With BIR’s “Inclusive Volunteering” project, we educate young people about the values of citizenship, solidarity and participation. We offer them the opportunity to be protagonists in their area for the benefit of the community. We engage in:

• Volunteering at Beccaria: a group of about 20 volunteers who organize activities for detained youth. The group is accompanied by BIR staff and a volunteer to train and monitor the experience. Their goals include peer education and direct involvement in the design of interventions.
• Walks for Inclusion: 2-week travel experiences that take place in different parts of Italy. Volunteers walk in mixed groups with also youth with fewer opportunities referred by various services in the area in a peer-sharing perspective of an intensive and transformative experience.

Objectives:

• To increase young people’s awareness and experience with respect to the values of participation, volunteering, solidarity and contrasting discrimination;
• To increase training opportunities and experiences for young people with fewer opportunities;
• To increase the direct involvement of young people in volunteering and participation initiatives aimed at contrasting situations of vulnerability, inequality and discrimination, with a view to participation in collective and community life.

Beneficiaries: volunteers, young people in detention within the IPM C. Beccaria and youth in fragile conditions involved in Walks for Inclusion.