SPILAMBERTO (MO)

Overseas is a non-profit organization and NGO established in Spilamberto (Modena) in 1971 to promote the global development of communities in non-European countries through volunteering and international cooperation., Support for local grassroots organizations and groups, distance solidarity for children and young people in need. Overseas has always given great importance to the assumption of lifestyles oriented to the sobriety of consumption, to solidarity "without borders" and has made practices of recovery and reuse of the principlae mode of research of economic resources for the construction of its headquarters. The field of work is an important stage in the redevelopment process of the association's headquarters, and in particular the "historic" building consisting of a shed of about 500 square meters in the 80s used for agricultural use for the storage of tools and animals and then used for storage of goods donated for reuse and recycling. The shed is located in the land owned by the association in the vicinity of another building properly "Casa Overseas" used as the operational headquarters and residence of the Association in which the participants will be hosted in the field of work; around the two buildings there is a large green area, at the time used as an educational-experimental field, with a garden, vegetable garden and arboretum of traditional varieties. The project consists in the reorganization of the spaces and activities that are already underway and in particular the two Atelier Progetto Dono and the Arte del Riuso laboratories and the enrichment of the structures located in the external area to further characterize the whole complex at the meeting. and conviviality.