The volunteer camp is the result of IBO Italy s collaboration with the Community of Augustinian Nuns of the Monastery of St. Augustine in Rossano, in the province of Cosenza (Calabria). It is the youngest monastery in Italy: in June 2009, a group of nuns, who left from the Eremo di Lecceto, an ancient Augustinian monastery near Siena, came to Rossano, on the Ionian coast of Cosenza, Calabria, to start a new monastery here. Monasteries do not respond to a particular need, to a material need to be met; their presence reminds us that before doing comes being , and that before the anxiety of producing we exist for a gratuitousness that precedes us. This is what the function of a monastery is meant to be: to offer those who wish it a pause for the heart, through silence and the rhythms of prayer, in an atmosphere of fraternity and friendship; also, to offer the ease of listening to the great questions that we carry within us: where we come from, who we are; where we are going.On 28 August 2019, after years of waiting and work, the St Augustine Monastery in Rossano was inaugurated: it is the first female Augustinian monastery of contemplative life in southern Italy. Work is currently underway to create a botanical garden in the vast outdoor area, with its splendid view of the Ionian Sea: a project that wishes to be part of the spirituality of integral ecology inspired by the principles of Pope Francis Encyclical Laudato si .Camp volunteers will be involved in maintenance work at the guest quarters of the S. Agostino Monastery in Rossano.