Itália

10945

Data de início: 14-03-2022

Data de fim: 14-01-2023

Vagas: 1

Duração: 10 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-03-2022

Financiamento: Financiamento por aprovar

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 115 €

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Resumo: The hosting organization is located in a little town.
In 1992 a group of local volunteers who were working for a migrant center run by a religious organization who helped migrants for decades with their Institutes spread all over the world decided to found this Association. The Association was born to solve the housing problem concerning migrants coming from North Africa and Eastern Europe. Later the Association developed specific solutions in order to facilitate the access to a decent house for all persons in need.

The association currently offers the following services for immigrants and for the community:
• It’s a reception center for asylum seekers who are in the procedure of granting refugee status in Italy. It provides suitable accommodations and food. It offers Italian classes, and cultural, social, recreational and sporting activities, to promote the asylum seekers’ self-sufficiency, their independence and their integration in the local community;
• It provides information and it gives legal advices to migrants in order to get their documents and to have access to public services;
• It offers After-school activities for children from 6 to 14 years old.;
• It runs the Soup kitchen for poor people and homeless people.
• It runs a youth-aggregation center where recreative and sportive activities take place. In this place the association organizes after school activities (6-14), events, meetings and exhibitions.

Perfil: Age: 18-30
• friendly, flexible and pro-active attitude;
• keen to develop personal relationships and to immerse in the local community’s life;
• open-minded and with a responsible attitude;
• Strong interest in volunteering in the context described below and to have interest or
intensive experience of work with people at risk of social exclusion (migrants, homeless,
women victims of violence...), with children (also 0-3) and young people.
• adaptable to a cohabitation in an apartment and sharing a double-room
• aware that Esc is a volunteer experience for the development of key- competences and nonwork experience for the improvement of technical skills
• adaptable to changes in the weekly routines due to emergencies, seasonality, development
of new projects or new beneficiaries…
• very eager to live in a small town (13.976), using the bicycle and public transports;
• interested in learning a different European language;
• IT IS COMPULSORY TO BE ENROLLED IN THE EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY CORPS DATABASE

Tarefas: Volunteers will be involved, in accordance with their abilities and interests, in these services:
• Immigration office
• Soup-kitchen
• Recreational activities and cultural laboratories for asylum seekers
• Baby-sitting for asylum-seekers’ children
• After-school activities for children
• Youth-aggregation center

These services involve different targets: immigrants, young people, homeless, men, women of all
ages.
The organization believes that working with different beneficiaries is a great opportunity for the volunteers to empower their skills and to do a deeper intercultural experience. The role of the Esc will be:
1) Listening to people coming to the immigration office, and help the association’s consultant to fill forms and to make research;
2) Building an educational relationship with children and young people in the after-school service, playing with them, helping them with their homework;
3) Supporting the asylum seekers’ inclusion in the local community, taking part to activities and laboratories addressed to them and look after their children during Italian classes time;
4) Helping with the food distribution to asylum seekers;
5) Helping the association employee to collect food from Restaurants and canteens and bring it to the Soup Kitchen. Heating up the food and serving it to the guests.
6) Helping with the management of the youth-aggregation center.

1- The volunteer has to welcome the migrants coming to the office, listen to their specific requests and try to provide them a first help (the volunteer will benefit from a period of observation, training and study, in order to get familiar with Italian laws and local services). Establishing a good relationship with customers is important.

2- In the project (After-school) the volunteer will support educators. The volunteer has to look after children, help them with their homework, and he can also propose activities and leisure activities. the project is a space where about 20 children and young people meet to share their lives, to stimulate the full expression of their abilities, to improve their scholastic skills.

3- Esc volunteer will take part to laboratories where asylum seekers are involved to promote the socialization. The Esc volunteer will be involved in the team of educators and he can offers his support to their actions. He/She has to support the Italian teacher looking after asylum seekers’ children (playing, staying with
them).

4- Esc volunteer will help the Association employee in distributing the weekly food to asylum seekers, going directly to their houses, and helping them to fill the shop lists.

5- Esc volunteer will help the Association worker, designated to operate in Kitchen soup, in collecting leftover food from Restaurants and supermarkets. Then he will heat up the food and he will serve the guests with lots of other volunteers.

6- Esc volunteer will look after the youth aggregation center activities. Every year almost 100 children from 6 to 12 years old participate in the summer camp organized by the youth-aggregation center.
Here around 20 entertainers prepare activities and workshops and they play with kids for all the mornings during the month of July. Esc volunteers are asked to help the entertainers and to plan and do the activities.

In any case..
The volunteer will be invited to all events of the association, including courses and trainings.
The volunteer will be employed for 33 hours per week, according to the organization weekly routine

Condições: • Food: the volunteer will receive a food allowance by the day 7th of the month of 120 euro.
• Accommodation: the volunteer will live in a shared flat with the other volunteer of the project, about 15 minutes by bus. In the apartment, there’s a 3 bedroom. In the apartment there’s a washing machine, a microwave oven and wifi.
• Working hours: 33 hours/week (32 of service +1 of tutoring).
• Day off: Free weekends (Saturday and Sunday). In case activities will carried out in the weekend (it might happen, but not regularly) two consecutive day off will be given during the week days.
• Holidays: 2 days/month (they can be gathered and enjoyed maximum in 15 consecutive days) and a week during Christmas period (7 days in total).
• Pocket money: 5 Euro/day, paid every month by cash
• Local transport: the organization provides a bicycle and the bus tickets with a monthly pass valid from Monday to Friday
• Language support: volunteers will take part to an Italian language course. This course will be run by a professional teacher. The volunteer will have the chance to use the Online linguistic support, an online course provided by EU
• Trainings and support: guaranteed by the sending, receiving and coordinating organizations
• Hosting guests: it is forbidden to host people who don’t belong to the project without the permission of the association (maximum 5 consecutive days one person at a time).
• Insurance: The volunteer is responsible for the payment of any medical expenses occurred during the Esc service and he/she has to fill out the Healthcare Claim form to get the reimbursement by Cigna.
• Leisure: it is the volunteer's responsibility to organize free time. the Organization offers suggestions based on the expressed interests of the volunteer

Documentação: CV + Motivation Letter