🏢 About the local organisation
The project stems from the concern to revalue a property confiscated to Ndrangheta, exactly to Mannolo's family, convicted for international drug smuggling. For ten year the building was closed and rejected by multiple agencies including the Church, until 2007 when it was requested and obtained from Crotone WWF volunteers for 10 years with a concession interest-only loan. The building now is a CELA (center of legal and environmental education) and became the symbol of the fight against organized crime in the province of Crotone. In 2012 the building had a good restyling thanks to the the work of the IBO volunteers that they ended the work outside the CELA creating a picnic area for local people, restored the garden of memory and fixed the damages done to the fences. CELA collaborates with “Libera” Association too, that over a year manages 90 Hectares of land confiscated from the mafia in the neighboring municipality of Isola Caporizzuto, for this reason in this mentioned landes could start carrying out the redevelopment works . The project supports the work activities above described and training activities which ranging from the fight against crime, historical and environmental beauty of this area.
💼 What the programme involves
• Small maintenance work for the hosting building CELA Center.
• Cleaning and managing activities in the recovery center for turtles. Volunteers will help local guards to take care and release caretta caretta turtles.
• Cleaning work in the Sovereto's beaches with the presence of local plants in extinction.
• Cleaning work and picking up of agricoltural products in the grounds in the province of Crotone confiscated to the local mafia.
Throughout the work the volunteers will be followed and taught by volunteers of WWF of Crotone.
The work will take the first half of the day . For the second half , the camp leaders will involve volunteers in training activities , realised with non formal education methods , to elaborate on main issues ofv the camp : defense of legality and organised crime fight , environment protection .
In the free time volunteers could go on the beach by foot (200 m).