📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
SUMMARY: Help the locals to enhance the cultural heritage older than 2500 years. Enjoy working outdoor using your artistic and manual skills.
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PARTNER: Lunaria and Cilento Youth Union have organized several successful workcamps in the last years. Cilento Youth Union is a youth NGO started in Rofrano (SA) in 2015, targeting Italian youth with fewer opportunities from the south of Italy and specifically from the Cilento area. This workcamp is co-organized by Gazania Association, that proposes the study of the Byzantine history of Cilento and Vallo di Diano, the research and enhancement of cultural emergencies and ancient paths that can be traced back to the settlements of Italic monks. By joining this workcamp you will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals: SustainableCommunities -SDG11.
PROJECT: FOLLOW THE MONK! To the heart of the Cilento, Vallo of Diano and Alburni National Park is a workcamp about Bizantine heritage of Cilento and Vallo of Diano, sub-regions in Salerno province, researching and valorising cultural heritage and ancient paths linked to the settlements of Italian-Greek monks. Since 2018 the local promoters work on the realization of the “Cammino di San Nilo”. This is a route of 103 km, divided into 7 stages, crossing 10 small rural villages included in Cilento, Vallo of Diano and Alburni National Park. The aim of the project is to clean and improve the footpaths that integrate the "Cammino di San Nilo". In particular, volunteers will be asked to increase the signage along the entire route and in both directions. The volunteers will walk each stage of the “Cammino” together with a guide and will be transferred by bus from the San Mauro La Bruca headquarters to the starting point of the stage and vice versa for the return to the guest house.
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: The volunteers will be involved in different activities. Manual work: mow grass, repair and secure the fence, wood and stone steps, rid the path of trees and greenery obstructing the walk, fix dry small stone walls and pave paths with local natural stones, integrating signposting; Garbage collection work along the paths of “Cammino di San Nilo”; Forest work like clean undergrowth and forest floor, prune branches and plants.
🏠 Accommodation on site
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD: All volunteers will be accommodated at the guest house at San Mauro La Bruca, located in the centre of the town and equipped with mattresses, toilet and kitchen, where they will prepare meals, arranged according to Mediterranean cuisine. For this reason, volunteers will be assisted by a typical Cilento inhabitant. It’s recommended to bring: sunscreen, work clothes (included gloves, shoes), swimsuit but also warm clothes and K-way, sleeping bug, video-camera
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE TIME: San Mauro La Bruca is a town and commune in the province of Salerno, in Campania, region of south-western Italy. It’s located in the middle of Cilento, the sub-region which is home of the Mediterranean Diet and rich in biodiversity. It’s integrated by the hamlet of San Nazario, where the ancient abbey that housed San Nilo was located. It’s situated in the hills, but not far from the Cilento coast… so don’t forget to bring your swimming suit! With less than 600 inhabitants and its breath-taking panoramas, it is a very exotic and unusual place to visit. The area is rural and inner, far from urban centres, but people are very hospitable and always ready for conversation… in a very nice dialect! TERMINAL: Rome and Naples
⚠️ Requirements
SPECIFICS REQUIREMENT: open-minded, attitude to outdoor manual activities, positive artistic attitude, flexible to eat local food, ready to interact with other people of different cultural background, willing to share own experiences, flexible to live in simple living conditions.