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INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION: Andrea ROTONDO - campi@yap.it
NATIONAL COORDINATION: Stefano VARLESE campi.in@yap.it
YAP-ITALIA: A SHORT INTRODUCTION
Youth Action for Peace (YAP) Italia has been present in Italy since the beginning of the Sixties. It was officially established as a national organisation in 1971, and has been a branch of YAP since 1973. Its first volunteers took part in workcamps after the great floods in Florence. Since then, Italian volunteers have been participating in international voluntary service projects around the world and have thus been in contact with the international structure of the organization.
Once known as MCP-Italia (Movimento Cristiano per la Pace), the NGO today organises international workcamps, seminars, study visits and training courses. These programmes educate young people about peace, dialogue and solidarity through projects of voluntary action and social and cultural development without any links to religion or a formal political party.
In 2007 YAP Italia organised at least 40 workcamps, mid and long term projects and it has already successfully organised about 1000 projects in the past. This including every year about 400 Italian and International volunteers in short, mid and long term voluntary service projects, trainings and seminars worldwide. The organisation has also organised directly or been involved in the organisations of training courses and seminars on the themes it believes and works on. YAP-It is currently an active member of and participant into different movements, umbrella platforms, councils or international networks. (Youth Action for Peace International, CCIVS-Unesco, AVSO, NVDA, EBCO, the EU Youth council...).
The aim of the activities, besides the realisation of the projects, is to contribute to the creation of a multicultural society based on discussion between different people. We aim to work at local and global levels.
We believe that the presence in international camps of volunteers, coming from various countries and social backgrounds, brings us closer to this goal; thus, allowing local or isolated communities to get in touch with different cultures, and to learn and communicate with them.
We want to promote solidarity in a constructive way, not free assistance: practical help can be useful to overcome emergencies, but we prefer to provide tools and methods that can be used in order to build the Future…
And it is only with the help of our volunteers that we have been able to achieve what we have, no matter how much time and energy they dedicated to the global project of the organization. Thanks to our wonderful volunteers!!!!
Grazie a tutti
YAP Italia
YAP Italia's 2008 Workcamps common frame and principles
- All YAP-Italy's workcamps are international projects. All profiles of volunteers can be accepted, as long as they are 18 years old when the project begins (no superior limit). Unfortunately, most of the workcamp sites and activities are not “accessible” or adapted for our friends with disabilities.
- YAP-Italy strives to create intercultural and mixed groups on their projects as much as possible. We believe that the more culturally diverse, the better the quality of the project and the group dynamic. With that said, we do not accept more than 2 people per country/cultural/linguistic group per project, as long as the size of the group permits. Furthermore, we do not recommend that participants from the same organisation know each other or to be dating before the project as we often notice.
- The basic timetable on YAP's camps is about 30-35 hours of work per week but the necessities of the project can bring the volunteers to work more (rarely less). We DO NOT organise holidays camps. Any tourist activities should be done before or after the beginning of the project and we will always expect the volunteers to be available and dedicated to the activities of the project for the duration of the workcamp. We will never hesitate, even after consultation with the sending organisation, to ask a volunteer to leave the project if we consider his/her activity, behaviour or motivation doesn't fit the needs and nature of the project. We want to ask you to please inform them before their departure. YAP-Italia organises international WORK-camps for volunteers, not camping-sessions for middle-class kids...!!
- The common languages of the workcamps will be English and Italian except when specified.
- In most of the projects, daily activities and tasks, free time and global organisation will be decided among the community. Then it will be facilitated by the coordinator following the needs of the project and managed in teams. We expect each workcamp to create a strong team of volunteers, for the benefit of the project and the local community.
- YAP Italy automatically insures all the volunteers hosted in their workcamps. More details are provided at the end of this programme. European citizens are anyway obliged to take their European Health Card (former E111 form).
- There will always be at least one coordinator per camp from or trained by YAP Italia for the whole duration of the project. Far from being an omnipotent and omniscient “leader”, we like to see him as a facilitator, experienced volunteers with more work to do and more responsibilities toward the global project...
Workcamp Programme 2008
General Overview
Workcamps short descriptions
CPI 01 Design Pubblico 2008
CPI 01 Design Pubblico 2008- FEST -6 Vols- age 18-99
Milano- 12 April /22 April 2008
BACKGROUND: Esterni is a wide-ranging social and cultural project; a movement that stimulates analyses, ideas and events; an ideal of participation that welcomes people expressing their individuality; a work group that thinks and acts in order to bring about a real change.
Esterni is involved in many different branches of culture, art and communication; it boosts social interaction and supports the use of public spaces – the real heritage of a community. The ideal of a city scaled to human needs guides every single project thought up by esterni, from installations to all-round events, from performances to film shows.
DESIGN PUBBLICO is a project active throughout the whole year; it was the reason why Esterni was called to be part of the Design Council, a structure created by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities. This project serves to promote ideas and actions on the city, in order to renew the public spaces and turn them into places for the people to meet and interact, places to live and experience together. From April 14th to 21st, during the International Furniture Show, Esterni presents the DESIGN PUBBLICO week, including a series of actions and events which focus on some of the “emergencies” within the city. During the 2008 DESIGN PUBBLICO week the spotlight will be on one of such emergencies: building sites.
Website of the project : www.designpubblico.it (Italian and English).
WORK: Volunteers will be involved in the management of the “Designers’ House”, where they will stay. Volunteers will help as well with the running of the events organized by Esterni.
Volunteers will have 1 free day during the camp, to be arranged according to the events’ needs.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will lodge in the “Designers House”, a temporary hostel which provides alternative accommodation to young designers and other guests.
Every year, placed in a different post in a different place of around 500/600 m², the “Designer’s House” provides beds, a communal area with a self-serve kitchen, showers, and bathrooms. Sleeping bag is required. Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be organized within the house.
LOCATION: Milano
CPI 02 – Roccasecca (FR)
CPI 02 – ROCCASECCA – ENVI/RENO - 12 Vols age 18-99
Roccasecca – 01 June 2008/20 June 2008
BACKGROUND: Roccasecca is a pictoresque town not far from the Benedictine monastery of Montecassino. Saint Thomas Aquinas was born there into a noble family and the remainings of his castle dominate the landscape. The town has a wide project of re-launching tourism in the area through the valorisation of tourist sites, churches and Saint Thomas’s castle.
WORK:Volunteers will be involved in clean and restoration tasks at Castle’s area of the archaeological park. Volunteers will also enjoy exchanges and free time activities with local youth organizations.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will be hosted in a house belonging to the town. All hygienic services are provided. Self cooking and management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Roccasecca is in the district of Frosinone, halfway between Napoli and Roma.
TERMINAL: Napoli (Naples) or Roma (Rome).
CPI 03– Lega Navale
CPI 03 – LEGA NAVALE – RENO/MAIN – 10 Vols - age 18-99
Castellammare di Stabia (NA) - 9 June 2008/ 22 June 2008
BACKGROUND: “Lega Navale Italiana” is a public body whose purpose is to popularize among Italian people – especially young people – love for the sea, a seafaring mood and to convey to the citizens nautical concerns, as to promote their participation and engagement into every form of national activities dealing with these topics.
“Lega Navale Italiana” supports safeguard of the marine environment and develops promotional, cultural, naturalistic, educational and sports activities as to achieve the objectives of the organization.
Work: Volunteers will clean and organize the spaces of the Naval League and make some small renovations. They will also involved in the cultural education and sport activities of the Naval League.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in the Naval League. All hygienic services are provided. Self cooking and management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Castellammare di Stabia is a thermal city on the coast, not far from Napoli.
