Short-term (2 to 4 weeks) "work with children/teenagers" projects in Spain

Ojos de Braojos is an English teaching workcamp.The task of the volunteers will be help to co-create the workshops in English for local children and teenagers. Volunteers will be creating games, workshops and activities for the kids in English so they can practice and learn the language in an informal way instead of school teaching.Activating kids and teenagers, providing cross-cultural learning experience for them as well as English language environment. It will be done through the games, workshops, sportactivities, excursions, discussions, etc. It would be a bonus if volunteers could speak a little Spanish but it's is not essential.The volunteers will work approximately 6 hours a day from Monday to Friday. In the morning from 09:00 to 13:00 aprox. the volunteers will be spending time with kids and in the afternoon hours, they will be preparing the activities all together in group.The weekends will be free.

The accommodation will be done in a local hostel in the town which has 8 rooms with several bunk beds in it and separate bathrooms and showers for boys and girls. There is also a well equipped kitchen in the building. The hostel has its own garden and a common area for the volunteers.Even though the there will be beds and pillows, there is no sheets and pillow covers so. Please bring your sleeping bags or your own sheets.

Braojos is a municipality of Spain belonging to the Community of Madrid. It is included in the area of influence of the port of Somosierra, traditional step of the so-called "Camino de Francia", and in its term is also the port of Arcones.In 2017 it had a population of 200 inhabitants. 86 km away from Madrid and it takes approximately a bit more than 1 hour to reach it.During the weekend and free time you may visit the Spanish capital.Normally there are 2 days off per week. You are free those days and have possibilities to plan a group trip to the mountains or to the nearest towns like Rascafria or Buitrago de Lozoya which hasnice lakes or cities such as Madrid. Even though the public transportation is not very developed in the area, it could be possible to reach to the near towns using buses to Buitrago de Lozoya.

The volunteers have to speak English well as this is an English teaching project.

18-99

Braojos, sierra norte, madrid

English

MAD: Barajas (Madrid, Spain)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available

Oro de Prioro is an English teaching workcamp.The task of the volunteers will be help to co-create the workshops in English for local children and teenagers. Volunteers will be creating games, workshops and activities for the kids in English so they can practice and learn the language in an informal way instead of school teaching.Activating kids and teenagers, providing cross-cultural learning experience for them as well as English language environment. It will be done through the games, workshops, sportactivities, excursions, discussions, etc. It would be a bonus if volunteers could speak a little Spanish but it's is not essential.The volunteers will work approximately 6 hours a day from Monday to Friday. In the morning from 09:00 to 13:00 aprox. the volunteers will be spending time with kids and in the afternoon hours, they will be preparing the activities all together in group.The weekends will be free.

The accomodation will be done in a local school. There will be several bathrooms with showers and also a big kitchen where the volunteers can cook in teams.

Prioro is a municipality located in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. The municipality has a population of 369 inhabitants. Even though the village is very small there is a circulation with the other villages around. It is 86 km to the Léon city.

18-40

Prioro, león

English

OVD: Asturias (Aviles, Spain)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available

The aim of this camps is that volunteers communicate with children in English, to encourage them to overcome the fear of speaking in a foreign language through non-formal educational methods and setting. In first two days of the workcamp participants will get a formation by Fundacion Cruz de los Angeles in order get to know the local environment and to understand the legal context of working with children under state protection (that includes signing confidentiality contracts and to comply with some restrictions). Children we're going to work with are aged from 6 to 18, therefore our group will be split into two non-fixed teams, rotate and organize different activities according to the kids age group. We will prepare activities and materials in English on different topics, such as archaeology, music, food, animals. With the older kids – teenagers, we will spend time in the afternoons, and mornings are for the younger kids.

The accommodation will be done In a house situated near Colunga. Volunteers will stay apart from the group of children. Food will be provided by the Fundación Cruz de los Ángeles. Breakfasts will be prepared by volunteers, lunch and dinner in the house or together with kids, depending on daily activities.

Volunteers will have 2 free days in the middle of the camp to discover the areaand do any activities and entertainment they like. Optionally they can join the kidsduring 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.

