Pikaajaline ESC vabatahtlik teenistus Itaalias (8 kuud)

Overview

Living in a rural area as a young person has many disadvantages due to the geographic isolation, distances and fragmentation of the territory.

This makes facilitating aggregation difficult. Young people need places to meet, share, discuss, experiment, grow and learn to interact with reality. They need opportunities to exchange and develop a sense of belonging and create their identity in a group of peers and then in the community itself.

 

Main goals of the association

● Manage space of hosting and aggregation to revitalize rural areas
● Support the youth and community power
● Support the rural community

 

Target groups

● Youth
● Children
● Rural community

 

Learning dimension

● Group work and group management
● Self – growth and autonomy
● Manual competences
● Intercultural learning and logistics

 

Working space

The association ALA is actively working in different areas of youth policy and youth empowerment as well as local development. Therefore, the association provides different projects and activities like summer camps for children, international work camps for teenagers, youth training, youth exchanges and participative workshops.

 

The association provides 4 different working areas:

 

Ostello Del Tempo Perso

A youth hostel located in the center of Roccantica, used as a shared meeting point for all the members of the association as well as everyday work. The hostel also host different groups of guests, organize social or cultural activities and more

 

Biblioteca Aspramente Casperia

A local library placed in the beautiful mountain top village Casperia, used to create a shared space for all to visit. Here you will meet local volunteers helping to run the library as well as the local youth community of Casperia.

 

Refugee Trio

Only 5 km from Poggio Catino you will find Trio, a larger cabin placed inside a lightning in the forest, surrounded by the beautiful nature of Sabina. This refuge officially became a part of the association 2024, but has been organized by the association longer. The refuge is used for smaller or larger social events, summer camp and other activities hosted by renters or the association.

 

Refugee Cognolo

The second refuge that the association manages is Cognolo. This smaller mountain house is located in the middle of the mountain at 1000 mt height. In 2015 the association started the management of the space, transforming the abandoned space into an active place for environmental education and sharing knowledge. The refuge is also used by passing trekkers as a place to share a good time and rest.

 

Work tasks

 

Youth animation

This working area creates the opportunity to connect with the youth community of the villages by creating workshops or events, after school activities, along with other activities to support the local community.

 

Social media manager

This working area gives the volunteers the opportunity to take care of the social media of the association by taking photos, documenting the life and events of the association and other volunteers, organizing and posting posts on different SOME platforms, creating videos, managing or contributing to the volunteer blog and managing the association website with updates.

 

Administrative support

This working area offers knowledge in the logistics and general knowledge of participating in an association by managing files, helping with logistics of planning events, supporting volunteers selection process, creating infopackage and documents for camps or new volunteers etc.

 

Outdoor activities and manual work

This working area offers a close work and relation with the nature and outdoors activities by working with the refugees in the mountains, renovating and reconstructing the shared areas of the association, building and creating, maintenance of hiking trails, both in the villages and the mountain area.

 

Volunteer profile

The project will host 7 volunteers from European countries. We aim to create a dynamic group composed of different competences and skills, gender, personal attitude and nationality. The selection process will be based on motivation, a questionnaire and the personal meeting, done online between the candidate and the association, after receiving a CV and the motivation letter.

This experience offers a long term project, and thereby a longer process of learning, experimenting, taking action, stretching the comfort zone, learning to live in a intercultural environment, engaging with the local community, being flexible and adaptable.

 

Housing and food

The volunteers will be giving monthly pocket and food money, to self manage food and everyday expenses. The housing charge will be fully covered by the hosting organization.

The volunteers will be located in a shared apartment or house in Poggio Catino, a small mountain village, alongside other volunteers of the project. You will be sharing everyday life together, like cooking and other household activities. The house is fully furnished with beddings, washing machine and kitchen tools for cooking will be provided in the houses. Wi-Fi in the house will not be provided, but connection is possible with keys or sim trafficking. You can find free Wi-Fi in Poggio catino or at the working spaces.

 

To apply for the project, please follow these steps: