The aim of this workcamp is to create workshops for the local kids about agriculture and digital technologies that are used in the agricultural areas. The volunteers will be asked to investigate and create some workshops, games and activities about the topic in the local gardens and the youth center of the town. The volunteers have to have an interest in the topic and make some preparations before joining to the camp.
Accomodation & food:
The accommodation will be done in a small rural apartment, some kilometres away from the village centre, with 2 different rooms with beds. No need to bring a mattress but bring lower sheets and a summer sleeping bag is necessary. The house is equipped with shower and WC and a tiny kitchen.
Location & leisure:
Volunteers will have 2 free days in the middle of the camp to discover the area and do any activities and entertainment they like. Optionally they can join the kids during these two days as well.The province of Colunga lies on the Cantabrian Sea and is located in the north of Spain, which is considered as the green area of Spain (lots of rain, trees and plants).Playa de la Griega is beautiful place and it is the nearest beach to the center town of the province, Colunga. This place is famous for one particular thing - here the footprints of dinosaurs were found. East of the beach on the cliffs is the famous and spectacular site of dinosaur footprints. The enormous size of these footprints, some of them reach 1.30 meters in diameter, allows it to be considered ones the largest footprints discovered so far. Village Lastres was listed as one of the most beautiful villages in whole Spain and definitely deserves a visit, actually you're going to live nearby. Going to the lighthouse (Faro de Lastres) will offer you some great coastal views.
Age:
20-30
Location:
Colunga, asturias, spain
Language(s):
English
Airport:
OVD: Asturias (Aviles, Spain)Vegetarian food will be available
The work will be mostly environmental and constructional. The idea is to help renovate a house that is serving as a volunteering centre in which it will be established environmental-friendly and sustainable agriculture in the gardens in the future. La Casa Jazmín is recently renovated but there are still some pending tasks to complete. Volunteers will carry out some basic tasks like painting, throwing out extra materials and organising spaces.Apart from the house renovation tasks, this project will have lots of different other tasks for the volunteers. We are collaborating with the local organisations in the towns around and they always need help from our volunteers. As we are organising the tasks according to the actual needs of the town, the work that you will do during the camp will vary but mainly will be about renovating, painting, organising spaces, decorating and doing environmental cleanings, trash pick up from the hiking paths or beaches etc. There are 5 Caza Jazmin camps starting from the end of June to end of August and once one task is over, the volunteers will pass to the other one and we can not guarantee in which camp you will be doing what task as it will be depending on the previous group`s speed.
Accomodation & food:
The volunteers will stay in a volunteer house, with three rooms with several bunkbeds and bathrooms. They will share rooms with four to six other volunteers. The house includes a nice kitchen in which the volunteers will cook for themselves in the guidance of the camp leaders.You can either bring your own sheets or a sleeping bag. There are beds and pillows but no sheets or pillow covers.
Location & leisure:
Sanet is a small town in the southwest of Spain close to Dénia (communidad de Valencia). It lays in the beautiful countryside, surrounded by hills which are great for hiking - there are a lot of hiking trails to discover. There is a local swimming pool available and Dénia is only 5 minutes by cars. The house is located right in the middle of town, so there are great opportunities to interact and socialize with the locals and to truly experience the Spanish countryside.Furthermore, the volunteers can make excursions to Ondara and El Vergel, local towns close to Sanet. The surrounding villages like Benimelli and Ràfol d'Almunia can also be visited. There will also be day trips to the beach which is about 15 minutes by car from Sanet.
Requirements:
The extra fee has be paid by card ( in the exceptional cases we can accept bank transfer as well) 3 weeks before the camp as a confirmation of participation. If we don't recieve the fee and the flight/bus tickets of the volunteer, we will consider that she/he will not attending to project and we will give opportunity to other volunteers that are on the waiting list.
Age:
15-17
Location:
Sanet y negrals
Language(s):
English
Airport:
ALC: Alicante (Alicante, Spain)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available
The aim of this workcamp is to preserve the natural reserve area surrounding called "Fonts del rio Algar". More concretely, the work will be mainly dedicated to parks and gardens maintenance or "arboretum": removing the over-grown grass, weeding some parts of the grasslands and the edge of the woods, maintaining footpaths. Volunteers will also take part in the clean-up of some areas of the reserve where building waste has been found and if time allows it, they will carry out some painting works around the centre. There will be other additional tasks to change the daily routine of the volunteers. In each camp, the volunteers will work on a mosaic wall composed of old tiles and pebbles to decorate the area and the volunteer house. Aslo there will one day of social work with the youngsters of thown in the local youth center.