TERMINAL: Napoli (Naples)
CPI 04 KARA BOBOWSKI 1
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.
CPI 05 Mediaterraneum
CPI 05– Art/cult - 10 Vols - age 18-99
Castellammare di Stabia – 20 giugno/12 luglio 2008
BACKGROUND: The city of Castellammare di Stabia is organizing a multifunctional public centre (mediateca) for young people called Mediaterraneum It is a combination of a library, conference hall, training centre, internet point, information centre, etc.
The youth non-profit organization “Artéteca” is very active in art and cultural proposals for youth in the area of Napoli and elsewhere. It is actually leading the team of organizations managing the project Mediaterraneum in Castellammare di Stabia.
WORK: Firstly, volunteers will visit and know the characteristic sites of Castellammare territory. Then, they will organize an exposition about the territory and its inhabitants showed trough the eyes of the international volunteers using different artistic techniques (photos, video, documentary, written, etc); the aim is to create a ship’s log.
In the end of camp the material will acquired by Mediateca and will offer to consultation and vision. The same material will be published in the website “Mediaterraneum”.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in a house. All hygienic services are provided. Self cooking and management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Castellammare di Stabia is a thermal city on the coast, not far from Napoli.
TERMINAL: Napoli (Naples).
CPI 06 –Terranimada - I sentieri della memoria
CPI 06 –TERRANIMADA – ENVI/EDU - 10 Vols - age 18-99
Semestene (Sardegna) – 22 June 2008 / 13 July 2008
BACKGROUND: Since 2007 in the small rural village of Semestene, situated in the north west of Sardegna (an island in the center of the Mediterranean) an agricultural cooperative has called Terranimada ‘care farm’ has had amongst its goals, the desire to reduce the hardship of the rural population by valorizing the natural resources on the territory.
The cooperative has started a series of didactic and therapeutic activities projects, utilizing animals and plants, that should be of benefit to other villages of the territory.
WORK: All around the village, there are many footpaths that lead to water springs, caves and other places which are of interest for their naturalistic and historical/archeological particularities. These pathways which facilitate the access to these places, should be restored and put into evidence. For this reason volunteers will be employed in gardening activities to tidy up some of the pathways which have been indicated by the local council which are of interest to the cooperative Terranimada care farm. Also, there will be some activities together with youngsters from other villages aimed to give youths a role in rural development, stimulating in young Sardinians the eventual participation to international volunteering experiences. These activities will be important moments of socialization and exchange between youngsters of this territory.
ACCOMODATION: The volunteers will be given hospitality in a parish building where there are two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and two bathrooms.
LOCATION: Semestene is situated at about 60 km from the airport of Alghero. Semestene can be reached by trains leaving from the nearby station of Bonorva, 6 km away..
TERMINAL: Alghero, Thiesi (for who travels from the port of Olbia) , Bonorva for who arrives from Porto Torres.
NOTE. We are looking for youngsters that have acquired a certain sensibility towards rural activities, or that come from rural backgrounds, who have the capacities to enjoy free time in a small village, that desire and know how to live, as we say here, ‘at donkeys pace’
CPI 07 – PREMIO TROISI - San Giorgio a Cremano
CPI 07 – PREMIO TROISI – CULT/FEST - 10 Vols - age 18-99
San Giorgio a Cremano –24 June 2008 / 9 July 2008
BACKGROUND: In 2006 the city council of San Giorgio a Cremano started a working program with local youth about education for a culture of peace in cooperation with YAP. Schools and local youth organizations were involved in several activities on peace. The city officially supports MDG and No Excuse 2015 campaign. It also organizes the Massimo Troisi Prize, a renowned cinema festival entitled to the memory of the great Neapolitan actor, traditionally held in the beautiful Villa Bruno of San Giorgio a Cremano, Troisi’s hometown. The festival sponsors new forms and artists of comic art.
WORK: International volunteers, together with local facilitators, will help setting up and running the festival in the main square of the town. They will be preparing invitations, organizing events, assisting with workshops, stewarding and also taking down the festival at the end of the project. During free time volunteers will be able to take part in workshops or activities of their choice.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in an apartment in the wonderful Villa Bruno, with a kitchen and hot showers available. Self cooking and management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: The city of San Giorgio a Cremano is next the big city of Napoli.
TERMINAL: Napoli (Naples)
CPI 08 – Centro Ester
CPI 08 – CENTRO ESTER – KIDS - 12 Vols - age 18-99
Napoli – 29 June 2008 / 25 July 2008
BACKGROUND: Barra is located on the edge of the city of Naples. It actually has a depressed economy and culture but people are very open and there is a wide community spirit. “Centro Ester” is an important centre in the area for sport, leisure, cultural and social activities.
WORK: Volunteers will be involved in sport and leisure activities at the summer camp organised to keep children aged 4-13 away from the street; they will support local workers and volunteers and manage a workshop on international games.
WORK: Volunteers will be involved in sport and leisure activities at the summer camp organised to keep children ages 4-13 away from the street; they will support local workers and volunteers and manage a workshop on international games.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in a gym. All hygienic services are provided. Lunch provided according to collective standards in Italy. Self cooking at dinner and self management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Barra is a suburb of Napoli.
TERMINAL: Napoli (Naples).
CPI 10 – Mondiali Antirazzisti
CPI 10– Mondiali Antirazzisti– FEST – 14 Vols - age 18-99
Casalecchio- 3 July 2008/ 17 July 2008
BACKGROUND: Mondiali Antirazzisti is a multicultural festival where around 5.000 people gathering together for 5 days, playing football (204 teams, the 70% are mixed teams), volleyball, basketball, cricket. The goal of these sport activities is to know each other, participate, have fun together and not to win. There are also many other activities: concerts, workshops, debates. The main topics are: struggling against any form of discrimination and defence of the environment (the festival has a low environmental impact). Website: www.mondialiantirazzisti.org
WORK: International volunteers will help in building and disassembling the facilities of the festival; cleaning the area and making the differentiate waste collection; helping in the kitchen. They will have 3 free days to be arranged with the organisers. The volunteers will have the possibilities to participate at the different sport and cultural activities (also creating a mixed team for the various tournaments)
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will sleep in the Festival area inside the camp site (with toilet and washing facilities). Availabilities of tents for 6 people each, sleeping bags are required but mattresses are provided. Food will be provided for free in the restaurants/bars of the festival area.
LOCATION: Casalecchio di Reno is a village near Bologna, in Emilia Romagna, North-Centre of Italy.
TERMINAL: Bologna is reachable by train (Bologna main Station) or by flight (Marconi International Airport). From Bologna to Casalecchio is possible to catch a train or a bus (around 15 min.)
CPI 11 – Estate Insieme - Piossasco (TO)
CPI 11 – Estate Insieme – KIDS/ TEEN - 6 Vols - age 18-99
Piossasco (Turin) - 4 July 2008 / 29 July 2008
BACKGROUND: Alter 82 sport association in co-operation with CSI (Italian sport agency) manage every year in June and July a daily summer camp that involve more then 150 children/day from 6 to 14 year old. The activities of the daily summer camp are oriented to sport, leisure, cultural and social activities. The city sport centre and two gympools are full available for the daily summer camp. In edition 2008 intention is to develop also a special section dedicated to girls and boys from 14 to 16 year old with a mixed activities that include social work (very easy ones) and sport-leisure (like swimming pool time)
WORK: Volunteers will be involved in the activities at the daily summer camp to support local workers and volunteers and manage workshops on international games, conversation and experience exchanges.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in apartment inside the gym. All hygienic services are provided. Lunch provided according to collective standards in Italy. Self cooking at dinner and during week-end. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Piossasco is located 20km far Turin. It is a village of 17.000 people, located in a strategic point between metropolitan and industrial area and the country closed the Alpes
TERMINAL: Turin.
