📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This Project is developed in coordination with VIMEX and Otumba´s Municipality, which trough the Agriculture and Livestock Administration they work together with national producers of nopal tuna and nopal that is used as a vegetable. It is important to mention that the cactus, known as “nopal” is a millennial food that is consumed by mexican people since the prehispanic age.
Objectives: The main objective of the Project is to involve the volunteers in the daily activities at the orchards/groves so they can share different costumes and traditions of the municipality and the communities.
💼 What the programme involves
*Cultural Task nopal/tuna: Pruning, plagues control, herb cleanliness, fruits , cut and cleanliness of fruits and packaging.
*Cultural tasks nopal/ vegetable: Plantation, watering, fertilization, pruning, plagues control, covering and uncovering with a plastic foil, clear of rubbish, harvest and packing.
*Cultural tasks. Tomato cultivation: Sowing, transplanting, pruning and harvest.
🏠 Accommodation on site
ACCOMODATION: The lodging wil be provided by families from the community or in a town´s house with all the services included. The volunteers will clean the home.
FOOD: Food will be provided by the families from the community.
📍 About the location
LOCATION: Otumba, Estado de México. 1 hour 20 minutes far way from Mexico City by bus.
FREE TIME: In Otumba there are many interesting places to visit, such as: Railway Museum, the pyramids of Teotihuacan, Burrolandia, Museum “Gonzalo Carrasco”, Municipal Palace, some churches, an aquatic park, the traditional market and some other touristic spots.
⚠️ Requirements
Good disposition for teamwork, dedication, responsibility and availability to work the nopal. You should bring your own insurance, work clothes, a cap and leather gloves.
ℹ️ Additional information
You can take the Intensive Spanish Course that we offer to the volunteers in our camps before to go to your project. See the information and conditions at the section of the Spanish Courses 2016.