X-MAS OLIVES

İZMİR, SELÇUK, ŞİRİNCE   15 Aralık 2014 - 30 Aralık 2014

GEN-40, yılın en son kampı. 15-30 Aralık tarihlerinde 10 gönüllü ile İzmir Şirince’deki Matematik Köyü’nde gerçekleştirildi

KAMP TANIMI :

GEN-40 X-MAS OLIVES SIRINCE – IZMIR 15.12 – 30.12 AGRI – 10 VOLS

Are you looking for a useful holiday during your X-mas? You can collect olives in a natural environment. Math village is a math-summer school located in the nature and owns over 1000 olive trees and harvest about 20 tons of olives per year. The oil produced by the collected olives is used in the kitchen of the summer school.

W: Volunteers will collect olives from the trees and pack. But if the olive harwest is low due to the weather conditions (If there will be not enough olive to pick) the Volunteers will be requested to do other manual works in the facility).

A: In student dormitories for 6 people with shared toilet and bathroom. Sleeping bag and mat are not necessary.

F: Will be supplied at the center.

LA: English.

LO: Sirince is a small village in the west of Turkey. Please be aware that the center is a bit isolated. No night life, TV or disco is available at the center but there is internet conncetion. The next village Sirince, which is only 15 minutes by foot, is very attractive and famous for its homemade wines and traditional architecture. The nearest town Selcuk, which is the home of world famous Ephessus open-air museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUqg1yBFTo . The nearest city Izmir, is one hour away by coach.

T: İstanbul. The project will start in Istanbul with a compulsory orientation meeting, that all volunteers should attend on the first day of the camp at GENCTUR Office. The group will travel together to the camp site by a coach on the same evening.