LEG03 - Fight hydrogeological instability in Pollone

SPRING WORKCAMPS

LEG01 - Monte Barro Park

24/05/2015 - 06/06/2015

Type of work: ENVI

Number of volunteers: 10

Age: 18+

Project: Legambiente has been working for years with the Park Monte Barro for the enhancement and preservation of biodiversity. Since two years ago the local group is also managing the hostel, hotel can accommodate up to 50 people

Objective: the objective of the camp is to preserve some of the botanical species at risk of extinction

Legambiente local group: The Legambiente Lecco Onlus association originated in 1978 as Committee for the Protection of the Environment, and since 1987 it is part of Legambiente. The Legambiente Lecco Onlus association operates mainly in the context of the district of Lecco, in addition of being the office of the regional coordination of Legambiente voluntary committe. Since 2008, Legambiente Lecco manages four "Houses in the Forest". In March 2013 Legambiente won the call for the management of the Parco Monte Barro Hostel and for environmental education activities within the same Regional Park.

The Legambiente Lecco group has about 200 members, 3 permanent employees, a project of the National Civil Service and several collaborations with partner organizations and institutions.

Work: The volunteers will be manually removing weeds on the top of the mountain to encourage the breeding of rare flowers which makes the Park an extraordinary natural botanical garden.

Accommodation and food: volunteers will be hosted in a hostel, with room for two and three beds.

Some food will be bought from local farmers and cooked at the hostel by volunteers

Location and leisure: Galbiate (Lecco), Lombardia region

The camp takes place in the mountains. In his free time volunteers can visit the two museums in the Park, the archaeological excavations and visit the town of Lecco and its lake in collaboration with botanists of the park, they will explore the topics of the European "Natura 2000" for the protection of biodiversity

Special requirements: Ability and predisposition to walk and work on mountain paths, interest in nature. Language: English will be the official language in the camp .

Terminal: Milan International Airports or Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport. Lecco railway station

LEG02 - Vaiano

15/06/2015 - 29/06/2015

Type of work: ENVI

Number of volunteers: 9

Age: 18+

Project: International workcamp of Vaiano comes this year to its second edition. After having stated the great involvement of local citizenship, associations and administrations, Legambiente Prato took the chance to reply in 2015 this volunteering experience by reinforcing the straight connection with the world of Volunteerism and the local municipality which has been able so far to activate specific aims on promotion of healthy life style, outdoor activities and environmental wardship throughout youngsters and locals of Vaiano.

Objective: The specific objective of the workcamp will be to foster a relationship with the local associations and population in order to stimulate youngsters and citizenship to consider volunteerism as a great integration-making experience. Engagement, cultural exchange and contact making among inhabitants will be the effective tools to set the above-mentioned goal.

Legambiente local group: Legambiente Prato was founded in 1986; since then it has been engaged in the defense of environmental heritage, promotion and education on environmental issues addressing young students and the whole citizenship. Focusing on renewable energies, sustainable development, waste, biodiversity, promotion of healthy life styles, Legambiente Prato has set up since its beginning several projects which still produce outstanding outcomes. Listed below some of the most successful. It is in charge of the management of “Rifugio Le Cave” environmental education center (CEA) inside a natural reserve.

Work: The outdoor works on local green areas as well as on urban furniture will be the main activities carried out so far during the workcamp. Volunteers will be involved in working activities for about 25-30 hours per week. The working hours will be during the early morning in order to avoid too much sun/hot exposure. Tools, gloves and other necessary safety systems will be provided.

The volunteers will clean, cut grasses and restore local pathways close to Calvana's Mountains Protected areas; other tasks may be restoring benches and wood bins of Vaiano's green areas.

Accomodation and food: The accomodation for volunteers consists in the local Visitors Center and the connected bed and breakfast of Le Fornaci, a little village in Sofignano.

Location and leisure: Vaiano (Prato), Tuscany region.

The Municipality of Vaiano in the Province of Prato counts 10.000 inhabitants. The outstanding landscape and its villages displaced all over the green mounts of Vaiano make it the perfect place where to enjoy nature, history and culture just few km far from the main city Prato. The workcamp will take place in the small locality of Le Fornaci in Sofignano, just 2 km far away from the center of Vaiano.

Sofignano grows within the valleys of Calvana's mounts. Volunteers will visit: Villa il Mulinaccio; the historical place Torre Melagrana, the Ecopark next to Bisenzio river, Savignano and Fabio Calvana's Hiking, Prato.

Language: English is the official language of the workcamp.

Terminal Aeroports: 1) Florence Airport (about 30 km); 2) Bologna Airport (about 100 km); 3) Pisa Airport (about 100 km). Train Stations: 1) Vaiano station (2 km from Le Fornaci_Sofignano); 2) Prato Centrale Station

LEG03 - Fight hydrogeological instability in Pollone

16/06/2015 - 30/06/2015

Type of work: ENVI/SOCI

Number of volunteers: 12.

Age: 18 +

Project: The project will take place in Pollone, a small village that hosts the Special Nature Reserve of Burcina Park. Legambiente Biella usually cooperates with the local community in order to improve the relation between man and nature. Biella's province, as the whole Italy, is managing two difficult issues: the hydrogeological instability (it caused many damages during 2014) and a big immigration flow from the Greater Middle East and many African countries.

Objective: Pollone's International Workcamp will be centred on two objectives: sensitize the international and local volunteers and the local population about the hydrogeological instability and its consequences; raise awareness about the 2014 immigration flows, that is involving above all Italy, band the whole Europe too.

Legambiente local group: The voluntary association Legambiente Circolo Biellese “Tavo Burat” is active in Biella province with the objectives of raising awareness about the topics related to the environment, society, culture and preservation of natural and artistic heritages through exhibitions, events and concrete proposals. The campaigns are also supported and promoted through the international voluntary work-camps.. Among the main activities: raise awareness on the correct approach to the themes of the European Landscape Convention and the development of tools for the promotion of the territory; raise consciousness about nuclear energy and Chernobyl disaster. All these activities are always carried out in collaboration with different institutions and public administrations (municipalities, mountain communities, parks, provinces, schools), local associations (youth and cultural associations, Protezione Civile-Civil Protection, Pro Loco etc.) and with civil society in order to improve the volunteering activities in the area.

Work: During the workcamp the volunteers will be involved in several kinds of manual works as: mountains path's maintenance, painting, protected area's maintenance (on woods and hills).

Study part: During the workcamps the volunteers will have focused confrontation and concrete experience about the two main topics: Hydrogeological instability and Asylum seekers (the volunteers will cooperate, during the manual works, with the Immigration Center's guest of Pollone).

Accommodation and food: The volunteers will be hosted in the building of the public school in Pollone in mixed rooms, composed of two floor: the ground one include the common spaces and kitchen and the first floor include the rooms.

Location and leisure: Pollone (Biella), Piemonre region.

Pollone is a small village in the Elvo Valley, one of the 5 valleys that compose the district of Biella, in Piedmont region. In this landscapes it’s possible to walk in mountain paths, see farms, churches, beautiful villas that adorn the road from Pollone to the next village Sordevolo.

Possible visits: Oropa's Sanctuary, daily mountain excursion, ex Trappa's monastery, Burcina's Natural Special requirements: It is recommended a medium ability or willingness to walk in the mountains. Language: English

Terminal: Milano Malpensa or Torino Caselle Airports.

Date: 2015-12-18; view: 700