LEG20 - Greenhouses for solidarity

Location: Sant'Elpidio a Mare, province of Fermo, Marche region

Date: 24/07 – 07/08

Type: Environmental/Social project

Number of volunteers: 15

Age: 18+

Project summary: With the aim of building solidarity in the village, the volunteers will reactivate the greenhouses next to a daily centre for people with disabilities, who will maintain the greenhouses during their ordinary activities.

Description

Project: With the aim of building solidarity in Sant’Elpidio a Mare, the workcamp will restore two greenhouses – currently abandoned - in front of the cooperative «La Serra», that hosts young adults with disabilities. The greenhouses will constitute, then, a permanent project for the people of the centre, who will maintain them in their ordinary laboratories.

The volunteer will also contribute in the maintenance of the path that leads from “La Serra” to Santa Croce basilica, a fundamental structure for the religious, historic and artistic development of the vtown.

Legambiente local group: Legambiente Porto Sant'Elpidio was born in 1988; it is involved in all the environmental battles and campaigns carried out by the national Legambiente and in campaigns of environmental education in collaboration with schools and other associations. During its years of activity a lot of energy was spent to promote the historical memory and the identity of some important places, such as Fim (an old fertilizer factory currently abandoned) and an area called Orfeo Serafini, that was a football camp in front of the see, freed from the risk of overbuilding.

Work: The volunteers will repair the greenhouses that guests of «La Serra» will use after summer holiday: with the support of an agronomist, they will set up some places for cultivation, that will be organized in the basis of periodicity. Labels and instructions for every plant will also be produced, so that the guests of the cooperative «La Serra» will be able to use these greenhouses.

Another activity will be the realization of the signals for the near trail that leads to the river Chienti and connect «La Serra» to the cathedral of Santa Croce.

Study part: experts of history, agricolture and food will ensure interactive learning between volunteers and local people.

Accommodation and food: The volunteers will be hosted in a building in the centre of Sant' Elpidio A Mare. The organizer staff of the work camp will buy the food, preferring local products, typical of the “Mediterranean diet”.

Location and leisure: Sant'Elpidio a Mare is a medieval town, located in Marche region, near Fermo; it is on a ridge of Marche Apennine, 251 meters above sea level, between the lower river valleys of the river Tenna and Ete Morto, 9 km far from the Adriatic Sea.

The archive of Santa Croce basilica is full of ancient documents that were realized by Augustinian monks. One of the most famous monk is saint Nicola, the protector of children. Also the monuments in Sant' Elpidio a Mare are related to Santa Croce because this area was the ancient center of the town. The participants will discover the history of Sant' Elpidio a Mare and of the other ctowns located in the territory. The volunteers will also visit the local agricultural and organic companies, discovering new places and food. With the participation of associations and local companies, food laboratories will be organized and the volunteers will cook the typical Italian food, like pizza and pasta.

During the camp, we will see a lot of historical and musical festivals like «Città Medioevo», that is a historical event about middle age, where the volunteers could participate.

Language: English will be the official language in the camp.

Terminal: nearest airports: Rome airports and Falconara Airport; nearest train stations: Civitanova Marche Train Station and Ancona Train Station.

 

LEG21 - Old Camerata

Location: Camerata Nuova, province of Rome, Lazio region

Date: 26/07 – 9/08

Type: Cultural/Environmental

Number of volunteers: 10

Age: 20+

Project summary: The workcamp aims to discover and make available the old ruins, located in the middle of the Simbruini Mountain Regional Park at 1200m altitude, clearing the trails from weeds.

Description

Project: Camerata Nuova (850 m) is a small town in the province of Rome, located in the Park of Simbruini mountain. The territory of this country is characterized by the presence of the ruins of the original and millenary country, called "Camorata", located at 1200 meters above sea level. The old town (also known as the Old Camerata) has been destroyed due to a fire in 1859. The ruins in addition to being a significant archaeological site is located in a pristine environment of great importance, in a natural landscape rich in indigenous flora and fauna.

Local partner: The Association Pro-Camorata aims to enhance, improve and revive the archaeological site of Camerata through study, research, development and teaching of cultural and artistic techniques. It supports the protection and development of human potential of art in all its forms; the natural, cultural and historical local culture understood as any manifestation of the traditions, arts, sciences of the work, history, and in general any form of activity and thought.

Work: Make available the trails leads to the ruins, in particular the original ancient paths shown on the Land Registry Gregorian. Volunteers will be engaged in cleaning and maintenance of trails under the sun and in hard condition.

Accommodation and food: The volunteers cook, eat and sleep at a local school, 30 minutes far by car from the work location. Showers and dining place are indoor. Mostly it will be for the Mediterranean diet.

Location and leisure: The volunteers will have the opportunity to explore the entire village of Camerata Nuova, surrounded by mountains. They will also be involved in local festivals and cultural visits, and get the chance to visit Rome at least once.

Specific Requirements: Due to hard conditions of the workcamp, we are looking for determined volunteers, no allergies to food or pollen, non-asthmatics, resistance to high temperatures. Motivational form is required.

Language: English will be the official language in the camp.

