The volunteering experience is a project proposed by the association in collaboration with Caritas Jordan, which aims to raise awareness on topics such as:
– Refugees’ emergency in Jordan
– Refugees’ reception and hospitality
– Integration processes
The experience of volunteering started thanks to the relationship with Caritas Jordan, a non-governmental organization that today counts more than 2000 volunteers and 400 employees throughout the country. Thanks to a deep connection in the territory and to the experience in the sector of humanitarian action, Caritas Jordan represents the only organization that can work throughout Jordan.
The volunteering experience started in 2014 with a first visit to Jordan that was then repeated in the following years with the attempt to extend the experience to other organizations and other young people who feel the need to engage on this topic with the aim of reaching a better understanding of the situation in the region.
The experience of volunteering is therefore addressed to organizations and young people who want to start a path of serious commitment for those people who live in regions affected by war or characterized by its effects, and who therefore want to create a bond of dialogue and connection between one side and the other of the Mediterranean.
We believe that this bond can be built from the encounter between people who live in those lands and us, the participants. We have the chance to meet them, we decide to support them by donating our time, by taking care of their stories and telling them once we come back home. For us the main and focus points of our commitment and engagement in trying to create the so desired connection can be found in our presence there, in the commitment to the host community and, once back home, in the realization of fundraising activities for school and educational projects for the children we met in the country.
The objectives of volunteering are therefore creating a link between the youth reality of our territories and Jordan and realizing a cultural dialogue that allows breaking down prejudices and distances that divide us. The experience aims to create a network of young people who are committed in the creation of new projects, both in their home town and, as in this case, in Jordan.