📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: The work will be concentrated mainly in the morning, with four activities:
1-Arrangement of the camp, taking care of the little vegetable garden and of the water tank
2- work in the wood: building different things with wood materials, prepare a path for outdoor learning and building a new tree house
3- Cooking to prepare lunch with organic food coming from the nearby area
4- Support to the creation of artistic and environmental laboratories
WORKING DAYS AND HOURS: 5 days and 4 hours per day
🏠 Accommodation on site
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD: The volunteers will sleep in tents of 4 people. The tents will be provided. Electricity and hot water will be provided by photovoltaic and solar panels. The toilet are 2 compost toilets, made of wood. The meals will be prepared by the volunteers, who will eat together in a big tent. Most of the food will come from local farms of from the fair trade market.
📍 About the location
LEISURE: In the afternoon the volunteers will take part in special workshops, games, and other activities (for example tree-climbing, excursions, land art, soap making workshops) or will get in contact with local associations or local people. Some evenings will be organized with "cultural nights", where one or more countries organize a dinner with the typical food and games and /or workshops to show their own culture. The rest of the evenings there will be moments at the fireplace, free evenings or some game in the darkness.
The volunteers will have 2 days free, one will be arranged a trip to Lake Como, near Lecco city; other will be a day of self-management. Also the first day and the last day of the camp will be without working activities (except from cooking and arranging the camp).
LOCATION: The workcamp will be carried out in “Campiano” which belongs to the municipality of Valgreghentino (LC), in the north of Italy. In the past this area was used for the agriculture, but now most of it is abandoned: we can see abandoned buildings, woods and fields. Invasive plants are growing avoiding the growth of the local ones.
TERMINAL: Milan airports (Orio al Serio, Linate and Malpensa)
⚠️ Requirements
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: The volunteers will have to bring their own camping mattress and sleeping bag. Boys and girls will be divided for sleeping. Participants must carry their belongings in a backpack, as they will arrive at camp by foot.