📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Organized together with Green Volunteers for Green Future(GV4GF) since 2012 (3rd time in this place). GV4GF is a NGO newly founded to promote voluntary service, environmental protection and improve rural life. NICE's been co-organizing the projects to enable them to do by themselves from 2015! The local NGO has a model farm using organic manure, having 4 cattle and a bio gas unit. The project place is a dry and historic, yet less developed town, is in agriculture and livestock farming.
💼 What the programme involves
We will 1. work to establish organic farm, 2. assist the villagers' farming of members of the local NGO, 3. help the families to make their clay pots and burn. and 4. organize cultural exchange events for local community. We can also learn the rural organic farming and techniques.
STUDY: Future plan of workcamps in Sri Lanka and global cooperation for it. Bring some info.!
🏠 Accommodation on site
Village house. Be ready to enjoy simple life.
📍 About the location
Home to the Veddh (meaning people of the forest), descendants of the tribes inhabited thousands of years ago. 180 km from Colombo on the South East region of Matale, 14km from Mahiyanganaya city.
TERMINAL: Colombo (you need to arrive by the end of Mar. 22nd and can leave there after the midnight of Apr. 4th). LEISURE: Excursion, environmental education, farewell party, etc.
ℹ️ Additional information
230 US$ to be paid on your arrivals. One week participants (03/02-03/08) should pay 160 US$.