📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The area where the social center Ex-Snia was born is part of the former factory CISA-SNIA Viscose, closed and abandoned in 1954. In 1995 it was occupied by the inhabitants of the neighbourhood and not only in order to block a gigantic speculation project, for the re-appropriation of denied spaces, for a social and collective use, not tied to any logic of profit. The social occupation of the SNIA is self-managed and self-financed, is based on the direct and voluntary participation of people without hierarchies through assemblies. In the last year, the fight to save an abandoned area with a small lake (10000spm) was recently won and the social center aims to self rehabilitate the area involving local and international support.
💼 What the programme involves
The camp volunteers will support the organisation of the activities and projects carried out by the social Center. The volunteers will support the rehabilitation of the green area around the lake as a park recently rescued from cement and returned to the city: cleaning of the area, construction of the park furniture such as trails for walks and naturalistic visits, gazebos, pergola, benches, tables, chairs, games. They will also be involved in organizing cultural and social events (festival) that are organized during that days, supporting the preparation issues and the group turns in the kitchen, bar, and serving. The volunteers will also build the workcamp kitchen on their arrival.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will stay in tents (they need to bring) within the Social Center park. Bring all the equipments needed in case of rain. The services included: 4 bathrooms (2 inside and 2 outdoor), 5 showers (2 hot inside, 3 outdoor), a camping kitchen, lockers where to keep their items. Do consider the location, even-though in Rome, as a little bit rustic ;)
📍 About the location
The camp is in Rome, quite close to the city center (10 minute with bus). The nearest stations are Termini Station and Tiburtina station. The principal airports are: Leonardo da Vinci airport - FIUMICINO and Ciampino airport.
⚠️ Requirements
There are no specific competence required, just have a bit of manual ability, inventiveness and spirit of adaptability.
ℹ️ Additional information
The daily life is the Social Center is marked by various activities: there is a gym, a playground, a ciclofficina to promote alternative urban mobility to the car, ludofficina, garden and composting, Italian language school for foreigners. Volunteers can visit Rome and the Pigneto neighbourhood (with many local collective and committees, art galleries and craft breweries, wine bars and cultural centers), also by bicycle; they'll have the possibility to do sports in popular gym center and in the outdoor covered spaces in the park, to visit the historical archive Viscose (old factory). Volunteers must bring their tents, sleeping bags, mattresses, a light torch and working clothes