📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Legambiente Varese Onlus is a local group of Legambiente, that, beside giving contributions to main Legambiente national campaigns mind about the environment of the district of Varese since the eighties. Legambiente Varese coordinate 14 local groups of Legambiente volunteers and it's the connection between local, regional and national offices of the association. Thanks to this organization we can carrying out several activities such as the management of natural areas, the organization of work-camps, environmental education addressed to youngest generations and promotion of environmentally friendly lifestyles.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will work in different sites of the park , in areas of great historical and natural importance such as linea Cadorna that was a defensive system on the border with Switzerland, designed and built between 1899 and 1918, and actually never used, and Villaggio Cagnola that is an area used by the Park to create a centre for environmental education and nature's preservation. The work will be: foothpaths cleaning and maintenance, removing weeds from grassland at the top of the mountains etc.
We'll work with local volunteers and citizens to support the organization of a local food fest on the weekend
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation is a self managed hostel (one shared room with bunk beds) in a public area of a little village. Meals will use season’s, organics and local products and little meat.
📍 About the location
The natural Park “Campo Dei Fiori“. In the area there are several interesting natural and historical sites. http://www.parcocampodeifiori.it.
The particular geographical location and the geological features favored the presence of a various vegetation, with chestnut tree and beech tree woods, typical fora of the rocky areas, marshy and peaty zones rich in wildlife.
The park also contains interesting historical and artistic sites and also the Unesco heritage Sacro Monte at Santa Maria del Monte.
Milano Malpensa airport, Varese train station (about one our far from Milano)
last bus to Cunardo from Varese at 19.25 null
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers have to be interested in ecology and soustanibility and motivated to work with local people.