📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
I Ragazzi di San Lorenzo Bellizzi” is a no profit voluntary association established in 2010. The mission of the association is developping the local culture of business and making it interact with the territory, so that everybody can benefit from a general growth. Legambiente Cosenza local group is very active in environmental education in the schools about sustainability, renewable energies, agriculture waste management and sustainable lifestyles.
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: The works on olive groves recovery will consist in eliminating weeds, cutting down shrubs and removing stones and all that is needed to prepare for recovery of the plant. The “Way of oil and bread” will be valorized by the works on the ancient haystacks that will be cleaned for renovation in order to leave the perimeter wall clean from residues from stones, tiles and beams of the collapsed roof, wild plants, etc.
STUDY PART: workcamp seminars session will be organized on Brigants and history of Calabria; rural life, organic oil production. Volunteer will be actively involved in the preparation activities of the annual initiative of “Saperi e Sapori”, a traditional fest on the street of the town that connect the gastronomic tradition to cultural roots and town heritage. Volunteers will be recruited in a “marine litter” day inside the campain of Legambiente Calabria “RiciclaEstate”.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer will resides in the Casa Parco shelter and can benefit by a convention with the local restaurants. No internet.
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE: San Lorenzo is a small town where large part of the economy depends on pensions, small business, catering, and tourism seasonal jobs during the summer. It is subjet to a strong depopulation as many villages in the south of Italy. The territory of San Lorenzo is a small treasure trove of beautiful landscapes characterized by canyons created by the Raganello river. During the camp a visit to Pollino park along the ancient roots of Brigants will be organized for the volunteers of the camp. The initiative will comprise an experience in the tent in the Pollino. Volunteers can visit also the “Grotta delle ninfe” (Ninphes' cave), a termal spring site.
TERMINAL: Local Train Station: Trebisacce station, (Last bus at 16.00) Plane: Lamezia Terme (SUF) . Aeroporto di Bari Palese (BRI) See also: www.aeroportodibari.com/ By Bus Autolinee S.A.J. See also: www.saj.it/sanlorenzo-trebisacce.htm