📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
ALA-Associazione Liberi Artigiani is a NGO created in 2009 and oriented to the creation of opportunities to support social inclusion, intercultural integration and employability for young people and adults from Italy and all over Europe. These projects involve individuals and communities as well as non-profit organizations active on a local, national and international level. In late 2014, ALA started the renovation of a mountain refuge located in the middle of the Sabine Mountains to organise youth training programs and initiatives, to host mountain lovers who want to discover the beauties of Sabina. From 2015, ALA works with different target groups up on the mountains and in collaboration with the nearby village of Roccantica. The cooperation with the local community is based on supporting citizen to get in contact with youth from all over the word and get the benefit of intercultural dialogue.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will support the local community in different renovational and environmental activities. Volunteers will be involved in the following tasks: Cleaning, maintaining and restoring walking paths. Social activities with the youth and elderly from the village (cooking together, playing cards, organizing game program and free time activity together).
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted in the local hostel, in rooms with 6 beds. Common toilets and showers. Cooperative organization of meals and cleaning.
📍 About the location
Roccantica(RI) Lazio, Central Italy. Approximately 40 kilometers northeast of Rome, the area called Sabina, where Roccantica is located, is a part of the Apennine chain. The landscape is made of hills covered with olives, which rise towards steeper mountains, with extensive oak woods and small medieval villages, castles and monasteries. It is a landscape that has remained substantially unchanged over time and little affected by modern building development. Roccantica is located on the slopes of the "Pizzuto"mountain at 454 meters. of height.
During their free time, volunteers could make some excursions (hiking, trekking, orienteering, night under the stars) – some workshops (cheese, soap making, hand made pasta, bread and pizza making, etc...) - sports (swimming pool, climbing, low ropes, yoga) – and milking with local farmer to learn to work with mules.IMPORTANT: - It won’t be possible to visit Rome - The free time activity will be organized by the leaders to allow participants to explore the village and the surroundings.
⚠️ Requirements
To be ready for walking and trekkings, here the mountains are the most important natural heritage To come with proper outdoor equipment (trekking shoes, working clothes, etc...) To be ready to be in small village, no shops To be open minded. To be ready to live a group experience base on life in common, exchange, cooperation, teamwork. To live in isolated place. To do an effort of communication, nobody in the village speak English A project related motivation letter is needed.
ℹ️ Additional information
TERMINAL: Rome FCO, then direct train to Poggio Mirteto, or Rome CIA, connection with train and bus.
FEE: €200 for international volunteers; €265 for italian volunteers.