📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Ottaviano Legambiente local group began its activity of denunciation of the abuses of that area in the early '80s as a local association, and joined Legambiente in 1989. The name of local group is Mimmo Beneventano, a mafia victim. 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 Somma Vesuviana, Herculaneum and Terzigno, located in the National Park. Moreover, locally Legambiente is in charge of excursions in the Vesuvius National Park, environmental education, “environment and legality” help desk, volunteer workcamp and civil protection and collaborate with Libera.
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: The volunteers will be engaged in the care and maintenance of the confiscated properties and trails. Moreover, volunteers will be involved in other social activities for awareness about legality and biodiversity carried on by the local group. STUDY PART: The volunteers will be engaged in training activities in the afternoon: they will meet the members of the association, relatives of victims of crime, members of other associations with the aim to explain the link between the territory always exposed to lawlessness and the fight for the exploitation of the beauties landscape.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Confiscated property. They will eat Italian and, especially, Neapolitant ypical food, known all over the world as the cornerstone of Mediterranean diet.
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE: Ottaviano is located in the Vesuvius National Park, 22 km from Naples city center. The park was established in June 1995 and covers an area of around 135 square kilometers in the Province of Naples. . It is centered on the active volcano and its most ancient (now inactive) crater, Monte Somma. It houses 612 vegetable species and 227 wildlife ones. Possible visits: Pompeii, Naples, Vesuvius.
TERMINAL: Aeroport of Naples Capodichino. Train station of Naples. Regional train Ottaviano-Sarno, the Ottaviano stop
⚠️ Requirements
attitude to walk in mountain.