CPI 12 – SAN POTITO SANNITICO
CPI 12 – SAN POTITO SANNITICO– ART/FEST - 12 Vols - age 18-99
San Potito Sannitico – 07 July 2008 /28 July 2008
BACKGROUND: San Potito Sannitico is a little and lovely town of 1.981 inhabitants on the slopes of the “Matese mountain”. The entire historical center and council territory is located in the mountainous part of the “Matese Regional Park”. Every year, in July, San Potito hosts the International Movie Festival “CinemadaMare” where local people meet artists from all over the world.
WORK: Volunteers will collaborate with the local branch of the PRO-LOCO association preparing and planning CinemadaMare movie festival. Together with PACHA PROJECT Onlus they will also organize an exposition about the territory and its inhabitants showed trough the eyes of the international volunteers using different artistic techniques (pictures, writings, paintings, theatre shows, etc); the aim is to create an original communication instrument, finding those specific elements which distinguishing a place from an other one. In this way the daily perception of the urban space will be modified, changing it radically and rediscovering the historical memory of the place.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in a school. All hygienic services are provided. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: San Potito Sannitico is about 70km from Naples and 180 km from Rome
TERMINAL: Piedimonte Matese, Vairano-Caianello and Naples
SPECIAL REMARKS: Need volunteers with some artistic talent and communication skills.
CPI 13 – Zora (Odoardina)
CPI 13 – ZORA – DISA/ SOCI - 6 Vols- age 20 -99
Reggio Emilia – 14 - July 2008/28 July 2008
BACKGROUND: Odoardina is a centre belonging to Zora social cooperative. It hosts about 20 disabled people (aged 20 to 35) during the day, except weekends. For a few years international volunteers have been working with them in the summer, mainly outside.
WORK: Volunteers will help disabled guests in tasks aimed to encourage self expression, communication and interpersonal relationships through such activities as singing, music, drawing and painting, diary, beauty salon, recycling paper, swimming pool, day-trips and home cleaning. Volunteers will also be engaged in keeping a small vegetable garden.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will live in the centre. All hygienic services are provided. Breakfast and lunch are provided according to Italian collective standards. Self cooking at dinner and weekends and self management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Odoardina is close to Reggio Emilia, in the north of Italy. The centre is some km far from the city and there are no transportation, except the first and the last day.
TERMINAL: Reggio Emilia is the nearest train station. Milan and Bologna are the nearest airports.
SPECIAL REMARKS: Odoardina is quite isolated, no public transportation. After 5 pm, the volunteers and the coordinator will remain alone in the centre but bikes will be available for them to cycle to town. Please bring games, good ideas and whatever you can use to create a nice atmosphere in the spare time.
Participants must be older than 20.
CPI 14 – Cineincontr’arti
CPI 14 Cineincontr’arti – Fest/cult – 6 Vols - age 18 -99
San Pasquale (Olbia) 3 August 2008 /15 August 2008
BACKGROUND: “Cineincontr’arti” is a film festival that gathers many different forms of art in a creative exchange that highlights the peculiarity of any kind of artistic expression through that one which «contains in itself many other arts» (A. Kurosawa).
Through this cinema event San Pasquale hosts a calendar full of seminars, debates, viewings, concerts, dance and theatrical performances, readings, painting and photography exhibitions.
WORK: The event will take place around the 2nd week of August. All the events will have Cinema Arts thematic. International volunteers will help to set up and run the festival, and will also realize a short movie. For this reason volunteers should have a keen interest in learning filmmaking techniques like production assistance, imaging direction, phonic assistance, stagehanding, direction and more. The last three days of Festival will be dedicated to different activities such as encounters with directors and writers or movies and short films viewings.
For further information please visit the website www.cineincontrarti.org
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in a school. All hygienic services are provided. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: San Pasquale is a very small town of about 200 inhabitants, located in the northern part of Sardinia, by the sea.
TERMINAL: Olbia
CPI 15 – Onda d'Urto Festival
CPI 15 – ONDA D’URTO – FEST - 14 Vols - age 18 -99
Brescia – 09August 08 /04 September 2008 dates to be confirmed!!!
BACKGROUND: For many years the social centre “Magazzino 47”, in cooperation with YAP Italia and the media support of Radio Onda d’Urto, have been organizing a multi-ethnic festival in Brescia. The event is a good opportunity for many volunteers and participants to exchange information and experiences.
WORK: Volunteers will help to put on and manage several stands of the Festival and will clean the kitchen and other spaces. They will work in the afternoon till late in the evening and will have the opportunity to join the concerts, theatre performances, movies and DJ-sets.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will be hosted in a local social centre, called “Magazzino 47”, a self-managed place for youth where social, cultural, and political activities are organized. Sleeping bags, good-will and open-mindedness are required.
LOCATION: Brescia is in Lombardy, in the north of Italy.
TERMINAL: Brescia is the nearest train station, Milan is the nearest airport. (Please consider Milano-Orio al Serio Airport where several low cost flights options are available.)
CPI 16 – Roiate - PEACE'S PATH
CPI 16 – ROIATE - Sentiero della PACE – ENVI/path - 12 Vols - age 18 -99
Roiate (ROMA) – 11 August 2008 /27 August 2008 dates to be confirmed!!!
BACKGROUND: Roiate is a small isolated and pictoresque village, about one hour from Rome by bus. Trekking footpaths cross the natural park of Aniene and reach some ancient remains.
WORK: Volunteers will clean footpaths meant to link Piglio and Subiaco, thus giving the possibility to hike through the entire Aniene Valley. They will cut shrubs and bushes that have invaded the paths and they will post some explanatory signs. They will also clean the inside of an old church. Moreover they will join the local party to honor Saint Benedictus during the last weekend.
ACCOMMODATION: In the local elementary school with all cooking facilities, toilets and showers. Self cooking and management. No beds or mattresses, sleeping bags and mats are strictly required.
LOCATION: Roiate is an isolated village on the hills not far from Rome.
TERMINAL: Roma (Rome)
CPI 17 – PISONIANO - Sentiero della PACE – ENVI/path - 12 Vols- age 18 -99
Pisoniano (Roma) – 16 August 2008 /30 August 2008
BACKGROUND: “Sentiero della Pace” is a footpath across the beautiful mountains near Rome, that allows visitors to discover a wonderful legacy of nature, history and culture through an inmost and profound experience. Pisoniano is a small hill village located on the eastern slope of Prenestini mountains, about one hour from Rome by bus. Extremely peaceful place, it offers a quiet environment and a healthy climate.
WORK: Volunteers will clean footpaths meant to link Piglio and Subiaco, thus giving the possibility to hike through the entire Aniene Valley. They will cut shrubs and bushes that have invaded the paths and they will post some explanatory signs. They will also clean the inside of an old church.
ACCOMMODATION: In the local elementary school with all cooking facilities, toilets and showers. Self cooking and management., sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Pisoniano is 52km east from Rome.
