📌PROJECT INFORMATION:

“Let's do it Together” is a European Solidarity Corps 1-month-long Volunteering Activity that will take place in Modica from September 27th to October 28th, 2021. This project will involve 10 volunteers from 4 countries: Cyprus, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Poland. This project will require the volunteers to develop social and civic skills on several frameworks as Youth involvement, Intercultural and Interreligious dialogue, Participation through Web-Radio and Refugee welcoming. By participating in this project, each volunteer will: Get in touch with young students aged 16-25, involving them in workshops based on non-formal education, on anti-bullying and anti-discrimination issues; Young Refugees aged 14-18, in order to get in touch with their culture and contrasts stereotypes and prejudice on migrant issues get to know how to manage a Web Radio and boost their own participation, involving a broad audience and involving their own communities.

📌PARTICIPANT PROFILE

The ideal participants would be:

- Young people aged between 18 and 30, male and female in the most equal proportion as possible;
- People interested in the topic of migrant issues, cultural differences, tolerance, diversity;
- People who are interested in developing skills regarding media creation and/or peer education training skills;
- Young people with fewer opportunities (one for each group, with economic obstacles, disability (visual impairment, mobility difficulties).

📌GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:

- Provide the chance of an opportunity to better understand migration issues and the role of volunteers in creating acceptance and understanding with the refugees/asylum seekers and migrants;
- Enable young people to make a change in the society in which they operate, by empowering social skills and youth leadership with the local context; participate and create opinions by using a web radio, learning to communicate using a nonviolent approach ;
- Give young people tools and methods to realize concrete and inclusive actions in their community of reference;
- Raise awareness about cultural differences connected to the phenomena of bullying, especially at high schools.

These objectives will be achieved through methods of non-formal education, which will give the volunteers the opportunity to learn how to facilitate workshops and promote social changes by being peer educators. Volunteers will carry the activities in refugees center, local high schools and the office/radio of Associazione Attiva-Mente. The staff of Attiva-Mente will support the volunteers during their activities and providing opportunity to meet the local community of Modica.
At the arrival, there will be an introductory course offered for planning and getting volunteers aware of the activities, crises prevention, their own learning strategy. In order to empower their chances of integration, they will attend 2 hours per
week of Italian classes. Two mentors will be provided and assigned to each volunteer, in order to: provide individual support in crises and integration within the local community, enhance volunteers' self-esteem, taking care of their health issues;
be introduced to local traditions and customs.

📌ACCOMODATION & HOSPITALITY:

The volunteers will be granted with the use of two houses and will be divided between the two accommodations in a number of 5 for each house. The houses will offer the necessary comforts to each participant and are complete with bathrooms, kitchens, cutlery, pottery, bed sheets and comfortable living rooms. Please, keep in mind that any damage to the houses is not a responsibility of the hosting organisation, and will therefore be covered by the volunteers. For living expenses and socialization, the volunteers will be provided with pocket money of € 200 each. Associazione Attiva-Mente will provide all the means of transportation necessary to carry out the activities, without charging the volunteers. The staff of Attiva-Mente will be at your disposal for any kind of problem. :)

📌REIMBURSEMENT:

According to the Erasmus + rules, here are the travel costs reimbursable for each volunteer. Please note: we will reimburse JUST economic class flights, bus tickets, train tickets in economy class. TAXI FEES AREN’T REIMBURSABLE.

Documents to deliver for the procedure of Travel costs reimbursements: Invoice of flights, Boarding Passes (in case of loss, Flight Certificate), Train tickets in economic class, Bus tickets.

NO SCREENSHOTS FROM APP TO DELIVER BOARDING PASSES! JUST THE ORIGINAL PDF OR PAPER BOARDING PASS ARE ALLOWED. NATIONAL AGENCIES DO NOT CONSIDER VALID ANY SCREENSHOTS. WE COULDN'T REIMBURSE ANY EXPENSES WITH SCREENSHOTS!

📌COVID-19 MEASURES

In case you're not vaccinated and you cannot certify that you have been affected by Covid-19, you need a quick antigen test with Green Pass, performed no later than 48 hours before the access in Italy. We will reimburse this cost for €130 (both ways).

To have a safe and easy entry in Italy, you should do the following things:

- Fill in the Digital Passenger Locator Form (you can find the form here: https://app.euplf.eu/#/ );
- Get a Green Pass that shows that you completed the anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination cycle since at least 14 days, or: you recovered from COVID-19, or you have taken a negative molecular or antigen swab test in the 48 hours prior to entering Italy.

Of course, in the meantime, you should follow the usual safety protocols, like wearing a mask and avoid crowded places. For us, your safety and health are very important, so try your best to follow the measures and take care of yourself and the others around you :).

📌ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

What to bring with you? :

- Your good mood: the best way to work together on such an important topic, is to face it with a smile and being ready for having fun while doing it;
- All you want to let the other enjoy for the Intercultural Night, all funny movies/presentations you want to show;
- Laptop/tablet/smartphone/photo camera;
- Ideas for your personal project's activities.

At the end of September, since it's still warm, we suggest packing light clothes for the most and some emergency sweaters. But be aware that the end of October could be really chilly in Modica!! The city presents chilly-cold weather during nights, so be ready for all the kinds of weather possible. It could be REALLY RAINY, so we also recommend bringing more rain-ready shoes.

📌VENUE: Modica, Italy

📌FEE: There is no fee.

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