📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Odoardina is one of the 6 care centres for disabled people managed by the social cooperative named ZORA (http://www.coopzora.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 20 to 50 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
The international volunteers will support the social workers and civic service volunteers in the activities organized for the disabled people: games, workshops and tasks aimed to encourage self expression, communication and interpersonal relationships through singing, music, drawing and painting, beauty salon, handicraft with recycling paper, swimming pool, day-trips and home cleaning. Volunteers may also be engaged in keeping a small vegetable garden. The volunteers will work from 09 am to 04 pm from Monday to Friday. The international volunteers and the workcamp leader will stay alone in Odoardina after 5 pm and during the weekends. Please bring games, good ideas and whatever you can use to create a nice atmosphere in the spare time and weekends.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The international volunteers will live in an apartment with a kitchen, bedrooms and bathroom. The apartment and the day care centre are located in a big ancient countryside house surrounded by beautiful camps and farms, 6 km away from Reggio Emilia. During the working days, the lunch is organized with the staff and the clients of the day care centre. The volunteers will have a budget to manage breakfasts, dinners (and also lunches during weekends). Sleeping bags are required.
📍 About the location
Odoardina is situated in the countryside and is quite isolated from the city (6km from Reggio Emilia). There is no public transport in the late evening and in the night from/to Reggio Emilia. Some bicycles may be available for the volunteers. 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 the visits are not covered by the project. Reggio Emilia is the nearest train station. Milan and Bologna are the nearest airports.
⚠️ Requirements
A project-related motivation letter is required. Minimum age 20 y.o.
ℹ️ Additional information
A project-related motivation letter is required. Minimum age 20 y.o.