Thematic sites - Municipality of Milan

The world of Volunteering in Milan is a well-rooted reality that operates in various fields of intervention: environment, minors, handicaps, elderly people.

If you are interested in giving your personal contribution to solidarity initiatives and want to have a fruitful experience in the world of volunteering, you will find below some useful suggestions for your research, with a series of in-depth websites and sites for searching for association where you can provide your business.

Useful addresses

- Volunteer Office of the Municipality of Milan
It offers a service aimed at the world of both individual and associated volunteering operating in the Milan area, where information and orientation are offered through an interview:
email: PER.voluntariato@comune.milano.it
voluntary.comune.milano.it

- Houses of Associations and Volunteering
The Houses of Associations and Volunteering of the Municipality of Milan are a common headquarters for the Associations and Volunteer Organizations operating in each city municipality where the associations can network, find tools and ideas, meet citizens.

They are centers dedicated to promoting and qualifying relationships for the creation of greater collective well-being, supporting forms of active participation, protagonism and self-organization on the part of citizens; centers for orientation towards volunteering and visibility of associations: to promote active citizenship among citizens.
The Houses provide associations with resources and tools to effectively respond to their needs and support their development through:
- provision of spaces for associations;
- information services to associations and volunteers;
- opportunities to build partnerships and exchange data, information and materials for more effective social planning;
- valorisation and visibility of ideas, projects and activities.
- Town Hall 1 - House of Associations 
- Town Hall 2 - House of Associations 
- Town Hall 5 - House of Associations 
- Town Hall 6 - House of Associations
- Town Hall 7 - House of associations 
- Town Hall 8 - House of Associations
- Town Hall 9 - House of Associations 

- Volunteers for Milan
It is a project promoted by the Municipality of Milan in collaboration with the Ciessevi Association to promote volunteering opportunities in Milan.

- Abareka Nandree
It is an ODV of Milan, with headquarters in Via Venini 34 which in almost 20 years of activity in Mali and India has implemented development projects in the spirit of direct involvement and self-organisation of the native populations to avoid any form of mere " welfare".
Abarekà collaborates with Informagiovani managing the "Sportello Amico" and the citizenship process for foreigners, to meet the strong demand from young foreign immigrants for help and information. It is possible to volunteer both in Milan and in Africa/Mali.

- BIR onlus
The association deals with the protection of children in Italy, Romania and the Republic of Moldova, with particular attention to minors who experience conditions of vulnerability, abandonment, poverty and discrimination. it also promotes critical participation and active citizenship, with awareness-raising, training and activation proposals that have reached and engaged thousands of young people and adults.
BIR collaborates with Informagiovani by managing the "Volunteering Help Desk" and the "Active Citizenship Laboratory" for schools and CAGs, with the aim of helping young men and women find voluntary work in Milan and developing a profound civic sense.

- Civil protection of the Municipality of Milan
It deals with coordinating activities aimed at protecting life, physical integrity, assets, settlements, animals and the environment from damage or the danger of damage deriving from calamitous events of natural origin or deriving from the activity of the man. The National Coordination System is the pinnacle of the public system, which includes other institutional components, such as Municipalities, Regions, Provinces, the National Fire Brigade, the Armed Forces, the Police Forces, the State Forestry Corps etc. 
To enter Civil Protection, it is essential to follow the courses organized periodically by the relevant bodies.
The Municipality of Milan advertises the organization of new courses for volunteers through public tenders.
It is an absolutely free volunteer activity; however, workers employed in Civil Protection operations do not lose the day: the employer has the obligation to pay them regularly and then request reimbursement from the State.
To learn more: www.protezionecivile.gov.it/it/

- Voluntary Ecological Guards of the Municipality of Milan
The Volunteer Ecological Guards (GEV) are citizens who have voluntarily chosen to make part of their free time available for environmental protection.

- CSV Milan (Volunteer Service Center) 
It operates as a development agent for volunteering and active citizenship in the metropolitan city of Milan.
It promotes, supports and qualifies volunteering in all its forms, through services and actions that encourage the protagonism of citizens and third sector bodies in the pursuit of the general interest of the community.
CSV Milano supports volunteering, in particular that present in third sector bodies: in undertaking and making known its initiatives, in equipping itself with organizational and management skills, in involving new subjects and finding resources, in intervening on the causes of social phenomena and in establishing autonomous forms of representation.
Piazza Castello, 3 - 20121 Milan.
Telephone: Switchboard: 02 45.475.850 - info.milano@csvlombardia.it

- VOICE Volunteers at the non-profit centre
The new Volunteer Center in Milan promoted by Ciessevi will be built in via Monte Grappa 6/A. With its spaces, offices and counters it will be at the service of the territory, organizations and volunteers.
It will be the future headquarters of CSV, the Volunteering Office of the Municipality of Milan, the future Volunteering Training School, the Third Sector Documentation Center. It will have an auditorium, the guesthouse for young people from all over Europe who have a volunteering experience in Milan, and a point of reference for numerous city associations. 
Tel. 02 4547 5872 - info@voce.milano.it

- Friend phone
The telephone help service is carried out by groups which, through the availability of volunteers, aim to give everyone, at any time of the day or night, the possibility of finding a person open to listening and dialogue, ready to come to your aid. to the tensions and problems of those on the other side of the line, as soon as they arise.
To join Telefono Amico - Centro di Milano, it is necessary to attend a training course which generally takes place every year.
Tel.199.284.284 Opening hours: every day from 10am to midnight.

- The smile Telephone Youth 02.70107070
It also offers a chat, as well as a Facebook page and a contact on Skype - scrivici@sorrisotelefonogiovani.it
The telephone help service is carried out by groups which, through the availability of volunteers, aim to give everyone, at any time of the day or night, the possibility of finding a person open to listening and dialogue, ready to come to your aid. to the tensions and problems of those on the other side of the line, as soon as they arise.
To join Telefono Amico - Centro di Milano, it is necessary to attend a training course which generally takes place every year starting in October.

- Caritas Ambrosiana Volunteer Orientation Desk 
The desk offers initial information on the various and wide-ranging volunteering opportunities, networked with other desks in the area of ​​the diocese and orients towards continuous service and/or short experiences:
- in different areas of service: elderly people in retirement homes or day centres, minors in reception communities or after-school centres, seriously marginalized and homeless people in canteens, counseling centers or first and second reception centres, disabled people, foreigners;
- in the territory of the Diocese of Milan;
- in emergency situations in the event of disasters on the national territory.
Tel. 02 76.037.300 voluntary@caritasambrosiana.it

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