ESC in Sicily: Social Inclusion & Anti-Mafia 🌻
Strauss APS
Associazione I Girasoli onlus
Mazzarino, Italija
Opis
Join I Girasoli Onlus! 🌻 Take part in a 6-month ESC Volunteering experience in the heart of Sicily. This project brings together young volunteers to provide support to people in situations of marginality and social difficulties, particularly refugees, asylum seekers, and unaccompanied foreign minors. Through early childhood support, intercultural workshops, and the regeneration of assets confiscated from the mafia, volunteers will help create a welcoming and inclusive environment.
Please also fill in this Google Form ✍️
Activities include: Assisting in a micro-crèche with toddlers aged 1 to 3, facilitating artistic and cultural workshops for refugees and asylum seekers within the SAI projects, and participating in environmental and community regeneration projects on properties confiscated from organized crime.
Smještaj, hrana i prijevoz
🎒 What's included:
- ✔️ Accommodation in a shared apartment equipped with all necessary utilities
- ✔️ Monthly allowance for daily food expenses and official ESC pocket money
- ✔️ Round-trip travel reimbursement up to the limit set by the ESC distance calculator
- ✔️ Full healthcare and liability coverage through the HENNER scheme
- ✔️ Access to the official Online Language Support (OLS) platform to learn Italian
- ✔️ An unforgettable intercultural experience in the heart of Sicily 🇮🇹
Osposobljavanje tijekom aktivnosti
🎓 Training & Support:
- Welcome and orientation
- National Agency On-Arrival Training
- Support from the team
- Continuous mentoring and team support
- Reflection sessions and Youthpass process
Profil sudionika
👀 Who can apply?
- ✔️ Aged 18–30
- ✔️ Empathetic, patient, and naturally motivated to work with very young children (1–3 years)
- ✔️ Open, adaptable, and curious to engage with diverse, multicultural environments (SAI projects)
- ✔️ Interested in teamwork, active citizenship, legality, anti-mafia culture, social inclusion, and eco-sustainability
✨ No previous experience required — motivation, empathy, and positive energy are what matter most! Young people with fewer opportunities are especially encouraged to apply.
Datumi aktivnosti
Od 23/09/2026 Do 21/03/2027
Lokacija aktivnosti
Corso Vittorio Emanuele , Mazzarino, Italija
Vrsta aktivnosti
Individualno volontiranje
Zemlje iz kojih tražimo sudionike
Austrija, Belgija, Bugarska, Cipar, Danska, Estonija, Finska, Francuska, Grčka, Hrvatska, Irska, Island, Latvija, Lihtenštajn, Litva, Malta, Mađarska, Nizozemska, Njemačka, Norveška, Poljska, Portugal, Rumunjska, Slovačka, Slovenija, Ukrajina, Češka, Španjolska, Švedska
Teme aktivnosti
Social challenges
Reception and integration of refugees and migrants
Education and training
Creativity and culture
Working against discrimination (including gender discrimination)
Rok za prijavu
Prijava nije vremenski ograničena
Oznaka projekta
2024-2-IT03-ESC51-VTJ-000270535