📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
FundaciEn Cruz de los Engeles is a social service which gives special attention to families, children and teenagers and specifically to those who are socially disadvantaged, people with less opportunities. They work to promote and enhance the comprehensive development of children and adolescents in the personal, family, educational and social fields, looking for the best way to their personal and group development. Through a creative and motivating learning, based on the cxistence of the languages of the participants, activities and specific proposals that fit our reality and our needs. De Amicitia and FundaciEn Cruz de los Engeles started this collaboration few years ago and we continue with it encouraged with the great impact and meaning for kids and memorable experience for volunteers.
💼 What the programme involves
In the previous years, this workcamp was based on teaching English to local kids but this year the task changed completely. The work again will be doing activities with kids but this time it will be based on the recuperation of the cultural heritage. This area, Colunga has lots of cultural heritages from the ancient times and the local associations are aiming to renovate and recuperate there heritage areas. The task of the volunteers will be integrating the local kids to these activities. The volunteers will prepare some workshop for the kids about the importance of the heritages around the town and will work together on those areas in order to contribution of the renovation of the public areas.There is another part of that work that will be directly oriented towards the study and discovery of the water sources of the council of Colunga. Also the volunteers will be in charge of the research, transmission and collection of information with varied activities on local heritage.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In a house situated in Colunga. Volunteers will stay apart from the group of children. Food will be provided by the FundaciEn Cruz de los Engeles. Breakfasts will be prepared by volunteers, lunch and dinner in the house or together with kids, depending on daily activities. This project will include a one day only vegan food day agreed by volunteers for the promotion of environmental sustainable lifestyle.
📍 About the location
The province Colunga lies on the Cantabrian Sea and is located in the north of Spain, which is considered as the green area of Spain (lots of rain, trees and plants). Playa de la Griega is beautiful place and it is the nearest beach to the center town of the province, Colunga. This place is famous for one particular thing - here the footprints of dinosaurs were found. East of the beach on the cliffs is the famous and spectacular site of dinosaur footprints. The enormous size of these footprints, some of them reach 1.30 meters in diameter, allows it to be considered ones the largest footprints discovered so far.