TERMINAL: Roma (Rome)
CPI 18 – Conca Campania
CPI 18- CONCA-CAMPANIA – ENVI/FEST - 15 Vols- age 18 -99
CONCA-CAMPANIA 18 August 2008 / 08 September 2008
BACKGROUND: On the territory of Conca Campania, (1200 inhabitants, half the way from Roma and Napoli at the extreme North of the Campania region) stands some particularly rich and specific architectural patrimony from the 1930's, the Pineta Park, projected by the great Italian architect Porcinai to create a sample of "paradise on earth" in these hills close to Monte Cassino Abbey, a famous 2^nd W.W. battle-field. This park, abandoned for a long time, has been recently donated to the local branch of the PRO-LOCO association, who takes care all around Italy about local development and youth empowerment.
WORK: The goal of this work camp will be to clean and reshape a part of the original yard. There will be about 15 volunteers in the team, one coordinator and local volunteers who will organize with you the daily life and activity. The volunteers will also be involved in the organization of some local celebrations ( la Festa della Birra among them ), at the beginning of September.
ACCOMODATION: The Volunteers will be fully taken in charge, hosted in a building at their disposal close to their project action spot, with all needed basic facilities. Self cooking and management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Conca Campania is half the way from Roma and Napoli
TERMINAL: Napoli or Roma
CPI 19 – Mogliazze
CPI 19 - MOGLIAZZE – AGRI/RENO - 10 Vols- age 18 -99
Mogliazze (Piacenza) – 21 August 08 /04 September 08
BACKGROUND: In the 70s, a few friends moved into an abandoned village called Mogliazze, on the Apennine mountains. Today Cooperativa Mogliazze works on the promotion of bio-agriculture, environmental protection and conservation of the traditional buildings.
WORK: Volunteers will be involved in the activities of the cooperative. They will harvest and compile fruits and medicinal herbs and may also do some masonry work.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will live in a traditional house in the village. All hygienic services are provided. Self cooking and management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Mogliazze is a small village near Bobbio, at an altitude of 800 meters, on the mountains of the Apennine chain in the District of Piacenza, north of Italy
TERMINAL: Piacenza is the nearest train station, Milan and Bologna are the nearest airports.
SPECIAL REMARKS: A disabled Italian girl named Linda will share the activities of the workcamp with the volunteers, as usual. She can speak some English and do many things by herself but she needs help all day long. So we are looking for one more female volunteer who has the wish to take part in the camp but also to be especially dedicated to Linda.
CPI 20 – Milano Film Festival
CPI 20 MILANO FILM FESTIVAL – FEST - 15 Vols- age 18 -99
Milano 09 September 2008/23 September 2008 dates to be confirmed!!!
BACKGROUND: Since 1996 the Milano Film Festival has attracted films and filmmakers from all over the world. It is independent – from the interests of major distributors, from institutional politics, from money, from fashion, from critics. But it is also dependent – on the filmmakers' creativity and talent, on the expertise, the experience and the skills of the people that organize it, on the work and commitment of hundreds of volunteers. This festival has proved that Milan can be a friendly and hospitable city. For ten days, this festival transforms places and people that pass through them.
WORK: Volunteers will help with the running of the food counter, the InfoPoint, and the bookshop, with afternoon and evening shifts (for the InfoPoint and bookshop, we’re looking for volunteers with at least a minimal acquaintance with the Italian language). Volunteers will also contribute to the management of the “Directors’ House”, where they will stay.
Volunteers will have 3 free days during the camp, to be arranged according to the festival’s needs.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will lodge in the “Directors’ House”, the place where all the festival’s guests generally stay. Every year, placed in a different post in a different place of around 500/600 m², the “Director’s House” provides some hundred beds, a communal area with a self-serve kitchen, showers, and bathrooms. Sleeping bag is required. Breakfast and lunch will be organized within the house, while dinner will generally be held at the central food counter of the festival.
LOCATION: Milano
CPI 22 KARA BOBOWSKI 2
CPI 21 Kara Bobowski 2- DISA/ANIM -8 Vols - age 20-99
San Savino, Modigliana (FC)- 18 August/ 31 August 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.
They are accompanied by professional assistants, but there is nobody that organizes funny activities and games.
WORK: The volunteers will organize activities for the disabled people and they will propose games, music, easy workshops and easy trekking trips in the nature. The volunteers will strength a friendly relationship with the disabled people and they will make their spare time amusing and interesting.
The volunteers will share the disabled people’s daily life and they will take part in trips or particular planned activities.
They will have 2 free days, to be arranged according to the project needs.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will stay in San Savino (sleeping bag is required). They will use the hygienic services of the house. Volunteers will eat the meals provided by Kara Bobowski together with the disabled people, they will cook only for international dinners or in case of cooking workshops.
LOCATION: San Savino is 6 km far from Modigliana, in the hills (600 mt high).
It is in a panoramic and quite position, with fresh temperature also in summer.
Modigliana is a small town in the Mountain Community Acquacheta, in the north of Italy. There are no means of transportation, except the first and the last day, when transport will be arranged by the hosting organization.
TERMINAL: Faenza (RA) is the nearest train station, it is 20 km far from Modigliana. In daily hours few 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 means of transport. The volunteers and the coordinator will share all their time with the disabled people.
The hosting organisation could provide some bikes.
Please bring games, good ideas and whatever you can use to create a nice atmosphere in the spare time.
Volunteers with a basic knowledge of Italian language are welcome!
INSURANCE POLICY IN YAP ITALY WORKCAMPS
The policy covers accidents and illnesses under the following circumstances:
IMPORTANT
All participants from EU countries must have an E111 form or equivalent, they are issued by each country. This will facilitate the process if heath problems appear during the workcamp. All participants must have their own insurance (inscription to the National Health Service – form E111), YAP’s insurance is only in addition to the social insurance. In case of illness, the insured person should go to the insurance society within three days from the appearance of the illness with a medical certificate.
For any info regarding the workcamp season or other international cooperation projects,
please contact our International Coordinator:
Andrea Rotondo
Via Marco Dino Rossi 12/G, 00173, Roma, Italia
Office Tel: +39.06.72.10.120, Fax: +39.06.72.20.194
Cell: +39.329.055.66.54 (for partners only)
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NATIONAL COORDINATION: Stefano VARLESE campi.in@yap.it
YAP-ITALIA: A SHORT INTRODUCTION
Youth Action for Peace (YAP) Italia has been present in Italy since the beginning of the Sixties. It was officially established as a national organisation in 1971, and has been a branch of YAP since 1973. Its first volunteers took part in workcamps after the great floods in Florence. Since then, Italian volunteers have been participating in international voluntary service projects around the world and have thus been in contact with the international structure of the organization.
Once known as MCP-Italia (Movimento Cristiano per la Pace), the NGO today organises international workcamps, seminars, study visits and training courses. These programmes educate young people about peace, dialogue and solidarity through projects of voluntary action and social and cultural development without any links to religion or a formal political party.
In 2007 YAP Italia organised at least 40 workcamps, mid and long term projects and it has already successfully organised about 1000 projects in the past. This including every year about 400 Italian and International volunteers in short, mid and long term voluntary service projects, trainings and seminars worldwide. The organisation has also organised directly or been involved in the organisations of training courses and seminars on the themes it believes and works on. YAP-It is currently an active member of and participant into different movements, umbrella platforms, councils or international networks. (Youth Action for Peace International, CCIVS-Unesco, AVSO, NVDA, EBCO, the EU Youth council...).
The aim of the activities, besides the realisation of the projects, is to contribute to the creation of a multicultural society based on discussion between different people. We aim to work at local and global levels.
We believe that the presence in international camps of volunteers, coming from various countries and social backgrounds, brings us closer to this goal; thus, allowing local or isolated communities to get in touch with different cultures, and to learn and communicate with them.