Accomodation & food:
In a small rural house, some kilometres away from the village centre, with 2 different rooms. No need to bring a mattress but bring lower sheets and a summer sleeping bag is necessary. The centre is equipped with showers and WC.The food is provided by our campleaders and the volunteers will be cooking in groups by the guidance of our campleader.
Location & leisure:
The municipality is located in the province of Alicante, in the northern part of the Marina Baixa region, 10 km from the coast and 42 km from the city of Alicante.Algar Waterfalls at only 15 km from Benidorm and 3 km from the center of Callosa. This area was declared a Wetland protected by the Valencian Government. It is a park about the importance of water as an environmental resource, economical and cultural. The visit is a route through a circuit of 1.5 km in length along, where you can walk through the bed of the river Algar, see the spectacular waterfalls and the numerous sources, the "tolls" (pools of water) where you can take refreshing swims in crystal clear water, the old dam, the imposing century-old canal and ditches still in use.Apart from the Waterfalls, there are other interesting sites in Callosa like the cultural heritage of the town, old narrow streets in the center. Also, there are several beautiful hiking routes around Callosa. One of the most spectacular places is El Fort de Bèrnia.Not far from Callosa, you can visit a town called Guadalest which has an ancient castle. Also, Altea, another beautiful town near the sea can be visited. The beach is not far from the house and somedays, the volunteers can take a trip to the beach of Altea.
Requirements:
The extra fee has be paid by card ( in the exceptional cases we can accept bank transfer as well) 3 weeks before the camp as a confirmation of participation. If we don't recieve the fee and the flight/bus tickets of the volunteer, we will consider that she/he will not attending to project and we will give opportunity to other volunteers that are on the waiting list.
Age:
15-17
Location:
Callosa en sarria, alicante
Language(s):
English
Airport:
ALC: Alicante (Alicante, Spain)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available
The aim of this workcamp is to preserve the natural reserve area surrounding called "Fonts del rio Algar". More concretely, the work will be mainly dedicated to parks and gardens maintenance or "arboretum": removing the over-grown grass, weeding some parts of the grasslands and the edge of the woods, maintaining footpaths. Volunteers will also take part in the clean-up of some areas of the reserve where building waste has been found and if time allows it, they will carry out some painting works around the centre. There will be other additional tasks to change the daily routine of the volunteers. In each camp, the volunteers will work on a mosaic wall composed of old tiles and pebbles to decorate the area and the volunteer house. Aslo there will one day of social work with the youngsters of thown in the local youth center.
Accomodation & food:
In a small rural house, some kilometres away from the village centre, with 2 different rooms. No need to bring a mattress but bring lower sheets and a summer sleeping bag is necessary. The centre is equipped with showers and WC.The food is provided by our campleaders and the volunteers will be cooking in groups by the guidance of our campleader.
Location & leisure:
The municipality is located in the province of Alicante, in the northern part of the Marina Baixa region, 10 km from the coast and 42 km from the city of Alicante.Algar Waterfalls at only 15 km from Benidorm and 3 km from the center of Callosa. This area was declared a Wetland protected by the Valencian Government. It is a park about the importance of water as an environmental resource, economical and cultural. The visit is a route through a circuit of 1.5 km in length along, where you can walk through the bed of the river Algar, see the spectacular waterfalls and the numerous sources, the "tolls" (pools of water) where you can take refreshing swims in crystal clear water, the old dam, the imposing century-old canal and ditches still in use.Apart from the Waterfalls, there are other interesting sites in Callosa like the cultural heritage of the town, old narrow streets in the center. Also, there are several beautiful hiking routes around Callosa. One of the most spectacular places is El Fort de Bèrnia.Not far from Callosa, you can visit a town called Guadalest which has an ancient castle. Also, Altea, another beautiful town near the sea can be visited. The beach is not far from the house and somedays, the volunteers can take a trip to the beach of Altea.
Requirements:
The extra fee has be paid by card ( in the exceptional cases we can accept bank transfer as well) 3 weeks before the camp as a confirmation of participation. If we don't recieve the fee and the flight/bus tickets of the volunteer, we will consider that she/he will not attending to project and we will give opportunity to other volunteers that are on the waiting list.
