📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The General Direction for Youth, Participation and Volunteering has among its powers to promote work camps in the region of Galicia. This general direction belongs to the Ministry of Social Policy of the regional government of Galicia (www.xunta.gal).
💼 What the programme involves
Clearing of weed and removal of alien species such as acacias or eucalyptus.
Care and maintenance of specimens of indigenous species such as chestnut trees or oaks.
Cleaning and clearing of paths, trails or different structures (stone walls and the like).
Clearing of weed in the area adjacent to an archaeological construction, without touching it, as a preliminary step to a subsequent excavation.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers are staying in the hostel of Centro Etnografico do Mandeo, in Teixeiro, municipality of Curtis.
📍 About the location
Visits to interesting sites in Coiros and nearby townships within the Biosphere Reserve of As Marinas and Terras do Mandeo.
Local swimming pools and nearby beaches.
Traditional feasts and cultural and sport events taking place throughout the municipality.
Visit to the Nature Park of Fragas do Eume.
Visit to the cities of Betanzos, Lugo, Santiago de Compostela and/or A Coruna.
Trekking routes.
⚠️ Requirements
It is necessary to come with a sleeping bag.
ℹ️ Additional information
Coiros is a municipality of the A Coruna province, within the shire of Betanzos. Two rivers pass through this area Mandeo and Mendo. It has got peaks such as Pico da Felga (506 m), Fonte do Oso (448 m) and Monte da Retorta (502 m). It has a temperate oceanic climate.