📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
SUMMARY: Support the local tradition of fairy tales and protecte the environment. Take the opportunity to immerse yourself in a traditional South Italian village.
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PARTNER: Lunaria and Cilento Youth Union have organized several successful workcamps in the last years and this is the third camp supporting Stelle community. Cilento Youth Union is a youth NGO started in Rofrano (SA) in 2015, targeting Italian youth with fewer opportunities from the south of Italy and specifically from the Cilento area. This workcamp is co-organized by the Smak Association, which implement a programme to encourage creativity through the application of ceramic art. By joining this workcamp you will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals: SustainableCommunities-SDG11 and LifeOnLand-SDG15.
PROJECT: Stella Cilento is a small village included in the National Park of Cilento, Diano and Alburni, UNESCO World Heritage Site. The local population conveys a noble and ancient Cilento tradition: the oral story of fairy tales. The aim of the project is to merge, through art, nature and culture. The activities aim to improve the path called "La Scala Santa – Il Sentiero Sacro del Monte Stella", using natural waste materials to set up, along the route, pieces of art representative of a typical Cilentan fairy tale, chosen together with the volunteers. This work should stimulate and support the conservation of the environment and natural resources, communicating their inspiring values in an original way. The workcamp will ,end with the Cuntaria Fairy Tale Festival.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers' group will be involved in the following activities. Manual work: mow grass, repair and secure the fence, wood and stone steps, rid the path of trees and greenery obstructing the walk, fix dry small stone walls and pave paths with local natural stones, set signage.
Agricultural work like hoeing open field, weeding, watering and planting. Forest protection work like clean undergrowth and forest floor, prune branches and plants.
Volunteers will also participate at the popular celebration “Cuntaria Festival” at the beginning of august (a festival dedicated to the narration of Cilento fairy tales).
🏠 Accommodation on site
All volunteers will be accommodated at the school building, located in the centre of the town and equipped with mattresses, toilet and kitchen, where they will prepare meals, arranged according to Mediterranean cuisine. For this reason, volunteers will be assisted by a typical Cilento inhabitant and will be able to pick genuine products from a vegetable garden. Meals will be consumed at the eating room or at the workplace
📍 About the location
Stella Cilento is a town and comune in the province of Salerno, in Campania, region of south-western Italy. It’s located in the middle of Cilento, the subregion which is the birthplace of the Mediterranean Diet and rich in biodiversity. It counts the hamlets of Amalafede, Droro, Guarrazzano and San Giovanni. Stella is situated in the hills, but not far from the Cilento coast, so don’t forget to bring your swimming suit! With only 700 inhabitants and its breath-taking panoramas, it is a very exotic and unusual place to live. People are very hospitable and always ready for chatting… in a very fun dialect! But once you are here you can’t miss a great cappuccino at Bar of Park, where the bar-owner will wish you “Buon Giorno”... definitely a jump into traditions and community life.
TERMINAL: Naples and Rome.
⚠️ Requirements
Open-minded, attitude to outdoor manual activities, positive artistic attitude, flexible to eat local food, ready to interact with other people of different cultural background, willing to share own experiences, flexible to live in simple living conditions. It’s recommended to bring: sunscreen, work clothes (included gloves, shoes), swimsuit but also warm clothes and K-way, sleeping bag, video-camera.