20-30

Colunga, asturias, spain

English

OVD: Asturias (Aviles, Spain)Vegetarian food will be available

Candamo/Grullos town hall needs the help of the young volunteers. In this workcamp the volunteers will have two main task which are very different one from the other.The first task is about the. recovery, improvement and signalling of Senda de Los Molinos del Dele: It is about recovering as a tourist path the old path that runs along the River Dele, where several privately owned mills were located, many of them now in ruins.Also, some of the young people might help with another task which is more social:Helping the organisation of an urban summer camp with a local organisation. The volunteers are asked to participate as collaborators/organizatiors in the urban camp for the local kids and youngsters with activities aimed at promoting the use of English among the loca area.The tasks will be shared among the group and each volunteer will have chance to work in both.

Accommodation will be in the Municipal Multipurpose Center. This center is not a hostal but a building with several rooms to run social activities. During the workcamp this center which has several rooms will be will be equipped with mats on the floor. Volunteers should bring sleeping bags. It also has a kitchen for the use of the volunteers, a common room, bathrooms and a shower.

Grullos is the capital of the Council of Candamo (Candamo Town Hall) located in the central area of Asturias, lying on both banks of the Nalón river. Without a completely defined urban structure, Grullos mixes a set of buildings that respond to different periods and styles: centuries-old mansions, old hórreos and paneras, Indian houses and modern constructions blend into an environment that still preserves the rural essence.The relief is undulating, alternating peaks with small valleys through which the Nalón and its tributaries flow, highlighting the Dele and the Candamín.Candamo is the oldest town in Asturias. This is evidenced by the famous cave of San Román de Candamo, where the Paleolithic man left beautiful samples of his extraordinary art. In the surroundings, there are several archaeological sites of interest to visitors and scholars.

18-99

Grullos, candamo, asturias

English

OVD: Asturias (Aviles, Spain)Vegetarian food will be available

Oro de Prioro is an English teaching workcamp.The task of the volunteers will be help to co-create the workshops in English for local children and teenagers. Volunteers will be creating games, workshops and activities for the kids in English so they can practice and learn the language in an informal way instead of school teaching.Activating kids and teenagers, providing cross-cultural learning experience for them as well as English language environment. It will be done through the games, workshops, sportactivities, excursions, discussions, etc. It would be a bonus if volunteers could speak a little Spanish but it's is not essential.The volunteers will work approximately 6 hours a day from Monday to Friday. In the morning from 09:00 to 13:00 aprox. the volunteers will be spending time with kids and in the afternoon hours, they will be preparing the activities all together in group.The weekends will be free.

The accomodation will be done in a local school. There will be several bathrooms with showers and also a big kitchen where the volunteers can cook in teams.

Prioro is a municipality located in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. The municipality has a population of 369 inhabitants. Even though the village is very small there is a circulation with the other villages around. It is 86 km to the Léon city.The characteristics of the terrain have made this area a suitable place to practice hiking and enjoy nature; The source of the Cea River, La Cañada Real Leonesa Oriental, Las Grandes Rutas or GR I, Routes through the different ports such as the port of Mental, the Puerto de la Muela, or the Alto del Puerto del Pando where you can get exceptional views of the Picos de Europa Regional Park.There are samples of the passage of this civilization through this area. In this way, in Villaescusa (a disappeared town between Morgovejo and Prioro) we find a Roman bridge, through which the Roman road continues passing through the bridge of Las Conjas and ascending to Puerto del Pando.Also, there are other important places of interest like churches, small hermitages, the horreos - they are an important part of popular architecture, declared Historical Monuments in 1979, traditional mountain architecture.The extensive natural, the artistic, ethnographic and industrial heritage of the Montañas de Riaño region is preserved in a wide museum network of incalculable tourist and educational value.Prioro Ethnographic Museum located behind the Prioro Consistory building has an extensive ethnographic collection where you can see hundreds of traditional pieces donated by neighbors and classified according to their usefulness, the building that houses the newly built museum houses different exhibition spaces. Also, there are other museums nearby: Riaño Ethnographic Museum Peculiar collection of elements that illustrate the life that was submerged under the waters of the Riaño reservoir, Sabero Steel and Mining Museum, Valdehuesa Wild Fauna Museum.

18-40

Prioro, león

English

OVD: Asturias (Aviles, Spain)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available

Kids in Action is an English teaching workcamp.The task of the volunteers will be help to co-create the workshops in English for local children and teenagers. There will be around 30 kids and volunteers will be creating games, workshops and activities for them in English so they can practice and learn the language in an informal way instead of school teaching.Activating kids and teenagers, providing cross-cultural learning experience for them as well as English language environment. It will be done through the games, workshops, sportactivities, excursions, discussions, etc. It would be a bonus if volunteers could speak a little Spanish but it's is not essential.The volunteers will work approximately 6 hours a day from Monday to Friday. In the morning from 09:00 to 13:00 aprox. the volunteers will be spending time with kids and in the afternoon hours, they will be preparing the activities all together in group.

