weekdays, lunch is organized with staff and users of the day center. Volunteers will receive a budget to provide for the preparation of breakfasts and dinners (and lunches at weekends). The Cooperative will provide sheets and blankets for the beds. Volunteers should bring towels needed for the duration of the camp. It will be at their disposal a washing machine to wash clothes.
📍 About the location
Odoardina is located in the countryside, in a remote location from the city (6 km from Reggio Emilia) and inadequately served by public transport. To go to the city you can use the bus that passes two / three times during the day (at night is not working) and the bus stop is located about three kilometers from Odoardina. For transportation the cooperative will provide volunteers bicycles. The weekends are free and the group of international volunteers can organize visits to beautiful cities such as Reggio Emilia, Parma and Bologna, but the costs of visits and the organization of trips, are not covered by the project.
⚠️ Requirements
YAP project-related motivation form is required. The volunteers must arrive in the centre the first day and leave the last day of the work camp before 4 pm.
ℹ️ Additional information
YAP project-related motivation form is required. The volunteers must arrive in the centre the first day and leave the last day of the work camp before 4 pm.