📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The workcamp born from the collaboration of IBO Italy with the Exodus Foundation of Cassino. The Exodus community of Cassino is one of the Exodus welcome communities for drug addicted boys founded by the priest Don Antonio Mazzi and now located in differents parts of Italy.
The Exodus Foundation of Cassino was founded in 1990 with the reception of the first 8 former drug addicts to promote their reintegration into society through a path of accompaniment and training in the world of work.
Exodus is an educational project that focuses on the person, not with its limitations or flaws, but with its riches and its potential, because - as Don Antonio Mazzi, the founder of Exodus says - the real challenge lies in believing that the healthy part of a person is able to cure the diseased part. The real protagonist of change is the who must seek within himself all the best resources to build a new life project.
💼 What the programme involves
The work will take place in all areas of the Community which are:
1. Orto. It will carry out the typical work of the period alongside the guys of the community
2. Serra is the garden’s laboratory, that’s where we prepare the plants for the garden
3. Beekeeping (only with the presence of one of our beekeepers)
4. Farm
5. Kitchen and canteen
6. Arrangement and cleaning of the community
There are other activities that depend on the organization of that period.
Working hours are from 8.00 to 12.30 and, unless otherwise specified, from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm
There are training meetings with our operators and at least one testimony from one of our boys.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay at the Foresteria of the EXODUS community of Cassino. The Foresteria, is equipped with an independent entrance, is spread over a single floor and is divided into two parts, each of which is equipped with 4 bunk beds for a total of 16 beds. Each of the two parts has a bathroom with shower.
There are toilets, two salons for activities, soccer field, basketball and volleyball court and swimming pool.
The kitchen is communal and meals are shared together with the persons of the Community at the same times and with the same menu. The groups collaborate both in the kitchen service and in the canteen service.
📍 About the location
1. We propose a visit to the Abbey of Montecassino
2. The community has a small swimming pool at the disposal of the children at the end of the activity.
3. It has a soccer field
4. A basketball / volleyball court
5. Multimedia room
6. A Pub (no alcohol) where you can have a coffee or ice cream, a drink
7. The period is typical in Cassino where demonstrations and / or local patron saints are held, so if you want you can also think about going out in the city.
