📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Building Walls - Breaking Walls is an international volunteer exchange project for young adults from Switzerland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel und Palestine. Together and under professional facilitation, the volunteers will learn and renovate old dry stonewalls in the Alps of the Italian part of Switzerland, the canton of Ticino. Furthermore, they will share and exchange in mixed groups about the life and conditions of segregated communities in the different countries and get a better understanding of the life of young people in these countries.Combined with the work in the natural and authentic environment of the Ticino mountains are hikes and trips in the nearby environment.
💼 What the programme involves
Walk to the building place (up- and downhill in the mountains), work with stones and nature material in order to renovate old stonewalls structuresFurthermore, the work includes cooking for the whole group, maintenance of the accommodation (chopping wood, making fire etc)Workung hours: Half a day work at nature stonewalls, half a day intercultural discussions with young people from Switzerland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation is called Campo Cortoi, a beatiful and authentic collection of ancient stonehouses up in the Ticino Alps. People will have to bring warm sleeping bags and clothes for the night. Matresses and pillows will be provided. Toilets and showers with hot water are available.No washing machine and no electricity in the sleeping rooms is provided, also no internet is available in the mountains.At the end of the week, we will invite the group to spend the weekend in the city of Locarno. There, electricity and internet is provided.
📍 About the location
The location of the project is above the town of Mergoscia, in the Italian part of Switzerland.
ℹ️ Additional information
Every day, a group of volunteers will be the kitchen team and cook for the whole group. Food will be provided.What to bring: warm Sleeping bag, NO SUITCASES, ONLY BACKPACKS, outdoor boots, raingear, warm clothes, hat, torch