📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Hermete was created in 1997 and mainly works in Valpolicella. It proposes to realize social and cultural projects for the community and for the territory, having quality and innovation has big targets. Hermete highly believes in networking, this is why it operates at a local, national and European level with partners that seriously and passionately believe that education and culture are essential tools to the development and the growth of our society.This is the seventh workcamp organized in Valpolicella. The project is promoted by Hermete, a local cooperative that promotes the social and cultural project, and by the group of young local people that organized the previous five Valpo workcamps editions. The aim of the workcamp is to create opportunities for cultural sharing and exchange between volunteers and the local community and to promote active citizenship through work with children. Volunteers will be involved in the organization of the summer camp "La CittE dei Ragazzi ", where kids emulate life in a city completely managed by them, from the bank to the municipality, passing through shops and leisure spaces. One of the main objectives is to bring children the concept of European citizenship and the concept of active citizenship. By joining this workcamp you will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals: QualityEducation- SDG4.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will collaborate with Hermete s staff in managing the activities during the CittE deiRagazzi (at the municipality of San Pietro In Cariano) summer camp working closely with children aged 6- 11 y.o. Before work, the volunteers will receive a brief training on the project."CittE dei Ragazzi" will host 60/80 children, 4 educators. It starts 29 July and ends 13 August. There will be two different groups and the Volunteers will work with both of them. They will also be involved in the organization of the final party. The place of work will be in the municipality of San Pietro In Cariano.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The group will be hosted in Hermete, in Fumane. Fumane is a small country near Verona and near Garda Lake, and its a place of vineyards and hills. The house is also our office so the volunteers will meet people who work in Hermete and will sleep all in the same room and use the kitchen and the bathroom of the house. During the work Volunteers will eat lunch with the group CittE dei Ragazzi. In the other moments volunteers will have to cook their meals and help in the cleaning works. Food for the main meals will be provided according to the special needs of the volunteers (please let us know in advice if you have any).
📍 About the location
Fumane is a municipality in Valpolicella hills, where volunteers will work. Volunteers will be hosted in Bussolengo, another small municipality that is 10km away. Thay will have a private van and a private car to use during the camp to move between the different places. The main activity of that region is agriculture (grapes) and winemaking, so the landscape is mainly rural and covered by vineyards.