📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Lunaria is a nonprofit organization, secular, independent, and autonomous by the parties founded in 1992. It promotes peace, social and economic justice, equality and guarantee of citizenship rights, democracy and participation from below, social inclusion, and intercultural dialogue.Lunaria practices and fosters processes of social change at local, national, and international levels through advocacy, political-cultural animation, communication, non-formal education, training and research, information and awareness campaigns, and work on the net.International mobility and voluntary work, youth policies, migration and the fight against racism, analysis of public budget, economic and social policies, sustainable development, and the fight against inequality, are at the center of its social commitment.For more information on the association, please refer to the annual reports you can find on the following link: https://www.lunaria.org/english/
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will support the staff of the association to promote and implement the organization of the work camp season. Lunaria, each year, involves around 500 Italian volunteers in international workcamps abroad, and in the meantime hosts around 250 international volunteers in the 20 workcamps organised in Italy. These projects last 2-3 weeks and include dozens of volunteers from around the world in a project of general interest: restoration of local heritage or historical monuments, cleaning and development of natural areas, and socio-cultural animation in urban areas. https://www.lunaria.org/workcamps/The volunteers tasks are expected to be:a supporting the international programme (placement of Italian and international volunteers on workcamps)a preparation of the international programme ( uploading projects on an online databasea dealing with telephone enquiriesa dealing with general enquiries (letters and emails)a dealing with Outgoing placements - contacting partner organisations and volunteers a dealing with Incoming placements - contacting local organisations and volunteersa support the promotion of projects (website, social media and graphic presentation)a participate in 1 International voluntary work camp as camp leadersa participate in the camp leader seminara prepare the pre-departure training for volunteers/leadersa helping out with other tasks related to other volunteer programmes run by Lunaria when/ifneededa help and realize the study part/awareness-raising activities in the workcamps linked toInternational campaigna to deal with the placement systema to prepare and support the post-season evaluation eventa to manage the season evaluation
🏠 Accommodation on site
PRATICAL INFORMATION: Pocket Money: volunteers will receive daily pocket money of 6,00 aO for each day of the project, which corresponds to 180,00 aO per month.Food and lodgment: the project will cover the food and lodgment costs through a monthly fee of 700,00aO. Participants will directly receive the amount every month and will be in charge of identifying, by themselves, the most suitable hosting solution in Rome. The association remains at the disposal to support the volunteer, where needed. Working hours: 35 per week Insurance: volunteers are covered through the HENNER insurance system for ESC. For more information, please refer to: https://www.cignaglobal.com/Holidays: volunteers will have 2 days each month of holidays.Linguistic support: the volunteers can also benefit, where required, from the OLS. The Online Linguistic Support (OLS) has been designed to assist Erasmus and European Solidarity Corps mobility participants in improving their knowledge of the language in which they will work, study, or volunteer, before and during their stay abroad, in order to ensure a better quality of learning mobility.Travel costs: to join the project and to be back home at the end of the project are fully covered by the ESC program and change according to the distance band. There is the chance of green travel.
📍 About the location
Roma
ℹ️ Additional information
VOLUNTEERS PROFILE:aged between 18 and 30 years oldStrong motivation for youth voluntary projectsgood knowledge of English (written and spoken)basic knowledge of Italianpossibly a basic knowledge of international voluntary service projects (workcamps, mid and long term volunteering) BE POSITIVELY VALUEDHaving participated in a work camp or in other international youth projects (youth exchanges, training).Italian knowledgeExperience in back office workCommunication and social media interest