📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Legambiente Scicli Kiafura was created to fight the construction of an oil waste treatment system in the countryside of Scicli. In addition to this battle, successfully completed, the local group is very active in activities of watchman of the area on environmental pollution issues, on beach litter, on unauthorized building. The local group also works a lot with schools, carrying out environmental educational projects and activities with them.
💼 What the programme involves
The main activity will be a carpentry workshop for the creation of tourist signboards to restore the old wooden signs of a nature trail in the suburban park of Costa di Carro, on the coast of Scicli, engrave them, decorate them and finally position them along the path. Other activities will involve cleaning paths and beaches. This is an INVOLVE workcamp so the volunteers will cooperate with a group of migrants hosted local shelter center for immigrants and the local group of the HUB that run the project. The work will always take place during the morning and volunteers will be involved in working activities for about 30 hours per week.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be hosted in a camping in a bungalows or single tents, it depends on the evolution of COVID affair. The camping is located in Marina di Ragusa, in the center of the renowned tourist
📍 About the location
The territory where workcamp will be held is famousfor its Baroque cities of the Val di Noto: Modica, Scicli, Ragusa Ibla, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
MEETING POINT: Friday 27 August in Ragusa bus station h. 16.00.
HOW TO REACH THE MEETING POINT: From Catania Fontanarossa international airport there are bus connection every hour for the central bus station of Ragusa. The requested time is about 1 hour and 45 minutes.
A shuttle bus will transport all volunteers from the bus station in Ragusa to the camping in Marina di Ragusa.
⚠️ Requirements
Days can be very hot in Sicily, tolerance to high temperatures is required