ITALIA LUNARIA 2008

LUN 1 AGAPE- Prali, Piedmont - N. West  06/06 - 27/06 10 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.

LUN 2 Simphony of Flowers, Poggio Moiano, Lazio - Central IT 18/06-01/07   10 VOLS ARTS   
Are you sensitive to colors? Feeling creative? You like art in the street?  Started in the year 1280, a religious feast is dedicated to the "Corpus Christi" when the Host is  shown in a holy procession through the whole village. Work: Volunteers will be asked to pick up flowers in the fields. The petals will be then divided according to their colors and they will be used to create compositions with flowers. The group together with flower-artists coming from different parts of Italy will compose about 100 pictures with the flowers on the pavement of the main road of Poggio Moiano The picture done by the volunteers will be taped in order to create a music clip. There will be lessons about the techniques to make these flower-pictures. Volunteers will also help to the general organization of the event. Accommodation: in a school, bring sleeping bag. Food: there will be a kitchen available for the volunteers. Terminal: Rome.

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.

LUN 4 Common Paths - Scario, Campania, South  01/07 - 15/07 15 ENVI
This project main goal is to renovate and give a new standard of quality to the protected area in Policastro Gulf in the south of Italy (Campania) .
The volunteers will give a support to local people to enhance their environmental and cultural background, in order to involve youngsters in a process of exchange of values and active citizenship. Volunteers will open new paths in the green areas of Scario and renovate panoramic point of view of the town, together with the creation of new wooden benches and  garbage bins.
Creation and setting up of signs in the many tourist places of the area. Access for the area around the old tower of Saracens in the middle of Scario.
Accommodation in S.Giovanni a Piro, a village 15 kms away from Scario. Volunteers will lodge in the guest house of Municipality (all facilities provided). Shuttle bus provided to pick up the volunteers from the working place to the accommodation structure. TERMINAL: Rome or Naples

LUN 5 Civil Protection,  Casaglia, Ferrara - Emilia-Romagna, North, 6/07 - 20/07 15 Vols CONS
The local Civil Protection association VAB is building a new site to host temporary houses for displaced: this will become an International campus. VAB is still committed in the renovation of abandoned bicycles. The association has been organizing camps for years and in 2008 need the help of international volunteers to go further. Work: small construction works, renovation of the association building, restoring bicycles, preparation of the site for the campus (fences, electric and water wires...). Accommodation: in the association guest house. Food: the group will manage the kitchen. Terminal: Venice or Bologna

LUN 6 Stop Racism! Cecina, Toscana - Central IT  08/07 - 22/07  12 VOLS  FEST
The International Antiracist Meeting held every summer in Cecina (Tuscany, Italy), is organised by ARCI and promoted by many public authorities. It is one of the most important events at European level for many associations engaged in the daily fight against all forms of exclusion and intolerance and in promoting equal relations between all citizens - whatever their origins may be. It's an event that involves hundreds of people each year (1000 last year): throughout seven days, discussions will take place in theme-based workshops, in Round Tables and Conventions, to compare experiences and ideas of those committed to promote civil rights for all including immigrants and minorities.
The Meeting offers training opportunities on issues regarding racism, intolerance and social exclusion. Work:: Volunteers will be engaged in setting up the tents before the meeting starts and dismounting them in the end. They will help in the management of the canteen (serving at the tables and helping in the kitchen) and they will give information at the orientation desk at the entrance. Possibilities to take part in the workshops during free time. Accommodation in tents.  TERMINAL: Airport: PISA - Train station: Cecin

LUN 7 AGAPE- Prali, Piedmont - N. West  09/07 ñ 30/07 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: families' activities, workshops on homosexuality and faith and women/gender issues.  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.

LUN 8  - Luserna San Giovanni,  Piedmont-North-West 14/07-31/07 5 VOLS  SOCI-MANUAL
Rifugio Re Carlo Alberto is a care house for elderly people founded in 1898. It belongs to the Waldensian Church (www.chiesavaldese.org), hosts 76 men and women and includes a diurnal center. In the last years, the institute has been specializing in caring Alzheimerís disease. The place is quite isolated in the nature: Luserna San Giovanni (about 10,000 inhabitants, 50 kms from Turin) is at a walking distance. International youth volunteer are there whole year (EVS, LTV programs). The work will consist in manual activities (painting, gardening, maintenance, etc.). Volunteers will be also involved in the annual party with the hosts. Accommodation in an independent building within the house. Vegetarian food available. Terminal: Turin