We want to promote solidarity in a constructive way, not free assistance: practical help can be useful to overcome emergencies, but we prefer to provide tools and methods that can be used in order to build the Future…
And it is only with the help of our volunteers that we have been able to achieve what we have, no matter how much time and energy they dedicated to the global project of the organization. Thanks to our wonderful volunteers!!!!
Grazie a tutti
YAP Italia
YAP Italia's 2008 Workcamps common frame and principles
- All YAP-Italy's workcamps are international projects. All profiles of volunteers can be accepted, as long as they are 18 years old when the project begins (no superior limit). Unfortunately, most of the workcamp sites and activities are not “accessible” or adapted for our friends with disabilities.
- YAP-Italy strives to create intercultural and mixed groups on their projects as much as possible. We believe that the more culturally diverse, the better the quality of the project and the group dynamic. With that said, we do not accept more than 2 people per country/cultural/linguistic group per project, as long as the size of the group permits. Furthermore, we do not recommend that participants from the same organisation know each other or to be dating before the project as we often notice.
- The basic timetable on YAP's camps is about 30-35 hours of work per week but the necessities of the project can bring the volunteers to work more (rarely less). We DO NOT organise holidays camps. Any tourist activities should be done before or after the beginning of the project and we will always expect the volunteers to be available and dedicated to the activities of the project for the duration of the workcamp. We will never hesitate, even after consultation with the sending organisation, to ask a volunteer to leave the project if we consider his/her activity, behaviour or motivation doesn't fit the needs and nature of the project. We want to ask you to please inform them before their departure. YAP-Italia organises international WORK-camps for volunteers, not camping-sessions for middle-class kids...!!
- The common languages of the workcamps will be English and Italian except when specified.
- In most of the projects, daily activities and tasks, free time and global organisation will be decided among the community. Then it will be facilitated by the coordinator following the needs of the project and managed in teams. We expect each workcamp to create a strong team of volunteers, for the benefit of the project and the local community.
- YAP Italy automatically insures all the volunteers hosted in their workcamps. More details are provided at the end of this programme. European citizens are anyway obliged to take their European Health Card (former E111 form).
- There will always be at least one coordinator per camp from or trained by YAP Italia for the whole duration of the project. Far from being an omnipotent and omniscient “leader”, we like to see him as a facilitator, experienced volunteers with more work to do and more responsibilities toward the global project...
Workcamp Programme 2008
General Overview
| CODE | NAME | DATES | TYPE | # of vols |
| CPI 01 | Design Pubblico | 12/04-22/04 | FEST | 6 |
| CPI 02 | ROCCASECCA | 01/06-20/06 | ENVI/RENO | 12 |
| CPI 03 | Lega Navale | 09/06-22/06 | RENO/MAIN | 10 |
| CPI 04 | KARA BOBOWSKI 1 | 20/06-30/06 | RENO/DISA | 8 |
| CPI 05 | Mediaterraneum | 20/06-12/07 | Art/cult | 10 |
| CPI 06 | Terranimada | 22/06-13/07 | Envi/edu | 10 |
| CPI 07 | PREMIO TROISI | 24/06-09/07 | CULT/FEST | 10 |
| CPI 08 | Centro Ester | 29/06-25/07 | Kids | 12 |
| CPI 10 | Mondiali antirazzisti | 03/07-17/07 | Fest | 14 |
| CPI 11 | Estate Insieme | 04/07-29/07 | KIDS/ TEEN | 6 |
| CPI 12 | SAN POTITO SANNITICO | 07/07-28-07 | Art/cult | 12 |
| CPI 13 | Zora (Odoardina) | 14/07-28/07 | DISA/ENVI | 6 |
| CPI 14 | Cineincontr’arti | 03/08-15/08 | Fest | 6 |
| CPI 15 | Onda d'Urto | August | Fest | 12 |
| CPI 16 | ROIATE-PEACE'S PATH | 11/08-27/08 | ENVI/path | 12 |
| CPI 17 | PISONIANO-PEACE'S PATH | 16/08-30/08 | ENVI/path | 12 |
| CPI 18 | Conca Campania | 18/08-08/09 | ENVI/FEST | 15 |
| CPI 19 | Mogliazze | 21/08-04/09 | AGRI/RENO | 10 |
| CPI 20 | Milano Film Festival | September | FEST | 15 |
| CPI 22 | KARA BOBOWSKI 2 | 18/08 – 31/08 | DISA/ANIM | 8 |
Workcamps short descriptions
CPI 01 Design Pubblico 2008
CPI 01 Design Pubblico 2008- FEST -6 Vols- age 18-99
Milano- 12 April /22 April 2008
BACKGROUND: Esterni is a wide-ranging social and cultural project; a movement that stimulates analyses, ideas and events; an ideal of participation that welcomes people expressing their individuality; a work group that thinks and acts in order to bring about a real change.
Esterni is involved in many different branches of culture, art and communication; it boosts social interaction and supports the use of public spaces – the real heritage of a community. The ideal of a city scaled to human needs guides every single project thought up by esterni, from installations to all-round events, from performances to film shows.
DESIGN PUBBLICO is a project active throughout the whole year; it was the reason why Esterni was called to be part of the Design Council, a structure created by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities. This project serves to promote ideas and actions on the city, in order to renew the public spaces and turn them into places for the people to meet and interact, places to live and experience together. From April 14th to 21st, during the International Furniture Show, Esterni presents the DESIGN PUBBLICO week, including a series of actions and events which focus on some of the “emergencies” within the city. During the 2008 DESIGN PUBBLICO week the spotlight will be on one of such emergencies: building sites.
Website of the project : www.designpubblico.it (Italian and English).
WORK: Volunteers will be involved in the management of the “Designers’ House”, where they will stay. Volunteers will help as well with the running of the events organized by Esterni.
Volunteers will have 1 free day during the camp, to be arranged according to the events’ needs.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will lodge in the “Designers House”, a temporary hostel which provides alternative accommodation to young designers and other guests.
Every year, placed in a different post in a different place of around 500/600 m², the “Designer’s House” provides beds, a communal area with a self-serve kitchen, showers, and bathrooms. Sleeping bag is required. Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be organized within the house.
LOCATION: Milano
CPI 02 – Roccasecca (FR)
CPI 02 – ROCCASECCA – ENVI/RENO - 12 Vols age 18-99
Roccasecca – 01 June 2008/20 June 2008
BACKGROUND: Roccasecca is a pictoresque town not far from the Benedictine monastery of Montecassino. Saint Thomas Aquinas was born there into a noble family and the remainings of his castle dominate the landscape. The town has a wide project of re-launching tourism in the area through the valorisation of tourist sites, churches and Saint Thomas’s castle.
WORK:Volunteers will be involved in clean and restoration tasks at Castle’s area of the archaeological park. Volunteers will also enjoy exchanges and free time activities with local youth organizations.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will be hosted in a house belonging to the town. All hygienic services are provided. Self cooking and management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Roccasecca is in the district of Frosinone, halfway between Napoli and Roma.
TERMINAL: Napoli (Naples) or Roma (Rome).
CPI 03– Lega Navale
CPI 03 – LEGA NAVALE – RENO/MAIN – 10 Vols - age 18-99
Castellammare di Stabia (NA) - 9 June 2008/ 22 June 2008
BACKGROUND: “Lega Navale Italiana” is a public body whose purpose is to popularize among Italian people – especially young people – love for the sea, a seafaring mood and to convey to the citizens nautical concerns, as to promote their participation and engagement into every form of national activities dealing with these topics.
