📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The pilot project involves a large coalition of associations and the Anzio municiplaity to support the School in this innovative initiative and the international workcamps are important to prepare the settings and to do intercultural activities with the kids.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will work in organizing workshops with the children, and will build a playground (a tree house, a sandpit, a hut). Another important task is the mainteinance and cleaning of green areas of the Nature Reserve "Tor Caldara", where the wood is located. The different tasks will be organized in shift.
Days: Monday to Friday. Hours: 10.00 to 15.00 h.
The three types of work (Work with kids - Renovation -Construction) can be alternated during the day on the basis of an organized calendar with volunteers.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will sleep in camp bed inside the school gym. Bathrooms and showers will be available. Sleeping bags are needed. They will have bicycles with which will move to reach the reserve where they will work, they can also use them for leisure trips. Lunch from Monday to Friday will be organized by the school canteen, while dinner will be prepared by volunteers (a camp kitchen will be in the school) and sometime by the project partners. Vegetarian lunches or celiac recipes can be done, but you will need to know prior to arrival in order to organize.
📍 About the location
The reserve is in front of a beautiful beach, where volunteers can go after 15.00 or on weekends. The reserve is very close to Anzio, a pretty seaside town about 55 kilometers south of Rome with a long history to the time of ancient Rome. It 'a marina and fishing spot from which you can reach the island of Ponza, and is 2 hours from Naples. Rome can be reached by train with one hour. The group will organize autonomously the free time.