📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Fundació Catalana de l’Esplai has been in "Educating children and youth, strengthening leisure organizations and the third sector, improving the environment and promoting social inclusion and citizenship, with a desire for change” since over 30 years ago.
Fundació Catalana de l’Esplai organizes a wide range of leisure time education activities such activities for children, school camps, summer camps, work camps, training for trainers, etc. In 2018 Fundesplai projects reached 258.656 people andmore than 600 took part in work camps.
💼 What the programme involves
The main work in the camp will be the recovery off different dry stone works (wall, huts
and Civil War trenches). To do this, participants will have the support of experts from
CESUB, Subirats historical studies group. They will be provided with all the material
needed and experts will contextualise the work they do, the history of the area and the
role played by dry stone and vineyard. This will be the principal work but you will take
part part on some naturalistic and environmental works like nest boxes making or path
cleaning. Work areas are close to accommodation area and participants will be taken
there by bus.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The participants of the workcamp will be installed in “ZER Montcau”, the school of Ordal.
They are going to use a school multifunctional area. They will sleep indoors and
mattresses will be provided. They are going to eat outdoors and a catering service will
serve the food. There will be vegetarian and vegan options and as many menu adaptation
as needed.
📍 About the location
Free time and leisure activities will include group games, workshops and cultural
activities in order to learn more about Catalan culture and the vineyard tradition in the
area. Participants will visit cultural and historical areas and museum in Subirats, a wine
and champagne factory and also Vilafranca del Penedès, the Catalan wine capital. They
will also visit the city of Barcelona, which is only 45km from the accommodation area.
⚠️ Requirements
Old clothes for the working hours
ℹ️ Additional information
Hard work only if the temperature is very high.