Vereinigung Junger Freiwilliger

CPI 04 Kara Bobowski- RENO/DISA -8 Vols- age 20-99
San Savino, Modigliana (FC)- 20 June - 30 June 2008
BACKGROUND: San Savino is an old canonical house that since 20 years has been managed by the volunteer association Gad ( Genitori e amici dei disabili ) and cooperativa Kara Bobowski to organize summer activities for disabled people.
Every year in August the disabled people hosted at the Centre "la Libellula" in Modigliana spend a month of holiday in San Savino.
It is the first time an international work camp is done in San Savino, but Kara Bobowski and Gad have a long experience of international youth exchanges, organized abroad, in Modigliana or in other towns of the Mountain Community of Acquacheta.
WORK: This spring some restoration works will be done to the building and volunteers will do easy works, such as painting walls, repairing doors and windows frames, cleaning the garden, doing a wood fence etc... After that, the volunteers will do all that houseworks useful to prepare the house for hosting the disabled people in August: sweeping rooms, turning over mattresses, washing dishes, ecc..
The volunteers will visit the Centre "la Libellula" where the disabled people live during the year and they will have the chance to take part in handcrafts workshops and eventually propose new activities with the disabled people. The disabled people will go to San Savino and spend some time with the volunteers.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will live in San Savino. All hygienic services are provided. Volunteers will cook their meals and food will be provided by Kara Bobowski. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: San Savino is 6 km far from Modigliana, in the hills at 600 mt.
There are no transportation, except the first and the last day provided by the hosting organization.
TERMINAL: Faenza (RA) is the nearest train station, it is 20 km far from Modigliana. In daily hours public bus-trips connect Modigliana to Faenza.
The nearest airports are Bologna (60 km far from Faenza) and Forlì (15 km far from Faenza).
SPECIAL REMARKS: San Savino is isolated, there are no public transports. The volunteers and the coordinator will be alone and after the working time they could have some outdoor activities in the beautiful surrounding hills. The hosting organisation could provide some bikes. Some meetings with the disable people will be scheduled, both in San Savino as well in Modigliana.
Please bring games, good ideas and whatever you can use to create a nice atmosphere in the spare time.
Participants should be older than 20.

Project: Borgofranco d'Ivrea is a small rural village born at the end of 1200 as a military outpost. Thanks to its position right on the famous Via Francigena, the village was in the past an important pilgrims passing point and has now become a junction among Italy, France and Switzerland. The village seems to be divided in many different parts, each with a small church, a romanic age bell tower, and a very peculiar architectural complex of Balmetti, shaped by the wind blowing from natural caves in the terrain. Volunteers will work on paths maintenance, cleaning, cutting bushes and fixing small walls and fences.
Work: path maintenance and cleaning
Accommodation: municipality guest quarter
Location: Borgofranco, Turin, Piemonte
Terminal: Turin International airport

Leg5 Cinisello (Mi) Lombardia 15/06-29/06 ENVI 12vol ONLY BOYS!
Project: The Grugnotorto-Villoresi Park is located on the northern hinterland of Milan. The massive urbanization occurred in this area after the Word War II, changed the features of this territory, once an old and typical country landscape, today covered mostly by roads, industries and houses. For this reason, at the end of the ‘80s, some groups and association joined together, claiming the protection of the agricultural territories against their urbanization. This dream has become reality through one of the younger park in Milan Province, the Parco Grugnotorto-Villoresi, founded in 1999. Therefore, a "work-in-progress" park that need your help to grow-up. Volunteers will collaborate in cutting grass, cleaning the underbrush, maintaining the structures of the park and watering plants.
Work: Maintenance and cleaning
Accommodation: Red Cross Headquarter
Location: Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, Lombardia
Terminal: Milan international airport

Leg6 Scafa (Pe) Abruzzo 15/6-29/6 ENVI 14vol ONLY BOYS!
Leg36 Scafa (Pe) Abruzzo 13/7-27/7 ENVI 14vol ONLY BOYS!
Project: the Regional Park of Lavino Hot Springs is managed by the Scafa Council, together with Legambiente. The Park has a huge archaeological, historical and environmental importance thanks to its peculiar hot springs, the old mineral caves, the canals and the water mill. Volunteers will put up signs, build paths and distribute leaflets in the Park. They will also be involved in cleaning the area around the mill, maintaining the public areas, and participating in local summer events.
Work: Maintenance and cleaning
Accommodation: hostel
Location: Scafa, Abruzzo, Centre of Italy
Terminal: Pescara and Rome international airports

Leg91 Palmi (Rc) Calabria 16/06- 29/06 ENVI ONLY BOYS!
Project: volunteers will work on abandoned tracks restoration, with the aim to turn about 1 km stretch between Palmi e Seminara into a natural path for hikers, bykers and horse - riders.
This project, promoted by Legambiente within the campaign " Railway Roads", focuses on the track which connect the coastline with the Aspromonte mountains, a beautiful area characterized by olive yards, cultivated terraced fields and beech woods.
Due to the hot weather, volunteers will work during the early morning
Work: maintenance, manual work
Accommodation: school
Location: Palmi, Reggio Calabria, Calabria
Terminal: Reggio Calabria international airport

Leg10 Alpe di Cavarzano (Po) Tuscany 17/6-2/7 ENVI 18vol
Project: Located on the Tosco-Emiliano Appennine at 1006 mt altitude, this area is one of the most wild and distinctive of central italy, characterised by beautiful waterfalls, wide grasslands and impervious woods. Volunteers will be involved in making and renovating paths. This work camp is right for people who love isolated and quiet places.
Work: path maintenance
Accommodation: tents
Location: Alpe di Cavarzano, Prato, Toscana region
Terminal: Florence and Pisa international airports

