📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
We cooperate with the Directorate of Culture and Toursim. This year will be the first year of our cooperation. The supportive organizations are the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will work for the restoration of walkways in the valley, pruning of neglected trees, rehabilitation of agricultural areas, cleaning and maintenance of the way to Kýlýçlar Church, restoration of the ancient remains in the archeological site, cleaning of the grass, and restoration of destroyed walls, cleaning of the walking route, renovation of the info, cleaning of the surrounding, regulation of dangerous pathways, detection of endemic plants in the archaeological site, improvement of dangerous rocks in the valley, rehabilitation and maintenance of the vineyards in Pasabaglari, reassemble of the rocks in the route, construction of non-pass roads.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in the fully equipped student dormitories with rooms for 4,6 and 8 people. The volunteers will have the breakfast and the dinner in the dining hall of the dormitory and for the luch they will take lunch boxes. Meals will be prepared by the chef of the dormitory.
📍 About the location
Bounded by Kýzýlýrmak in the north, Yeþilhisar in the east, Hasan and Melendiz Mountains in the south, Aksaray in the west and Kýrþehir in the northwest, Kapadokya region has been a permanent settlement since the Chalcolithic period. The most important feature of the area, Erciyes Mountain and Hasan Mount tuffs, extraordinary rock shapes as a result of the wind and water erosion, and the carving places that are warm in the winter and cool in the summer carry the appropriate for all climatic conditions and seasons.
Göreme, has become an important center of Christianity by the establishment of Christians who fled oppressions especially between the centuries 7-13rd. Among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites the Göreme National Park, the Derinkuyu and Kaymaklý Underground Cities, the Karain Dove, the Karlýk Church, the Yeþilöz Theodoro Church and the Soðanlý Archaeological Site are included.
In their free time, volunteers will visit Cappadocia Area, museums, cultural and natural beauties of Cappadocia; and participate in workshops that the volunteers can benefit from socially.
ℹ️ Additional information
UNESCO - World Heritage List