📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The "Vital" Foundation is an altruistic private organization that emerged in the School Community of the "Virgen del Fresno" school in Grado, in the mid-nineties, as the evolutionary result of a spontaneous movement within the Community. School, to meet certain educational needs of schoolchildren not served by the regular education system.Its Board of Trustees, open and expandable, is made up exclusively of natural persons: parents of students, teachers, various professionals, experts, and nature lovers, who maintain some connection with Grado and are concerned with providing schoolchildren with environmental education, austere and consistent with our natural environment.Its statutory purposes are to promote, encourage or carry out educational, cultural or scientific activities related to education in Nature, alternative energies, water, the environment, the open-air classroom and leisure education, aimed primarily at schoolchildren.
💼 What the programme involves
Carry out maintenance work in the environment (cleaning, repair of ecological generation, renovation of stays) as well as developing the Program "Nature and Energy" of the Vital Foundation to learn about the practical use of Renewable Energies, carrying out routes through the Sierra de Tameza.It consists of a broader program of activities for the environment, adapted to the group of students. The duration is twelve days and includes sleeping one night, at least in tents or in the shelter, if necessary. The program is designed so that groups of students visit the Didactic Complex ofRenewable Energies of the "Vital" Classroom and carry out a series of educational activities within the "Vital" Project, for about 30 uninterrupted hours.The basic objectives that are suggested can be summarized as follows:Produce in students a pleasant and permanent emotional memory, associated with Nature.Show them, directly, some natural "sources" of free energy and the "conversion systems" by which we can use them.Provoke them to reflect so that they begin to ask themselves questions about the implications of social and environmental aspects of the current approach to the control and use of energy.Efficiently develop self-control and self-organization, away from home.Carry out service activities for the group (surveillance, cleaning, cooking,...)Discover the superfluous that surrounds us daily.Practice direct reading of messages in the book of Nature.Rediscover silence, night, company, far from civilization.Be amazed at the immensity of the celestial universe, orient yourself from the stars and begin to recognize constellations and stars.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Classroom of Renewable Energies, in the middle of Nature;The "Vital" classroom is an educational setting, in the middle of Nature in the Sierra de Tameza, inaround a multifunctional refuge, far from civilization, from consumerism, and supplied with Renewable Energies, where groups of students, accompanied by their teachers, can develop an open and broad set of educational activities.It is a very specific classroom, designed by the "Vital" Foundation and the "Virgen delFresno", to develop the "Vital" Educational Project. Therefore, participating in Aula Vitalmeans accepting certain basic approaches of said project.
📍 About the location
Yernes is a village in the council of Yernes and Tameza, located at an altitude of 690 m, in the foothills of the Sierra de Pando. It is located in the northern area of the council, and limits to the south with the parish of Villabre; limiting in the other directions with the council of Grade.It preserves good examples of traditional architecture, such as hErreos and paneras, some succinctly decorated, and a church dedicated to the Holy Cross. It is the starting point for mountain routes, such as Cuevallagar.Yernes and Tameza is a municipality that offers unique mountain landscapes as well as small urban centers of great charm.