📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Town hall of Manuel, small town 2300 inhabitants located 40 km away from Valencia. Since the last year this town hall is developing a policy of sustainable tourism which includes the recuperation of deprived environmental areas and cultural heritage together with a policy to support and involve as active citizens youngsters in order not to loose population. Maintenance of local cultural patrimony is also a primary goal of the actual policy in Manuel.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will help restoring natural areas promoting work has an environmental character.
Manuel has three important natural areas that need to be taken care. Albaida River, the Natural Protected Area of Las salinas with the Salinas House and the old abandoned railway. Leisure and culture in Manuel have been strongly conected with these three natural areas.
Municipality is restoring the area together trying to involve the local youngsters
The task of volunteers will be improve the natural áreas, clean the river bends, check and signalize trails and reconstruct the garden of La casa de las salinas
The municipality will ask volunteers to do other types of manual work for the environment, depending on the necessities of the municipality in a certain momment.
Tools, gloves and working boots will be available. One of the tasks could be to help on archaeological excavation site, depending on working permissions and how clean is river Algar at the moment when project is taking place.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be at the gym of the local school right in the town centre . We will provide with mattresses but vols should bring pillos and summer sleeping bags (or sheets)
Volunteers will cook for themselves. The accommodation is basic but confortable as you will stay alone in the place, so group dinamics will be nice.
There will be free access to the swimming pool
This project will include a one day only vegan food day agreed by volunteers for the promotion of environmental sustainable lifestyle.
📍 About the location
Manuel is a charming agriculture town, located very close to Valencia. You Will be able to experience a truly inmersión of Spanish culture while have the possibility of exploring a big city as Valencia and the beaches nearby. It is also possible to see another nearby towns on the weekend or preferably after the workcamp so reserve some days for that.