Explore garden therapy through community life
Description: The 'AgriTermine' farm, thanks to the more than 20 years' experience of one of its partners, has been developing an innovative garden therapy project for two years. Unlike other experiences that have brought the vegetable garden, agricultural work, into 'closed' communities to create new and rich relationships for disadvantaged people, this project has the ambition of building an 'open' community around a community garden, starting from the awareness that the need for quality relationships concerns the entire population and is always connected to the relationship we are able to establish with the Earth. The aim of the camp will be to get involved and contribute concretely to this new challenge by being part of it, bringing their own contribution with manual work and intercultura exchange.
Type of Work: The work envisaged will be of a manual and agricultural nature, concretely following the horticultural therapy project carried out by the partner association and fostering intercultural exchange among the volunteers themselves and between the volunteers and the host community. In addition, volunteers will help build a tree house that will serve as a space for future events organised by Agritermine . Volunteers will work for no more than 6 hours a day.
Study Theme: The study part will focus on the study of urtotherapy and work around a community garden as an innovative activity that can foster the development of an open society, with benefits for community guests and external guests, in a respectful relationship with the Earth.
Accommodation: Accommodation will be either in tents or indoors, with the possibility of arriving the evening before the camp and leaving the day after it ends. If you want to sleep in a tent, you are asked to bring a sleeping bag and mat. The toilets are inside the dwelling where you sleep. The kitchen will be prepared by the volunteers, in turn. They will also cook the food that is collected (spinach, salad, tomatoes, etc.).
Approximate Location: Frazione Sant'Anna - Montiglio Monferrato (AT) - about 58 Km from Turin
Notes: Please kindly note that there is an additional incoming fee of 50 Euros for all volunteers applying through Partner organisations or Contacts of the SCI network. Check the status here: https://bit.ly/3vhBD5J. This fee covers hosting costs, insurance, a small travel fund to enable disadvantaged volunteers to join projects and administration costs and is to be paid on arrival at the project or online directly to the hosting branch. For volunteers coming through SCI Branches and Groups there is no additional incoming fee, since the costs covered by the additional fee are included in the amount paid to the sending branch.