(Jul. 20) – The first volunteers for the summer camps abroad organized by IPSIA, the ACLI’s NGO working in the field of cooperation, development education and international volunteering. A scout group will leave Milan with destination Mostar, in Bosnia Herzegovina, and nine other people will reach Gora, in Kosovo near the Macedonian border. By August 4th, all other volunteers will leave, for a total of 120 Italians, for Albania, Mozambique, Kenya and Brazil. The average age is 24 and the youngest one is 16. The girls are about twice as the boys, and half of the people are at their first experience. In the group there are also an Albanian, a Colombian, an Indian, an Italian-Rwandese. “It is an experience with a great educational value,2 says Paola Villa, President of the NGO Ipsia and Responsible for International Cooperation of the the ACLIs. “The project combines the activities of the development cooperation, aimed at improving the living conditions of some communities, with the education of young people thanks to the meeting with distant worlds and a concrete experience of sharing the everyday life.” (Roc/Peg)
