📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Municipality of Altea. De Amicitia is successfully cooperating with them for many years. They are hosting groups of our volunteers during summertime, and this year we are starting the first workcamp already in March.
💼 What the programme involves
Helping at archaeological excavations: cleaning a drainage path in order to make it of use again. Work is to remove the soil from the bottom of the drain and put it up the ground. Tools and working boots will be available
Depending on the necessities the Municipality may ask volunteers to do other types of manual work for the environment, depending on the necessities in a certain moment. One of the most probably task proposed will be to pull out some invasive plants that can live in the River Algar. So, be prepared for a lot of weeding! :-)
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be in a refuge, in a simple summer house (antiguo matadero) in Cap Negret in Altea, where workcamps are taking place. Volunteers will buy the food at a local CO-OP supermarket using coupons from the Town Hall and cook for themselves on a gas cooker. Volunteers will sleep on bunk beds. Please bring a sleeping bag as it might be a bit chilly as weather is unpredictable
📍 About the location
Altea is a town and municipality located in the province of Alicante, Spain, north of Benidorm on the section of Mediterranean Coast called the Costa Blanca. Altea is a nice little town which offers amazing views. The town is located in the seaside and offers possibilities of riding bicycles, take a sunbath on the beach, climb the mountains, have a trip to the lighthouse and other activities during your free time. It is also possible to see other towns at the weekend. At present, the economy of Altea is based on tourism, which started to grow in the 1950s because of its good weather, beaches and the labyrinthine streets with whitewashed house-fronts that characterize the town.