📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Good Works Association (GíD) is a workshop and experimentation association that works to improve production, development, sharing and social benefits. GID was created to stand as a model in Turkey that aims to formulate and set up intellectual and practical workshops to benefit Bergama’s local people, students, civil society, academicians, and working-class groups.
The association’s new experiential project is going to be carried out in an area of 12.000 m2, 6 km away from the city centre of Bergama in a small village that will be called Fable Village. Fable Village will include fable telling, fable performance, fable action, fable drawing, fable with music, fable film-shootings and fable experiments all around the world.
💼 What the programme involves
: Construction, Gardening, Volunteer duties in GíD workshops, Volunteering/leading fable workshops if you have an expertise in that field or a great desire of being a part of fable workshops. We are looking for volunteers who would like to work in the project area for the construction. Volunteering jobs will include; taking care of the project site, trees, vegetation and organizing some the arrangements with the village people.
🏠 Accommodation on site
A1: Located in the city centre. Room with private WC & bathroom with bunk beds. Wi-Fi and air conditioning is available.
A2: Housing near the fable village with beds, WC and bathroom.
F: Kitchen is available and food is provided by the association. Volunteers will be responsible for cooking.
📍 About the location
Pergamon (Bergama) is 2400 years old ancient city designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014. The city center has 50.000 population. It is about 20 minutes’ drive to the Aegean Sea and forested highlands. There are 114 villages nearby with an additional population of 50.000. All villages have different cultures, environment and local cuisine.