KYC PROJECT - INFORMATION 4 VOLUNTEERS TYPICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT HOSPITALITY A) How to arrive to Campobello di Licata: Once the voluånteers arrive to Catania s Airport they will get the bus (SAIS Transport Company) to Manicotti for 11,90/trip. The schedules can be consulted in: http://www.saistrasporti.it writing in the browser Aeroporto Catania (in da dove vuoi partire? ) and Canicattì (in dove vuoi arrivare? ). In che tipo di biglietti cerchi? please write corsa semplice. It s very easy to find the tickets office & the bus stop: once you land & get your luggage, just get out of the airport from the right side (you have exits at the left, 2 at the centre & another one at the right side) and you ll see something like this: At Canicattì we will pick you up, but it is important to call us or to send us a sms (the phone numbers are below) saying at what time you get inside the bus. The travel will last around 2 hours & Canicattì is the 2 nd stop. Be careful not to fall asleep, otherwise you can finish in Agrigento! Please, don t forget to keep all the original tickets of your travel from your house to Canicattì because the Italian National Agency will ask for them for the reimbursement. Loosing original tickets means that the volunteer will have to pay for the trip, so please pay attention! B) Timetable: They could change for particular needs of the organization, but in general is 9:00-13:30 every day & 15:30-19:00 from Monday to Thursday. C) Accommodation: (VEDI LINK) The volunteers will live in Kalat Home - Scuola Cento Bambini, Via Edison 142, 92023 - Campobello di Licata (AG, Italy). It s the upper flat of a primary school in single or shared rooms. Considering to live with other people, it is important to organize & choice a responsible for the kitchen, for the cleaning & for shopping. It is important to respect the house, handle cleaning & to keep it in order. It is really important to respect the habits of the others & to remember that you aren t alone in the house. Smoking is completely forbidden inside the volunteers house!
The house in which the volunteer will live must be consider as the own one. The tasks for cleaning must be organised by the volunteers, which includes the rooms, the kitchen, the corridors, the stairs & part of the outside courtyard. The volunteer is responsible for eventual cause of damage of things & operating electric household appliances and will also pay for it in case of misuse. The volunteers are not allowed to use the association items (including those of the house) for personal matters. To order a new kitchen gas bottle you must say it to Carmela Lo Curto or your mentor. D) Food: There are several shops where you will be able to buy food & other products. You will be able to buy the items that you need up to a limit of 135,00/month. Very important: the organisation needs the invoices of the food money! (always for the Italian National Agency). The system will be explained at the volunteers arrival. E) Pocket Money: The volunteers will receive on the first week of each month of the project a pocket money of 115,00, as it s said in the official guide of the ERASMUS + PROGRAMME GUIDE (VERSION 2015). This money can be used as each volunteer wants. F) Telephone: The volunteers can receive phone calls in the office during the working hours, which number is +390922883508. An Italian speaker will answer and the person who is calling should ask for the name of the volunteer. It s absolutely forbidden to call abroad from the office s telephone (excepting emergencies). We recommend to buy an Italian SIM card for a mobile. G) Inventory list: You can bring or buy your own sheets & towels but anyway there are already in the house. Don t forget to bring a cap & an alarm-clock. During summer is important to use light clothing because of the heat. Be careful with packing only the maximum weight allowed to take in your luggage (please check the travel conditions of your flight). H) Linguistic training: The EU Commission will provide volunteers with an online linguistic support throughout the duration of the EVS activity in order to assess their competences in the language they will use during activities. They will do an online text before leaving home and if necessary they will be allowed to do an online linguistic course to improve their competences. At the end of the project volunteers will do another text to assess the acquired competences. The final results will be communicate to the volunteers and to the income organization and they will be written on the volunteers youth pass. I) Local transport: Campobello is a little town & you can cross it all in a 15/20 minutes walk. J) Visits: Hosting family members or friends is of course allowed, but it is important and necessary to communicate before the presence of the guests in the house to the Hosting Organisation & to the others volunteers to be sure that all agree with it. It s also: guests shouldn t create problems with the normal activity of the association or inside the house. Once the volunteer finishes the project, and in case it decides not to go back to its country, he/she can stay in the house for 1 more week. K) Practical information: shops are usually open from 9.00 to 13.30 & from 16.30 to 20.00.