Age:
15-17
Location:
Callosa en sarria, alicante
Language(s):
English
Airport:
ALC: Alicante (Alicante, Spain)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available
The purpose of this work camp is to participate in the recovery of old paths and learn the history of the Pyrenees, learn about culture and nature, and participate in both with different activities of preservation and conservation.The technical work that will be carried out in the field of work consists, in general, in different tasks related to the recovery of the old roads of the valley.
The followings are the main ones:
- Road clearing:
mowing grass, bushes, etc., which grow in the spring to leave the roads comfortably passable on foot.
- Remove stones from the road:
pick up stones that have fallen on the road and set them aside in an orderly manner at the edges to make the passage passable.
- Rebuild the simplest sections of dry stone wall:
rebuild those walls that have fallen and are easily rebuildable.
- Improved signage with paint:
review the tracking marks of the paths with paint according to the instructions given to us by the "Alt Pirineu" Natural Park.
- Improved paved sections:
some trails have cobbled sections that have worn out, redo these sections in order to maintain the cobbled areas.
Workday hours:
8:30am – 14:30h from Monday to Friday. There would be a break in the middleof the morning to rest and make a snack. However, depending on weather conditions theschedule can be modified.
Accomodation & food:
The accommodation is a terrain called "Llavaners", the campsite is at 1000m altitude near a small river and very isolated in the middle of nature. You should definitely be eager to have a (somehow) wild experience!You'll be spending your days in a campsite and you'll be camping and sleeping in a tent, usually there's 3-4 participants per tent and no separation gender.Tents are basic, mainly there's only space for sleeping or laying down. Tents will be provided by the organization and you'll be sleeping on a mattress on the floor. You must bring your own sleeping bag (it's highly recommended a good one as in the Pyrenees it can be cold at nights even in summer time) and mattress.There are 2 dry toilets near the campsite. There's no showers available in the camp. Mainly we have some quick-baths at the river with cold water or in the campsite, also cold water.We strongly recommend bringing eco and biodegradable shower gel or shampoo. No gender separation for showers, previous agreements will be done with the group. If needed, once or twice during the workcamp you'll be able to go to Llagunes village (by foot, about 2h walking) and take a shower there in the shelter.
The volunteers are in charge to cook and to keep the area clean and safe:
they will be split in groups, each group will prepare the food for one day, and they will be rotating everyday, so camping in the field and cooking by their own.In general, lunch and dinner will be warm meals, but exceptions can be done in case of a trekking route or spending the whole day out of the campsite.But the camp is isolated and there is no possibility to buy food in the area.There's no WiFi at the campsite. However, there's mobile phone signal in the area so you should be able to connect to 3G or 4G almost everywhere."Llavaners terrain is located near Sort, about 5 km away. It is accessed by asphalted road up to 1 km and the last one stretch, is a track that maintains the Natural Park of the High Pyrenees.
Location & leisure:
The work camp is done in a calm and peaceful area of the Catalan Pyrenees called "Vall de Siarb".This place is located inside one of the natural Park in Catalonia (Parc Natural de l'Alt Pirineu) and the village belongs to Soriguera municipality.
For more information about this part of the Pyrenees you can visit the web site:
- Talk by the members of the Parc de l'Alt Pirineu about the trails and paths and the biodiversity of the Park.
- Visit to the bunkers:
visit to the Civil War bunkers in the Coll de Sant Joan, about 4 km from the camp. The context of the Civil War and the specific situation of Pallars Sobirà and the Vall de Siarb will be explained.
- Visit to the Despoblat de Santa Creu de Llagunes:
guided visit to the medieval Despoblat where we can see the strategic location of the town, its function during the medieval period and why the wall, the watchtowers.
- Thematic tour of the mills:
Circular itinerary of the mills, where you can see the remains of two flour mills and a hydroelectric power plant that supplied electricity to several villages in the Vall de Siarb.
- Itinerary of Tornafort:
Circular excursion that will allow us to get to know the paths of the surroundings visiting the picturesque town of Tornafort.
Vilamur itinerary:
Circular excursion that will take us from the land to the village of Vilamur, then towards Soriguera, and following the river we will return to the camp.
Orientation activity:
The group will be divided into different teams and based on a series of clues related to the environment they will have to decipher an enigma or map. This dynamic enhances group cohesion and organization, agility and skills.
