Explore garden therapy throught community life

Name: Explore garden therapy throught community life
Start: 2022-09-01
End: 2022-09-10
Location: Italy

Italy Teenagers Farming People with disabilities Manual work Teenagers Farming +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The 'AgriTermine' farm, thanks to the more than 20 years' experience of one of its partners, has been developing an innovative garden therapy project for two years. Unlike other experiences that have brought the vegetable garden, agricultural work, into 'closed' communities to create new and rich relationships for disadvantaged people, this project has the ambition of building an 'open' community around a community garden, starting from the awareness that the need for quality relationships concerns the entire population and is always connected to the relationship we are able to establish with the Earth. The aim of the camp will be to get involved and contribute concretely to this new challenge by being part of it, bringing their own contribution with manual work and intercultura exchange.

💼 What the programme involves

The work envisaged will be of a manual and agricultural nature, concretely following the horticultural therapy project carried out by the partner association and fostering intercultural exchange among the volunteers themselves and between the volunteers and the host community. In addition, volunteers will help build a tree house that will serve as a space for future events organised by Agritermine . Volunteers will work for no more than 6 hours a day.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accommodation will be either in tents or indoors, with the possibility of arriving the evening before the camp and leaving the day after it ends. If you want to sleep in a tent, you are asked to bring a sleeping bag and mat. The toilets are inside the dwelling where you sleep. The kitchen will be prepared by the volunteers, in turn. They will also cook the food that is collected (spinach, salad, tomatoes, etc.).