Adult Social Commitment
Channel: Uniser
Date: 07/05/2013

Adult social commitment is a Senior Volunteering Project which allows a group of European adults, aged over 50, to participate in a voluntary service in another European country.
The partner organisations are Uniser Soc. Coop. Onlus (coordinator) from Forlì, Italy, and
Asociaciòn Agora Cultural (partner) from Valencia, Spain. The activity started in October 2012,
when a group of six Spanish adults from Asociacion Voluntarios de Manises went to Italy
to carry out a voluntary service for three weeks at Fondazione Don Baronio, a Rest Home for
elderly people. In like manner, after their return, a group of six Italian adults from the Senior Volunteering Organisation AUSER did three weeks of voluntary service at the Spanish Associacion Voluntarios de Manises. The project's main objectives were to benefit the volunteer target groups (disabled people and the elderly) and to provide the adults involved with valuable training experience, helping them to develop personal, social, intercultural competences and communication skills through their commitment to the voluntary service in another country. "Adult social commitment" aims at allowing the promoting organisations (which have many years of practice in the field of international training mobility for young adults) to gain knowledge and experience in the education of adults.