There are different possibilities of leisure activities the group can do in the area:
cultural excursions, circuit of Geocaching and visits to the nearby villages.
Other options of activities that the group can do in the area are the following examples:
- Visit to a medieval town. - Visit to bunkers and trenches from Spanish Civil War.- Rafting activity (40€/pax)- Hiking/trekking rootes.
Age:
14-17
Location:
The terrain is in the municipality of soriguera, pallars sobirà. catalunya.the terrain is called "mas de llavaners", between "malmercat" and "puigforniu" and near "tornafort" villages.location: https://goo.gl/maps/uk2ntlbfazcnldpc9
Language(s):
English
Airport:
BCN: Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available
- Creation of a script of a theater play for performance. The first part of the camp will consist of a communication workshop in English and Spanish. Volunteers will enhance their creativity and leadership skills. - Design and application of makeup and costumes for the play performance. - Volunteers will create a performance, combining music, dance, theater and plastic arts. - Organization of several performances in various mountain villages: stage, materials, costumes, etc. - After the performance, the volunteers will carry out dynamization workshops with children of the mountain villages: face painting, demonstration of musical instruments and dances, care of donkeys.
Accomodation & food:
Where will we be lodging? Parish House Hostel in Sieteiglesias. Calle Real s/n. 28752 Lozoyuela-Las Navas-Sieteiglesias The food consists of breakfast, lunch and dinner and will take place in a restaurant in Sieteiglesias next to the youth hostel
Location & leisure:
This volunteer camp will be held in Lozoyuela-Navas-Sieteiglesias, a municipality located in the Sierra Norte mountains, in Madrid region. In the volunteer camp, not everything is work, and you will have the opportunity to enjoy leisure and free time activities: - Environmental workshops: recycling, environmental pollution - Excursions to municipalities with tourist attractions: Buitrago de Lozoya, Rascafría - Canoeing. Hiking in Peñalara. - Swimming in natural pools - Excursion to Madrid: Prado Museum, tour of the historic center.
Requirements:
Required documents - ID card - European health card or other medical insurance if available.
Age:
18-30
Location:
Lozoyuela-navas-sieteiglesias
Language(s):
English
Airport:
MAD: Barajas (Madrid, Spain)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available
The work will be mostly environmental and constructional. The idea is to help renovate a house that is serving as a volunteering centre in which it will be established environmental-friendly and sustainable agriculture in the gardens in the future. La Casa Jazmín is recently renovated but there are still some pending tasks to complete. Volunteers will carry out some basic tasks like painting, throwing out extra materials and organising spaces.Apart from the house renovation tasks, this project will have lots of different other tasks for the volunteers. We are collaborating with the local organisations in the towns around and they always need help from our volunteers. As we are organising the tasks according to the actual needs of the town, the work that you will do during the camp will vary but mainly will be about renovating, painting, organising spaces, decorating and doing environmental cleanings, trash pick up from the hiking paths or beaches etc. There are 5 Caza Jazmin camps starting from the end of June to end of August and once one task is over, the volunteers will pass to the other one and we can not guarantee in which camp you will be doing what task as it will be depending on the previous group`s speed.
Accomodation & food:
The volunteers will stay in a volunteer house, with three rooms with several bunk beds and bathrooms. They will share rooms with four to six other volunteers. The house includes a nice kitchen in which the volunteers will cook for themselves in the guidance of the camp leaders.You can either bring your own sheets or a sleeping bag. There are beds and pillows but no sheets or pillow covers.
Location & leisure:
Sanet is a small town in the southwest of Spain close to Dénia (communidad de Valencia). It lays in the beautiful countryside, surrounded by hills which are great for hiking - there are a lot of hiking trails to discover. There is a local swimming pool available and Dénia is only 5 minutes by cars. The house is located right in the middle of town, so there are great opportunities to interact and socialize with the locals and to truly experience the Spanish countryside.Furthermore, the volunteers can make excursions to Ondara and El Vergel, local towns close to Sanet. The surrounding villages like Benimelli and Ràfol d'Almunia can also be visited. There will also be day trips to the beach which is about 15 minutes by car from Sanet.
Requirements:
The extra fee has be paid by card ( in the exceptional cases we can accept bank transfer as well) 3 weeks before the camp as a confirmation of participation. If we don't recieve the fee and the flight/bus tickets of the volunteer, we will consider that she/he will not attending to project and we will give opportunity to other volunteers that are on the waiting list.
