📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Associazione Olinda Onlus was born in January 1996 in Milan, in the area of the former “Paolo Pini” Psychiatric Hospital. The mission of the association is to promote social integration of people with mental health problems. The association yearly organizes the cinema/theater festival “Da vicino nessuno è normale” (“Nobody is normal, if you look close”), it runs the “TeatroLaCucina” theatre, it organizes theatre workshops, it promotes volunteering, it hosts social events (events for children, sports, etc). “La Fabbrica di Olinda” is the other side of the coin: it runs commercial activities (a bar/restaurant, a hostel, a bistrot inside the Elfo Puccini theater) where people with mental health problems can work to reach a better social integration and autonomy.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will help in the renovation of the “OstellOlinda” hostel. Depending on time and on the number of volunteers, renovation and tidying up of the garden outside the hostel will be possible and also emptying and cleaning of the cellars with the possibility to recycle some old piece of furniture.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted in the OstellOlinda hostel. They will sleep in beds in shared rooms. They must bring their own sleeping bags.
📍 About the location
The workcamp site is in a suburban area inside the city of Milan. The closest airports are Malpensa and Linate (Milan) and Orio al Serio (Bergamo). The closest train station is the Central Train Station of Milan.
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers must be motivated to participate to all the activities and work of the camp. The following skills are appreciated but not required: artistic skills, decoration skills, craft skills (furniture renovation), gardening skills.