- Home Who we are Where we are Reception service Laboratory Kitchen Service network What can you do Magazine and news Useful links Archive - Contacts Login What can you do Donating time or grants Being a volunteer means approaching a problem with the willingness to participate in it. At the Meeting Point there are about 40 volunteers who lend their work free of charge, helping us manage the services and, even more, bringing our guests closer in a healthy, "normal", free relationship. Free especially as the volunteer, by definition, is not forced to take an interest in someone, if he does it is because he feels an interest: no one will give him anything, but he will listen. In this lies the strength of volunteering, in the personal drive not to consider others with rights other than those brought for oneself. At the Meeting Point the volunteers support the Cooperative by dedicating themselves to different moments. There are those who participate in the lunch with table service, those who collaborate with the management of the wardrobe for the collection of used clothes and their delivery to the guests, those who support the workshop by contributing to the work of the carpentry. In any case, a certain willingness to dialogue and to listen is required in order to give concrete help to the people provided by the Cooperative, the strength of closeness and human sharing. The people we welcome are people who almost always experience the street as the only place for relationships and this makes them particularly reactive to many forms of impatience. Their reactions are often motivated by anger, frustration and a sense of helplessness. Often, if foreigners, with the trip to Italy they have consumed all their possessions and this destination has become the only possibility of redemption in front of the country from which they left or of confrontation with the expectations of the families of origin. No wonder relationships are strained at times. We are always warm and we don't ask anyone for a meal: it's not like that for them. We cannot afford to judge. We should never do this, but in these cases even less. Listening and sharing does not necessarily mean agreeing. We can also just take note of situations that, regardless of our or their way of thinking, are a source of physical and emotional fatigue. It is important that the volunteer does not feel obliged to make amends for any true or alleged wrong, being there does not always and only mean acting. It is also important to be close. It is important that the volunteer does not feel obliged to make amends for any true or alleged wrong, being there does not always and only mean acting. It is also important to be close. It is important that the volunteer does not feel obliged to make amends for any true or alleged wrong, being there does not always and only mean acting. It is also important to be close. In addition to one's own work, it is possible to support the Meeting Point with cash donations by paying the desired amount into the current account at the Cassa Rurale di Aldeno and Cadine branch in via Verdi in Trento IT 96 L 08013 01802 000050356170 With the reason: donation for the cooperative's activities. 5x1000 at the Meeting Point! You can participate in our activities by donating the 5x1000 to the Punto d'Incontro Social Cooperative, inserting the tax code of the cooperative in your tax return: 00425870227. A small choice for you, a great support for us! Thanks Cooperativa Punto d'Incontro Società Cooperativa Sociale Via del Travai, 1, 38122 Trento - Telefono 0461 984237 Fax 0461 264726 - P.IVA / C.F. 00425870227 Realizzato da Ikonart