📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The main activities of Associao Pombal Jovem (APJ) are swimming, (BBT) mountain bike, extreme sports (radical sports), juvenile mobility (summer camps and work camp), awareness campaigns about different issues, like the environment and health care.
The main aims of APJ are promoting the citizenship and the integration of young people from the Pombal county, promoting a good environmental education, habits of good healthy life and develop and take advantage of the potential of our county in different levels.
💼 What the programme involves
This organization exhibits a project where the main objective is to allow young people to be involved in a volunteering program aiming at environment protection as well as contributing for volunteering work valorisation.
Concerning the activities during the camp, the mornings, from 9.00 until 13.00, will be reserved to cleaning activities in the inside Anaos River (cleaning garbage and vegetation inside the river). We separated the volunteers in 2 group, one group works inside the river and after more or less 20 minutes, we change the group, and goes to inside the river the another group; the afternoons and the evenings, as well as the Saturdays and Sundays, will be reserved to leisure, sports, visiting local and regional monuments, getting in contact with the local culture and customs..
🏠 Accommodation on site
The participants will camp in tents over at the installations of Quinta Sant Ana. We have on space with bathroom, and shower rooms. There will be 5 meals served a day, 2 in the restaurant (Lunch and dinner).
📍 About the location
Location: The camp will be located near Estrada Nacional, between Lisboa and Porto, approximately 10 kms of Pombal, and it is about 20 minutes from the sea. Due to it is proximity to the Sica Mountain and the Anaos River, and also due to its river beach, Redinha is well known as a rural village of great natural beauty.