📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This project will be welcomed by the local community of Filaga and their local people involved in the project Terr@Terra that aims to valorize the historical-cultural-naturalistic environment of the Sicani Mountain area by creating a hostel managed by locals including young people with physical or light mental disability. The hostel is used for accommodating hikers, national and international groups.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will support the local community to help develop rural areas and therefore they will be involved in manual work for the embellishment of the hostel, indoor and outdoor spaces, painting, upcycling for creating benches and furniture, and other tasks related to the vegetable garden and wheat harvesting.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in bank-beds in sharing rooms like dormitory-style. The building was used to be a school and now is equipped as very basic hostel, bathrooms and showers are limited and will be shared according to gender. Food will be prepared by a local people and members of Terr@Terra (a few workers can have light mental or physical disability). Volun-teers divided in shifts will help in arranging the table before and after meals, cleaning the dining room, bedrooms and com-mon space. Slow-Wi-fi is available in the accommodation.
📍 About the location
FILAGA is a small town in province on Palermo, Sicily, surrounded by mountains and wood, and populate by cozy people. As any rural area, there are not many connection with Palermo this is why we recommend to plan your trip following some rec-ommendation that will be shared later on.
ℹ️ Additional information
Motivation Letter showing interest in experiencing living in a rural area and support its development. Basic accommodation in hostel. European Solidarity Corps Programme Countries only.