Leg12 Montafia,Cortazzone e Cortandone(At) Piemonte 18/6-2/7 ENVI 14vol ONLY BOYS!
Project: Montafia, Cortazzone e Cortandone are locate in a beautiful valley characterized by streams, torrent, wellsprings, besides wide forests and important romanic churches. During the work camp, volunteers will work on paths maintenance, will put up signs and will attend seminars and cultural excursions aimed at discover the territory and local food. Volunteers will also learn the ropes about herbs, local flora and paleontologic heritage.
Work: manual work, maintenance
Accommodation: guesthouse
Location: Montafia, Cortazzone e Cortandone, Asti, Piemonte
Terminal: Turin internationa airport

Leg14 Nomaglio (To) Piemonte 23/06-07/07 ENVI 14vol ONLY BOYS!
Project: Nomaglio is a small village (575mt high), located at the entrance of the Serra Morenica and part of the Morenico Amphitheatre: this is a unique area, thanks to its geological, naturalistic and anthropological characteristics. In 1996, the municipality started a project to restore and develop local cultural values and to create a chestnut eco-museum. The museum is dedicated to the benefits of the chestnut tree: the whole village, the surrounding forests, the mule tracks and the old water-mill are all part of the eco-museum, which is, most of all, a workshop for schools, visitors, chestnut workers and people interested in local history and environment. Volunteers will work on this project, cutting bushes and briars, restoring dry walls, setting up signals and participating in workshops and seminars on environmental and conservation issues; volunteers will also have the chance of discovering typical local products.
Work: maintenance, manual work, conservation
Accommodation: Council building
Location: Nomaglio, Turin, Piemonte
Terminal: Turin International airport

Leg16 Quassolo (To) Piemonte 27/06-12/07 ENVI 15vol ONLY BOYS!
Project: this work camp will take place in Quassolo, located at the slope of Cavallaria mountain (1464 mt high), in the Valle d'Aosta Region. The ancient centre of the village, known in the past as Riperia della Dora, overlooks the vineyard and shows many examples of ancient rural architecture and typical fountains made of stone (called Burnel), which are still offering to local people good and pure water. Volunteers will work on bushes and briars cutting, torrents cleaning, paths maintenance and dry walls and fences restoration.
Work: maintenance, cleaning, manual work
Accomodation: council building
Location: Quassolo, Turin, Piemonte
Terminal: Turin international airport

Leg17 Mezzoldo (Bg) Lombardia 28/6- 12/7 ENVI 6vol ONLY BOYS!
Project: this work camp will take place within the initiative "Foreste da Vivere" (Live the forest), an event promoted by Lombardia region to foster the 23.000 hectare of forest through cultural and sport events, excursions, tastings, and many other. This camp was established thanks to a collaboration between Legambiente and ERSAF (Regional Authority for Agricultural and Forest Services), to guarantee a development of cultural activities addressed to the local community and the numerous hikers visiting the surrounding valleys. The work area is within the Azzaredo - Casù forest, around 114 hectare, characterised by small alpine villages, a local gastronomic production (such as "bitto" cheese) and the rare presence of beech trees. Volunteers will put up wood signs, benches and tables, will organize animation activities for local youngsters and will clean and maintain paths around the village. This work camp is physically demanding and volunteers must be motivated.
Work: paths maintenance, animation, manual work
Accommodation: ERSAF guest quarter
Location: Mezzoldo, Bergamo, Lombardia
Terminal: Orio al Serio or Milan international airports

Leg18 Milano-Quarto Oggiaro(Mi) Lombardia 28/6-12/7 ENVI 10vol ONLY BOYS!
Project: Volunteers will collaborate with "Quarto Oggiaro Vivibile" Association in the Villa Scheibler's park, a green area, characterised by two 700'century Villas and located in the Milan suburbs (reachable by bus). The Quarto Oggiaro association organizes many sport, cultural and social activities inside the Park, also spreading environmental education, helping in the Park maintenance and listing the local floras and fauna
Work: maintenance, education, manual work
Accommodation: Vivibile Association's guestquarter
Location: Milano, Lombardia
Terminal: Orio al Serio or Milan international airports

LUN 3 AGAPE- Prali, Piedmont - N. West 25/06 - 09/07 6 Vols COMM
Agape international ecumenical centre is a place of encounter where you can live an intense experience of community in beautiful natural surroundings. Agape was and still is an important point of reference in Italian Protestantism, for 50 years a place of education and development, theological exploration, political engagement, of acceptance and validation of differences. Every year many people, with different religious, cultural, political background, and of different age, come to Agape to discuss and to be challenged, to get to know themselves and each other and to exchange experiences around a particular theme.
Agape was built after the Second World War as a sign of hope and of reconciliation between people, thanks to the voluntary work of many young men and women; a resident group still lives at Agape throughout the year. The dimensions of community and voluntary service remain central.
The work camp will support the summer activities of AGAPE when a number of guests have meetings on issues of political, social, cultural and religious interest. This camp will support the children's and teenagers' summer activities. Volunteers will help in the following areas: kitchen, meal service (tables and dishes), cleaning, maintenance, bartending, child-minding. Games, discussions and outings are organised during free time. Programmed activities are also open to volunteers, as long as these do not clash with work commitments. The place is beautiful but really isolated, though you will stay together with many international participants to the meetings of AGAPE. TERMINAL Torino.