Kandideeri juba rahastuse saanud EVS projektile Itaalias
Kestvus: 10.09.2010 - 10.06.2011

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COOPERATIVA SOCIALE KARA BOBOWSKI - GROUP EVS PROJECT 2009-2011


Portico is a small village (800 inhabitants) in the Apennine hills on the border of Romagna and Tuscany. It is an attractive region: there are still a lot of castles, churches and monasteries to see and the beautiful countryside and the vicinity of the National Park of the Casentinesi Woods are important tourist attractions, especially in summer. The region's economy is mainly based on agriculture and tourism.
Portico is a hilly commune rather isolated from the nearest city Forlì (at about 25 km). The village is formed by three small fractions: Portico, San Benedetto and Bocconi. The most essential services are available: an elementary school with transport and refectory, a library and a home for elderly people; but other services lack, for example a secondary school, a kindergarten, permanent structured places for youngsters and an employment registry office. The places where youngsters spend most of their free time are the park with a playground, the gym, the sport camps and the music school.

Working within our activities the volunteers will have the chance to come in contact with the different values of solidarity that are at the base of our activity in the social field.
The volunteers will enrich the people they will stay in contact with because they can know different traditions, cultures and life experiences.
The volunteers will work within the following services runned by our organisation:


SERVICES AIMED TO CHILDREN
infant school "Il Millepiedi" for children aged 18 months - 3 years in Tredozio
infant school "La Cicogna" for children aged 18 months - 3 years in Portico


Specific aims of the project

- to offer the children of our area more and more interesting opportunities to stay together
- to help the young families of the village to take care of their children
- to foster the socialization between children, offering them the presence of positive and adult reference
points
- to foster the socialization and the communication between children and youngsters without disease/handicap and children and youngsters with disease/handicap
- to teach how to respect each other and every kind of diversity, both to the european volunteers and the beneficiaries of the project
- to spread the knowledge of voluntary service among the local community
- to make the local community and the pubblic institutions more and more sensitive to the social themes and handicap
- to offer to the young adults the instruments and the competencies necessary to build their future (especially regarding work possibilities);
- to inform the young adults about the opportunities offered by the European programmes;
- to favour communication and programming of projects between young adults;
- to inform the young adults above all about European Voluntary Service;
- to stimulate the curiosity towards foreign languages, different habits and ways of living;

Specific aims related to the volunteers

- to look for positive ways to communicate and to act with children and local youngsters
- to take part in making an unaffected atmosphere of quietness among the different services
- to develop good skills of "working in group" by the co-operation with the educative staff in the different services
- to try to exploit and express in the best way his/her personal skills, by the proposal of new activities within the services
- to live a meaningful experience of voluntary service
- to live an intercultural experience able to enrich them and to make them grow up
- to learn or refine how to use different expressive tecniques (photography, videocamera...)
- to learn or refine how to use informatic graphics programmes


Main tasks of the volunteers at Infant schools "Il Millepiedi" in Tredozio and "La Cicogna" in Portico

The volunteer will have the following tasks:

- Helping the staff in taking care of the children (hosting, activities, lunch time...)
- Planning and making for them games, creative workshops and activities:
Little language workshops (to teach some words and usefull sentences in his/her mother tongue)
Music workshops (the volunteer will let listen to and sing songs and musics tipycal of his/her country; if he/she can play an instrument, he/she can teach to use it to the children)
Theatre workshop (the volunteer will help the educators of the centre to realize theatre and expressive workshops through the body language)
Hand-made workshops (during Christmas or Easter time, to make little gifts)

The activities described are only examples of what the volunteer could do, according to his/her skills and competences as well. It is important that he/she will give a special intercultural mark to them, giving value to the typical sides of his/her culture.

NON FORMAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE VOLUNTEER:

The volunteer will have the possibility to:

- learn positive ways to communicate and to act with children ;
- develop organizing skills;
- develop good skills of "working in group" by the co-operation with the educative staff of Centres
- exploit and express in the best way his/her personal skills

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process

The volunteers who want to take part to this project should have the following characteristics:
Infant schools "Il Millepiedi" and "La Cicogna"/ Educative Center for disadvantaged children

- love towards children
- patience and tender-heartedness
- inclination to work in group
- open disposition and positive attitude
- previous experience in working with children (non fundamental requirement)

Interests of the volunteers which can be useful in the project:
✔ manual activities in general (drawing, painting...)
✔music (if the volunteer can play an instrument or sing...)
✔sports
✔games