🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🐕 Animal Care Shelter in Magnago 🌍

Do you have a great love for animals? Join Vitadacani's Porcikomodi project in Magnago, Italy for an ESC volunteer experience caring for rescued farm animals and dogs with chronic health issues!

This animal welfare initiative is dedicated to giving a second chance to animals in need — and they're looking for an enthusiastic volunteer ready to get their hands dirty and live in a peaceful rural setting close to the animals they care for.

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🎯 About the Project

Porcikomodi is part of the Vitadacani initiative — an animal welfare organisation active in the protection and care of animals in Italy. The project has two parts:

🐖 A sanctuary for rescued farm animals — animals usually considered food, that have been rescued, freed, or saved from situations of exploitation and suffering

🐕 A dog shelter for dogs that require medical assistance and live with chronic health issues

The project does not ask about the animals' origins and does not maintain any economic relationship with those who exploit or trade animals as commodities.

📚 Your Activities

🐾 Animal care — feeding, cleaning, and looking after rescued animals

🧹 Cleaning the animal shelter

🐕 Going on long walks with dogs

🏥 Supporting animals with chronic health issues

📱 Helping with communication tasks (social media a plus)

🌱 Living an antispeciesist, vegetarian lifestyle while at the shelter

🏠 Accommodation, Food & Transport

🛏️ Volunteers share a double room in a simple apartment

💶 €6/day pocket money

🥗 €160/month for food

🌱 Vegetarian diet required while at the shelter (free choice outside)

⚠️ Location is in a small town in a remote area, at least 1 hour from a big city

📚 Training

🎓 On-Arrival Training from the National Agency

🛡️ Task-specific training in animal care, security, and hygiene

📣 Training in communication tasks

📌 Participant Profile

✅ Available for the whole duration of the project (ASAP – 31/12/2026)

✅ Great love for animals, especially dogs, and ability to approach them with care

✅ Background in veterinary, biology, or related fields preferred

✅ Previous work in shelters, pet-sitting, or having animals at home — preferably dogs

✅ Ready to "get hands dirty", get up early, and do physical tasks

✅ Ready to live in a remote area

✅ Enthusiastic and open personality

✅ Preferably adhering to the organization's lifestyle (antispeciesism, vegetarian) — or willing to adapt

✅ Understanding of TikTok and Instagram is a plus

✅ Motivated to learn Italian

✅ CV and motivation letter in English

⚠️ If your profile suits, you'll receive an email — check your spam folder!

🌍 Activity Topics

⚖️ Social challenges

🗳️ Citizenship and democratic participation

🌿 Environment and natural protection

❤️ Health and wellbeing

💼 Employment and entrepreneurship

🎨 Creativity and culture

⚽ Physical education and sport

🛡️ Working against discrimination

🌾 Nutrition and subsistence agriculture

🏠 Shelter

🏢 Support to local Small and Medium Enterprises

🗺️ Eligible Countries

🇦🇹 Austria · 🇧🇪 Belgium · 🇧🇬 Bulgaria · 🇭🇷 Croatia · 🇨🇾 Cyprus · 🇨🇿 Czechia · 🇩🇰 Denmark · 🇪🇪 Estonia · 🇫🇮 Finland · 🇫🇷 France · 🇩🇪 Germany · 🇬🇷 Greece · 🇬🇱 Greenland · 🇭🇺 Hungary · 🇮🇸 Iceland · 🇮🇪 Ireland · 🇱🇻 Latvia · 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein · 🇱🇹 Lithuania · 🇱🇺 Luxembourg · 🇲🇹 Malta · 🇳🇱 Netherlands · 🇳🇴 Norway · 🇵🇱 Poland · 🇵🇹 Portugal · 🇷🇴 Romania · 🇸🇰 Slovakia · 🇸🇮 Slovenia · 🇪🇸 Spain · 🇸🇪 Sweden

📋 Activity Details

Location: Magnago, Italy

Dates: 19 June 2026 — 31 December 2026

Activity type: Individual volunteering

Project code: 2024-2-IT03-ESC51-VTJ-000278042

📅 Deadline

9 June 2026

🔗 Apply

https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/52385_en

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