📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The social cooperative Villaggio Carovana hosts people with physical or mental disadvantages. Human relationships are at the basis of a more just, inclusive and pacific world, and offer greater occasions of happiness. Villaggio Carovana offers its guests the possibility to spend a holiday in a beautiful and interesting place both at a geographical and social level. They are accommodated in rooms thought to allow everyone to be comfortable, while morning activities as eating or relaxing take place within the community in the common areas of the house. The cooperative offers also a support service to go to the beach. The house is located in the countryside in Castiadas, in the south-east of Sardinia, about 6 km from the sea and 4 km from the nearest residential area.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will support the workers of the Cooperative in their daily activities, such as welcoming the guests, helping the ones who are not self-sufficient (e.g. accompaniment to the beach, night-time care, assistance with hygiene, entertainment); organising entertainment for guests, especially for the children. They might be asked to participate in some minor indoor or outdoor maintenance activities, for instance painting or taking care of the vegetable garden.
The volunteers are expected to work about 6 hours a day, which do not include their participation to the ordinary daily-life activities such as cleaning the common areas and the kitchen, cooking.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accomodated in the Villagio Carovana (Castiadas) in a tent or a caravan. Bathrooms and showers are shared and outdoor. The “Villaggio Carovana is in the countryside, isolated from the centre (Castiadas is 5 km from Villaggio Carovana). To move it is necessary to take the bus, which passes several time a day just in front of the house.
📍 About the location
Cagliari Airport of Elmas; Alghero Airport; Central Train Station of Cagliari; Maritime Station of Cagliari.
⚠️ Requirements
A strong sense of responsibility is essential, as well as a strong disposition towards human relationships and empathy, motivation to work with non-self sufficient persons, flexibility, and manual skills. The volunteer should be open to community life. A motivation letter and a skype A minimal kowledge of italian language would be appreciated.
ℹ️ Additional information
During their free time, the volunteers can go to the beach (6 km from Villaggio Carovana), do trekking or cycling, visit the historical museum or go to Cagliari.
The volunteers must take a sleeping bag, a sleeping mat, a towel, a hat, sunscreen, a flashlight, a bug spray, and of course a swimsuit and towel for the beach.
For more information of Villaggio Carovana visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmmQwUX22dw