SAN BENEDETTO BELBO CN

The workcamp is in San Benedetto Belbo (Cuneo) a smaller monastic community in Alba s diocese was born in 1980.This workcamp is inside to the project Villaggio Elim (www.villaggioelim.it) a residential and no residential community project based on the choice of poverty, hosting and contemplation. The Villaggio Elim is a big traditional and local house rebuilding thought several IBO workcamps starting since 90 and a dry stone school. During the years many volunteers were involved to rebuild the building and the territory learning the dry stone technique tipical of the ancient small walls on the hills of this land.In particular they worked for:construction of a stone bridge (2012)restoration of the access road (2015)rebuilding of a future hosting house (2016)courtyard arrangement with the close supporting wall, cleaning around the hosting house (2017)On 2019 they planned a recovery of the stone heritage of a complex of the century XVII to recov ver the spaces for a meeting room on the ground floor, a living roomon the first floor and services and storage in the back.