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. Please visit: www.agapecentroecumenico.org to see which are the activity programmes for this period.
WORK:
The work camp will support the activities of AGAPE when a number of guests have meetings on issues of political, social, cultural and religious interest. Volunteers will help in the following areas: kitchen, meal service (tables and dishes), cleaning, maintenance, bar tending, child-minding. Games, discussions and outings are organized 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.
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD:
Usually the workcampers will be host in 3-4 bed bedrooms. Toilets are in common on the floor. The meal are typical Italian Mediterranean’s ones and there's a vegetarian alternative for those they required it, as well as for any specific allergies. It is possible to use a washing machine.
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. Please visit: www.agapecentroecumenico.org to see which are the activity programmes for this period.
WORK:
The work camp will support the activities of AGAPE when a number of guests have meetings on issues of political, social, cultural and religious interest. Volunteers will help in the following areas: kitchen, meal service (tables and dishes), cleaning, maintenance, bar tending, child-minding. Games, discussions and outings are organized 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.
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD:
Usually the workcampers will be host in 3-4 bed bedrooms. Toilets are in common on the floor. The meal are typical Italian Mediterranean’s ones and there's a vegetarian alternative for those they required it, as well as for any specific allergies. It is possible to use a washing machine.
Cunto (Creatività Urbana Napoli Territorio Orientale) is the name of a project of urban creativity in the suburbs of Ponticelli, Barra, San Giovanni in Naples through graffiti and street art. The project involves young people, schools, parishes, local associations, universities etc. into the creation of the first Center for Urban Creativity in Italy (graffiti art, murals, street art and urban design).
WORK:
In the morning the volunteers will make renovation and artistic works with kids in the hosting boarding school. In the afternoon the vvolunteers will support the work of the staff and graffiti artists. They will renovate, clean and paint 5 walls where the graffiti artists will realize the works of urban creativity.
ACCOMMODATION:
. Volunteers will live in boarding school. All hygienic services are provided. Lunch provided according to collective standards in Italy. Self cooking at breakfast and dinner.
LOCATION:
San Giovanni a Teduccio, Naples.
TERMINAL:
Naples.
SPECIAL REMARKS:
Motivation letter required. This project is ideal for volunteers with some artistic talent and interested in working with kids.
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. Please visit: www.agapecentroecumenico.org to see which are the activity programmes for this period.
WORK:
The work camp will support the activities of AGAPE when a number of guests have meetings on issues of political, social, cultural and religious interest. Volunteers will help in the following areas: kitchen, meal service (tables and dishes), cleaning, maintenance, bar tending, child-minding. Games, discussions and outings are organized 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.
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD:
Usually the workcampers will be host in 3-4 bed bedrooms. Toilets are in common on the floor. The meal are typical Italian Mediterranean’s ones and there's a vegetarian alternative for those they required it, as well as for any specific allergies. It is possible to use a washing machine.
The summer project will take place partly in Fossoli concentration camp, which was used to gather all Jewish and political prisoners in Italy before sending them to Auschwitz, mostly. Volunteers will be involved in some maintenance work in the concentration camp, which will be completed with a study part focused on the concentration camp, and the way the memory of this places and events are kept alive by local volunteers and by the foundation which manages the place. Particular focus will be given to the train of Memory to Auschwitz organized yearly with schools in January. The second part of the project will take place in on the hills of Palagano, where the Resistance movement took place in the period between 1943-1945. Volunteers will clean some commemorative gravestones which remembers the events of civil resistance against fascist /nazi troops in the area.Volunteers will also have the opportunity to meet survivors and witnesses of that events.
Accomodation & food:
Volunteers will be lodged in a school and in one of the building of the camp.
Requirements:
Specific interest in the subject to be shown by the motivation in the application and by means of a specific motivation letter.
The summer project support the whole organization of the festival, which will take place from the 14th-16th July: preparation of the public spaces, cooking, cleaning and of course living and enjoying the festival in the marvellous frame of Forte Altavilla in Ancona city.
Study part will be the themes of each day of the festival, meeting in advance or after, the protagonists of the debates.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation in a school. Food to be prepared by volunteers
Location & leisure:
The festival itself will provide a lot of leisure time. Otherwise, possible trips in the area are to be organized
« I would recommend participating in a workcamp, especially with VAP, who ensured that I found a project to suit me and provided essential training for me in preparation for my trip. Being part of a workcamp really is a life-changing experience, oh, and it looks great on your CV! »
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