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ARCIPELAGO TOSCANO (LI) TEEN | IBOIT03TEEN | 2024-06-26 - 2024-07-02 | ENVI,MANU | Age: 14 - 17

This proposal results from the meeting of IBO Italia with the association of social promotion I Tetragonauti ( The tetragonauts, born in 2003, that today consists of professionals and volunteers in the pedagogical-educational and marine experience field. The main goal of the tetragonauts is to realise interventions and socio-educational projects directed to minors, minors with fewer opportunities and difficulties and to people with disabilities by identifying in the marine and sailing environment the privileged contexts and tools of ones own work.The project involves therefore a volunteering experience on board of a sailing boat. Why should I do this experience? To travel on the sea has strong educative and formative characteristics: to go by sea enables to discover different horizonts and possibilities, passions and interests, helps to gain new knowledge and stimulates the discovery of new parts of oneself. Living in direct contact with the sea offers the privileged opportunity of getting to know it, learning to respect it and discovering its rules and beauty. Being surrounded by the sea, day and night, will make you feel the deep connection with the nature. The atmospheric agents and the various forms of marine life will be our companions while travelling. Being part of a crew, sharing with the others the emotions of navigating, the responsibilities, the pleasant situations and the ones with difficulties, allows you to enter in a new dimension made of mutual collaboration, fellowship and trust.The community life in a boat is the priviledged place of collaborative making, the main space to experiment the relationship with rules, roles, duties, tasks and responsibility. The trip is without doubt the most educative moment. It is the moment of detachment from the comfort and securities to enter another reality, different and sometimes tiring, that forces inevitably to let go of what holds you back, your resistance and to deal with the others and with the difference. The activities will foresee the alternation of moments on board and on land. During the week there will be carried out cleaning and maintenance work of the beaches and the trekking paths of the places that will be reached by boat. There will be given much importance to the matter of using plastic and plastic in the sea as part of the project Back to Life. In addition, life on board will be managed communally throughout cooking and cleaning shifts. Through the nutritional pyramid and the exchange of typical recipies from the home countries there will be spoken of dietary education and interculture. Thanks to the partnership with Banco Alimentare Toscana we will also face the topic of dietary sustainability, policies and good behaviors to avoid the waste of food. Every day will begin with a muscular awakening: some simple physical exercises to start to move yourself. During navigating everyone will be involved as part of the crew in the maneuvers (helm, sails, anchor) and in some ba

Work: The main works during the camp are divided into:1. Activities of environmental education and cleaning of the territory-sighting and collection of plastic floating in the sea;-cleaning of the beaches and backdrops (until 4/5m of depth);-cleaning and maintainance of trekking paths;-cetacean sighting;-snorkeling and recognition of life underwater;-recognition of plants, herbs and shrubs2. Handling of the boat-steering of the boat;-first approces to the techniques of navigating and the nomenclature on board;-introduction to the meteorology, also in the light of the climatic changes;-shifts of life on board (cooking, setting/clearing the table, dish washing, cleaning);-boat maintenance ( small works of carpentry)

Accomodation and food: Accomodation: 5 bunks (3 double, 2 bunk beds) with 4 bathrooms; common room (dinette) below bed, cockpit and bridge.Food: breakfast, lunch and dinner made by the participants in shifts with the help of the educators. Predominance of vegetarian meals. Fresh and local products and when possible also provided by the Banco Alimentare Toscana.Breakfast: milk, tea, coffee, yoghurt, bread and marmelade, cereals, biscuits, honey, fruitsLunch and dinner: cereal (pasta, rice, spelt, couscous), cooked or raw vegetables, proteins (meat/cold cut, legumes, eggs, fish, cheese), fruits

Location: ARCIPELAGOTOSCANOLIVORNO

Location and Leisure: In the evening you can decide with the others if you want to play board games, look at the stars, go for a walk or tell eachother stories.

Airport: PSA

Train/Bus station: ARCIPELAGO TOSCANO - LIVORNO

Requirements: -

S. Vincenzo tourist port (LI) on the 26/6 at 14:00.Return to the port of S. Vincenzo on the 2/7 at 14:00.The nearest airport is the one from PISA. From there you can take a regional train to S. Vincenzo (about 1h).An alternative is the airport in Rome that is about 3h away by train.

Language: eng

Extra Fee: 600 EUR

The space in the boat is limited, bring the strict necessary that fits into a duffle bag. Keep in mind that everything we use ends up in the sea. Here are some indications that are necessary to stay on board:DONT BRING MUCH STUFFThe space is limited, it is not possible to leave items or bags on the bed.NO hard suitcases or trolleys on board: there is no space to store them.YES to bags and backpacks.On board one stays barefoot. Specific shs besides the ones for the trip, one pair of shs to walk and do trekking and slippers for the shower are not needed. ENVIRONMENTEvery product for hygene and for personal and body care needs to be biodigradable because sooner or later it will end up in the sea (soap, thoothpaste, shampoo). We will provide shampoo and shower gel for the shower, if you buy somethong else, please pay attention if there is written biodegradable on it ( sustainable, 100 green, made with recycled plastic/ recyclable is not enough)Try to avoid single-use plastic bottles