📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Association EcoParco Sant’Anna promotes actions, initiatives, seminars, family days, activities for schools, open events to spread a culture of environmental sustainability and for enhancing the use of the natural park Sant’Anna located in a small town called Giuliana. Having the idea of triggering an active and responsible participation of the local community, the association promotes initiatives, seminars, activities for families and for schools, public events to enhance art and crafts.
Activities they have carried out are LudoNature, excursions, educational trips, family days, thematic workshops on art and natural elements.
Moreover, the Association aims to enhance the natural, cultural, social and historical resources of Giuliana, a small medieval mountain village, together with the municipality of the town.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will help the association to improve the area of the park: activities can be related to maintenance and manual work, restore and open new path in the park, repair and create map or signs inside the park. Volunteers will contribute to the preparation and implementation of public activities in the park for St. Anne’s day celebration (july 26th).
STUDY PART locals will introduce the historical side of the park and of the castle, and the cultural tradition of the village.
🏠 Accommodation on site
International volunteers will be host in family by local volunteers in group of two. They will share the house and facilities with a local volunteer and his/her family. Lunch will be proided in the park, breakfast and dinner in family.
Local and international volunteers will go together to the workplace by car or van provided by the municipality.
📍 About the location
Giuliana is a small village and services can be reached by walking.
Trekking to Mount Genuardo natural reserve can be organized during the free time, but also trip to small villages nearby (Sambuca di Sicilia, Bisacquino, Chiusa Sclafani, ecc) to visit local organic farms and local artisans. Closest beaches are in Sciacca and Menfi (around 45-50 Km far away) connection might not be available though.
ℹ️ Additional information
Volunteers have to like being in a natural outdoor environment, socialize with children and young people, to like hiking. Bigger cities are not easy to reach it is better to warn volunteers about the possibility to spend their free time in the nearby.