VICCHIO (FI)

The project is situated in Vicchio village (35 km far away from Florence) where, since 2007, there is the farm ‘Aiasanta’ of a no-profit Association “Le C.A.S.E.”. The House is managed by some voluntary families that chosed to live together as a community and with sober styles of life, without being owner of the structures. The Association runs 5 hosting houses and 2 experimental centers. Aiasanta House is one of these centers and, since Autumn 2008, hosts immigrant people who leave from other family houses or are asylum seekers. The adults of the families have a job outside the community and give a contribution with their own voluntary work to rebuilt the house, to run the agricoltural activity and the hosting activity. Since December 2016, in the house there are 4 hosting persons (2 men from Mali, 1 woman from Eritrea and 1 woman from Gambia). Besides the hosting activity, they run bio-agricultural activities in 16 ha and training moments about the styles of life socially responsible and environmentally sustainables. In particular during the summer period they offer hospitality to scout and voluntary groups organising workcamps. The farm Aiasanta is shortly described in the web http://www.asslecase.altervista.org/centri.html and in the facebook page: aiasanta. They require collaboration to IBO to maintenance work for the house and arrangement of the external area. If the volunteers are interested in they can plan a moment to theoretically deepen the activities of the community.