Monday mornings are closed: clothes shops, electric household appliances shops; Monday-all day: hairdressers, shoemakers & most of the bars; Wednesday afternoon most of the food shops are closed; Sundays are closed all shops excepting bars & pastry shops. L) Who to talk with in case of necessity: for any problem, in particular emergencies, you can call: your Mentor Giovanna Rizzo cell. 3392821287 (Italian/English), Giovanni Vultaggio +393332956669 (Italian & English) or Emilia Bella +393332013962 (Italian & English). You can also call to the office +390922883508 in working hours. More numers will be communicate in advance. M) Requirements (please read with attention & remember): the most important requirement is to explain to the mentor, the tutor or the responsible of the project which are the problems & doubts so they can be solved as soon as possible, as also not to keep quiet about any issues that you feel are worrying you. It is important to try to complete the experience in the best way you can & to create a good relationship with the other members of the association & with the local community. N) Internet: Unfortunately, our town is not provided with an unlimited and free internet service. Volunteers can use internet in their lodge by a SIM card of the association. They are allowed to use maximum 5 giga monthly overall. They are given more info at their arrival. WORK A) Organisation & timetables: office rules, timetables & activities will be explained during the onarrival training the first days of the project. The volunteers will work around 39 hours/week (the maximum allowed are 40 hours/week), because, depending on the activities of the association, during events, could be request more time. It s absolutely necessary to organize yourselves in an appropriate way so you can agree to the deadlines settled by the Hosting Organisation. Weekends are free. During the events or International Summer Camps (HAPPENING) the work schedule will change in order of the necessities of the organization. B) The colleagues: the volunteer will meet the people who are going to share job with & their positions & activities will be explained. The volunteer can ask of course whatever information needs. C) Holidays: the volunteers will have 2 days-off/holidays per month -as established in the Youth In Action Programme Guide-. These days must be organized in advance according with the responsibles of the Host Organisation and with their work colleagues. The free days must be earned before the volunteer intends to use them, this is: the volunteer should spend the 1 st month of the project before intending to get 2 free days (even if we can be flexible in particular cases). In Campobello di Licata there are the following holidays (marked in red in the calendar): 1 st January (New Year Day), 6 th January (Epiphany), 19 th March (Saint Joseph s & Father s Day), Easter (it changes every year): Holy Friday & Easter Monday, 25 th April (Italy s Liberation Day), 1 st May (Work Day), 2 nd June (Italian Republic Party), 24 th June (San Giovanni) 15 th August (Ferragosto), August s last Sunday (Rietina), 1 st November (All Saints Day), 8 th December (Immaculate Conception), 25 th (Christmas Day) and 26 th (Saint Stephen). INFORMATION ABOUT ITALIAN SYSTEMS A) Post Office: it is open from 8.00 to 18.30 from Monday to Friday. Saturday morning until 13.30. B) Telephones: It is suggested to phone with a phone card because it s cheaper. The phone
cards can be bought at the tobacco stores. Volunteers may find useful to buy a mobile phone card (just 10,00 with 5,00 included) so that they can be contacted at all the time by family & work colleagues. The Italian mobile phones can also be used in the own country, once they go back home, just by changing the phone card. Before coming you can check out how to use your cell phone in Italy with the roaming system. C) Banks: open from 8.30 to 13.00 & from 14.30 to 16.00, Monday to Friday. Closed during weekends. D) Health Services: each volunteer should come to Italy with the AXA Insurance Card (or at least knowing the number) & the European Sanitary Card (if possible). The Sending Organisation should arrange the insurance for the volunteers, so please remember them if you don t have it before your departure. E) Euro-26 Card: it is a service for young people that will allow you to obtain discounts for museums, restaurants, hotels & some shops (those who have the logo at the entrance). The volunteer has to ask for it in his/her