📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This project is organizedand hosted by De Amicitia. De Amicitia is an environmental non governmental organisation that is funded in 1998 and actively working in the youth field and volunteering for 12 years. The main activity of the organisations is organising workcamps and local/ international youth projects in collaboration with the town halls and local associations.
💼 What the programme involves
“Faint Paint“ is a youth exchange project that aims to involve young people to create the street art in the multicultural atmosphere. Street art will be used as a tool to change and inspire, to move people and improve the space.
In this artistic intervention participants will transform the walls of the town offered especially for this occasion by the municipality of Sanet y Negrals.
The main objective of the project is to explore the talents and share ideas by raising awareness about cultural diversity through the mural art. The project will gather young people to learn from each other by exchanging skills, knowledge and experiences in a non-formal setting through interactive sessions with the outcome of making a piece of street art.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation will be done in the volunteer house of De Amicitia which has 3 rooms with several bunk beds in it and bathrooms and showers There is also a well equipped kitchen in the building and a common room for the activities.
📍 About the location
Sanet is a small town in the southwest of Spain close to Dénia (communidad de Valencia). It lays in the beautiful countryside, surrounded by hills which are great for hiking - there are a lot of hiking trails to discover. There is a local swimming pool available and Dénia is only 5 minutes by cars.
The house is located right in the middle of town, so there are great opportunities to interact and socialize with the locals and to truly experience the Spanish countryside.
Furthermore, the volunteers can make excursions to Ondara and El Vergel, local towns close to Sanet. The surrounding villages like Benimelli and Ràfol d'Almunia can also be visited. There will also be day trips to the beach which is about 15 minutes by car from Sanet.
⚠️ Requirements
Participants with artistic background or perform art as an hobby, such as painters, graphic designers, sketchers, cartoonists, graffiti makers or/and in certain cases specially motivated volunteers.
ℹ️ Additional information
Only participants from Spain (DeAmicitia), France (Concordia), Germany (IBG) or Turkey (GSM).