📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Legambiente local group: Since 1998 Legambiente Riviera del Brenta has been organising activities in order to educate the younger generations since childhood and to increase the awareness about environmental issues concerning proper recycling of waste, protection of the landscape and public parks, protection of biodiversity of local wetlands. Moreover, we are concerned with information to the citizens about the environmental problems.
💼 What the programme involves
Work: The volunteers’ concrete activities will be the collection of waste, the elimination of weeds and shrubs, the planting of trees downed by the tornado, the restoration of green areas and historic Villas. They will also help Legambiente local group in the spreading of informative material to sensitize citizens about the importance of trees in contrasting these violent phenomena caused by climate change. Volunteers will be involved in working activities for about 25-30 hours per week.
Study Part: Volunteers will attend a photographic workshop during their visits in the surrounding territories and to the historic Villas; they will also organize a photographic exhibition at the end.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted in a building that is the headquarters of scouts Assiscout (WFIS) in Fiesso d’Artico, equipped with kitchen, bathrooms and showers.
📍 About the location
The Riviera del Brenta is located between Venice and Padova, two cities renowned for their artistic beauty and their history. Numerous Venetian Villas lie along the Brenta Canal and with their parks and gardens make beautiful and picturesque the landscape.
During the camp volunteers will visit Venice or Padua and the famous Villa Reale of Stra.