country before they leave. F) Sport & Fun: In Campobello there s a Sport Centre (Campo Sportivo), where you can play tennis, football, etc. There s also Cinema Corallo (Via Umberto I). In Licata there s a Nautical Club (Ctr. Mollarella, 0922897290). In Naro, the Italian Boating Federation (Ctr, San Giovanni, 0922959061 or 0922959062). In Agrigento, the Horse-Racing Centre (Ctr. San Benedetto, 0922591200). G) Transport: In some cities like Agrigento, Palermo or Licata you can use the local buses. The tickets are available in tobacco stores & once on the bus you have to obliterate/stamp the ticket; after this it is possible to use it for 60 or 90 minutes. Get on a bus without a ticket could be a problem: if they get you without it, you could be punished. The trains will take you everywhere in Sicily, and you can find out about connections, prices & changes for the various places in the web site (www.trenitalia.com, also with English version. In this web page, Campobello s train station is called exactly Campobello-Ravanusa ). Once you have your ticket you must obliterate/validate it before getting on the train in a yellow machine located on the station platform. If you forget to validate your ticket you could be punished. STRUCTURE OF THE ORGANISATION Mission: To contribute to the economic reconversion of the territory from a tourist point of view, developing a strong cognitive activity of the territory resources, paying attention to the values & the attractions of the territory, in order to incentivize an ulterior tourism. Objectives: To develop in Sicily new tourism formulas, as the so called research & discovery tourism and useful & sustainable tourism, able to promote a qualified incoming and to generate activities of research, bringing to Sicily young enthusiastic people, students, researchers, teachers, through the proposal of camps and operatives centres, in order to increase the knowledge of the territory and to exploit its natural resources and its values, as also to gather and develop sensibilities and competences around the research and formation projects, carried out in collaboration between the participant tourists and the technical and/or scientific local operators. To generate employment through: the participation paid by the tourist-researchers-workers ; the benefit generated from their permanence & the value of the activities done through the unpaid work of the participants. To carry out a positive international divulgation of Sicily through: the promotional on-line campaigns, the pass the message of the participants, the internet pages about the project & the scientific articles about the activity & the discoveries that have been realized.
Organisation: The Archeoclub d Italia di Campobello di Licata (www.kalat.org) has been founded the 18 th of February 1998. Today it has 12 members, and in the framework of Kalat Project an innovative action for occupation according to the Italian Ministry of Work), created by the Architect Giovanni Vultaggio in the region of Trapani, has centred its activities in the knowledge, protection & exploitation of the archaeological properties of the area and, in particular, in the prospective of social & economic development. For this, the Archeoclub has mapped, first time in Italy, the survey of 95% of the whole municipal territory, with the discovery of 184 archaeological sites, has organized tens of filed school editions, conferences, archaeological laboratories and exhibitions, publications, involving government managers, important personalities of the Archaeology & qualified professionals. the staff is composed by Emilia Bella (President of the Archeoclub di Campobello & QLT s Director), Raimonda Tornambè (Vice-President), Giovanna Rizzo (counsellor & Italian teacher), G. Vultaggio (Kalat s creator, QLT & EVS Tutor), Carmela Lo Curto (Secretary). Structures: Kalat Guest house: 60 sqm, an accommodation structure, can receive as guests up to 6 persons; Kiss Center: 1000 sqm, with exhibition hall, multifunctional hall, didactic room, kitchen, dormitory An Archaeological exhibition, Kalat Office and an Archaeological deposit, in Cultural Centre of Municipality of Campobello A storage room in Carnevale school For many years has managed an archaeological site in Iachinu Filì countryside Technical & scientific instruments: PC, plotter, total station, Gis, Graphic and DB software, 2 pullman, 3 didactic toos about local cultural goods, a little archaeological library, a documentation centre on