📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Regenerate and rebuild an old school to create a participative gym for body , imagination to promote active citizenship and solidarity. community solidarity inclusion lunarcamp ESCinTeamThe aim is to return these restored spaces to the school itself and to the territory, with the creation of an educational and community garden, a historical archive, a participative gym, that is for the body, for the imagination and to promote active citizenship and solidarity. The camp will contribute to the creation of a creative and inclusive gym (also accessible to people with disabilities) in the basement of the school. The recovered spaces will be used to carry out activities of socialization, inclusion, creativity and movement and will promote the values of solidarity, human rights, differences, women s rights, education for peace and freedom. Specifically ANITA wants to redevelop 12 spaces (not all of them this summer), each dedicated to two athletes (one male and one female) who had to overcome socio-cultural barriers in order to play sports and whose story will be illustrated with panels or murals and summarized with the initials of the athletes who can inspire and encourage. By joining this workcamp you will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals: Reduce inequality -SDG10.The association ANITA (Association New Ideas for an Open Territory at Garibaldi School), composed of families and people from the area active in the "Open Schools" program, is committed to enhancing a public school as a Common Good. Since 2013 they are committed to restore spaces of the school previously unused as the garden, the former janitor s house and the huge basement.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will work approximately 6/7 hours per day with the contribution of the local community, families, children (age 6-12) and local teenagers (age 13-18). Work will be focused on: Renovation of the basement of the school: plastering, painting and making simple murals on the walls. Construction of climbing walls for the gym dedicated to this, with preparation work of the walls, carpentry and minor electrical maintenance; Care of the didactic garden: watering and keeping the spaces clean, creating a compost bin, an earthworm tank, signage in Italian and English, fixing a little wall, renovating doors and windows; Digitization of the school s historical archive, i.e. the class registers from the fascist period and the war, a very useful material to propose to the school children to do research on the discrimination perpetrated by fascism and the difficulties faced during the war; Artistic and bricolage activities: we will also try to give space to reuse activities (such as the creation of benches and sensory boards) and artistic activities (such as the creation of murals and a short video to let the school children know what has been done by the volunteer camp).
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in the school itself, in the "House of the Thousand" (former janitor s house), which has all facilities (rooms, toilets, showers) and a kitchen. Volunteers can use the garden of the school to eat outdoors. Accommodation is very basic. Food can be prepared by volunteers themselves. Volunteers will take care of the common space and respect the place.
📍 About the location
Rome, near Piazza San Giovanni, 3 minutes walk from the metro station "Re di Roma" or "Ponte Lungo" (metro A) and 40 minutes walk from the Colosseum. We foresee that the volunteers will be able to make at least one full day excursion in Rome. TERMINAL: The nearest terminal is Fiumicino and Ciampino Airport.