📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Obre't Ebre It is a non-profit association created in 2005. The main area of activity is in Terres de l'Ebre. The main objectives of the association are: to foster the social inclusion of young people, generate socio-community actions to foster social cohesion and the values of cooperation, tolerance, respect and justice, foster participation to educate active citizenship, promoting volunteering as a tool for social cohesion. In addition to informing, advising, coordinating and managing international mobility programs in the field of non-formal education. To achieve its goals, the association works with the following programs: awareness, mobility, participation and training.
💼 What the programme involves
The technical work will consist of the maintenance of a part of the walls of the Prat House. The materials will be cataloged, measured and the walls will be photographed appropriately. The sourroundings of the walls will be cleaned, so that the walls are a notable touristic attraction and, above all, to contribute to the historical studies of Campredó and the region of Ebro. The frames of the walls will be cleaned and drown , which is the main aim of the workcamp but if some ancient pieces are found they will be cleaned and cataloged by the archaeologist. The building of the Casa del Prat was the great house of the ancient command of Prat, according to the studies of Dr. Joan Fuguet, a great specialist in the templar history in Catalonia. Only the ground floor is preserved, but in the past it could could have had three floors. The walls are part of the frame of one of the most important templar Buildins of Terres de l’Ebre. The main work in this area will be the maintenance of the area to be able to access the walls. The young participants will carry out excavation tasks, as well as treatment of the materials, cleaning and stamping, classification and knowledge of the type of record obtained day by day. In parallel to this main activity, the rubbish we find will be collected .
🏠 Accommodation on site
Participants will cook themselves. Food will be provided by the coordinating organisation obre’t’ebre.There will be a menú designed for the 15 days. It is important that the participant informs the organisation about if allergies, or if vegan, vegetarian, not eating pork, etc.
📍 About the location
There will be different activities related to get to know the culture but also for cohesion of the group. In some of the activities of the workcamps, boys and girls participating in the Summer Camp of Campredó 2019 will also join the participants of the workcamp. There will activities organized for the children such as a culture-specific game or working on the vocabulary of one of the languages represented in the Work Camp, or a cooking workshop on a gastronomic dish of the origin country of participants. It is intended to generate an intergenerational and intercultural relationship, as well as practice English (the language of the workcamp) and help children of open up to the world and to other cultures and to the volunteering and cultural exchanges between countries.
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants have to bring comfortable clothes to do the technical work.