Link operates in Puglia, and its headquarters is in Altamura. It is a local organization but sometimes it works at regional level, especially as a sending organization.
Altamura has 65,000 inhabitants and it's situated between Bari and Matera. It's a quite prosperous town thanks to furniture factories and for this reason there is a very low unemployment rate. Thus young people enter quite soon labour market and they neglect other experiences such as intercultural learning or formal and non-formal education.
Cultural life is quite interesting thanks to a few cultural associations and Altamura has many environmental and historical goods. Altamura has a well maintained historical town with a Cathedral from the XIII Century and recently the discover of dinosaur's footprints gave new impulse to the tourism. The town of Matera, with its old district called "Sassi" and protected by UNESCO, is only 30 km far away from Altamura. Bari, which is the main city of Puglia region (45 km), has a strategic role in the Euro-Mediterranean scenario.

The project is strongly connected with the “2010 european year for combating poverty and social exclusion”.  We plan to host 10 volunteers during the year, in 3 different organizations.

All the projects will be with young people and the main tasks of volunteers will be promoting the theme of the year through sport helping to run activities with children and young people from less privileged areas / environments.

Each volunteer program will last one month.
This is the provisional plan:
2 volunteers in March
2 Volunteers in May
4 volunteers in July-August
2 volunteers in October

In a more specific way we are looking for young volunteers having some skills in sport, especially in:
football (we prefer gilrs, to work with a girl football team), Volleyball, Handball.

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=42000408064