“Lega Navale Italiana” supports safeguard of the marine environment and develops promotional, cultural, naturalistic, educational and sports activities as to achieve the objectives of the organization.
Work: Volunteers will clean and organize the spaces of the Naval League and make some small renovations. They will also involved in the cultural education and sport activities of the Naval League.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in the Naval League. All hygienic services are provided. Self cooking and management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Castellammare di Stabia is a thermal city on the coast, not far from Napoli.
TERMINAL: Napoli (Naples)
CPI 04 KARA BOBOWSKI 1
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.
CPI 05 Mediaterraneum
CPI 05– Art/cult - 10 Vols - age 18-99
Castellammare di Stabia – 20 giugno/12 luglio 2008
BACKGROUND: The city of Castellammare di Stabia is organizing a multifunctional public centre (mediateca) for young people called Mediaterraneum It is a combination of a library, conference hall, training centre, internet point, information centre, etc.
The youth non-profit organization “Artéteca” is very active in art and cultural proposals for youth in the area of Napoli and elsewhere. It is actually leading the team of organizations managing the project Mediaterraneum in Castellammare di Stabia.
WORK: Firstly, volunteers will visit and know the characteristic sites of Castellammare territory. Then, they will organize an exposition about the territory and its inhabitants showed trough the eyes of the international volunteers using different artistic techniques (photos, video, documentary, written, etc); the aim is to create a ship’s log.
In the end of camp the material will acquired by Mediateca and will offer to consultation and vision. The same material will be published in the website “Mediaterraneum”.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in a house. All hygienic services are provided. Self cooking and management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Castellammare di Stabia is a thermal city on the coast, not far from Napoli.
TERMINAL: Napoli (Naples).
CPI 06 –Terranimada - I sentieri della memoria
CPI 06 –TERRANIMADA – ENVI/EDU - 10 Vols - age 18-99
Semestene (Sardegna) – 22 June 2008 / 13 July 2008
BACKGROUND: Since 2007 in the small rural village of Semestene, situated in the north west of Sardegna (an island in the center of the Mediterranean) an agricultural cooperative has called Terranimada ‘care farm’ has had amongst its goals, the desire to reduce the hardship of the rural population by valorizing the natural resources on the territory.
The cooperative has started a series of didactic and therapeutic activities projects, utilizing animals and plants, that should be of benefit to other villages of the territory.
WORK: All around the village, there are many footpaths that lead to water springs, caves and other places which are of interest for their naturalistic and historical/archeological particularities. These pathways which facilitate the access to these places, should be restored and put into evidence. For this reason volunteers will be employed in gardening activities to tidy up some of the pathways which have been indicated by the local council which are of interest to the cooperative Terranimada care farm. Also, there will be some activities together with youngsters from other villages aimed to give youths a role in rural development, stimulating in young Sardinians the eventual participation to international volunteering experiences. These activities will be important moments of socialization and exchange between youngsters of this territory.
ACCOMODATION: The volunteers will be given hospitality in a parish building where there are two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and two bathrooms.
LOCATION: Semestene is situated at about 60 km from the airport of Alghero. Semestene can be reached by trains leaving from the nearby station of Bonorva, 6 km away..
TERMINAL: Alghero, Thiesi (for who travels from the port of Olbia) , Bonorva for who arrives from Porto Torres.
NOTE. We are looking for youngsters that have acquired a certain sensibility towards rural activities, or that come from rural backgrounds, who have the capacities to enjoy free time in a small village, that desire and know how to live, as we say here, ‘at donkeys pace’
CPI 07 – PREMIO TROISI - San Giorgio a Cremano
CPI 07 – PREMIO TROISI – CULT/FEST - 10 Vols - age 18-99
San Giorgio a Cremano –24 June 2008 / 9 July 2008
BACKGROUND: In 2006 the city council of San Giorgio a Cremano started a working program with local youth about education for a culture of peace in cooperation with YAP. Schools and local youth organizations were involved in several activities on peace. The city officially supports MDG and No Excuse 2015 campaign. It also organizes the Massimo Troisi Prize, a renowned cinema festival entitled to the memory of the great Neapolitan actor, traditionally held in the beautiful Villa Bruno of San Giorgio a Cremano, Troisi’s hometown. The festival sponsors new forms and artists of comic art.
WORK: International volunteers, together with local facilitators, will help setting up and running the festival in the main square of the town. They will be preparing invitations, organizing events, assisting with workshops, stewarding and also taking down the festival at the end of the project. During free time volunteers will be able to take part in workshops or activities of their choice.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in an apartment in the wonderful Villa Bruno, with a kitchen and hot showers available. Self cooking and management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: The city of San Giorgio a Cremano is next the big city of Napoli.
TERMINAL: Napoli (Naples)
CPI 08 – Centro Ester
CPI 08 – CENTRO ESTER – KIDS - 12 Vols - age 18-99
Napoli – 29 June 2008 / 25 July 2008
BACKGROUND: Barra is located on the edge of the city of Naples. It actually has a depressed economy and culture but people are very open and there is a wide community spirit. “Centro Ester” is an important centre in the area for sport, leisure, cultural and social activities.
WORK: Volunteers will be involved in sport and leisure activities at the summer camp organised to keep children aged 4-13 away from the street; they will support local workers and volunteers and manage a workshop on international games.
WORK: Volunteers will be involved in sport and leisure activities at the summer camp organised to keep children ages 4-13 away from the street; they will support local workers and volunteers and manage a workshop on international games.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in a gym. All hygienic services are provided. Lunch provided according to collective standards in Italy. Self cooking at dinner and self management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Barra is a suburb of Napoli.
TERMINAL: Napoli (Naples).
CPI 10 – Mondiali Antirazzisti
CPI 10– Mondiali Antirazzisti– FEST – 14 Vols - age 18-99
Casalecchio- 3 July 2008/ 17 July 2008
BACKGROUND: Mondiali Antirazzisti is a multicultural festival where around 5.000 people gathering together for 5 days, playing football (204 teams, the 70% are mixed teams), volleyball, basketball, cricket. The goal of these sport activities is to know each other, participate, have fun together and not to win. There are also many other activities: concerts, workshops, debates. The main topics are: struggling against any form of discrimination and defence of the environment (the festival has a low environmental impact). Website: www.mondialiantirazzisti.org
WORK: International volunteers will help in building and disassembling the facilities of the festival; cleaning the area and making the differentiate waste collection; helping in the kitchen. They will have 3 free days to be arranged with the organisers. The volunteers will have the possibilities to participate at the different sport and cultural activities (also creating a mixed team for the various tournaments)
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will sleep in the Festival area inside the camp site (with toilet and washing facilities). Availabilities of tents for 6 people each, sleeping bags are required but mattresses are provided. Food will be provided for free in the restaurants/bars of the festival area.
LOCATION: Casalecchio di Reno is a village near Bologna, in Emilia Romagna, North-Centre of Italy.
TERMINAL: Bologna is reachable by train (Bologna main Station) or by flight (Marconi International Airport). From Bologna to Casalecchio is possible to catch a train or a bus (around 15 min.)