LUN 9 - Luserna San Giovanni,  Piedmont-North-West 14/07-31/07 5 VOLS  FEST
The camp will be set in Luserna San Giovanni, a small town 50 km far from Turin. In this town, from 19 to 27 July, every year takes place a music and arts festival which is organised by a youth association called SPAD. SPAD is composed by 12 people and have been organizing events from july 2004.
This will be the second year that the festival will involve international volunteers. Work: The camp will foresee two steps: the first days will be dedicated to the preparation of the location of the event; during the festival  volunteers will be asked to collaborate in keeping the place tidy and clean, to help preparing the set for the concerts and for all artistic exhibition, to help working at the bar and to help making every part of the event successful. In this period volunteers will be involved also in administrative and technical questions so that they will have a complete experience of what organizing events mean and they would also have the possibility to enjoy and live the whole event. During the stay they could be called to work from SPAD in order to make some little manual works. Accommodation: will be a simple dormitory near the place of the event. Food: The volunteers will cook for themselves and have meals with the local organizers. Terminal: Turin

LUN 10 Civil Protection 2, Casaglia, Ferrara - Emilia-Romagna, North, 27/07 - 10/08 15 Vols CONS
The local Civil Protection association VAB is building a new site to host temporary houses for displaced: this will become an International campus. VAB is still committed in the renovation of abandoned bicycles. The association has been organizing camps for years and in 2008 need the help of international volunteers to go further. Work: small construction works, renovation of the association building, restoring bicycles, preparation of the site for the campus (fences, electric and water wires...). Accommodation: in the association guest house. Food: the group will manage the kitchen. Terminal: Venice or Bologna.

LUN 11 AGAPE- Prali, Piedmont - N. West  30/07 - 13/08 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: responsible consumption workshop and international theological workshop.  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.

LUN 12  High Village ñ Prim'Alpe, Lombardia- North    02/08-16/08 10 Vols ENVI
The camp is finalized to the restoration of a mountain village, once used from the farmers, in the way to go to the mountain Corni di Canzo. Work: it consists in cleaning the area from exceeding vegetation, removing stones and bricks and positioning the suitable signals with the support of a technical staff.
Itís necessary work clothes considering that the camp is in mountain (itís needed trekking shoes, long trousers, sweater or pile, k-way, rucksack (no trolley), etc. The volunteers work about 6 hours a day, five days a week. Location: The camp will be located in an area inside the Mountain Community of the Lariano Triangle. Accommodation: in a mountain refugee at PrimíAlpe with rooms with 10 beds, bathrooms, showers and supplied kitchen. Food: The volunteers cook, eat and sleep in the refugee.
Note: to reach the camp itís needed a 40 minutes walk. For any emergency itís possible to use a 4x4 Surrounding area: near the place where the volunteers are going to live and work, you can visit the Brianza lakes, and in a few kilometres you can enjoy the cities of Como, Lecco and Milan and tourist places like Bellagio or the Valassina valley. TERMINAL: Milan

LUN 13 Up and Down the Med Sea -  Cassibile, Eastern Sicily   5/08 - 18/08 12 ENVI   
ìDance the Lifeî is an association that take care of sustainable life and environment questions and clown caring for disadvantaged children. For the next summer it organizes an environmental non-profit camp, runnig through sponsorships, focusing on the cleaning of sea coast around Siracusa, the third sicilian city.
Work: during the morning for 5-6 hours volunteers clean up sand beaches, rocks, vegetation around Plemmirio marine reserve; underwater (not more than 2 meters deep) using snorkel, mask and fin and sometime with the help of a boat; it's also important to involve local people and tourists in the cleaning and sensitise them. During the camp a marine biologist will be with the volunteers to explain basic notion about the marine environment, coast and sea protection. Work is not so hard but during the day itís very hot, temperature could be 45∞C. In the afternoon-evening, we'll organize with the help of volunteers meeting with people of local village, games for children, movies projections; volunteers will be able to take part to local activities and events or simply enjoy the beautiful countryside.
Accomodation: in collective tents with toilet and shower facilities provided based in the ground of the headquarter of Dance the Life, a quiet place in the country, far 4 km from the nearest village. Volunteers must bring sleeping bags, blankets and roll mats.
Food: only vegetarian, no fish and no meat is provided during the camp; we ask to all the volunteers to do a sustainable use of all resources, mostly for water that is brought with a tanker to the camp site.
Location: The site is in the country near Siracusa, easter Sicily (Italy). Terminal: Catania airport.
Special requirements: volunteers must be good swimmers and with a good affinities for sea because all the camp focusing on cleaning sea and beaches. A motivation letter is required.

