OLIVES HARVESTING IN SOLIDARITY (HESOESC)

The activity is hosted by the non-profit organization "I Girasoli" founded in 2004, involved in social project promoting hospitality, protection and integration of refugees and asylum seekers. Main aim of the organization is providing work opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers, and sensitize local community about migration. The organization manages several SAI (integration reception system). They offer hospitality and protection included an integration process aiming at personal needs, social and mental well-being. This process includes: school, work, health, bureaucracy and personal expression thanks to cultural and artistic events. The ESC project “Healthy Social Volunteering: ESC for active lifestyle, citizenship and social equity” aims to encourage young people participation, and it will focus on migration and refugees, social inclusion, active and healthy lifestyle on socially vulnerable fragile groups. The team volunteering will be in an almond field confiscated to mafia (in the rural area near Caltanissetta, Sicily).