Terminal: Fiumicino Airport Station – Termini or Tiburtina Train Station. Local Train Station: Carsoli (Aq)

LEG22 – Local traditions and upcycling in Dolomiti mountains

Location: Lamon, province of Belluno, Veneto region

Date: 30/07 – 09/08

Type: Environmental/Renovation

Number of volunteers: 16 (mixed Italian and foreign families)

Age: 4 – 99 (family camp)

Description

Project: Legambiente Dolomiti has been running the Environmental Education Centre in Lamon for 10 years. The Centre hosts several workcamps and summer camp every year, involving children, youth and families. Aims of the educational project are the protection, conservation and restoration of the environment and the landscapes, trying to build and improve behaviours about biodiversity, flora and fauna for a different approach, especially for the kids.

Volunteers will join these activities and they will take care of the territory and of the footpaths of the area in collaboration with the local population. Beyond that, the local group of Legambiente is doing educational campaigning about life style, Mediterranen diet and GMO's products. Volunteers will be also involved in upcycling workshops to change the scrap of Lamon's citizen in furniture for the outside or the inside of the Lamon Centre. During the workcamp, volunteers will discover local farmers’ productions and the biodiversity of the areas.

Legambiente local group: For 10 years Legambiente Dolomiti has been organising workcamps and educational activities inside an outside the Environmental Education Centre, in order to increase the active participation of young people and citizens and to increase the awareness about environmental issues concerning mountains environment. Moreover the club is concerned with some global-local environmental issues like sustainable agriculture, GMO's dangerousness, eco-life style and hand-made productions.

Work: Volunteers will be involved in footpaths’ maintenance and cleaning around the EEC Dolomiti in order to make the way clean and safe. Furthermore, volunteers will do workshops about upcycling (artistic and creative regeneration of materials or scraps) and some renovation in the Centre’s building.

Study part: Volunteers will participate to workshops and basic training meeting about waste cycle and upcycling artistic trend.

Accommodation and food: Volunteers will be hosted in a building, former primary school of Lamon. The place are set with slepping-rooms, a common living-room and kitchen. A low-flesh diet, according to the global environmental problems, will be a commitment for volunteers during workcamps.

Location and leisure: The Lamon plateau is placed nearby the Primiero Dolomites and the Belluno Dolomites National Park. It is located about 80km northwest of Venice and about 35 km west of Belluno. During free time, excursions as well as meetings with the local population will be organised, in order to get in touch with local culture and former crafts. Volunteers will have the possibility to visit ancient places and to participate at some demonstrations of former crafts.

Specific requirements: attitude to walk in mountains environment

Participation fee: (no fee for children under 5)

1adult + 1 child= 150 euro

1 adult + 2 children = 190 euro

1 adult + 3 children = 200 euro

2 adults + 1 child = 300 euro

2 adults + 2 children = 340 euro

2 adults + 3 children = 380 euro

Language: English and Italian will be the official language in the camp.

Terminal: Airports: Venezia Airport – Treviso Airport; Train station: Feltre train station

 

LEG23 - Campo dei Fiori

Location: Brinzio, province of Varese, Lombardia region

Date: 1-14/08

Number of volunteers: 12

Age: 18+

Project summary: In a very beautiful environment at the feet of the Alps, volunteers will work for the nature’s safeguard in the Regional Park Campo dei Fiori.

Description

Project: Legambiente has been collaborating with the natural park Campo dei fiori for many years, with volunteers programs and environmental education. The Park is a beautiful woods area really important for all the region as a source of biodiversity.

The project’s aim is the preservation and the improvement of an area, called “villaggio Cagnola”, important to promote “green” tourism in the park.

Legambiente local group: Legambiente Varese Onlus, besides giving contributions to main Legambiente national campaigns, cares about the environment of the district of Varese since the eighties. Legambiente Varese coordinates 14 local groups of Legambiente volunteers and is the connection between local, regional and national offices of the association. It carries out several activities such as the management of natural areas, the organization of workcamps, environmental education addressed to youngest generations and promotion of environmentally friendly lifestyles.

Work: Volunteers will work mainly in “Villaggio Cagnola”, that is a place of great historical and natural importance used by the Park to create a centre for environmental education and nature's preservation. The work will be: footpaths cleaning and maintenance, removing weeds from grassland at the top of the mountains.

We'll use bicycles for moving between camp and working place.

We'll work with local volunteers and citizens on Saturday and Sundays

Study part: Part of the time will be dedicated to study the natural characteristic of the Park specially focused on biodiversity and on the protection of water springs.

Accommodation and food: Volunteers will be hosted in a common room with camp-beds and they'll use a camp-kitchen. There will be an environmental friendly diet with local products and little meat.

Location and leisure: The natural Park “Campo Dei Fiori” overlooks the hills of the Province of Varese and the Po Plain. In the area there are several interesting natural and historical sites. "http://www.parcocampodeifiori.it".

The particular geographical location and the geological features favored the presence of a various vegetation, with chestnut tree and beech tree woods, typical fora of the rocky areas, marshy and peaty zones rich in wildlife. Brinzio is a little village (about 880 inhabitants) in the center of the Park.

Specific Requirements: Volunteers need good skills in bicycle riding

Language:

English will be the official language in the camp. Italian speakers are welcome.

Terminal: Milano Malpensa, Varese train station