What is Caritas Jesi?

The organization that we’re doing our project in, is Caritas located in Jesi, Marche. It is a part of the charity organization Caritas Italiana, which was created in the 1970s. Here, in Jesi the service is mainly focused on helping those finding themselves in difficult social and economical situations, for example people suffering from poverty, or refugees. The local organization is constructed both by workers, local volunteers and volunteers doing servizio civile, and us, people doing European Solidarity Corps.

Caritas Jesi offers a lot of different faculties, such as Food and Clothes Emporium, Canteen, the little clinic, Casa delle Genti and dormitories.

The most notable ways in which we - European volunteers - can help, is by working in some of these faculties and helping other volunteers. We can work in:

Food Emporium - in this place the work revolves mainly around selecting and cleaning fruits and vegetables, that would later be "for sale", for the people in need. We're also expected to help with stocking the shelves and cleaning.
Canteen - in which we're preparing the tableware and cutlery for the people, cleaning the kitchen equipment, and preparing some of the food or helping the cooks.
Clothes Emporium and Warehouse - as Caritas receives clothes donations, in the warehouse we can help by selecting the clothes that are both in good condition and appropriate for the season. Then we also transport them to the clothes emporium in which we're also helping by for example stocking the shelves, and helping with the internal design.
Casa delle Genti - this is the place to which we're going once a week. It's the place in which we just spend the time with the people in need. We talk with them and listen to their stories, play board games or do sports together.

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Hello everyone! I'm the new volunteer

Hi! My name is Louise, I'm 26 years old, and I'm from France. Ever since I was a child, I wanted to go abroad to see what life is like elsewhere. Two years ago, in 2022, I graduated with a Master’s degree in Law, specialising in European Law. That’s how I first heard about the European Solidarity Corps (but only from an academic perspective, as we were studying several European programs). During my studies, I volunteered every summer with a French organisation that supports migrants in different aspects of their lives. The first Summer, I helped organise activities for children living in a refugee center. And the following years, I joined the legal advice service, where I assisted migrants with their administrative process to obtain or renew their residence permits. It was a truly rewarding experience that helped me grow personally. After graduation, I felt lost. I knew from my volunteering experience that I wanted a job that had a positive impact on society, but I wasn't ...

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Ciao, Hola and Hi! I’m Rio Rojas Mayorga, and I’ve been helping set up the new apartment for volunteers. Let me tell you about the process of organizing this future home for us! In case you didn’t know, ESC volunteers previously lived in an apartment within the Caritas enclosure. However, for various reasons, it was decided to move us to a new place in the city center. The person in charge of preparing this apartment was Fabiano, a 65-year-old volunteer. Since he had multiple apartments and projects to manage, progress on this specific one was quite slow. So, to give him a hand, I offered my time and enthusiasm to compensate for my lack of any real knowledge of construction or renovation! The house had almost everything we needed, but the problem was that it was all disassembled. It took a couple of months of assembling furniture, deep cleaning every piece, and rearranging the house fittings over and over. For most of the process, the end felt so far away. We started first w...

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