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<\/a><\/p>\nThere is a beautiful old fountain near church in Hrvoji. In last decades it was abandoned and it slowly filled with rocks, mud and waste. We cleaned it. Now it can be again used as a\u00a0water supply. Water is scarce in Istria, so this action contributed to preservation of natural as much as cultural heritage of our environment.<\/p>\n
We cleaned one of the terraces and set up volleyball and basketball courts which bring us much fun and are also accessible\u00a0for all the locals. Only later we found out that locals already planned to make basketball court at the same location :)<\/p>\n We started to support our first local\u00a0company. Istraterra<\/a> is a fairtrade tourist agency, established this year by young enthusiastic locals.\u00a0\u00a0They organize culinaric, etno and cultural trips that strive to preserve local traditions while giving cooperating locals chance to be fairly paid for presenting them. It is an amazing idea, as creating\u00a0job opportunities for locals is probably the best way to protect local heritage. One example of Istraterra’s\u00a0trip is truffle-picking with local expert, followed\u00a0by\u00a0cooking workshop and truffle dinner at the local’s home.<\/p>\n We made a brainstorming with our volunteers to figure out what we, as a target group, find interesting about Istria region. Then we tailored trips that we\u00a0would like Istraterra to offer us.<\/p>\n We sent our work to Istraterra team and they already agreed to offer special trips for our volunteers. We will now support Istraterra and\u00a0local economy with becoming their regular customers and also offer our voluntary work to help them organize their trips and events.<\/p>\n Another action supporting local sustainable tourism happened this week in nearby village of Abitanti. One of the houses there will be saved from disintegration\u00a0and\u00a0turned into a wine cellar and an appartment for tourists who seek peace and nature. Miro, the overwhelmed owner, took our girls there with his tractor.<\/p>\n We cleaned old plastering from stones\u00a0of the 300 year old house.<\/p>\n After work, Miro showed us the village and\u00a0explained how he has been\u00a0trying to save Abitanti from destruction for the last twenty\u00a0years. Thanks to his efforts the village is now being slowly renovated.<\/p>\n While walking with Miro through the village we met the first young person who moved back into the emptied village. Martin is 21 years old and\u00a0is starting a farm here, alone. The brave young man took us to his wine cellar and offered us his rifosco wine. He plans to bring back to Abitanti\u00a0an almost extinct local breed of cattle, called Bo\u0161karin.\u00a0He asked us to help him prepare grazing area for them and we gladly offered our hands.<\/p>\n In the meantime Miro’s wife prepared lunch for us at their house. After amazing meal we decided that we will definitely continue to help Miro\u00a0with his\u00a0renovation.<\/p>\n We did a lot of work and more is still to come. This Sunday we will\u00a0help another local eco farmer. Next Friday we help organizing ethno, literature and poetry evening in Hrvoji… \u00a0Locals now know about us and are starting to call us to help them. This is what we came here for and it\u00a0makes us proud and happy to be here.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As\u00a0our renovation work is slowly coming to an end, we now focus more and more attention to our primary goal – helping the local community. In past weeks we participated\u00a0in several actions that support local sustainable activities such are eco farming, sustainable tourism or preservation of local natural and cultural heritage. It is really fulfilling to focus our strength on what we came here to do. 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