📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Organized together with Green Volunteers for Green Future(GV4GF) since 2012 (4th 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! Local poor families after here collect special soil and make and sell clay pots. After that they make a difference kind of cooking items to cook vegetables and rice which is using firewood.
💼 What the programme involves
We will 1. prepare clay for make pots for cooking made by clay to be burnt with guidance of locals, 2. assist farming of the villagers and 3. organize cultural exchange events for local community. Local people also make clay lamps, little pots for curds, etc. Study: Future plan of workcamps in Sri Lanka and global cooperation for it. Bring some info.!
🏠 Accommodation on site
Village house or Training Center. Be ready to enjoy simple life. CV. SB!
📍 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, 18 km 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$.