LUN 14 Cantinando - Barile, Basilicata, South, 05/08 - 20/08  18 Vols  FEST
Barile, a village of 3600 inhabitants is placed at the bottom of an inactive volcano, called ìMonte Vultureî where is grown a local fine wine.  The town is known as ìwine cityî, where the wine is produced in a traditional way in a wine cellars excavated in the tufa.
The ìCantineî (wine cellars) are the heart of the workcamp in support of the ìCantinandoî Festival.
This event is one of the most well-known Festival of this region. We promote our tradition, our culture and our music bringing the people in contact with many features of the local reality. During ìCantinandoî famous artists come in Barile to share with us their wonderful music and theatre.
Barile is characterized by Albanians origins and some other small communities, this brings a daily exchange among different cultures that involves people of various age.
The project consists in the re-evaluation of the Urban Park of wine cellars, cleaning and setting up the area appointed for the Festival. Mainly the volunteers collaborate with the youngsters of the local association to organize the Festival (concerts, street art, paintings, traditional games...). During the free time the volunteers enjoy themselves with initiatives and they participate in guided trips to the nearby towns (such as Lagopesole castle, Melfi castle and various country festivals). Accommodation: in a guest house, Food: The volunteers will manage a fully equipped kitchen. Terminal:  Roma, Napoli and then by train to Barile.

LUN 15 Medfest, Buccheri, Eastern Sicily   05/08 - 20/08  10 Vols FEST
Buccheri is a little village on the east coast of Sicily, near to Catania, Ragusa and Siracusa, three beautiful ancient cities of artistic interest. Near to Buccheri there are also great naturalistic areas. Every year there is a festival in Buccheri, called "Medfest", which want to enhance tradition of Mediterranean Sea since medieval ones. On the 1st  week the volunteers  will clean by weeds the area around an old castle and church remains, and creating pathways to improve the access to  NIVIERE (OLD ICE RETRIEVING SYSTEMS BUILT WITH VOLCANIC STONE) 
During the 2nd week of worcamp, the volunteers will organize, together  with local volunteers, the crowd-gathering medieval festival nicknamed  MEDFEST  which it is expected to host about 50.000 people from all over the country. Accommodation in a guest-house. Terminal: Catania

LUN 16 AGAPE- Prali, Piedmont - N. West  13/08 - 03/09 10 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: international politics, teenagers activities and assembly of Agape centre.  Volunteers will help in the following areas: kitchen, meal service (tables and dishes), cleaning, maintenance, bar tending, 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

LUN 17  Bike up your town ñ Monterotondo, Lazio-Centre 30/08-14/08 15 VOLS MANUAL-ARTS
The city council of Monterotondo is trying to raise awareness about the use of bike as a cheap and environmental friendly means of transport.  Slowness and friendship can be new criteria to live the community. Work: The workcamp aim is to boost this programme through a range of different activities such as workshops on transformation of bikes with electrical engines, experimental bikes rental, cultural activities, juggling and promotion to the local community.  There is also a ìStationî to be restored, it will become the Station of the Bikes. Volunteers are expected to be motivated in sustainable way of life and be in contact with youngs and adults citizens, to let them discover the good of leaving cars parked...together with the local active citizens! Accommodation: in a school, bring sleeping bag: Food: Volunteers will cook for themselves.  Location: Monterotondo is a city in NE 25 km far from Rome, with almost 40,000 inhabitants. Terminal: Rome
Requirements: bring your musical instrument, juggling games, creativity!

LUN 18 A Fair Camp, Parma - Emilia-Romagna, North - 11/09 - 23/09 15 Vols FEST
The Fair Trade Shops National Association organize every year a Festival where it's possible to get in touch with the issues of Peace, International Cooperation, fair trade, global rights, during conferences, workshops, meetings and the direct contact with projects from all around the world. The international volunteers will support the organizers doing several activities such as manual works, translations, information desk in contact with the public...expect to be useful in very different ways! The volunteers will have also the time to attend meetings, seminars to be active and to know better about the Fair Trade related issues. Accommodation: in a collective guest house. Food: the group will manage the kitchen. Requirements: basic English language skills. Terminal: Milan or Bologna

LUN 19     Open Nature  Mompeo, Lazio - Central It2/11 - 16/11   10 Vols     AGRI
'Fiume Farfa' is a small co-operative which is setting up a farm with educational purposes with the declared objective of creating an opportunity for direct contact between agriculture and schools to inform students of the fundamental role of agriculture as an important actor of the environmental and cultural wealth and heritage of the so called marginal territories. Work: Volunteers will undertake the hard work in the fields, in co-operation with the young people of the co-operative. The work will consist in: olives collecting for the production of local oil. Additional works: opening of new paths, clearing the land of grumble and infesting plants, clearing an estate road and paths constructing and maintenance of fences. Accommodation in a house, wood heating and hot water guaranteed. Only vegetarian food will be available. Please note that the place is really beautiful but quite isolated in the nature. There is only a very small village at a walking distance named Mompeo.  TERMINAL: Roma