📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
ARPJ Tetto association was founded in 1954 as a home for war orphans. Currently the ARPJ Tetto association host a family home for mothers with children, a day center for children in alternative penalty to imprisonment, some school support activities and creative workshops. The project plans a workshops on participatory planning and on self-construction with the Faculty of Architecture (Roma Tre) and with the DIY (Do It Yourself) Festival in collaboration with neighborhood committees, social partner local territory of the Municipality of Rome VIII and the network of the professional realities dealing with self-construction in Rome. The goal of the project is the regeneration of public and social spaces of the area through community intervention.
💼 What the programme involves
The workcamp volunteers will support the logistics of the workshops on participatory planning and self-construction for the days of the DIY Festival. They will also support the installation and removal of the spaces of the Festival and the organization of the evening party. Volunteers may work more than 6 hours but only during the Festival, on the 14th and 15th.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in tents, that they have to bring! They will use an indoor kitchen and will be autonomous for meals, and will have access to indoors bathrooms and shower (only cold water). If possible, organized in turns, volunteers will have access to hot shower in the structure hosting the family house.
📍 About the location
The Camp will take place in the South of Rome (Municipality VIII). In particular the activities of the workshop and Festival will be held at the headquarters dell'ARPJ Tetto.
⚠️ Requirements
Voluntary will need to write and send a motivation letter. We would really prefer to have volunteer with previous experience in organizational activities/events, that have good manual skills, and if possible, but not necessary, some knowledge on construction techniques.