📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Legambiente Valle Camonica local group is active since the eighties and has already organized several international workcamps. It promotes initiatives in various issues like rivers safeguard, soil consumption, landscape protection and care of the environment
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: volunteers will be involved in works as recovery of some of the footpaths with an historical importance and breathtaking views, that bring to locality Dois. They will clean and recover part of the cycle path Oglio, where the municipality has just built a Cyclo-pedestrian bridge; and clean the pathway of vineyard recently planted and owned by the municipality. Moreover they will help locals to set up the fence of municipal animal shelter. STUDY PART: Volunteers will meet people from Pia Foundation, a center which welcomes people with psycho-physical disabilities. During this meeting a girl with disability will design and write, using a special computer, posters in English that will be left as a gift to the participants. Poster will be about a particular species of ant, named rufa, with the aim to inform about this particular ant who lives in this area. Indeed the Giovetto Reserve is the first area in Europe to create a protective environment for these ants, which play a role to defend the ecosystem of woods.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The participants will stay one week with host families. The second week they will stay in a former convent with 10 rooms, 4 bathrooms and showers. The meals will always take place in common also during the first week.
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE: Malegno is a small town of Valcamonica located in a suggestive mountain landscape, in the central Alpes. During the free days, volunteers can visit places and cities with historical and cultural interest: the National Park of Rock Carvings, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Iseo Lake, where Montisola rises, the largest lake island in Europe, the town of Bienno, which is part of the most beautiful villages in Italy or the cities of Brescia and Bergamo.
TERMINAL: Nearest airports: Milano Linate and Milano Malpensa in Milan, Orio al Serio in Bergamo and Valeria Catullo in Verona. The nearest train station are: Cividate-Malegno and Breno (train from Brescia).
⚠️ Requirements
Ability to walk and work in the mountains.