Temat: Florencja wolontariat dla ambitnych z grudnia 2010 do...

Dear sending organisation, dear volunteer,
we have a last minute call for our project "Sliding Dooors" 2008-IT-161. We
want to apply now for the 1st september deadline. The project actvity should
start from december 2010 for a long term between 8-12 months.
The volunteer will be involved in the activity aimed at disabled people.
(Please see the detaglied description in the database).
The disabled persons have to be guaranteed conditions where their health is
protected and they receive all the assistance necessary for theirandidate
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well-being. That is why the community is a quiet tight one, one that does
not always enable the best independence or the establishment of
relationships or integration into the surrounding society. Because of this
it is extremely important that the residents meet young people who are
motivated to work with them.

Objectives:
- to support the work of the instructors in their everyday work where they
aim to stimulate the skills of the residents and to increase their autonomy
by means of workshops (art therapy, recreational activities, physiotherapy…)
- to further contacts and exchanges between staff and volunteers from
different cultures about the work in the field of Handicap in a large
meaning
- to contribute to create an atmosphere of socialisation and a team spirit
in the various hosting community

Activities:
A. Workshops guided by instructors specialised in art-therapy, using the
method of “multi-languages stimulation” with the help of volunteers (a
global therapy method in which all the senses are stimulated); these
workshops can regard the following areas:
- creative art (spatial art, art using recycled materials, painting,
handling basic elements such as water, clay and salt)
- listening to sounds or melodies or producing them with instruments or
vocally.
- looking at images or forms that the group has produced in interaction with
each other
- moving one’s body with or without instructions.
All these therapeutic activities, as well as others, are aimed at increasing
the importance of the body memory, which helps to further the reacquisition,
the knowledge and the realisation of oneself, and one’s history. This
enhances the importance and originality of each individual, because even
those with grave disabilities, when guided, can explore new horizons and
become aware of the range of experiences, emotions and sensations that all
human beings have. The workshops are realised either in groups or
individually.

B. Recreational activities like nights out, trips to the country side or on
the seaside, parties, etc.


In order to avoid any misunderstanding about the nature of the project, and
any illusive or wrong expectations I we'd like you communicate 2 points to
you and ask you to confirm me personally your strong resolution to
participate in this specific project:
1) The project is located in the nice Toscana country; in a quite isolated
area; it’s important then to understand that the social life out of the
project is not easy to build, even if not impossible… on the other side
Florence is not so far actually by bus or train. Consequently, the hosting
project would fit on volunteers mature and flexible, ready to live in an
isolated place; who are coming to us, because they are interested in the
project and not only in the EVS experience (like travelling, learning the
italian language...) This is surely a part of the EVS, but the main reason
why to come for us must be the project. Our volunteers live next to the
organisation, in a house, which makes part of the organisation structure,
where 10 autonomous old people are living (they don't need assistance) and
in this house you will share a room with bathroom with other volunteers.

2) The project deals with people with a serious!! mental handicap; (about 13
adults and 5 youngsters ) most of them have a low (or very low) physical and
mental autonomy. That’s why you have to be also REALLY motivated to work
with that kind of people and not to be scared.

Hoping to not scare you about this EVS project, because I think sincerely
it’s a really nice one… at least if we are aware about its essential
characteristics.
But I think it’s important that the volunteer, who will be actively involved
in a project during 8-12 months in a foreign country, be clearly aware about
the reality he/she will face. If you are still and realy motivated to take
part in our project please get in contact with me and send me your CV, your
motivation letter (if case you haven't done it already) and also the contact
of you sending organisation.

I'll wait for your answer and please feel free to ask me whatever you want.