📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The General Directorate of Youth, Participation and Volunteering (www.xuventude.xunta.es) is a department of the Xunta de Galicia (www.xunta.gal) whose priority is to meet the needs and concerns of the young population living in Galicia, firmly believing that youth has much to contribute to society as a whole. We work to improve the quality of life of young people in our autonomous community, developing actions and programs that benefit them, increase their well-being and allow them to improve their skill.
💼 What the programme involves
The work proposal is aimed at the conservation of the environment, dissemination and enhancement of ethnographic and heritage resources of which there is a broad representation in the town hall. The participants will obtain an experiential experience acting in the recovery of the ethnographic resources of the area, as well as learning about the traditions from the hand of the neighbors who have been transmitting them orally for generations. In the glacier, cleaning and conditioning work will be carried out on the hiking trails, the renovation of signage and the signposting of the trails, as well as the work of disseminating the importance of this glacier.
🏠 Accommodation on site
VilariE o de Conso hostel. Address: A Faceira, s/n. The hostel has 50 places in quadruple rooms with bunk beds and bathroomsindividual each room. There is a kitchen and dining room. It has multipurpose rooms andlaundry. The outdoor facilities consist of river beach, football field, tennis court.
📍 About the location
As leisure activities, the following are scheduled: - Bread workshop. It will be carried out in one of the rehabilitated kilns of this Council, located in the village of CastiE eira. Everyone will participate in the batch and it will be our lunch that day. - Pyrography engraving workshop. Taking advantage of the fact that it is a municipality with an important activity wood, a workshop will be held to engrave the most important character of thecarnival of VilariE o de Conso, the Boteiro. - Adventure activities: Caning, rappel, orienteering, hiking and MTB trails. - Visit to a craftswoman who works with linen. - Visit the museum and workshop and get to know the gastronomy of the place. - Visit to the Valdeorras wine-growing area. - Visit or astronomical center of Trevinca in the municipality of A Veiga.
ℹ️ Additional information
The incorporation to the work camp is in the afternoon of the first day and the departure the last day after breakfast. It is advisable to bring: Sleeping bag and mat. Swimsuit, slippers and bath and shower towel. Sun hat and sunscreen. Small backpack for routes. Comfortable and waterproof footwear. Warm clothing. Rain gear. Work clothing and footwear.