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Volunteer Testimonial || Ilenia Romano

Hello, I’m Ilenia! I’m 25 years old, I came from Italy and now I’m living a rural experience in Lastours. Before coming here to France I was living in Sicily, I had a good job and a nice shared house, it was great for a moment but in just one year my life became too comfortable and my backpack was waiting for me! I think if you are in a comfort zone it’s time to change!
So I decided to go, not knowing where, but I was sure that something would change soon.
I find this IDC project ( thanks Associazione Kora!), I applied as a volunteer and in 3 weeks I prepared myself, left everything, took my backpack again, and started this new aventure!
It is the first time that I participate in an ESC project and I find something better than my expectations. The project is ‘’Rural Discovery’’ which means that we are in a real rural area, so it’s the perfect place to live in full contact with nature.
We are a young community and we share our daily life. We choose to do different activities based on our interests and attitude. Also everyone can propose a workshop for sharing some knowledge with the group so we have the opportunity to learn new skills everyday from each other.
I like to spend my time in a vegetable garden, we have plants like tomatoes, potatoes, basil and more. I like to take care of the plants and see how they grow a bit everyday.
Also we have many interesting eco-building projects using recycled materials, like creating a compost dry toilet, a big green house, and some stuff for the animals: we have donkeys, ponies, pigs, dogs, cats, chickens!
I was looking for a natural and basic life to share with nice guys and I found it in Camping LeBelvedere! So I just can tell you to do this experience, because you’ll never know until you try.

Initiative et Développement Citoyen 11600 Lastours, South of France

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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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