📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Sikanamente" is a social promotion association set up by a group of friends who grew up in the Monti Sicani area with the aim of building a physical and intellectual place for sharing, with the aim to enhance the cultural, environmental and human heritage of the Monti Sicani area.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will be involved in manual work for the maintenance of the walking paths that characterise the area (Magna Via Francigena, Itinerarium Rosaliae) and other places of importance for the local community.
Study Part: To raise awareness of the possible challenges faced by young people living in remote geographical areas and how these are experienced and/or overcome by the local community; what kind of initiatives young people are carrying out within their own community. To promote the initiatives that the European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus+ address to young people aged 18-30.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be host in two large tents, with access to showers and
outdoor facilities in the nearest proximity. The volunteers, divided into groups and following shifts, will prepare meals in a common kitchen. The location of the activities will be reached on foot by the volunteers.
📍 About the location
Prizzi is a small town in the hinterland of Palermo, located in the Sicani
mountains at 1045 m above sea level. It is characterised by a vast
archaeological and geological history as well as by the surrounding
landscape surrounded by mountains, natural woodlands and archaeological
sites.
ℹ️ Additional information
Volunteers have to like living in a small mountain/rural environment, going for walks and hikes in the woods. Also camping lifestyle.