📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Through this program you will be helping elderly members of the community to harvest and maintain their olive fields and have opportunity to engage into their everyday culture. Activities such as the care and harvesting of olive orchards, and the repair of Brač island's stone walls are a few examples of the tasks during your volunteer service. Your active participation will allow the elders of Sumartin to share their lifelong knowledge, to become better teachers of that knowledge, and to transform Sumartin into a living history museum.
Under the guidance of masters of Sumartin traditions you will perform some of the following tasks: harvest olives, build/repair dry stone walls, document activities in photos and written reflections, help in daily activities in a traditional shipyard for wooden boats.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Board and accommodation in apartments, sharing rooms (3 or more persons per room);
Travel costs will be reimbursed for the cheapest and most direct way of transport, according to Erasmus+ distance calculator in the amount of the ticket prices maximum: (100 - 499 km: 180€ per participant, 500 - 1999 km: 275€ per participant, 2000 - 2999 km: 360€ per participant);
Pocket money: 5€/day;
Meals will be cooked by the volunteers, ingredients provided by the organization
Arrival day OCT 20th , Work days OCT 21st - 30th, Free days OCT 31st - NOV 3rd, Departure day NOV 4th.
🎒 Leisure activities
As a volunteer participant in this program, you will be engaged with some of the tradition bearers of the community; those individuals that contain within them the generational knowledge and day-to-day customs of life in Sumartin. In a sign of solidarity, you will be required to participate in the daily activities of those who live out those working traditions regarding both maritime and land based occupational arts.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: Open minded person, interested in traditional culture, wants to learn about traditional crafts, hard working, loves outdoors, team player, social person.
Deadline: Application deadline: 16/10/2022
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.