ACTIVE SENIOR CITIZENS: VOLUNTEERS
FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
Active Senior Citizens: volunteers for social inclusion
It is a Grundtvig Senior Volunteering Project realized under the Lifelong Learning Programme, founded by the European Commission.
It started in 01 August 2013 and will last until 31 July 2015.
ASC is a social project project whose main aim is to promote the active participation of senior volunteers in the realization of social inclusion, giving an European dimension to the local work of the involved organizations thanks to the cultural and experiential contribution of volunteers from another European Country, while increasing senior volunteers’ personal, social, practical and intercultural skills and making them aware of their role as European active citizens.
ACTIVITIES
The project activities consists in an exchange of senior volunteers, six for each organization, among Associazione Uniamoci Onlus (Italy) and Fundaţia Creştină Diakonia Sfântu Gheorghe (Romania), which are both actively involved in the promotion of social inclusion of young adult people with disabilities.
“It is always a good time to learn” *
*Action Plan on Adult Learning
MAIN FOCUS
The main focus of the project is the intergenerational relation between the senior volunteers and the disabled people and their active involvement in the support and assistance to the users.
OUR LATEST EVENTS
Sixth Mobility flux - 1 Italian Senior volunteer in SFANTU GHEORGHE
June 10th - June 30th, 2015
A volunteer from Palermo (ITALY) went in Sfantu Gheorghe for a volunteering experience lasting 21 days! He is a retired man from Associazione Uniamoci Onlus. He actively participated to the several activities promoted by Fundaţia Creştină Diakonia Sfântu Gheorghe - Casa Irisz helping the staff in the work with children, gipsy children and adults with disability, and in a farm managed by people with disabilities and the social workers. He had the oppotunity to share his culture, his Knowledge about Geography and History while learning new inclusive methods, meeting new people and discovering the cities, landscape and culture of Romania and the influence of the Hungarian prevalence in that area.
Fifth Mobility flux - 2 Romanian Senior volunteers in PALERMO
May 27th - June 17th, 2015
Two volunteers from Sfantu Gheorghe (ROMANIA) went in Palermo for a volunteering experience lasting 21 days! They are a lady (accompanyied by her husband) and a man with a visual impairment with his personal assistant from Irisz Haz; one othe is tha actual cook and the other was the cook in their organization in Romania. They participated to the activities promoted by Associazione Uniamoci Onlus, helping the staff in the work with young adults with disability. They presnted their culture and cousine giving to our users the recipes of some typical hungarian dishes. They shared their abilities with users and staff, teaching how to play with bottles filled with water and how to create crocheted earing and doilies. The previous and future volunteers from palermo, took care of their free time showing them some beautiful places in Sicily.
Fourth Mobility flux - 2 Romanian Senior volunteers in PALERMO
November 9th - November 30th, 2014
Two volunteers from Sfantu Gheorghe (ROMANIA) went in Palermo for a volunteering experience lasting 21 days! They are two ladies from Irisz Haz, who are actively involved in volunteering activities in their organization, one taking care of children and the other making the cooking for the users. They will participate to the activities promoted by Associazione Uniamoci Onlus, helping the staff in the work with adults with disability. They will bring their culture, abilities and positive attitude while feeling useful for the others, meeting new people and discovering the city of Palermo and the Sicilian culture!
Third Mobility flux - 2 Italian Senior volunteers in SFANTU GHEORGHE
September 9th - September 30th, 2014
Two disadvantaged volunteers from Palermo (ITALY) went in Sfantu Gheorghe for a volunteering experience lasting 21 days! They are a man and an old woman from Associazione Uniamoci Onlus and they come from Brancaccio, a disadvantaged area in Palermo city. They will participate to the several activities promoted by Fundaţia Creştină Diakonia Sfântu Gheorghe - Casa Irisz helping the staff in the work with children and adults with disability. They will bring their culture, abilities and positive attitude while feeling useful for the others, meeting new people and discovering the cities, landscape and culture of Romania.
Second Mobility flux - 2 Italian Senior volunteers in SFANTU GHEORGHE
May 31st - June 21st, 2014
Two volunteers from Palermo (ITALY) went in Sfantu Gheorghe for a volunteering experience lasting 21 days! They are two ladies from Associazione Uniamoci Onlus and one of them has a daughter with disability. They will participate to the several activities promoted by Fundaţia Creştină Diakonia Sfântu Gheorghe - Casa Irisz helping the staff in the work with children and adults with disability, and in a farm managed by people with disabilities and the social workers. They will bring their culture, abilities and positive attitude while learning new inclusive methods, meeting new people and discovering the cities, landscape and culture of Romania.
First Mobility flux - 2 Romanian Senior volunteers in PALERMO
March 11th - April 2nd, 2014
Two volunteers from Romania went in Palermo for a volunteering experience that will last 21 days! They will present their culture to the young disabled users in Associazione Uniamoci Onlus, will teach the Romanian languege to them, they will organize some handcraft workshops and in general they will support the usual activies in Associazione Uniamoci Onlus. They will work for half a day 5 days a week.
Preparatory meeting in Palermo,
February 11-13, 2014
Two representatives of the Partner Organization Fundaţia Creştină Diakonia Sfântu Gheorghe - Casa Irisz, came in Palermo at Associazione Uniamoci Onlus headquarter in order to discuss the management of the project: definition of the mobility fluxes for the year 2014, organization of accomodation, insurance and local transport for the hosted volunteers, management of pocket money, needed certificates and documents for the volunteers, definition of tutoring and mentoring for the volunteers, a general overview on the activities and working time durig the mobilities, definition of the dissemination of results.
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