📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
💼 What the programme involves
The activities will mainly consist of renovation and landscaping work within two city parks. Volunteers will work together with local people (locals, associations, scouts) and will carry out work such as: arranging internal pedestrian paths; green maintenance; painting perimeter railings; arranging games; making decorating murals; creating picnic areas; and other similar activities. The work can be strenuous, and the location of the activities is a 5/10 minute walk from the accommodation. Daily volunteers will be able to work approximately 5 hours on average in time slots to be agreed together. Other activities for inclusion and socialization between volunteers and local youth will also be organized, including: cultural aperitifs, exchanges of experiences and best practices, multicultural dinners, and sharing moments.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Participants will be housed in a spacious facility in the lower part of the town. The accommodation is equipped with beds, showers, hot water and toilets. There are several rooms for overnight stay so as to allow comfortable accommodation for the needs of the participants; toilets are shared on the floor. From the accommodation to the work camp, it is possible to walk a few minutes. There are supermarkets, greengrocer and other food and recreation facilities nearby. The town apos;s municipal villa is contiguous to the facility. For food, volunteers have a kitchen on the AVIS premises in a facility adjacent to the park where they can cook for themselves, have refrigerator and toilet facilities.
📍 About the location
Solarino (population about 7500, 165 meters above sea level) is a small town located about 15 kilometers north of Syracuse, in an elevated, scenic and healthy location. The environmental aspect of Solarino is characterized by Mediterranean scrub and olive groves in the hilly area, as well as citrus groves on the plain below. Also widespread are almond, carob and prickly pear trees most often placed on the property boundaries of the citrus groves themselves. Its location is strategic for easy travel to Syracuse, Noto, Ragusa and Catania (http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarino).TERMINAL: Nearest Airport Catania