📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
PARTNER : Lunaria and Cilento Youth Union have organized several successful workcamps in the last years and this is the third camp supporting the Stella 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 implements a programme to encourage creativity through the application of ceramic art.
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 work camp will end with the Cuntaria Fairy Tale Festival. By joining this workcamp you will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals: SustainableCommunities-SDG11 and LifeOnLand-SDG15.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will help the organization in charge of the Cuntaria festival, which takes place at the beginning of August in Stella Cilento. All volunteers will work around 5 to 6 hours a day. Some of the main activities include helping the local festival organizations to make all the necessary preparations before all the activities start and after the festival ends. This involves e.g. preparing the village with decorations, helping the participants, keeping the place clean.
🏠 Accommodation on site
All volunteers will be accommodated at the school building, located in the center 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 commune 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 funny dialect!
⚠️ Requirements
This project is supported by the European Solidarity Corps. Food and accommodation are covered by the European Union. Transportation costs will be refunded according to the distance band rules of the programme. No fees are required. The workcamps are open for international volunteers (coming from EU ESC countries projects).