📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The voluntary association LegambienteOttaviano “MimmoBeneventano” began its activity of denunciation of the abuses of that area in the early '80s as a local association, and joined Legambiente in 1989. In recent years the association has linked his name to important initiatives to expose illegality's spread on the territory of Vesuvius, managing to achieve important results like the closure of garbage dump of SommaVesuviana, Herculaneum and Terzigno, located in the National Park, the numerous charges against abusive pits, hydrogeological instability, aquifers and wells’ pollution, forest fires, illegal building and so on; sometimes denouncing omissions, indifference and inefficiency of local administration. Moreover, Legambiente is in charge of excursions in the Vesuvius National Park, environmental education, “environment and legality” help desk, volunteer workcamp and civil protection.
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: The volunteerswill be engaged in the care and maintenance of the spaces of the confiscatedproperty and trails park. Moreover, volunteerswill be involved in other social activities for awarenessaboutlegality and biodiversitycarried on by the localgroup.
STUDY PART: The volunteerswill be engaged in training activities in the afternoon: theywillmeet the members of the association, relatives of victims of crime, members of otherassociations with the aim to explain the link between the territoryalwaysexposed to lawlessness and the fight for the exploitation of the beautieslandscape.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accomodationhas to be confirmed. TheywilleatItalian and, especially, Neapolitantypicalfood, knownall over the world as the cornerstone of Mediterraneandiet.
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE: Ottaviano islocated in the Vesuvius National Park, 22 km from Naples city center. The park wasestablished in June 1995 and covers an area of around 135 squarekilometersalllocatedwithin the Province of Naples. Itiscentered on the activevolcano and itsmostancient (nowinactive) crater, Monte Somma. Ithouses 612 vegetablespecies and 227 wildlifeones. In thislandscapesit’spossible to walk in mountain paths, manychurches, park headquarters. Possiblevisits: Pompei, Naples, Vesuvio.
TERMINAL: Capodichino-Napoli Aeroports. Train station Napoli and localtrain; station: Ottaviano-Sarno, the stop Ottaviano.
⚠️ Requirements
attitude to walk in mountain.