📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
SVI (International Volunteering Service), is part of the Spanish Institute for Youth (Instituto de la Juventud-Injuve), a Public Institution dependent on the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, whose main purpose is to promote international volunteering projects and activities among youth people. The SVI coordinates the international work camps organized by the Autonomous Communities and Autonomous Cities in Spain, and is responsible for managing the exchange of available places between the Work Camps in Spain and the International Organizations.
💼 What the programme involves
This work camp will intend the ethnographic recovery of twelve mills in Torrente and the clearing and preparation of the surroundings to allow a proper entry to local people.Cleaning of the Mills da Torrente. Preparation of the path that links the mills.Recovery the ethnographic memory.Study of the local fauna.Building of proper shelters for amphibians.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation at the Complex in O Corgo, Muíños village.
📍 About the location
Nautical activities.Night fauna watching.Geocatching within the Natural Reserve.Recognition of mountain flora and fauna.Observation of forest ecosystems and landscape interpretation.Activities for the identification of traces and signs of wildlife.Environmental, ethnographic and interpretive trails through the National Park and the surrounding villages.Environmental and recycling workshops.Video-forum. Role playing games. Games and leisure activities.Bathing in the hot springs of Maus de Baños.Visit to the township of Allariz (asses of the association ANDREA, leather museum, environmental centre of O Rexo, market of the Biosphere Reserve, leisure time and bathing in Allariz)Cultural and leisure visit to the city of Ourense and hot water springs.