CALL FOR SHORT TERM ESC VOLUNTEER FOR CONTENT CREATION ON A FARM IN ITALY

Associazione Kora is currently looking for a volunteer that will support the staff members on the online communication of their projects.

Where: Passignano sul Trasimeno, Italy

When: from 16 October to 2 December 2024

Who: 18-30 years old volunteers resident in EU member countries

Social: Facebook – Instagram

Applications deadline: as soon as possible

Associazione Kora was founded in August 2015 to promote environmental, intercultural and social awareness through projects for young people. Kora coordinates non-formal education projects with Erasmus + and with the European Solidarity Corps, such as training courses, youth exchanges and volunteering projects on the topics of environmental sustainability, interculturality and social equality.
It is based on La Buona Terra school farm, the first educational farm in Italy, with over 30 years of experience in working with children, young people and adults of all ages. La Buona Terra produces organic olive oil, essential oils of various aromatic herbs, and offers environmental education for groups of all ages.

The volunteer will mostly support the staff members in the following tasks:

• Documentation of various projects taking place in Kora: ESC volunteering and Erasmus+ projects, social agriculture with people with disabilities…
• Social media content creation: pictures and videos for reels, stories…
• Graphics

Other tasks, that will take around 20% of the working hours, could be be:

• Gardening and agriculture following permaculture principles, preparation of the olive picking process, restoring olive trees field, pruning and picking olives, cutting wood for the winter, experiencing, learning and promoting self-production of food as a mean for sustainable living
• Social agriculture: supporting a group of people with mental disabilities
• Common cooking
• Non formal education activities about environmental topics, interculturality and social equality.

The volunteer will be required to take part in common life tasks: cooking, keeping common spaces in order, cleaning, taking rubbish to recycling station, looking after vegetable garden, bringing wood for the heater, etc.

Support:

Food and accommodation will be covered by the European Commission; the volunteers will have health insurance and pocket money (6 euro per day).

Volunteers will cook in shifts and eat together or eat in the association canteen. We support different diets and promote the use of local and sustainable products as much as possible. Please be aware that we do eat animal products and work with animals on the farm.
We try to source as many products as possible, within our budget, through partnerships with local farmers and shops.
If you follow specific diets, please be aware that it might be your responsibility to take care of your own dietary requirements (i.e. cooking or complementing meals if needed), especially when there are no groups hosted on the farm.

Accommodation will be in tiny wooden houses on the farm premises, shared with 1 or 3 other volunteers. Travel expenses will be refunded up until a fixed amount  (180 € from 100 to 499 km distance calculated in a straight line from the sending organisation’s city, 275 € from 500 km to 1999 km, 360 € from 2000 km to 2999 km; 530 € from 3000 to 3999 km; if volunteers travel without flying, so only using buses, trains, boat, carpooling etc, they have the right to a higher budget: 210 € from 100 to 499 km distance; 320 € from 500 km to 1999 km; 410 € from 2000 km to 2999 km; 610 € from 3000 to 3999 km).

The volunteer will work 35 hours a week with two consecutive free days per week (not always Saturday and Sunday). These hours include 1 hour for a meeting with the coordinator of the activities, that coaches the volunteers on their tasks, 1 hour for a meeting with the mentor, that evaluates the volunteers’ project, satisfaction and learning process.

Criteria:

• Available for the whole duration of the project
• 18-30 years old
• Resident in EU member countries or Ukraine
• Not having participated in any ESC volunteering project before, except for ESC volunteering teams
• Interested in learning Italian
• Ready to live in an intercultural context in a rural area, where the closest town with facilities is at 20 minutes on foot
• Good time management, flexibility, patience, open-mindedness, team-work
• Basic level in English
• Good knowledge of the social media platforms: FB & IG
• Basic/good knowledge of video editing tools such as CapCut
• Basic knowledge of Canva
• Driving license is welcome but not necessary.

How to apply:

1. Fill the online form below
2. Send your CV with picture to [email protected], writing “Application for Kora communication” in the object of the mail. If you have content you have produced in the past, please include it if possible. A simple reel of 30

Deadline to apply is as soon as possible. The pre-selected candidates will be contacted for an online interview.

A good collaboration might lead to a long term ESC volunteering project from mid-February to mid-December 2025.

Infos and questions: [email protected]

**We support different diets and promote the use of local and sustainable products as much as possible. Please be aware that we do eat animal products and work with animals on the farm. We try to source as many products as possible, within our budget, through partnerships with local farmers and shops. If you follow specific diets, please be aware that it might be your responsibility to take care of your own dietary requirements (i.e. cooking or complementing meals if needed), especially when there are no groups hosted on the farm.