MEDIUM TERM VOLUNTEER (MTV) PROJECTS
LegMTV05 Verona (Vr) Veneto 01/09/06 30/11/06 Envi 5
LegMTV06 Verona (Vr) Veneto 01/12/06 28/02/07 Envi 5 Location: For the fifith year Verona will host international volunteers during the entire year. Verona is a very famous city (do you remember Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare???) In the north east of Italy; it is a very tourist place with a long history and culture; rich of historical monuments, first of all the famous arena (the ancient roman theatre). Even it is a great example of fortified town, in fact the walls and the surrounding area is going to become a national park. Unfortunately some parts of the area are still damaged and abandoned. Legambiente works on two different medium term projects in this town:
1) VILLA BURI: Buri’s villa is situated at the centre of the Adige river’s bend and it’s a monumental palace, with a chapel, some cottages and a majestic landscape-garden, 30 hectares big, where a large part of it is planted with ancient and precious trees. In September 2001 the management of the villa was given to a no-profit group of associations which have created a project to use and renovate the structure.
The main goal of this project is to affirm a culture of peace, to research a bearable and solid economy, and a right relationship with the environment. To make it possible it is necessary to suggest concrete and visible stimulus, symbolical but clear in order to develop all together a cultural articulated and qualified activity related to peace, environment and an economy of justice. It is desiderable to form a space of concreteness and effectiveness to the obligations of those many realities who spend a lot of energies and passion on the multiple faces of solidarity, offering a place that produces new experiences of dialogue and confrontation between peoples. In the planned activities there are some educational and formative ones: meetings, expositions, training courses, the opening of the park, parties, manifestations, events where the international volunteers can take part. The final goal is to restore a part of the park inside four bastions of the XIX cent. And
remains walls from XVI cent.
Volunteers will work on the custody of the park (opening and closing the gates), gardening (taking care of the botanic garden) and cleaning, everything coordinated by a responsible. Even they will collaborate with the local group of Legambiente in other activities. They will work about 30 hours per week.
Accommodation: house inside the park or the villa (two bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, a little dining room).
2) PARK OF WALLS: Legambiente is deeply involved in the restoration and revaluation of a great green space around. The final goal is to restore a part of the park inside four bastions of the XIX cent. and remains walls from XVI cent. In this area Legambiente is deeply involved in action of restoration and revaluation of a great green space. The hard job has just started. The aim is to rehabilitate the area comprehended among four bastions of ‘800 and remains of walls of ‘500 and make it became a Park. Sometimes, these four bastions host drug addicts, prostitutes or homeless people which find place to stay for some hours. It’s not dangerous, and you will not work alone. There is a technician responsible for the maintenance of the Park and another person responsible for volunteers and their integration in the project and in the town. Volunteers will work on the custody of the Park (opening and closing the gates), gardening and cleaning, coordinated by technicians. They will
also collaborate with the local group of Legambiente in other activities as guiding tourists through the park and other Legambiente projects.
They will work about 30 hours per week.
Informatii suplimentare despre astfel de proiecte si in alte tari (India, Germania, SUA) pot fi obtinute de la: evslong@yap.ro sau tel; 0264/590717
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