📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Born in 1987, Legambiente local group Freewheeling is currently enaged in the running of Dune Oasis and the project “INVOLVE” (INtegration of migrants as VOLunteers for the safeguarding of Vulnerable Environments).
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: The volunteers will cooperate with a group of migrants and the local staff to run the activities connected with maintenance and the cleaning of a coastal area that Legambiente transformed in a protected area composed by a pinewood, the mediterranean bushes and the sand vegetation (the mediterranea brush). Volunteers will be involved also in beach and old city walls of Paestum cleaning. Easy activities but very important not only for the preservation of the area but specially to raise awareness tourists that visit the region during summer. Moreover the presence of migrants will require attitude in supporting them in learning italian and in socializing during the working activities and during free time. STUDY PART: Trainings on environment and sustainability. Practices of integration and social inclusion of migrants. Trainings on cultural heritage.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted in bungalows in a camping on the coast. Moreover there is a cottage just on the beach where is possible to have meals after the working activities.
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE: Paestum is a little town founded during VI century b.C. by Greeks, who built wonderful temples - and civilization – that now consitute a very important archeological area (UNESCO site) among the best maintaines in the Mediterranean. For its art, nature, tastes and events Paestum is one of the most important beautiful cities of Magna Grecia. The old city is located in a strategic position, a few km from the Amalfi Coast that extends along the Tirreno Sea and from the National Park of Cilento. The Archaeological site includes three Temples (it dates back to 550 B.C).
TERMINAL: Naples Capodichino international airport. There are buses connection for the central railway station of Naples where is possibile to take a regional train to Paestum. The requested time is about 1hour and 20 minutes.