📝 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 last year and we continue with it encouraged with the great impact and meaning for kids and memorable experience for volunteers.
💼 What the programme involves
The aim of this workcamp is to create workshops for the local kids about agriculture and digital technologies that are used in the agricultural areas. The volunteers will be asked to investigate and create some workshops, games and activities about the topic in the local gardens and the youth center of the town. The volunteers have to have an interest in the topic and make some preparations before joining to the camp..
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation will be in a small rural apartment, some kilometres away from the village centre, with 2 different rooms with beds. No need to bring a mattress but bring lower sheets and a summer sleeping bag is necessary. The house is equipped with shower and WC and a tiny kitchen.
📍 About the location
Volunteers will have 2 free days in the middle of the camp to discover the area and do any activities and entertainment they like. Optionally they can join the kids during these two days as well.The province of 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. Village Lastres was listed as one of the most beautiful villages in whole Spain and definitely deserves a visit, actually you re going to live nearby. Going to the lighthouse (Faro de Lastres) will offer you some great coastal views.