Description
Vision: CEMEA promotes the respect of people diversities, believing in everyone's desire to better one self. Making this opportunity accessible to each individual is CEMEA’s main aim.
Mission: CEMEA’s (Training Centres for Active Education Methodology) educational activity, combined with the international learning opportunities offered by the European Union, support participation, intercultural approach, local dimension and active citizenship as basic elements for collective and individual actions.
This mission has leaded Cemea to manage directly different services in Rome aimed to support children, adolescent and youngsters development through non formal education. Nowadays, Cemea del Mezzogiorno is directly involved in managing 2 playgrounds (4-11 years old), 1 adolescent centres (9-15 years old) and 3 youth centre (starting from 11 years old) and 1 service for international mobility.
The centres are focused on the personal development of users through any kind of activity that can stimulate creativity and participation in them. Intercultural exchange and respect for diversities are transversal objectives in the work with all kind of target group, especially in a capital like Rome with a relevant number of immigrant families. The main aims of the educational work done in the centres are to help people to:
express themselves;
find new cultural inputs;
recognize and valorise personal and collective entrepreneurship;
foster self-esteem and develop a positive approach towards society;
acquire abilities and specific competencies;
According to CEMEAs the growth is based on ‘doing’; the activities are an important means to understand and to relate with each others. An activity must hold individual and social meaning. We are not interested in ‘doing it’ for the sake of just doing. We care that what it is done could involve in the person as a whole, in its entirety and complexity. Mobility as well is conceived as an educational tool to foster self-confidence and to increase transversal skills, exploiting all the added value of an intercultural environment.
Cemea del Mezzogiorno youth centres, playgrounds and centre for early childhood work since a long time in suburban working-class districts of Rome named Centocelle, Gordiani, Pigneto, Roma 70 and San Paolo. The actions of the different structures are always strictly linked to the needs of the target group attending to the place, in coordination with local public institutions and social services, and constantly in contact with the families and school context. According to Cemea del Mezzogiorno mission and due to the high level of immigrant families present in the working areas cited, our educational services represent important cross points for intercultural and trans-generational dialogue in the capital, between kids and young people but also between their families and the different communities present in the district.
Fenix19 youth centre is placed in Pigneto area in the 5th district of Rome. This area is densely populated of the city, located on the north-east outskirts of the capital. This area developed rapidly in the years following the Second World War, in particular due to massive immigration from some southern regions of Italy. Recent years have seen a notable increase in the number of non-Italian residents, especially Asians (mostly Chinese), North Africans, and Slavs. In this district certain areas are characterized by a strong community spirit and intense social cohesion. These areas alternate with other that are in effect anonymous and lacking any common sense of belonging. At an urban level, we find place of inestimable historic value alongside striking examples of urban decay. The major social dilemmas that can be seen in the zone are linked to difficulties youth face, for the most part due to unemployment, pollution, lack of green areas, conflicts related to first- and second-generation migratory phenomena, drug dependency, and lack of cultural opportunities. The centre is frequented by users older than 11 years of age.
Fenix19 is opened 5 days per week, a part from all the external activities and events, including actions in the quarters and workshops in the schools. The working team is composed by an educative coordinator, a psychologist, a social assistant and an educator. Technicians, for specific workshops, university internship and volunteers for national Civil Service are involved in specific projects aimed to enlarge the socio-cultural activities offered.
540 €
The cost indicated is including: pre-departure preparation in your country, accommodation in a shared room (all included), insurance, organisation of the hosting placement and local support.Board, International travel costs and local transports are not included and the volunteer is directly responsible for them.
660 €
The cost indicated is including: pre-departure preparation in your country, accommodation in a shared room (all included), insurance, organisation of the hosting placement and local support. Board, International travel costs and local transports are not included and the volunteer is directly responsible for them.
765 €
The cost indicated is including: pre-departure preparation in your country, accommodation in a shared room (all included), insurance, organisation of the hosting placement and local support. Board, International travel costs and local transports are not included and the volunteer is directly responsible for them.