Italy Polia EVS European Solidarity Corps

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

What we do: We want to give to joungers the opportunities to experience practical activities in nature. We encourage daily voluntary work in the field of permaculture and green building, and take care of natural surroundings. Informing and forming. In other words, we do all environmental activities with the aim of raising awareness among local communities, individual citizens. Therefore the volunteers we seek are people who believe in the power of nature as an entity over the parts that must be respected in any form. Therefore we wish to adhere to our association people who daily do something to avoid polluting the planet earth. Let’s start from the principle that we will not change the world but we will change ourselves.

ACCOMMODATION, FOOD AND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS

– Accommodation. The chosen house has the minimum services, bathroom equipped with water heating hot as well as wifi in the house etc. and other basic services. Regarding transport, when the volunteers will have to leave the country or out of the town (due to the different activities outside the country) we have a mazda 2 (model new dp316yb) or an old model ” fiat panda” owned by the president and there are no problems using it for the various transfers of volunteers, being less than 4. Food it’s above all organic homemade and we buy food that isn’t homemade.

TRAINING DURING THE ACTIVITY

The purpose of the Association is the design and execution of programs and actions aimed at: – Defense of the territory as well as the natural values of the Calabria in general. – Cooperation with public or private entities in case of social need and ecological catastrophe. – Conservation of natural resources and the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of the “Parco delle Serre Calabre” Natural Reserve. – Research for the management of natural resources (species and habitats) and cultural heritage etc.

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

we are interested in volunteers who, even if they have no work experience, have the aptitude to learn new issues of environmental protection. Topics such as social permaculture etc. will be studied. Therefore environmental education activities will be carried out.