GENERAL INFORMATION
Emmaus will provide food and lodging for the volunteers at the camp. It will also provide accident insurance and transports needed for the activities and the program of the camp.
The other costs, including medical costs or hospitalization for illness are not included. Volunteers will have to cover their own travel costs from and to the city of the camp, as well as any other maintenance costs needed in case of early recision of the camp participation (due to a personal choice or dismissal).
Volunteers will be hosted in the structures of the communities or in other places placed at our disposal by local associations we will be working with.
WHAT TO DO AND TO BRING
Sheets and/or sleeping bag, pillowcases
Towels and the necessary for your personal grooming
Work wear, safety gloves and footwear
Canteen, backpack, cap and any other thing useful to face hot weather and solar exposure
Necessary money for your personal expenses extra-camp
Anti-tetanus vaccination is strongly recommended
Required documents:
Italian volunteers: ID card and health insurance card
EEC volunteers: ID card, insurance for illness and hospitalization
Volunteers from outside the EEC: Passport, residence permit, insurance for illness and hospitalization
Note: Emmaus Italia is not able to prepare the documents and to fulfill the guarantees required by the Italian law for visa or residence permit for people extra EEC. Therefore, only extra CEE volunteers with these documents can take part in the camp.
ORGANIZATION OF THE ACTIVITIES
Generally, about 8 hours a day will be devoted to the camp activities and follow-up meetings.
The activity of collection, selection and sale of secondhanded material will be organized as follows:
Advertising by means of leafleting and billposting
Going with the truck to collect the material from the houses by appointment
Selection and arrangement of the collected material
Sale of the material in Emmaus charity shops
In some camps there will be social entertainment activity coordinated by local associations