Age:
15-17
Location:
Sanet y negrals
Language(s):
English
Airport:
ALC: Alicante (Alicante, Spain)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available
Work camp in the archaeological site will be developed, four hours from Monday to Friday, in the morning from 8,00 to 12,00, to avoid the hotter hours at the cost of getting up early. This schedule allows to leave a small space of time before eating to rest, go to the pool ... Affect the entire archaeological site and will consist of the removal of vegetation (grasses, bushes and shrubs) were born in the spaces excavated to date, preventing rating in perspective the different elements discovered. Also proceed to the elimination or relocation, when possible, of the loose stones of the walls or washed hillside. Features and dimensions of spaces and structures formed by compacted earth floors, drywall locked with earth or limestone soils where the roots have penetrated causing breakage and chipping, require extreme care in removing plants and shrubs in any event must be supervised continuously and directly by qualified personnel. It also seeks to understand the uniqueness of the archaeological site and the motivations that led their people at different stages in which the city was occupied.
Accomodation & food:
- Youth Hostel "La Chopera". Building of the old schools. C/ Molino, 19 (Mill Street, 19) - Edificio de las antiguas escuelas. Inestrillas (AGUILAR DEL RÍO ALHAMA).http://www.irj.es/albergues/otros-albergues-municipales/46-inestrillas-aguilar-de-rio-alhama. Total capacity of the hostel: 22 people Rooms: 1 room with bunk beds for 18 people and two double rooms (the latter adapted for the disabled) 4 common bathrooms. Common areas: kitchen, dining room, living room (TV, DVD, board games, information about the area). Heating. It has a large terrace-garden with barbecue and picnic tables. FOOD: Youth Hostel has a chef, who will be the responsible for the realization of lunch and dinner.
Location & leisure:
It's 103 km. from Logroño. Aguilar del Río Alhama is the town of La Rioja most southern. Bordering the province of Soria and within the County of Cervera del Rio Alhama, Aguilar also comprises Inestrillas village, Gutur valley and Celtiberian - Roman settlement Contrebia Leucade. Aguilar communicates with Cervera, its head of region, through the county road 284, which is located Inestrillas one kilometer from Aguilar. Also from Aguilar, route 490 carries Navajún and Valdemadera, and 388 to the Soria towns of San Felices and Castilruiz. The beautiful landscape of Gutur, you get through via 493 or a dirt path from Inestrillas. LEISURE ACTIVITIES: Day trips: Interpretation center and site of Igea El Peladillo. Activities such as bumper ball, archery, paintball, orientation... Tourist visit to points of interest in the town of Inestrillas and the adjacent ones, Aguilar del Río Alhama. Other camp activities (sports games, workshops, gymkhanas, Aguilar de Río Alhama municipal swimming pool, etc.) Contrebia Leucade is the most important archaeological site in La Rioja and one of the most spectacular and significant in pre-Roman Spain. The monumentality and the exceptional state of conservation of the elements present in its interior exert a great attraction and suggestion on the visitors. Contrebia Leucade provides, also, information hardly observable in other archaeological sites on the Roman conquest of Hispania and what it meant for the indigenous communities. Contrebia Leucade is located in Aguilar del Río Alhama, near the district of Inestrillas, at an intermediate point along the river Alhama, controlling the shortest and most direct path between the Ebro valley and the Castilian plateau. The city occupies an enclave endowed with strong natural defenses The oldest remains of the human presence in the place go back to the Bronze Age, stage to which the burial of the Cave of the Lakes belongs, at the western end of the site. Later, as early as the First Iron Age, a first settlement was built on the amassed surface of the westernmost hill of the two on which the site rises. In the third century BC, the city of Contrebia Leucade was founded. Its impressive defensive system is built and the interior is urbanized based on alignments of houses and carved streets, partly important, on the slopes of the mountain.
Requirements:
THINGS TO BRING: European Health Card for EU volunteers and Identification card / passport. Warm clothing, work-clothes and work-gloves. Waterproof coat. A sleeping bag (optional). Trainers and mountaineering boots.
Age:
18-26
Location:
Inestrillas (aguilar del rÍo alhama).youth hostel "la chopera". building of the old schools. c/ molino, 19 (mill street, 19) - edificio de las antiguas escuelas
Language(s):
English
Airport:
ZAZ: Zaragoza Ab (Zaragoza, Spain)Vegetarian food will be available
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