Personal Grouth. The association is now working in the development of KISS (Kalat International Summer School), which will host more than 30 guests at the same time & will have laboratories, conference room, kitchen, didactic rooms, internal garden, etc. Very Syntetic CV: From 1995 to 2014 have organized 20 editions of Kalat s International Summer Camps in which already have taken part more than 1000 volunteers from all around the world and that has allowed to individuate 184 areas of archaeological interest. From 2000 to 2014 has promote EVS projects as Host, Sending & Coordination Organisation (with more than 90 European volunteers involved in the last 13 years) and other initiatives in the frame of the Youth in Action Programme, like youth exchanges, seminars, trainings... Since 2012 has developed more activities in the frame of the QLT project, structured in different actions & where the volunteers of T4-D-2 will have a relevant role as: Project action: to reach the empowerment of the local youngsters. Identity action: to increase the attractiveness of the territory through the local resources. Mentor action: to promote the diversification of the professional choices of the youngsters of the area. FREE TIME
Things to do Going out for dinner: in Campobello di Licata, to La Madonnina, Via Edison, 162, tel. 0922870177; Sunflower Pizzeria, Via L. Giglia, tel. 0922870104; La Divina Commedia, Ctr. Spina Santa, mobile 330 960717; Bar-Pizzeria Blue Garden, Via Barbera, tel. 0922879835; Pizzeria Paradise, Piazza Vittoria 0922877747; or in Ravanusa, da Romano, ctr. San Nicola, tel. 0922880484. Going to the library: books can be taken for a period of two weeks. Biblioteca Comunale, via Trieste - Centro Polivalente, Campobello di Licata, tel. 0922877003. Going out for a drink: Liberty Quadro Pub, Piazza Tien An Men; Bar Copenaghen & Bar Vinci, via Edison and Bar Charleston & Eden at Piazza XX Settembre. Going to the Museum: Museo Archeologico, Ctr. San Nicola, Agrigento; open every day; Museo Archeologico, Licata, open every day; Museo Archeologico - Ravanusa, open every day only morning. Going to the Theatre: Centro Polivalente Comunale di Campobello di Licata; Teatro Odeon, via R. Pilo, tel. 0922853277, Canicattì. Going to the Games Room, near the volunteer s house. Things to see Interesting places to visit in Campobello are: the Valle della Divina Commedia, the Piazza XX Settembre with the Town Hall & the Main Church, the Parco Antico di Iachinu Filì, the Piazza Aldo Moro, the Piazza Tian An Men, etc. Near Campobello you can visit: Monte Saraceno at Ravanusa (a greekindigenous archaeological site), Naro, Canicattì, Caltanissetta, Licata, Agrigento & the marvelous Valley of Temples, Piazza Armerina & the Villa Romana del Casale with its roman mosaics, Morgantina, Gela, San Leone, the beaches of Mollarella, Scala dei Turchi, etc. The Tourist Information Office phone numbers in Agrigento are: 0922401352 or 092220391. Enclosed in this e-mail you can find more information about Sicily in general (Sicily, a journey to the heart of the island & Sicily, the infinite island). LOCAL CONTEXT History Due the Kalat researches, Campobello di Licata s history is very long & witnesses of its old traces have been found in different parts of the territory (near Cozzo Ciccobriglio, Manicalunga, Iacopo Filippo & Crocefisso district, where many tombs have been discovered & many fragments of prehistoric pottery have been found). There are also witnesses of the Greek period, in the districts of Borginissimo, Commuto, Musta-Zubbia, Villa, Milici & Rapporco, while on the Musta-Zubbia hills existed an important Roman complex. About the Medieval Age, some time ago they uncovered a medieval tower in the district of Garcitella. In 1681 Raimondo Raimondetta, Baron of Campobello, bought from Charles IV of Austria & II of Spain the right to populate his feud, and in this way Campobello di Licata was born as a feudal village. The Baron built the Church, the present Main Church, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, and also the Castellania buildings complex for public services & for residence of the Castellano named by the Baron. This Castellania was, before its demolition in 1900, in the today s Piazza XX Settembre. In 1734 the new Baron allowed Campobello di Licata, that until the moment had been a feudal village, to become a municipality. The Decurionato was created: it was a kind of Town Council that was chosen by the Syndic & that collected the taxes.
