📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
PARTNER: For 5 years, the association "Rise Hub" has been working actively on the development of the Valle di Comino, also through the organisation of workcamps. The association "Rise Hub" was established in 2015 in Valle di Comino, a rural area composed of many small towns surrounded by mountains between the cities of Rome (120km) and Naples (180km) with an increasingly intercultural composition of the population. The association aims to create a connection between unemployed youngsters, migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers living on the territory, with local institutions and private firms. Its members are mainly women, girls, and refugees, and it counts with several volunteers of different ages and backgrounds. By joining this workcamp you will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals: SustainableCommunities-SDG11.
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: The work of the volunteers will consist in regenerating a specific area of the historic center, currently used as a parking lot. Volunteers will build in this area a small playground for children, of which the historic center of Atina has always been lacking. Volunteers will define, delimit and organize the working area and follow the phase of preparation, cut, transport and compose the structure to be for the assembly. The volunteers will work 5/7 hours a day and they will have 2 days free.
🏠 Accommodation on site
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD: Volunteers will be accommodated in tents inside the garden of the “Beatrice Nursery School” in order to ensure adequate spacing. The kindergarten is located in the center of the village closer to the working area. All facilities are available: kitchen, bathroom, showers. The structure is equipped with wifi. Volunteers will take care of common spaces , prepare meals, clean bathrooms and common areas. Food will be vegetarian and most of the groceries will be purchased from local producers and farmers.
📍 About the location
LOCATION and LEISURE TIME: Atina is a small, rural Municipality of approximately 420 inhabitants, in southern Lazio (same region as the capital, Rome). Atina is said to have mythological connections with the Roman god of Saturn. Saturn is also said to have taught these native people how to build houses, to cultivate the land and plant vines and to live together harmoniously. Thus he became known as the Roman God of agriculture and fertility The main attraction of the town is the historical center and the archaeological site. Hundreds of tourists visit the town not only for his history and monuments but also for the genuine tasty food and the untouched natural beauties that the town offers. Meeting points will be arranged according to your time of arrival at Rome Airport, and therefore the time you will take the train to Cassino train station. TERMINAL: Rome
⚠️ Requirements
REQUIREMENTS: This project is supported by the European Solidarity Corps. Food and accommodation are covered by the European Union. Transportation costs will be refunded according to the distance band rules of the programme. No fees are required. The workcamps are open for international volunteers (coming from EU ESC countries projects). The projects needed a minimum of 10 volunteers to be confirmed. Keep in mind that half of the group could be of Italian volunteers.