📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Legambiente local group: Born in 1987, Legambiente local group in Paestum - Freewheeling – is currently enaged in the running of Dune Oasis a project that aims to protect the delicate dune ecosystem along the coast; and also OrtoMondo, a special vegetable garden cultivated by the guests of a shelter for asylum seeker and migrants in Paestum on an abandoned land.
💼 What the programme involves
The work will be always in direct collaboration with the technical staff for the maintenance of the Oasi Dunale, the cleaning of the walls of the ancient city of Paestum. Moreover there will be the opportunity to cooperate with the migrants that live in our social housing OrtoMondo hrlping in gardening and other small activities. Volunteers will work on maintenance and cleaning of the coasts and beaches and will realize signals for the correct use of the area. The volunteers will be involved also in activities of gardening in the social housing OrtoMondo will realize small work of renovation and maintenance to better the structure that host 15 seekers asylum.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted in MarePineta camping site in single tents or bungalows it depends form the evolution of COVID diffusion. Food will be local and based on the mediterranean diet.
📍 About the location
Paestum, district of Salerno, Region Campania - Italy
U.N.E.S.C.O. World Heritage Site, Paestum is, for its art, nature, tastes and events which characterize it, one of the most important and beautiful cities of Magna Graecia. The old city is located in a strategic position, not far from the Amalfi Coast and from the National Park of Cilento.
The Archaeological site includes the Basilica, the biggest and the oldest among the three Temples (it dates back to 550 B.C), the Temple of Ceres, the Temple of Neptune, the Amphitheatre (a Typical Roman Building), and the Forum.
From Naples Capodichino international airport there are bus connection for the central railway station of Naples where is possibile to take a regional train to Paestum. The requested time is about 1hour and 20 minutes. null
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers have to be interested in ecology and human ecology.