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Volunteer profile: Pietro Steffano

Ciao a tutti! I am Pietro, 21 years old from Milan, Italy. At IDC I do my short term EVS for 2 months starting in September 2017.

In Milan I study philosophy and work, so I use my brain quite a lot. Well, and that is why I am here: Not thinking so much anymore! I want to spend some time doing physical work and to be outside in the nature.

My passion is riding the bicycle. So I decided to take the bicycle from Torino to come here instead of the plane. I took me 5 days to make the trip. I was sleeping in a tent which I built with the help of my bicycle or in my hammock.

I think it is great that we have so many young people living here together in a community. We do not need managers to tell us how to live together because we are able to manage ourselves.

What I learned here is especially how to use tools and how to build. Every day I am learning something new. My tasks are mostly outside. I help to build the greenhouse with Alessandro, water the plants, care for the donkeys, but I also participate in the common tasks such as cooking. My aim for my time here is to put the recycling material for the greenhouse and the waste mine in order.

I think that doing philosophy while cutting potatoes, might be better than with a book.

What I really enjoy about this place is to wake up and be already almost outside. I prefer to spend my time working outside in the sun with fresh air. And I like to do not spend so much time thinking here, I can do my work and be always busy.

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The Initative Developpement Citoyen (IDC) is a cooperative founded in April 2010 in Lastours, France with the aim to promote sustainable development, international mobility, active citizenship, mutual cooperation, ecological engagement, and awareness of different cultures.

The cooperative also organizes and hosts Erasmus-funded projects that aim to provide learning and capacity-building opportunities for the youth. The projects hosts volunteers from Europe, South America and Southeast Asia and focuses on topics related to knowledge exchange, communications, and sustainable development.

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