Bona Fides Association and ArciStrauss are looking for Polish participants for a short-term project ‘H3 – Health, Hiking, Heritage’ in Mussomeli (Sicily), Italy – Volunteering Teams in High Priority Areas!
Dates: 19.05.2024 – 18.07.2024
Duration: 2 months
Place: Mussomeli (Sicily), Italy
PROJECT INFORMATION
The project involves 45 participants from all over Europe for 59 days. The itinerant action along the various trekking routes and trails of the ancient Via Francigene Siciliane, touches also rural and isolated communities. During the project volunteers will promote Non-Formal Education activities on different topics and they will implement both personal and team actions.
ACTIVITIES AND AIMS
The project will directly impact on:
– Young volunteers who, thanks to activities based on non-formal education and Eco-Coaching, will be able to develop transversal competences and skills useful for their personal, social and professional development.
– Local communities of more than 20 Sicilian cities and villages, who will benefit from the solidarity action of volunteers engaged in tracing and mapping the heritage and promoting walking as a healthy lifestyle practice and in carrying out practical actions and raising awareness on environment.
– Organisations involved in the project and the Sicilian economic-tourist fabric, which will benefit from greater visibility at regional national and European level.
The project aims to promote non-formal activities in 3 different areas:
Healthy Lifestyles, Hiking and Cultural Heritage.
1. The project promotes two different itinerant group actions aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles in order to improve the quality of life of the members of the local communities that will be affected by the activities and to succeed, with a view to a long-term impact, in decreasing the incidence of all those pathologies that can be the object of active prevention and to increase the share of the most vulnerable segments of the population among those who undergo periodical screening and check-up campaigns.
2. Through hiking practices as a healthy way of life, non-formal education and Eco-Coaching, the project, which will also promote the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities, will focus on the social, personal and professional development of the volunteers. During the various stages of the project, the volunteers will be engaged in public awareness-raising actions on environmental sustainability and ecology, such as the cleaning of routes and urban areas touched by the Vie Francigene di Sicila.
3. The project promotes knowledge of the Sicilian cultural heritage, through first-hand experience of the history, customs, places, traditions and art of both the large centres and the rural villages and hamlets scattered along the various routes of the Vie Francigene di Sicilia.
PRODUCTS
– H3 platform, container of the volunteers’ trip, activities, other deliverables
– StepByStep H3 – Group travel diaries
– Heritage Tracks – Map of the cultural heritage of Sicilian places touched
– H3 Trails – Final video
ACCOMMODATION, FOOD AND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS
TRAVEL
Participants will get reimbursement by their own Supporting Organization according to the distance calculator:
– from 100 to 499 km from the departure point to Mussomeli: up to €180
– from 500 to 1999 km from the departure point to Mussomeli up to €275
– from 2000 to 2999 km from the departure point to Mussomeli: up to €360
In case of GREEN TRAVEL (bus, train or car-sharing), the caps above are higher (up to €210, up to €320, up to €410).
In this case, green travel must happen for the main part of the journey and it should be completely documented and justified.
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD
The accommodation is provided by Strauss APS during the team project activities (Welcome training – Mid-Term Evaluation, Final Evaluation, Team activities). Participants will also receive a daily amount for food and accommodation, additional to the pocket money, during the hiking days.
PERSONAL ALLOWANCE
Participants will also receive a pocket money of 6 euro per day for 61 days.
INSURANCE
Once selected, the volunteer will be automatically enrolled by Henner insurance, which will be complementary to the European Health Insurance Card
WORKING TIME + FREE DAYS
Generally, activities will take place from Monday to Friday for about 6 hours a day. The volunteer is entitled to 2 days off per week and two vacation days during the month.
PARTICIPANT PROFILE
– Citizen or resident of Poland
– Age 18-30 years
– Strongly interested in the project and ESC programme topics
– With trekking/hiking motivation
– Extremely flexible
– Independent and problem solving oriented
– Able to organise own food and accommodation during hiking
– Willing to carry out both group and individual activities
– Willing to spend nights in tents if necessary
– Willing to hike relatively long distances (>10km per day).
APPLICATION
If you are interested in this project please send your CV and a motivation letter in English (with a title: “ESC in Mussomeli, Italy”) to mariachiara@bonafides.pl and anna@bonafides.pl or contact us for any further information!
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