📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The association Pro Villa Capricchia was born to carry out activities of social utility and of social, civic, recreational, ecological and environmental development, while contributing at a betterment of the quality of life of the residents of Capricchia, a hamlet of Amatrice, in the province of Rieti. It fosters the initiative SOS Capricchia - adopt a hamlet dedicated to the management of the emergency, to the support for the residents, and to the reconstruction of the common spaces and facilities of Capricchia, seriously damaged by the earthquake of 24 August 2016. It aims at laying the foundation to the future social and economic rebirth of the community of Capricchia and works in a coordinated and complementary manner with other institutional and benevolent activities.
💼 What the programme involves
The association Pro Villa Capricchia, to regenerate in the earthquake-affected areas a sustainable tourism based on the valorisation of the territory, built small wooden houses to host tourists registered at the Pro Loco. SCI volunteers will carry out various activities: support the population of Capricchia and the Pro Loco activists in the meals preparation for guests and for the same activists, in the maintenance of the hosting infrastructures and common facilities (cleaning, laying and clearing the table, little works of maintenance of the place) and in the design and preparation of some artistic performances (theatre, music, jugglery, etc) according to their skills, to be performed in the workcamp evenings for and with the village community and guests.
🏠 Accommodation on site
SCI volunteers will sleep in 4 or 2 places tents. The facilities (toilets and showers) are shared with the rest of the community. The volunteers will eat together with the locals, at the Pro Loco. They will help in the kitchen where and when requested.
📍 About the location
Capricchia is a hamlet in the North-East of the Amatrician Basin, distant 7 km from Amatrice. The closest major cities are Rieti and Ascoli Piceno. Capricchia is really reachable by bus from Rome. It is immerged in the woods of the Amatrician Basin, with beautiful landscape and mountain paths to be walked.
⚠️ Requirements
Artistic skills in the filed of music, teathre and perfomative arts in general would be very welcomed and appreciated! In fact, that could contribute to the evening gatherings and the liveliness of the village. Adaptability to the simple life is required. The volunteers should also be ready to bear an experience emotionally very involving.