📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Agape International Ecumenical Centre is a place of encounter where you can live anintense experience of community in beautiful natural surroundings. Agape was and still is animportant point of reference in Italian Protestantism, being for 70 years a place of education anddevelopment, theological exploration, political engagement, acceptance and validation ofdifferences. Every year many people, with different age and religious, cultural, politicalbackground, come to Agape to discuss and to be challenged, to get to know themselves and eachother and to exchange experiences around a particular theme. Agape was built after the SecondWorld War as a sign of hope and reconciliation between people, thanks to the voluntary work ofmany young men and women. A resident group still lives at Agape throughout the year. Thedimensions of community and voluntary service remain central. Please visit:www.agapecentroecumenico.org to see which are the activity programmes for this period.
💼 What the programme involves
The work camp will support the activities of AGAPE when a number of guests havemeetings on issues of political, social, cultural and religious interest. Volunteers will help in thefollowing areas: kitchen, meal service (tables and dishes), cleaning, maintenance, bar tending,babysitting. Games, discussions and outings can be organized during free time. Programmedactivities (especially in the evening) are most of the time open to volunteers, as long as they do notclash with work commitments. The place is beautiful but really isolated, though you will staytogether with many international participants attending the meetings of AGAPE.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Usually the workcampers will be host in 3-4 bed bedroomswith shared toilets on the floor. The meals are typical Italian Mediterranean cuisine, with limitedconsumption of meat for environmental reasons, and the possibility of alternative choices for thosewho require a special diet.. There is a washing machine available for the volunteers.
📍 About the location
The AGAPE workcamp take place in Prali, a small commune of Turino (in the region of Piemonte), in the Valdesi valley. It is the principal reference place of Protestantism in Italy. Around Pirali, there are a lot of small lakes (about 10) as the Lake Uomo and the Lake Drajo.