📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Spaziogiovani Genzano is a local association involved in the promotion of social services and projects for local youths for over 20 years. The association pays special attention to promoting social inclusion and strengthening community cohesion, especially for groups with special needs It operates by organizing recreational projects, non-formal education, and cultural activities, as well as sustainable and environmental education events. It counts on the volunteer and active participation of its members.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will be involved in maintenance work (like painting, decorating, recycling, etc) for preparing and arranging a new space that the association will start to use in September. This new space will host a center for social activities and initiatives for local young people and the local community. Work is organized in the morning from 8:30 to 13:30 while in the
afternoon cultural activities will be implemented in the town and neighboring cities, involving the local community (language exchange, excursions, gastronomy event, etc.)
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will sleep indoor, using air mattresses provided on spot, in a common place used for sport activities equipped with hot showers and toilets, electricity and running water. The volunteers will need to bring their own sleeping bag. As the premises has also an outdoor space with a garden, if the volunteers wish so, they can sleep outdoors. In such a case they will need to bring their own tent and sleeping bag.
There is no wi-fi in the building, however, this can be found in the association’s office and at working space (less than 1km far from the building).
Food grocery will be provided, and volunteers will cook for themselves divided in groups and following shifts. A camping cooker will be available and arranged at the accommodation place.
📍 About the location
Genzano di Lucania is located in the province of Potenza, in Basilicata region, in the South of Italy. The region is quite rural with suggestive landscapes, and the village a small town of about 5000 inhabitants is in the inland, on the hills.
For the free time nearby places can be visited such as: Matera, Piccole Dolomiti Lucane Park, Venosa, Acerenza, Pietragalla’caves park, Metaponto and Policoro beaches, Castel del Monte, Bari, Alberobello – Trulli, Gravina in Puglia, Altamura. Monteserico, or doing trekking or horse-riding. Some of these activities will be organized by the hosting association
ℹ️ Additional information
Willing to manual work (like repairing, painting, fixing, gardening, etc). Sense of initiative.