EXPO 2015, MANY VOLUNTEERS FROM CHINA FOR EXPO

You started the countdown to the World’s Fair. Less than a hundred days separate us from the start to the expo. But there is a part of Expo 2015 which is already in full running. It is the machine of the volunteers at the start event will be 7,500 people from around the world that will be freely available to give more added value to an event on which Italy has staked its credibility and therefore needs to complete without further missteps after the scandals linked to the underworld in recent months.

Conducted by operationally Ciessevi Milan, Service Center for volunteering – Metropolitan City of Milan, and CSVnet National Coordination Centres for Voluntary Service, the Volunteer Programme Expo 2015 has recorded to date a great success: “There are over 14,000 applications get there in just seven months after the opening of the invitation – said Marta Moroni, Project Manager of the Program for Ciessevi / CSVnet, adding – “is a veritable army of active citizens of the world from Sicily to the Aosta Valley, through all five continents converge so to Milan to take part in an unprecedented volunteer experience both Milanese and internationally. ”
A voluntary activity, however, bounded by borders very precise, agreed between Expo spa and the unions and which provides no more than 15 consecutive days of service and a commitment of up to 5.5 hours daily. The experience 15 days can then be repeated a second time, but not in consecutive periods.
The use of volunteers, as in every other event worldwide, generates a large flow of interest, but also discussions “why each activity undertaken by the volunteers will be well-defined and supported by a commitment imported in the name of training: every volunteer will not format only on specific thematic issues and Exposition, but also introduced to the world of volunteering, a world that a large percentage of them have never met, in-depth, “says the project manager of the Association temporary purpose created specifically by and Ciessevi CSVnet.
The numbers confirm his words: for 7500 seats, divided equally for each of the over 70 service centers in Italy involved, have already arrived almost double of applications and many of them, a candidate on two, come from China.
“Expo volunteers considered an integral part of the event as bearers of values of integration, solidarity and international aggregation, peculiar elements and essential for the successful implementation of a universal,” stresses Mariantonietta Di Febo, coordinator of Expo spa for volunteers .
The average age of the candidates is 26 years, 60% are students and, as anticipated, the 51% have never done any volunteer activities. “An interest that the world of our national volunteer will be able to capitalize,” says Marta Moroni.
How is the selection process? “You have to have the age and susceptibility to volunteering. There is an education in Italian and English with online tests. Who is eligible becomes part of the social community of volunteers. “