🏢 About the local organisation
Associação Quinta das Relvas is an organization located at a farm with an amazing natural heritage, where a group of youngsters work to promote and develop actions involving thematics such as environmental problems, sustainability, permaculture, plastic & performative arts.
We organize several activities for youngsters like:
-communication Workshops (design, adobe programs, video, photography, social media),
-regular Bio-construction workshops (bio-design, green roof, superadobe, building with canes among others),
-Permaculture workshops (veggie gardens, making compost, permaculture design, gray water, alternative power sources, animals in permaculture),
-performative art (juggling, street theate, clowning)
-art exhibitions,
-art workshops (painting, street art, naked eye drawing, design, photography, sculpture),
-artistic seminars (illustration, sculpture, oil on canvas).
Our group is working with two different target groups, on a local level we are working with youngsters from 18 till 30 years old with the background of dropping out of school and with tendency of living the country side to look for better life conditions on the city and the second target group are youngsters from all over the country, with ages between 22 to 30 years old and that are interested in the thematics and come for the workshops that we have on the farm.
Working within these frameworks Associação Quinta das Relvas is able to educate youngsters with fewer opportunities using non-formal tools and mixed groups, at the same time that both target groups recognize rural areas and their potential.
The group has members that work in different fields like teaching, painting, acting, architecture and event management. Other goal that we have is to educate youth to be more active on their local communities, to be more eco-friendly and to live healthier lifestyles.
💼 What the programme involves
A growing and ever-changing globalized world with extreme challenges concerning the sustainable economy, diverse
ecology and self-sufficient energy, and on top of that a democratic crisis in many European contexts. Challenges like unemployment, continuing urbanisation, lack of housing, climate change (draught, wildfires and possible food scarcity) threats us all. The challenges in the area of environment and food production are huge and the technologic advances aren´t enough to keep up with them. A major shift needs to be done and the solution (as we see it) must be local, small scale, brought by active citizens and involve youth in it.
This project aims to provide a skill set to volunteers to become more resilient we will work with Permaculture, Agro Forestry, market gardening, bio construction .
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accomodation will be provided in the farm dorm, participants will have acess to a private kitchen with cooking equipment, gaz will be provided.
Social areas have wifi and participants will have acess to a garden (in the volunteers house).
Pick ups are provided on arrival and in departure moments, also the farm car is provided once per week for grosseries.
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.