Duration of the project: 4 weeks

Location:  Xylokastro Municipality, Corinthian region

Our motivation to host EVS volunteers is to support and help in the everyday work of the environmental program of the municipality of Xylokastro. This includes helping to protect the forest of Xylokastro, protect the coast, planting new trees, building and repairing the footpath in the forest, repairing fences and benches,  participating and organizing open-air events, making researches about new and different methods about how to protect the nature.

Our aims and objectives are to provide informal intercultural education and experience to youths, encouraging their social integration, their active participation and to offer them new means of expression and communication through the protection of the enviornment and open-air activities.

Protect the nature is one of the most important task of the humanity. Parks, green spaces and trees affect our quality of life through our everyday moods, activities, and physical and emotional health. Our environmental department of the municipality lays stress on the protection, conservation and development of the environment in particular the forest of Xylokastro.

The staff of the host organziation pay big attention for the protection such as systematic watering, taking care of the coast, planting new trees…etc.

Our aim is not only the conservation and protection of the forest but we would like to use the forest as a "window" into the natural world, helping young people gain an awareness and knowledge of the environment and their place within it.