The proposal stems from the meeting between IBO Italia and the Social Promotion Association "I Tetragonauti," founded in 2003 and today made up of professionals and volunteers with expertise in educational pedagogy and maritime experience. The main objective of I Tetragonauti is to implement social and educational interventions and projects aimed at minors, minors in distress, those with difficulties, and people with disabilities, identifying the marine environment and sailing boats as the privileged contexts and tools for their work.
The project thus involves a volunteer experience aboard a sailboat.
Why this experience?
A sea journey has strong educational and formative characteristics: sailing allows you to discover different horizons and possibilities, passions and interests. It helps you learn new things and stimulates the discovery of new aspects of yourself. Living in direct contact with the sea offers a privileged opportunity to get to know it, learn to respect it, and discover its rules and beauty. Being surrounded by the sea, day and night, will make you feel a deep connection with nature. The weather elements and the various forms of marine life will be our travel companions.
Being part of a crew, sharing with others the emotions of sailing, the responsibilities, the enjoyable situations, and the difficult ones, allows you to enter a new dimension based on collaboration, camaraderie, and mutual trust.
Community life on the boat is the privileged space for collaborative action, the ideal environment to experiment with relationships involving rules, roles, duties, tasks, and responsibilities.
The journey is undoubtedly the most intense educational moment.
It’s the time to detach from comforts and securities in order to enter a different reality, sometimes challenging, which inevitably forces you to let go of your own restraints, your own resistance, and to engage with others and with differences.
The activities will alternate between moments on board and on land. During the week, there will be cleaning and maintenance work on the beaches, which will be reached by boat. Special attention will be given to the issue of plastic usage and plastic in the sea, participating in the “Back to Life” project in collaboration with the Genoa Aquarium and Livorno of Plastic in the Sea.
Additionally, life on board will be managed communally through rotating kitchen and cleaning shifts. Through the food pyramid and the exchange of typical recipes from participants' countries of origin, there will be discussions on education and intercultural food practices. Thanks to the partnership with the Food Bank of Tuscany, we will also address the theme of food sustainability, policies, and virtuous behaviors to avoid food waste.
Each day will start with a warm-up session: some simple physical exercises to get moving. During the navigation, everyone will be involved as crew members in maneuvers (steering, sails, anchor) and some basic knowledge (boat nomenclature, winds and courses, main knots).
Work sessions will be balanced with free time for swimming, SUP, snorkeling, and walks.
Embarking in San Vincenzo (Li), during the week we will sail to the Gulf of Baratti, Capraia and carry out the tour of the island of Elba with stops in: Portoferraio, Enfola, Fetovaia, Marina di Campo, Golfo Stella - Margidore, Porto Azzurro, and then return to San Vincenzo. In each location there will be time ashore for trekking, environmental and cultural activities.
No nights in port are planned.
The exact itinerary will be determined based on weather and sea conditions.
İş Tanımı
The project requires for Italian volunteers a fee of € 920,00.
The fee includes insurance for accident and third-party liability, camp management contribution, camp leader contribution.
The camp requires for foreign volunteers an extra fee of € 800.00 for camp management contribution, camp leader contribution.
The main activities during the camp are divided into:
1. Environmental education and land cleaning activities
• Spotting and collecting floating plastic in the sea
• Cleaning the beaches and the seabed (up to 4/5 meters in depth)
• Whale watching
• Snorkeling and recognizing marine life
• Identifying plants, herbs, and shrubs
2. Boat management
• Steering the boat
• First approaches to navigation techniques and boat nomenclature
• Introduction to meteorology, also in light of climate change
• On-board life shifts (cooking, setting/clearing the table, washing dishes, cleaning)
• Boat maintenance (small carpentry tasks)
Konaklama ve Yemek
- the boat: Inaê, 19-meter steel sailboat model Van Dame Nordia 61, two masts, Yawl rigged, 240hp engine, 4.5-meter dinghy with 15hp outboard.
- accommodation: 2 cabins with 4 bunk beds, 3 bathrooms, boiler, a three-burner galley, oven, refrigerators, microwave. On deck: cockpit with hard top and deck with equipment for sports activities.
-Food: breakfast, lunch and dinner prepared by the participant(s) in turn, with help from the educators. Predominantly vegetarian meals. Fresh and local products when possible.
Breakfast: milk, tea, coffee, yogurt, bread and jam, cereal, cookies, honey, fruit
Lunch and dinner: cereal (pasta, rice, spelt, couscous), cooked or raw vegetables, protein (meat/sliced meat, legumes, eggs, fish, cheese), fruit.
Konum ve Serbest Zaman
Notlar
Bring a recipe to share or a game to play or a song to sing together.
Konuşulan Diller
English
En Yakın Terminal
The closest airport is PISA. From there you can take the regional train directly to S. Vincenzo (1h circa)
The alternative is the airport of Rome which is roughly about 3 hours by train away.
