📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Legambiente Brescia works on several topics at the local level, like sustainable mobility, pollution, energy, waste management, with the aim to raise and sensitise the citizen awareness about these issues.
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: Volunteers will be involved in work of preparatory about planting of chestnut trees. They will work on cleaning the access paths to chestnut trees area, removing infest plants, with the aim to make the work of planting easier in winter.
STUDY PART: short study moments about local and sustainable food will be organized.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted in a refuge in the forest. Refuge has all confoprts (electricity, water, gas). Cooking and cleaning will be done by the volunteers.
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE: Brescia is an historical city with roman remains. It’s surrounded by natural areas like mountains and lakes. It’s very well connected with important cities like Milano, Verona and Venice. Since the accommodation is 30 minutes walking from the closest public transport, some excursion for volunteers will be organized.
TERMINAL: Closest airports are Milano Orio al Serio, Milano Linate and Verona Catullo. The train stops in the Brescia train station.
⚠️ Requirements
The volunteers will have to walk about 30 minutes per day in the forest to reach and come back from the working site.