CPI 11 – Estate Insieme - Piossasco (TO)
CPI 11 – Estate Insieme – KIDS/ TEEN - 6 Vols - age 18-99
Piossasco (Turin) - 4 July 2008 / 29 July 2008
BACKGROUND: Alter 82 sport association in co-operation with CSI (Italian sport agency) manage every year in June and July a daily summer camp that involve more then 150 children/day from 6 to 14 year old. The activities of the daily summer camp are oriented to sport, leisure, cultural and social activities. The city sport centre and two gympools are full available for the daily summer camp. In edition 2008 intention is to develop also a special section dedicated to girls and boys from 14 to 16 year old with a mixed activities that include social work (very easy ones) and sport-leisure (like swimming pool time)
WORK: Volunteers will be involved in the activities at the daily summer camp to support local workers and volunteers and manage workshops on international games, conversation and experience exchanges.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in apartment inside the gym. All hygienic services are provided. Lunch provided according to collective standards in Italy. Self cooking at dinner and during week-end. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Piossasco is located 20km far Turin. It is a village of 17.000 people, located in a strategic point between metropolitan and industrial area and the country closed the Alpes
TERMINAL: Turin.
CPI 12 – SAN POTITO SANNITICO
CPI 12 – SAN POTITO SANNITICO– ART/FEST - 12 Vols - age 18-99
San Potito Sannitico – 07 July 2008 /28 July 2008
BACKGROUND: San Potito Sannitico is a little and lovely town of 1.981 inhabitants on the slopes of the “Matese mountain”. The entire historical center and council territory is located in the mountainous part of the “Matese Regional Park”. Every year, in July, San Potito hosts the International Movie Festival “CinemadaMare” where local people meet artists from all over the world.
WORK: Volunteers will collaborate with the local branch of the PRO-LOCO association preparing and planning CinemadaMare movie festival. Together with PACHA PROJECT Onlus they will also organize an exposition about the territory and its inhabitants showed trough the eyes of the international volunteers using different artistic techniques (pictures, writings, paintings, theatre shows, etc); the aim is to create an original communication instrument, finding those specific elements which distinguishing a place from an other one. In this way the daily perception of the urban space will be modified, changing it radically and rediscovering the historical memory of the place.
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in a school. All hygienic services are provided. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: San Potito Sannitico is about 70km from Naples and 180 km from Rome
TERMINAL: Piedimonte Matese, Vairano-Caianello and Naples
SPECIAL REMARKS: Need volunteers with some artistic talent and communication skills.
CPI 13 – Zora (Odoardina)
CPI 13 – ZORA – DISA/ SOCI - 6 Vols- age 20 -99
Reggio Emilia – 14 - July 2008/28 July 2008
BACKGROUND: Odoardina is a centre belonging to Zora social cooperative. It hosts about 20 disabled people (aged 20 to 35) during the day, except weekends. For a few years international volunteers have been working with them in the summer, mainly outside.
WORK: Volunteers will help disabled guests in tasks aimed to encourage self expression, communication and interpersonal relationships through such activities as singing, music, drawing and painting, diary, beauty salon, recycling paper, swimming pool, day-trips and home cleaning. Volunteers will also be engaged in keeping a small vegetable garden.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will live in the centre. All hygienic services are provided. Breakfast and lunch are provided according to Italian collective standards. Self cooking at dinner and weekends and self management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Odoardina is close to Reggio Emilia, in the north of Italy. The centre is some km far from the city and there are no transportation, except the first and the last day.
TERMINAL: Reggio Emilia is the nearest train station. Milan and Bologna are the nearest airports.
SPECIAL REMARKS: Odoardina is quite isolated, no public transportation. After 5 pm, the volunteers and the coordinator will remain alone in the centre but bikes will be available for them to cycle to town. Please bring games, good ideas and whatever you can use to create a nice atmosphere in the spare time.
Participants must be older than 20.
CPI 14 – Cineincontr’arti
CPI 14 Cineincontr’arti – Fest/cult – 6 Vols - age 18 -99
San Pasquale (Olbia) 3 August 2008 /15 August 2008
BACKGROUND: “Cineincontr’arti” is a film festival that gathers many different forms of art in a creative exchange that highlights the peculiarity of any kind of artistic expression through that one which «contains in itself many other arts» (A. Kurosawa).
Through this cinema event San Pasquale hosts a calendar full of seminars, debates, viewings, concerts, dance and theatrical performances, readings, painting and photography exhibitions.
WORK: The event will take place around the 2nd week of August. All the events will have Cinema Arts thematic. International volunteers will help to set up and run the festival, and will also realize a short movie. For this reason volunteers should have a keen interest in learning filmmaking techniques like production assistance, imaging direction, phonic assistance, stagehanding, direction and more. The last three days of Festival will be dedicated to different activities such as encounters with directors and writers or movies and short films viewings.
For further information please visit the website www.cineincontrarti.org
ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will live in a school. All hygienic services are provided. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: San Pasquale is a very small town of about 200 inhabitants, located in the northern part of Sardinia, by the sea.
TERMINAL: Olbia
CPI 15 – Onda d'Urto Festival
CPI 15 – ONDA D’URTO – FEST - 14 Vols - age 18 -99
Brescia – 09August 08 /04 September 2008 dates to be confirmed!!!
BACKGROUND: For many years the social centre “Magazzino 47”, in cooperation with YAP Italia and the media support of Radio Onda d’Urto, have been organizing a multi-ethnic festival in Brescia. The event is a good opportunity for many volunteers and participants to exchange information and experiences.
WORK: Volunteers will help to put on and manage several stands of the Festival and will clean the kitchen and other spaces. They will work in the afternoon till late in the evening and will have the opportunity to join the concerts, theatre performances, movies and DJ-sets.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will be hosted in a local social centre, called “Magazzino 47”, a self-managed place for youth where social, cultural, and political activities are organized. Sleeping bags, good-will and open-mindedness are required.
LOCATION: Brescia is in Lombardy, in the north of Italy.
TERMINAL: Brescia is the nearest train station, Milan is the nearest airport. (Please consider Milano-Orio al Serio Airport where several low cost flights options are available.)
CPI 16 – Roiate - PEACE'S PATH
CPI 16 – ROIATE - Sentiero della PACE – ENVI/path - 12 Vols - age 18 -99
Roiate (ROMA) – 11 August 2008 /27 August 2008 dates to be confirmed!!!
BACKGROUND: Roiate is a small isolated and pictoresque village, about one hour from Rome by bus. Trekking footpaths cross the natural park of Aniene and reach some ancient remains.
WORK: Volunteers will clean footpaths meant to link Piglio and Subiaco, thus giving the possibility to hike through the entire Aniene Valley. They will cut shrubs and bushes that have invaded the paths and they will post some explanatory signs. They will also clean the inside of an old church. Moreover they will join the local party to honor Saint Benedictus during the last weekend.
ACCOMMODATION: In the local elementary school with all cooking facilities, toilets and showers. Self cooking and management. No beds or mattresses, sleeping bags and mats are strictly required.
LOCATION: Roiate is an isolated village on the hills not far from Rome.
TERMINAL: Roma (Rome)
CPI 17 – Pisoniano - PEACE'S PATH
CPI 17 – PISONIANO - Sentiero della PACE – ENVI/path - 12 Vols- age 18 -99
Pisoniano (Roma) – 16 August 2008 /30 August 2008
BACKGROUND: “Sentiero della Pace” is a footpath across the beautiful mountains near Rome, that allows visitors to discover a wonderful legacy of nature, history and culture through an inmost and profound experience. Pisoniano is a small hill village located on the eastern slope of Prenestini mountains, about one hour from Rome by bus. Extremely peaceful place, it offers a quiet environment and a healthy climate.
WORK: Volunteers will clean footpaths meant to link Piglio and Subiaco, thus giving the possibility to hike through the entire Aniene Valley. They will cut shrubs and bushes that have invaded the paths and they will post some explanatory signs. They will also clean the inside of an old church.
