📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
SVI (International Volunteering Service), is part of the Spanish Institute for Youth (Instituto de la Juventud-Injuve), a Public Institution dependent on the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, whose main purpose is to promote international volunteering projects and activities among youth people. The SVI coordinates the international work camps organized by the Autonomous Communities and Autonomous Cities in Spain, and is responsible for managing the exchange of available places between the Work Camps in Spain and the International Organizations.
💼 What the programme involves
Recovering and putting into production chestnuts in a state of abandonment. Growing techniques for the production of chestnuts. Gastronomy and cooking with chestnuts.Knowing the production of chestnuts in the Galician mountains from a point of view that allows seeing how the evolution of this traditional method of cultivating might represent an open door to the future. Knowing the landscape of chestnuts from the inside and the economic possibilities in the rural area.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Full board. The participants will stay in the Centro de Interpretación da Castaña, which has all the available services inside: 40 beds, bathrooms, kitchen, dining room, projection room, available room for cooking, workshops and so forth.The diet includes breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner.
📍 About the location
Group dynamics: traditional games, traditional Galician cooking workshop, sports games, cinema, karaoke, 25x12.5m outdoor swimming pool, guided tour to a Galician farm where cows and sheep are fed in chestnut forests, handicraft workshops, Guidance, hiking trails around the landmarks of the area, and so forth.