📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
SUMMARY: Create a big role play for children! Support them to manage autonomously an entire city. They will discover thanks to you what's means active citizenship and European citizenship.
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PARTNER: Hermete was created in 1997 and mainly works in Valpolicella. It proposes to realize social and cultural projects for the community e for the territory, having quality and innovation has big targets. Hermete highly believes in network, 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.
PROJECT: This is the fifth 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 four Valpo workcamps edition. 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 Città 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 “Città dei Ragazzi” summer camp working closely with children aged 6- 11 y.o. Before work, the volunteers will receive a brief training on the project. They will be also involved in the organization of the final party.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The group will be hosted in Hermete’s house. Volunteers will sleep in the same mixed room, with all facilities (shower, beds, kitchen, etc.). The group will have to cook their meals and help in the cleaning works.
📍 About the location
Fumane is a municipality in Valpolicella hills. The house is 2,5km from the nearest bus stop in Fumane. The main activity of that region is agriculture (grapes) and winemaking, so the landscape is mainly rural and covered by vineyards. Volunteers will take part in the summer camp final party, which will take place on the Friday and on the big final party organized by Hermete for all of its collaborators on Saturday night.
TERMINAL/TRAIN STATION: The nearest airport is Verona Airport (“Valerio Catullo”). Verona city can, also, be easily reached by train from Milan, Venice, Bologna. From Verona train station there is a bus to reach Fumane.
⚠️ 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 workcamp is open for 8 international volunteers (coming from EU Member States, North Macedonia, and Turkey, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and the Russian Federation) and 4 Italian volunteers.