The image depicts a sewing machine and a box of craft supplies on a table, with a lamp and a bottle of wine nearby.
The image depicts a woman sitting at a cluttered white desk, surrounded by various objects, including a coffee maker, scissors, and a bottle of water.
The image depicts a simple, hand-drawn design featuring the word "recycling" in black cursive, accompanied by a scribbled circle and a heart.
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Help our NGO become more sustainable at our social garden in Verona, Italy

  • Last activity : 26 Apr 2025

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: No minimum

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  • Description

    Description

    We created a laboratory of creative reuse, where we create handcraft by using recyclable materials. It is a laboratory for young women (who are alone with child or who need to start to think about a new job for themselves, maybe connected with art and sewing).

    We also manage a social garden and a tissue bank: two spaces of social innovation to create good neighborly ties and to ask to community to build together a more sustainable world.

    So, if you are creative and you can teach us something new to create, if you can do workshop for community to raise money for our activity, if you know how to raise money, if you work in education and you want to learn a new way of helping and taking care of people, if you can help in the maintenance of our laboratory, if you are a photographer, if you like to take care of the social garden, or if you simply want to stay with us, please, join us, it will be a pleasure!

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Charity Work
    Art Projects
    Help with Eco Projects
    Teaching
    Gardening
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
    Help with Computers/ Internet
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Help

    Help

    We need to improve our workshop, in order to groove. At the moment, we are all volunteer too, so we have also other job during the day.

    We can need:
    - help with sewing: if you are not able, you can help us in cutting material and cleaning the handcraft. If you are able to sew, you can create new model and teach us how to do it;
    - taking pictures: nice photos will help us to show to the community our job;
    - fundraising: we need to understand how to raise funds out of our network: we don't have money from welfare state, all we do is with our energy, donation, volunteering...
    - website: we have a new website, but is good to maintain ore improve it;
    - communication and marketing: we'd like to learn how to use facebook for business, facebook and instragram shop, others shop;
    - gardening and garden custody: we have to take care of the garden and to guard it. We do this with a social worker and a gorup of volunteer, but often we need to cover extra workshift. It is not only guarding, but also creating communities, teaching to women, helping them in learning how to teach, disseminate a culture of sustainability;
    - art: if you are an artist and you want to donate your art to a limited edition of shopper or new accessories.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent
    Spanish: Fluent
    Italian: Fluent

    This host offers a language exchange
    This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
    You can contact them directly for more information.

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    You can have a comfortable couch in my house (I'm sorry I don't have a private room, for now), in the city centre of Verona.
    WIP: we are working for a private room.
    Verona is really a nice city, and I'd love to tell you some story or to take you around.
    I can also share with you some food and trying to share some of my time. I'd really like to meet people and to share new experience, but I don't have many times, because of my job and of my study (I'm attending a phd in education)

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Verona is a city in north-eastern Italy's Veneto region. The city is famous as it is the place where William Shakespeare set his play Romeo and Juliet. Though situated an hour away from the more popular tourist destination, Venice, many people consider Verona a more relaxed, pleasant place to visit.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    It is ok, we have a good wi-fi connection in our laboratory.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    One

Host ref number: 744529837973

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The image depicts a woman sitting at a cluttered white desk, surrounded by various objects, including a coffee maker, scissors, and a bottle of water.
The image depicts a simple, hand-drawn design featuring the word "recycling" in black cursive, accompanied by a scribbled circle and a heart.
The image depicts a sewing machine and a box of craft supplies on a table, with a lamp and a bottle of wine nearby.

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