📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
PARTNER : The workcamps is organized with the Youth Council of Ciciliano, a group of young people of different ages (15-25 years old) who are committed to the development of various activities for the well-being of the community.PROJECT : The general objective of the Youth Council of Ciciliano is to activate youth participation within local communities. The young group is linked with the municipality to promote the young participation and to bring fresh and creative idea in the community to revitalize the small village. As a group, the Council have already organized ecological days, excursions, and activities for children. With this project, we would like to carry out activities that are useful for strengthening the sense of community, bringing young people closer to local administration, and promoting intercultural learning. The work camp will allow us to interact with new people, exchange our experiences, and share our respective traditions. By joining this workcamp you will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals: Reduce inequality -SDG10 and Sustainable Communities-SDG11.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will involve in the organization of the Festival of folk music, dance, ptry, called Le Piacevoli Notti: Volunteers can participate in cultural workshops organized during the Festival, which will take place during the same period in Ciciliano, or they can assist the artistic staff, during the Festival, in setting up and dismantling the stage decorations and in promotional activities. of the differents kinds activities. During the workcamps will be organize a big Intercultural Day called 1Table4All where volunteers will be involved in organizing this day of conviviality with the locals, particularly in cooking typical foods from their own countries, with the aim of creating a social moment of contact and intercultural exchange with all the community. In addition, volunteers will . support the realization of a Mural on the theme of the Future: volunteers will manually help in the creation of the artwork. Volunteers will work approximately for 5/6 hours per day.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in the historic center in a former school, with a kitchen, 2 bathrooms, one with a shower, separate rooms for males and females. Vegetarian food is also provided. Nearby the building are: Pharmacy, Library, Market, Bakery, Butcher, ATM, Refreshment Points. Unfortunately, there is no Wi-Fi inside the building.
📍 About the location
Ciciliano is a small rural village with 1246 inhabitants, surrounded by hills, near Rome and a few kilometers from Tivoli, a city with 2 UNESCO sites. Numerous nature trails start downhill, including the path leading to the Sanctuary of Mentorella, one of the oldest Marian sanctuaries in Italy and Europe.