📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Help Artemide to improve its structure by participating to creative recycling projects. Share ecological values and boost the local environment. Learn how to be independent.
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The association Artemide, since many years, proposes experiences in the educational field. The project has as primary objective: the education to the independence. It consists in stimulating and motivating the young people, above all if carriers of uneasiness, to be an active part in the process of theoretical construction and practice of the activities. In this way they appreciate the responsibility of an assignment to acquit. The knowledge is assimilated in the best way when it is combined to artistic practical activity, ecological, handicraft. The responsibility towards the whole world becomes an obvious consequence. The idea is to connect experiences and different knowledge.
In other words, the aim of this work camp is to make the House laboratory Cerquosino ( which has been restructured following bio building construction techniques focusing the attention on energy critical consumption)a place where different culture can gather and contribute to create a better place for the ones that will be hosted here in the future.
💼 What the programme involves
THE WORK: The volunteers in collaboration with the members of Artemide association will be involved in creative recycling workshops (how to create new object from recycled materials, using both traditional way of assembly and new creative and experimental techniques with pallets, wood from the forest, plastic bottle, paper....). The volunteers will also be involved in different work of maintenance of the house.
Working days from Monday to Friday, 5 hours a day.
Add Value of this experience: Protect the natural environment from the touristic speculation of the area - Increase the value of a disadvantaged rural area that has been constantly abandoned from the local population in the last 20 years - To put in practice the ideology of Ecology - To invent new solutions related to traditional practice and creativity.
🏠 Accommodation on site
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD: Volunteers will be accommodated in a guest house which has 1 single room, 1 triple room, 1 dormitory with 8 bed and 1 dormitory with 6 bed. There is a common bathroom with 3 toilets and 3 showers. Washing machine is not available. No internet line available.The house laboratory Cerquosino has a big kitchen that the volunteer will use to prepare their own food, vegetarian or not, it’s up to their own decision. Nearby there are no shops, the nearest one is in the little village of Morrano. The nearest supermarket is in Orvieto.
📍 About the location
LEISURE AND LOCATION: Leisure: during the free time, a trip to Orvieto, a walk in the natural park Elmo Melonta will be organised during the camp. Location: Location: the work camp will be held at the House laboratory Cerquosino that is located on the PegliaMountain, in the countryside 25 km away from the town of Orvieto in one of those disadvantaged and poorly productive areas that are nearly preserved intact until today. Cerquosino is situated inside the natural reserve of Elmo Melonta park, place of notable environmental interest. Inside flows the stream Melonta, where it is possible to take a bath.
The inhabitants of the area are mainly farmers; the average age of the inhabitants is very high as the new generations emigrate to the city. http://cerquosino.altervista.org/ facebook: Cerquosino Artemide.