📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Innovator’s valley is restoring and developing a unique cultural monument – a monastery from the XVIIth century with its park (20 ha), and Kamariskes manor. Step by step we are developing these historical places as social innovation opportunities as well as an environmental and non-formal education centre (www.inovatoriuslenis.lt). We need practical and creative help from young people to develop these unique places as co-working and co-living hubs in the nature.
💼 What the programme involves
The project is expected to restore culture objects. The participants will help to renovate the historical cultural heritage site in Baroque Carmelite Monastery of Antalieptė, Kamarikės manor and their surroundings. Restoration of culture objects will include cutting by hand and removing grass and woody vegetation, cleaning areas from the wastes. During restoration in Kamarikės manor participants will stay in tents for few days and they will have to cook food on fire.
The project is expected to clean up the boating race in ventoji River as well. Participants will travel with canoes/SUPboards down the ventoji River. Cleaning will include cutting by hand natural obstacles in the river (such as log, dump), and collecting trashes from the water (such us plastic bottles, bags).
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will live in the ancient monastery building. Volunteers will sleep in the rooms on the beds or mattresses, participants should bring sleeping bags. The volunteer will have to share the room with other participants up to 3 in one room. The volunteer will have to share the bathrooms as well as a fully equipped kitchen with other participants. In the living area participants will find WI-FI, washing machine, table games, bed sheets, towels and equipment for outdoor activities, all of it free of use. Cooking is done by volunteers themselves in organization full equipped kitchen.
📍 About the location
LEISURE TIME: Free time can be organized independently by the volunteers because there are many opportunities for visiting interesting places. During the free time volunteers can use organization bikes, SUPboards, or canoes, and go for biking trip around Regional Park or canoe trip down ventoji River, visit self-guided hiking trails. For relaxing a lake 1 km away is the best idea. There are many places for visiting in Zarasai district as well, such as Slyninka water mill, Monastery in Baltrikės, the oldest oak tree in east Europe (more than 1500 y.o.) and oldest Lithuania’s wooden church in Stelmuze.
LOCATION: Antalieptė is a small village with 150 inhabitants in Zarasai municipality district. The village has a good public transportation connection with bigger city Utena and the capital city Vilnius. The village facilities understand first aid service, a library, a culture house, basketball and football playgrounds, two local museums, a small sport gym, a local grocery store and a youth centre. Antalieptė is located Grautė regional park surrounded by pure nature.