📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
SUMMARY: Support the local to enhance a new project of eco-sustainable accommodations for the Apennine solidarity refuges. Enjoy working outdoors using your artistic and manual skills. TeamSpirit festival inclusion lunarcamp ESCinTeamPARTNER: Montagna di Suono is a cultural association founded in 2008 to promote music and art in all its forms around the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines area. It is active in the territory of the Reno valley and throughout the province of Bologna in the promotion and teaching of music, for children and adults, through courses (percussion, music production, guitar, keyboard), realization of events in collaboration with many municipalities in the realization of music festivals on social issues always trying to combine the enjoyment of music to a message of peace and tolerance (Reno Splash 2012-2018, anti-racist reggae festival). PROJECT:In 2021 Montagna di Suono took over a mountain lodge named AcatE, located on the Via degli Dei, the hiking trail that connects the cities of Bologna and Florence across the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. It was born specifically to meet the needs of hikers on the Bolognese Appennines, creating meanwhile a gathering place for the local community, by organizing cultural events and workshops. It is the first step of a larger project, Rifugi Solidali Appenninici, aimed at creating a network of accommodation facilities on the Via degli Dei, united by the attention given to eco-sustainability and to the will of keeping alive socially and culturally the mountain areas of the region. In October we will organize AcatE Festival, a 3-days festival to promote this project and his objectives: during these days we will organize concerts and cultural events, hiking groups and workshops related to the design and construction of eco-sustainable structures. By joining this workcamp you will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals: Reduce inequality -SDG10, SustainableCommunities-SDG11
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: Volunteers will live the life of AcatE at 360 degrees, helping in the daily management of the lodge and participating in the maintenance and cleaning activities of the Via degli Dei. The volunteers will be involved in different activities. Manual/ENVI work: mow grass, repair and secure the fence, rid the path of trees and greenery obstructing the walk, integrating signposting; Garbage collection work along the paths, prune branches and plants. Manual/FEST work: Volunteers will support the managment of the logistic and practical setting up of AcatE festival, before, during and after the Festival: on this occasion, thanks to workshops held by external consultants, they will have the opportunity to learn how to build eco-sustainable structures. .
🏠 Accommodation on site
ACCOMODATION AND FOOD: Volunteers will stay in 2 shared bedrooms in AcatE; every room has a private bathroom and shower. The lodge consists of two other dormitories, two dining rooms and a large outdoor area, divided into a camping area and a chill area. Volunteers can use all the facilities of the lodge (washing machine, Wi-Fi connection..). Meals will be in the lodge, shared with the managers and customers. In case of outdoor activities, we will prepare lunch boxes. It will be our care to let the volunteers taste all the local delicacies Volunteers will take care to clean the common space and the hosting place.
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE: Monzuno is a little town in the Appennino mountains. Its located on the Via degli Dei (Path of Gods), a hiking trail that connects the cities of Bologna and Florence across the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, nowadays one of the Apennines major tourist attractions. Terminal: The nearest airport is Bologna G. Marconi airport. Nerarest train station: Monzuno