📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Work: The work will be concentrated mainly in the morning, about 4 hours per day.with three activities:
1-Arrangement of the camp, taking care of the little vegetable garden and of the water tank.
2- work in the wood: building tables with wood materials (the tables will be used to create in the wood a relax-area for the local people) and fixing or building footpaths.
3- Cooking to prepare lunch with organic food coming from the nearby area
In the afternoon the volunteers will take part in special workshops, games, and other activities (for example orienteering, land art, soap making workshops) or will get in contact with local associacions or local people. 4 evenings will be organized with "cultural nights", where one or more countries organize a dinner with the typical food and games and /or workshops to show their own culture. The rest of the evenings there will be moments at the fireplace, free evenings or some game in the darkness.
The volunteers will have 2 days free from the work, in one them it will be organized a trip to an abandoned village called Consonno (http://opacity.us/site227_consonno.htm), the other will be a day of self-management. Also the first day and the last day of the camp will be without working activities (except from cooking and arranging the camp).
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation and Food: The volunteers will sleep in tents of 4 people. The tents will be provided, but the volunteers will have to bring their own camping mattress and sleeping bag.The tents will be divided in girls and boys tends. Paticipants must carry their belongings in a backpack, as they will reach the camp on foot.
Electricity and hot water will be provided by photovoltaic and solar panels.
We will have water from some tanks of 1000 litres of water each, which will be often filled. This water will be used to wash the dishes and equipment, to irrigate the vegetable garden and for the showers.
As there will be little water available, participants will have to learn to manage it efficiently.
Drinking water will be taken from the local fountain.
The food will be prepared by the volunteers, who will eat together in a big tent. Most of the food will come from local farms of from the the fair trade market.
The toilet are compost toilets, made of wood. There are 2 compost toilets. The showers are solar showers, without a tent. So the swimming suit is required while you shower.
There won’t be internet connection and the use of electricity will be very few since we use photovoltaic panels.
📍 About the location
Location: The workcamp takes place in a in a place called “Campiano” which belongs to the municipality of Valgreghentino (LC), in the north of Italy.
In the past this area was used for the agriculture, but now most of it is abandoned: we can see abandoned buildings, woods and fields. Invasive plants are growing avoiding the growth of the local ones.
Terminal: Milan airports (Orio al Serio, Linate and Malpensa)