📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
We will organize this camp in collaboration with Mersin-Mezitli Municipality and this year will be the fourth year of our collaboration. For more information about our partner, please visit https://www.mezitli.bel.tr
💼 What the programme involves
In this camp, volunteers help nature and environmental protection and sustenance works in Happy Life Village and in other regions. Volunteers assist with the development of the projects such as trekking tracks, hiking and cycling paths/(routes); by examining the location, coordinate and endemic plant species, they issue a track guide. For this reason, volunteers who do orienteering sports, have experience and interest in outdoor sports and who are topographical/environmental engineers or have the knowledge of mapping(map) will be preferred. In addition, volunteers carry on a work on digitial media activities to present/introduce recently built Happy Life Village. For this reason, volunteers who are communication professionals and have the knowledge of digital media will be preferred.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in a sweet guesthouse of Happy Life Village that belongs to Municipality. The guesthouse has shower, toilet, air conditioning and bunk beds as well. Volunteers will eat their meals in the Down Café where individuals with Down Syndrome work at. Food will be prepared by the cooks of the Down Café. In this way, both volunteers’ food needs will be met and employement and socialization process of individuals with Down syndrome will be supported.
📍 About the location
Mezitli is one of the biggest and most beautiful Mediterranean district of Mersin which is one of the most beautiful touristic cities of Turkey. Mersin and Mezitli are the primary province and district among the provinces and districts in Turkey that are mostly preferred on the purpose of sheltering by refugees who came to Turkey due to the civil war in Syria. In this region, that has a coast on Mediterranean with full of palm trees, where many cultures and communities live together, there are also many natural and cultural heritages belonging to the Ancient Roman and Hellenistic Period. “Woman Producer Markets”, implemented by Mezitli Municipality of Mersin, ranked first in “International Guangzhou Urban Innovation Awards” that was held in China. Mersin-Mezitli Municipality ,which is among Turkey’s the most successful municipalities due to the intensive efforts it has shown on social innovation and urban studies, is the host of this camp. Mersin-Mezitli Municipality that comes forward with its social and economic supports for individuals with disabilities, down syndromes, autisms, children, elderly, asylum seekers etc. and its sustainable environmental projects, is one of the most important factors that make this region attractive.
ℹ️ Additional information
For this reason, volunteers who do orienteering sports, have experience and interest in outdoor sports and who are topographical/environmental engineers or have the knowledge of mapping(map) will be preferred. In addition, volunteers carry on a work on digitial media activities to present/introduce recently built Happy Life Village. For this reason, volunteers who are communication professionals and have the knowledge of digital media will be preferred.