Associazione A.R.C.I. Rieti (Associazione ricreativa culturale italiana)

The Arci Rieti Association is an Italian cultural and recreational Association ARCI is an independent association of social and civil promotion. It is composed of 5.600 clubs and over 1.100.000 members. Altogether they create a rich democratic tissue and active participation all across Italy. The history and the values of ARCI have their roots in the 19th century tradition of mutual solidarity and people’s self-organizing capacity, the union of people sharing interests, political ideas of democracy→ Arci was founded in Florence in 1957 ARCI – Comitato di Rieti was born in 2001 as an association of social and civil promotion, it works to support the most vulnerable such as: immigrants, marginalised people. It works to disseminate a solidaristic culture in terms of promotion of Rights, empowerment of the disadvantaged groups, social responsibility against racism and gender discrimination. It also works in the promotion of Youth Action, Youth Policies with projects like the Civil Service and the Europeon Voluntary Service. OUR ACTIVITIES ARE: Immigration policies: -The SPRAR projects in Rieti (System of Protection for Asylum Seekers and Refugees). The Rieti SPRAR project welcomes minors under the age of 18 years old and support them to be integrated in the society. The project guarantees to the asylum seekers everyday assistance from the educational to the job field. Because of their young age Arci believes that the european volunteers are the fine figure to promote and support the integration of foreign minors in the society, and create peer relationships with our beneficiaries of the Sprar project - The Social soccer: within the immigration policies, we use to organize every year football matches among the vulnerable subjects hosted in the several local and social associations. Sport as an educational tool with the aim to facilitate the social inclusion of the most vulnerable and where the community is a welcoming space. The event planned at the end of the different competitions are: “The Rieti Sport Festival” and “The Refugee Day” - Italian classes for foreigners: Arci Rieti organizes Italian classes for the sprar beneficiaries - Recreational activities for the Sprar minors: as a fundamental element for fostering integration, within the sprar project Arci periodically organizes recreational activities such as: sports, laboratories , outdoors activities for the guys of the project Association activities: The European volunteers will collaborate in all the association activities, they will be involved in the organization of the activities or events as well as in the proposal of new activities for the assocation according to their skills and our mission - Cultural activities: We promote languages courses for members, recreational activities like creative lab, dance courses; events on social matters like the promotion of author movies or books . The cultural activities are mostly implemented by the Arci clubs in the Rieti provinces - awareness campaigns on social matters like “The Week against racism”, “The Global day action for the rights of immigrants”, “The Refugee Day”, “Rieti Senza Barriere” Youth Policies: The European volunteers will collaborate in the promotion of the European mobility Programms, they will be involved in the organization of the dissemination activities or events as well as in the proposal of initiatives for dissemination of the Youth in Action principles. Moreover they will be responsible for the updating of the EVS facebook page and other social networks - Civil Service - Evs projects - Dissemination activities to spread through young people the need of the civil and social commitment and responsabilty - Evs help-desk - European Solidarity Corps