ACCOMMODATION: In the local elementary school with all cooking facilities, toilets and showers. Self cooking and management., sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Pisoniano is 52km east from Rome.
TERMINAL: Roma (Rome)
CPI 18 – Conca Campania
CPI 18- CONCA-CAMPANIA – ENVI/FEST - 15 Vols- age 18 -99
CONCA-CAMPANIA 18 August 2008 / 08 September 2008
BACKGROUND: On the territory of Conca Campania, (1200 inhabitants, half the way from Roma and Napoli at the extreme North of the Campania region) stands some particularly rich and specific architectural patrimony from the 1930's, the Pineta Park, projected by the great Italian architect Porcinai to create a sample of "paradise on earth" in these hills close to Monte Cassino Abbey, a famous 2^nd W.W. battle-field. This park, abandoned for a long time, has been recently donated to the local branch of the PRO-LOCO association, who takes care all around Italy about local development and youth empowerment.
WORK: The goal of this work camp will be to clean and reshape a part of the original yard. There will be about 15 volunteers in the team, one coordinator and local volunteers who will organize with you the daily life and activity. The volunteers will also be involved in the organization of some local celebrations ( la Festa della Birra among them ), at the beginning of September.
ACCOMODATION: The Volunteers will be fully taken in charge, hosted in a building at their disposal close to their project action spot, with all needed basic facilities. Self cooking and management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Conca Campania is half the way from Roma and Napoli
TERMINAL: Napoli or Roma
CPI 19 – Mogliazze
CPI 19 - MOGLIAZZE – AGRI/RENO - 10 Vols- age 18 -99
Mogliazze (Piacenza) – 21 August 08 /04 September 08
BACKGROUND: In the 70s, a few friends moved into an abandoned village called Mogliazze, on the Apennine mountains. Today Cooperativa Mogliazze works on the promotion of bio-agriculture, environmental protection and conservation of the traditional buildings.
WORK: Volunteers will be involved in the activities of the cooperative. They will harvest and compile fruits and medicinal herbs and may also do some masonry work.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will live in a traditional house in the village. All hygienic services are provided. Self cooking and management. Sleeping bags are required.
LOCATION: Mogliazze is a small village near Bobbio, at an altitude of 800 meters, on the mountains of the Apennine chain in the District of Piacenza, north of Italy
TERMINAL: Piacenza is the nearest train station, Milan and Bologna are the nearest airports.
SPECIAL REMARKS: A disabled Italian girl named Linda will share the activities of the workcamp with the volunteers, as usual. She can speak some English and do many things by herself but she needs help all day long. So we are looking for one more female volunteer who has the wish to take part in the camp but also to be especially dedicated to Linda.
CPI 20 – Milano Film Festival
CPI 20 MILANO FILM FESTIVAL – FEST - 15 Vols- age 18 -99
Milano 09 September 2008/23 September 2008 dates to be confirmed!!!
BACKGROUND: Since 1996 the Milano Film Festival has attracted films and filmmakers from all over the world. It is independent – from the interests of major distributors, from institutional politics, from money, from fashion, from critics. But it is also dependent – on the filmmakers' creativity and talent, on the expertise, the experience and the skills of the people that organize it, on the work and commitment of hundreds of volunteers. This festival has proved that Milan can be a friendly and hospitable city. For ten days, this festival transforms places and people that pass through them.
WORK: Volunteers will help with the running of the food counter, the InfoPoint, and the bookshop, with afternoon and evening shifts (for the InfoPoint and bookshop, we’re looking for volunteers with at least a minimal acquaintance with the Italian language). Volunteers will also contribute to the management of the “Directors’ House”, where they will stay.
Volunteers will have 3 free days during the camp, to be arranged according to the festival’s needs.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will lodge in the “Directors’ House”, the place where all the festival’s guests generally stay. Every year, placed in a different post in a different place of around 500/600 m², the “Director’s House” provides some hundred beds, a communal area with a self-serve kitchen, showers, and bathrooms. Sleeping bag is required. Breakfast and lunch will be organized within the house, while dinner will generally be held at the central food counter of the festival.
LOCATION: Milano
CPI 22 KARA BOBOWSKI 2
CPI 21 Kara Bobowski 2- DISA/ANIM -8 Vols - age 20-99
San Savino, Modigliana (FC)- 18 August/ 31 August 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.
They are accompanied by professional assistants, but there is nobody that organizes funny activities and games.
WORK: The volunteers will organize activities for the disabled people and they will propose games, music, easy workshops and easy trekking trips in the nature. The volunteers will strength a friendly relationship with the disabled people and they will make their spare time amusing and interesting.
The volunteers will share the disabled people’s daily life and they will take part in trips or particular planned activities.
They will have 2 free days, to be arranged according to the project needs.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will stay in San Savino (sleeping bag is required). They will use the hygienic services of the house. Volunteers will eat the meals provided by Kara Bobowski together with the disabled people, they will cook only for international dinners or in case of cooking workshops.
LOCATION: San Savino is 6 km far from Modigliana, in the hills (600 mt high).
It is in a panoramic and quite position, with fresh temperature also in summer.
Modigliana is a small town in the Mountain Community Acquacheta, in the north of Italy. There are no means of transportation, except the first and the last day, when transport will be arranged by the hosting organization.
TERMINAL: Faenza (RA) is the nearest train station, it is 20 km far from Modigliana. In daily hours few 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 means of transport. The volunteers and the coordinator will share all their time with the disabled people.
The hosting organisation could provide some bikes.
Please bring games, good ideas and whatever you can use to create a nice atmosphere in the spare time.
Volunteers with a basic knowledge of Italian language are welcome!
INSURANCE POLICY IN YAP ITALY WORKCAMPS
The policy covers accidents and illnesses under the following circumstances:
| ACCIDENTS | * Initial medical costs up to 500 euros for each event; * Treatment costs in the case of hospitalization up to 500 euro for each event for the assured year, but up to 500 euros for the costs of staying in a hospital; * In the case of death 50,000 euros; * In the case of permanent disability up to 50,000 euro; * THE CASE OF TEMPORARY DISABILITY IS EXCLUDED |
| ILLNESS | * The policy covers the following illnesses which could occur during the days of residence in said workcamp; APPENDICITIS (ONLY IN THE CASE OF OPERATION), TYPHOID FEVER, PNEUMONIA OR NON TUBERCULAR PLEURESY, ERYSIPELAS, SMALLPOX. DIPHTHERIA, ACUTE PERITINITUS, SCARLET FEVER, MENINGITIS, MUMPS, GERMAN MEASLES, SUNSTROKE, CHOLERA, TYPHOID, CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS. * Initial medical costs up to 500 euros for each event; * Treatment costs in the case of hospitalization up to 500 euros for each event and for the assured year, but up to 500 euros for the costs of staying in a hospital; |
IMPORTANT
All participants from EU countries must have an E111 form or equivalent, they are issued by each country. This will facilitate the process if heath problems appear during the workcamp. All participants must have their own insurance (inscription to the National Health Service – form E111), YAP’s insurance is only in addition to the social insurance. In case of illness, the insured person should go to the insurance society within three days from the appearance of the illness with a medical certificate.
For any info regarding the workcamp season or other international cooperation projects,
please contact our International Coordinator:
Andrea Rotondo
Via Marco Dino Rossi 12/G, 00173, Roma, Italia
Office Tel: +39.06.72.10.120, Fax: +39.06.72.20.194
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