🏢 About the local organisation
The project was born thanks to the collaboration with the religious congregation “Sisters Servants of Divine Providence”, founded in Catania (Sicily) in 1921 by Maria Marletta.
Along nearly a century the service carried out by even a small religious family has seen many results, of healthy growth for many children and young people who have not chosen to live on the edge and that only by difficulties related to the family of origin, have the bitter experience of not belonging to anyone.
The objective of the workcamp is to complete the construction of a nature trail made of wooden toys, in order to equip an area of an ancient abandoned farm as a playground for children and adults. We will carry on with the reconstruction of paths and walls that are falling down, of benches and tables to be arranged under the oaks, to offer some relaxing areas for the sharing moments among the guests.
We will place in the soil some berries plants, so that the guests that will live in the farm will be able to transform the fruits themselves.
Our aim is to create a social farm, that in the future could accomodate a residential community of young people at risk of exclusion, or who feels the need of a social recovery. In the farm, through the rural work experience, they will gradually experience a restoration of their human dignity.
Through personalized routes, in a natural environment, they will find reasons to live and hope for a better future.
💼 What the programme involves
This workcamp will hopefully pave the way for more projects that aim to restructure, through the gift of a collective work, some parts of the old farm, such as the winery and other structures, half-destroyed by different upheavals of vulcanic nature.