VICCHIO (FI)

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About the project

VICCHIO (FI)

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The project takes place in Vicchio, 35 km from Florence, where the Podere Aia Santa of the non-profit association Le C.A.S.E. has been located since 2007. It is run by a number of volunteer families who have chosen to live in a community way and with sober lifestyles, without being owners of the structures. The association brings together 5 experiences of family homes and two experimental centres. Aia Santa is one of these centres and since autumn 2008 it has been hosting migrants leaving family homes or asylum seekers.The adults in the families have jobs outside the communities and contribute with their voluntary work to the renovation of the buildings, agricultural management and reception activities. In addition to the accommodation, the 16 hectares of land are used for organic farming and for training and experimentation on socially responsible and environmentally sustainable lifestyles. Especially during the summer, the farm offers hospitality to scout and volunteer groups and organises work camps.The Aia Santa farm has a website: www.aiasanta.org and a facebook page: aiasanta. We are asking for the collaboration of IBO for the maintenance of the house and the arrangement of outdoor spaces.

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteers will carry out a variety of tasks including the following:gardening, cutting and arranging wood, maintaining fences and fences, arranging animal sheds, arranging vineyards, arranging common areas, general cleaning, overhauling fixtures and furniture, painting, building work (flooring), restoring furniture. Work days could be organised at other Le C.A.S.E. structures.

🏠 Accommodation on site

At the community in rooms equipped with beds and mattresses.Volunteers will be asked to help with cleaning and cooking shifts. The lifestyle will be simple with possible communal outings in the city or countryside.

📍 About the location

At the edge of the land owned by the house there is a very evocative deconsecrated chapel (Cappella della Bruna, in the Association s logo). The chapel stands in the place where Blessed Giovanni da Vespignano used to pray in 1200, hence the name Aia Santa .500 metres from the house is the hill of Vespignano, with the remains of the medieval castle, the house where Giotto was born (with a small museum to visit) and a parish church.Aiasanta is relatively close to: - Barbiana, home of Don Milani s school (20min drive). - Lake Barberino (20min drive) where you can swim in summer