The accomodation will be done in a small volunteer house with several rooms. There will be bathrooms facilities and a kitchen where the volunteers can cook in team.Sleeping bag is required.

Riaño is a former small municipality located along the Esla River in the mountains of the province of León, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, northern Spain. The village was across the river from Peak Gilbo. Located 3650 feet above sea level, it is in the Cantabrian mountains near the foothills of the Picos de Europa.

18-40

Riaño, león

English

OVD: Asturias (Aviles, Spain)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available

This workcamp has been running for the last 6 years and last year we managed to keep it alive despite the conditions created by COVID-19. Usually the task in the traditional workcamp of ours is to creating English workshops with the the kids. However that task had to be changed do to the conditions and now volunteers will be doing manual work that means painting, trying to keep the streets and environment tidy, gardening in the parks of the municipality and helping in the irrigation and maintenance of the local parks, as there is a deficit of keepers and the Town Hall needs support, as well as helping in other tasks that may be required. We will still may have some space for creating workshops for the local kids from 3 to 12 years old as we did previous years creating games and to be the first contact in English comunication for those kids that they don´t have opportunity to learn and practice English language. Still social distance measures oblige us to prepare working activitis with low risk and therefore manual work to support this lovely town in Andalucia is a way to keep alive a workcamp that has been running for years.

The accommodation will be in a youth hostel belongs to the town hall which is occasionally used by pilgrims on the way to Santiago.The hostel is simple but provides everything that the volunteers need. Has a kitchen a nice living room and two showers. However volunteers will have free entrance to the swimming pool so they can also use these facilities. ( Unfortunately the pool wasn't open to public due to COVID-19 last year but we hope that this year it will be possible to have access)

Villanueva de Algaidas is located in the Famous Costa del Sol, 60 km away from Malaga, where you can enjoy the greenery of the olive groves and the brilliant white of the farmhouses, or go for a bike ride in the country; these are just some of the options waiting for you in Villanueva de Algaidas. This district, in the northwest of the Malaga region, and offers multiple options for combining activities, flavors and experiences as you wish. Villanueva de Algaidas is reach in archaeological and patrimonial sites such as a complex of tombs, almost 3500 years old, the los Alcaides Necropolis. The archaeological remains are evidence of the presence of man in the area since the Copper Age. Two 9th century cave chapels move us forward through the centuries until 1566, date on which the Franciscan convent was founded, marking the birth of what is today known as Villanueva de Algaidas known as the Convent of Nuestra Senora de la Consolacion. There are two Mozarabic chapels lie very close to the ruins of the convent and will transport you even further back in time and other old sites.Even there are lots of places to visit, the local transtportataion in the area is not very good connected.

If we can keep the work with the kids of the town, the criminal record will be required.

18-99

Villanueva de algaidas, malaga

English

AGP: Malaga (Malaga, Spain)Vegetarian food will be available

The aim of this camps is that volunteers communicate with children in English, to encourage them to overcome the fear of speaking in a foreign language through non-formal educational methods and setting. In first two days of the workcamp participants will get a formation by Fundacion Cruz de los Angeles in order get to know the local environment and to understand the legal context of working with children under state protection (that includes signing confidentiality contracts and to comply with some restrictions). Children we're going to work with are aged from 6 to 18, therefore our group will be split into two non-fixed teams, rotate and organize different activities according to the kids age group. We will prepare activities and materials in English on different topics, such as archaeology, music, food, animals. With the older kids – teenagers, we will spend time in the afternoons, and mornings are for the younger kids.

The accommodation will be done In a house situated near Colunga. Volunteers will stay apart from the group of children. Food will be provided by the Fundación Cruz de los Ángeles. Breakfasts will be prepared by volunteers, lunch and dinner in the house or together with kids, depending on daily activities.

Volunteers will have 2 free days in the middle of the camp to discover the areaand do any activities and entertainment they like. Optionally they can join the kidsduring 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.

20-30

Colunga, asturias, spain

English

OVD: Asturias (Aviles, Spain)Vegetarian food will be available