In 1778, with Ferdinando IV of Bourbon, King of the Two-Sicilies Kingdom, with the name of Ferdinand I, the Administration of Law came into the hands of the Decurions, and so the power of the Barons was reduced & they could not react against their own debtors neither constrain the colonist to cultivate the lands of their property. The baronial prisons were closed in the whole of Sicily. In 1786 the richer citizens payed the Baron to be free of the feudal slavery. The XIX century was filled with events. It seems to have been present in Campobello di Licata the Carboneria, & numerous citizens of Campobello took part in the 1820 movements, the year of the tumult. The houses of excise officers & customs officers were looted. In 1860 six young men of the town took part in the Mille. In 1892 Campobello took part also in the Sicilian Fasces. There have been different demonstration & assemblies with famous public speakers as De Felice and Garibaldi. In the second half of the XIX century work was carried out on the carriage roads of Campobello- Ravanusa & Canicattì-Licata. The main activity in the country was agricultural: hard wheat, legumes, almonds, screw, olives. Other important activities, bound to the sulphur miner, have also been present until the half of the century. In the last years of the XIX century & until the 70 s of the XX century, there has been an intense migratory movement, broken by the two World Wars. After the Second World War there was a very strong country movement, that made the non-cultivated lands occupied. The lands were allotted to the day labourers, that became little owners. Geography The territory of Campobello di Licata, in Agrigento, borders on the territory of Naro to the N and NW, on the territory of Licata, to the W and S; and on the territory of Ravanusa, to the E. It is a typically hilly territory, with maxims quoted as of 450m and minims of 30m. Regarding the hydrography, the water courses that go through the territory are torrential-like and with very irregular regimes, with strong maximums in autumn-winter (during the raining period), & extreme low waters in summer. Climate The territory of Campobello di Licata is in the centre-south part of the Island, one of the driest areas of the whole region. The climate is distinctively marked, from moderate temperatures in the cold months (yearly minimum on average for January: 8.8 C) to quite high in the hot months (July-August on average: 25.6 C). The temperature increases until July-August and then decreases until December, as is typical of Mediterranean Regions. Precipitation is moderate during the whole year (530 mm), and usually concentrated in the months of autumn and winter. The scarceness of rain, together with the temperature regime, gives the region a dry climate. The comparative analysis of temperatures & precipitation defines the climate in Campobello di Licata as a temperate hilly Mediterranean climate. Environment From the highest houses of Campobello, the sight has a vast and varied horizon. Towards the Orient area, we can see the village of Ravanusa, with the characteristic Saraceno Mountain. Towards the North-East, we can see Etna, always covered with the canopy of snow, while towards the North and North-West we can see the last south ramifications of the Madonie and the highest houses of Canicattì. Towards the West side we can see Naro, with its ancient castle, and the distant the hills of Camastra. Towards the South, the spectacle becomes more beautiful: the Licata sea, the Muculufa mountain and the rocky hill of Drasi. There are no mountains: the nearest ones are eight kilometres away.
Regarding the flora, there are herbaceous plants with typical examples of the Mediterranean area (palma nana, finocchietto, etc.). The agriculture, the land products, give very high benefits. Wheat & broad beans are no longer cultivated, because the grounds of Campobello are more suitable for vines and awning. The Campobello di Licata territory is one of the richer between the nearest producer towns, and one of the most important in the Province of Agrigento and of the whole of Sicily in the production of the screw italia. The production of the almond tree has decreased a lot. and the olives, on the other hand, are also cultivated. The fauna is not very plentiful: we can still find, even if they are starting to disappear, rabbits, pigeons, jackdaws, partridges, porcupines & jack-rabbits. And finally, there are also many herbivores like bovines & ovines. Very nice, typical and characteristic is the Girgentana Goath, with its long and straight horns. Regarding the gastronomy that can be tasted the fuata, the mpanata, the mpurnatu are specialties from Campobello. More thera are really a lot of Sicilian specialities. Please, take a look also to: - www.kalat.org (coming soon) - qlt.kalat.org - www.campobellodilicata.com - www.comune.campobellodilicata.ag.it - www.it.wikipedia.org/wiki/campobello_di_licata - www.together4development.blogspot.it (the blog which also you will develop!)