📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
“The forest is our home” This is a Team Volunteer project, from European Solidarity corps, short-term (30 days; 15 to 20 participants), in Arrouquelas, a small rural village in the countryside in central Portugal will participate in several activities of work, creation, responsibility and fellowship and interaction with locals of Arrouquelas. It is a project that aims to help our village preserve its surrounding forest, and prevent fires. This project will leave results, due to the experience and ecological attitude that we intend to instil in young people, by the intercultural dynamism, but also by the work done, creating better conditions for the surveillance of our forest. (clean, paint, forest vigilance, learn sessions, cultural visits) We would like also to rely on the collaboration of the participants to a pedagogical approach to the integration of people with cultural differences such as refugees who now seek shelter in Europe.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided to all participants during the project - but the dinner will be prepared each night by a group of participants, with the objective of creating intercultural night (bring something from home, related with your culture, for one meal with tastes of all countries). The participants will be living in tents or one big house for all inside of the village. All safety issues are guaranteed, the tents have 2 bedrooms, each participant will be in one of the rooms. Both the tents and bathrooms will be shared by gender.
Pocket Money: 150 euros (5€/day).
🎒 Leisure activities
Participants at the beginning of the project will have training on the activities to be carried out, all activities safeguard the safety of participants, they will have training on the proposed activities.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: Young people with an environmental and social attitude; who enjoy outdoor activities; who want to learn about rural development issues; 18 years old and older; Ready to actively take part in all the activities during the project; includes outdoor physical activities. Interested in implementation of the non-formal education methods into the youth work of their organization; Experienced in work with split-level groups or wish to get experience in this field. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED YOU NEED TO COPY PASTE THE LINK BELOW AND APPLY HERE: https://forms.gle/RHdpXF8PwWgASgoV7
Deadline: No application deadline
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.