📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Comitato Parco Giovannipoli was established in March 2013 following the failure to care and maintenance of the Park of the Catacombs of Commodilla, with the objective to keep it alive and usable for citizenship. Since its inception, the Comitato Parco Giovannipoli has been playing an important work of maintenance, in these coming months of activity to almost complete restoration of the Park; the work has been also recognized by the City of Rome with the award of custody of the Park from July 15, 2014. Villetta Social Lab is a project that was born in 2015 in the Villetta a Garbatella, since 1944 the historic headquarters of the Left parties. The project is characterized as a incubator of initiatives and practices of mutualism, participation and sharing aimed at inhabitants of the neighborhood and not only. Opera for social and cultural animation of the territory and is a laboratory of ideas aimed at realizing and promoting improvement activities living conditions in the territory in which it operates.
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: Volunteers will be involved in environmental cleaning of external places (pruning hedges and bushes, weed cleaning and leaves); maintenance works such as repainting gates; maintenance of the blinds. The goal will be to complete the renovation works that involved Villetta Social Lab in the last year. The interventions will aim to make the outdoor spaces also totally usable. Not one or more days will be dedicated to some works of maintenance in one of the parks of the district: Park of the Catacombs of Commodilla. This area abandoned by the Municipality of Rome, it is maintained, cleaned and made always usable by the Parco Giovannipoli Committee, a group of volunteers who since 2013, at their own expense, care for almost a hectare of green area in the heart of the Garbatella district. The Volunteer Camp will provide its own day for ordinary work in collaboration with the Committee.
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🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be hosted in Villetta, an independent structure. In this structure will be set up rooms for the overnight stay, with mattresses on the ground. The structure has 4 bathrooms, located on different floors. Field showers will also be set up.Volunteers will have a mediterranea diet.
📍 About the location
OCATION AND LEISURE: the Park of the Catacombs of Commodilla is in the core of Garbatella neighbourhood, in Rome. During the free time the volunteers will have the chance to visit the several attractions in Rome; visits will be arranged in the Natural Reserve, by bike, and to Rome Street Art.
TERMINAL: Fiumicino-Leonardo Da Vinci Airport, Rome Ciampino Airport. All Rome train stations.