We are searching for volunteers for a volunteering Team RE-ACT from 12 to 31 July 2021. The activities are linked to the theme of the fight against food waste and critical consumption.
What is the Volunteering Teams project?
The European Solidarity Corps aims to promote solidarity as a value, mainly through volunteering, to help strengthen cohesion, solidarity, democracy and citizenship in Europe. In particular, volunteering teams are solidarity activities that allow groups of participants to volunteer together. European Solidarity Corps volunteers will perform tasks for a short period of time and these activities will be useful for both individuals and communities benefiting from this service.
Who can participate?
Young people aged between 18 and 30 who legally reside in an EU country or in a partner country and have registered in the ESC portal, therefore this group will be composed of young Italians and participants from Greece, Spain and Poland.
Activities
Volunteers will carry out activities in the field of sustainable development with a specific focus on the theme of conscious consumption, within a framework of concrete interventions in the fight against climate change. The group will be involved in actions in the Altamura area such as the harvesting of tomatoes from a local field and subsequent transformation into tomato sauce with traditional Apulian techniques. The activities will end with a local solidarity market where the product will be "proposed" to the local community with a collection of funds that will be allocated to associations that work to support migrants involved in the tomato harvest.
N.B. the activities and dates may vary in relation to the Covid 19 pandemic situation
Accomodation
The volunteers flat of Altamura is settled in the city centre.The flat has a living room, a shared bathroom, a big kitchen where the volunteers can prepare meals on their own. The house is equipped with independent heating and washing machine. Volunteers will stay in a shared room.The volunteers are obliged to take care of the houseand all the furniture and objects in it. The volunteer is responsible for cleaning the house. In case of damaging orbad shape condition of the apartment, the volunteer must reimburse the expenses.
Food
Link provides every volunteer with a weekly sum for food: 35,00 € per person. The volunteer is supposed to shop and to prepare the meals on his own, or together with the other volunteers who stay in the same flat.
Volunteer Allowance
Volunteer gets the pocket money every beginning of the month. In Italy the pocket money is 5,00 € per day. The volunteer will sign a document to confirm that he/she received the money.
Insurance
The volunteer will be cover by a Cigna Group Medical and Non-Medical Insurance Plan that is covered by found of ESC project.
Travel
For grant support to travel costs in the ESC programme, travel distances must be calculated using the distance calculator (https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/resources/distance-calculator_en)
Venue: Altamura
Altamura is divided into two parts: the city and the historical centre. In the old town, you can visit the cathedral, the unique church in Puglia commissioned by Federico II diSvevia in the year 1232. It is the most important monument of the city together with the square around it. The summer the city centre is populated by young people and tourist which enjoy spending time drinking and eating Italian specialities such as ice-cream. The city has 70.000 inhabitants, but it is quite small, so it is possible to reach every point by foot or by bike.
