📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
De Amicitia is collaborating with them for many years: they support our projects, host international volunteers and share the philosophy of sustainable living, hand in hand with nature and with respect to biodiversity. Permanent project Mountain Garden leads to sustainability and protection of natural and cultural heritage in the area.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will prepare and maintain a garden and orchard in the camping area including some farm animal areas to live. They will plant and maintain shrubs, bushes and trees in order to preserve rare species and autochthonous vegetation from the area. As a working method, principles in some way of permaculture systems utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems, will be used.
Volunteers will also create environmental educational materials about their work and participate actively in activities and daily camping life.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In a mobile home, among other camping houses. There's toilet, kitchen, common area and 4 beds. Volunteers will buy the food (or will be provided by Camping Monte Holiday) and cook for themselves.
Camping Monte Holiday (http://monteholiday.com/www/en.html) has also big common toilet area, showers with hot water, washing machines and recreation areas, swimming pool and Wi-Fi in some common areas.
📍 About the location
Gargantilla del Lozoya, small village at the altitude of 1134 meters in the mountain range 'Sierra Norte', in the autonomous region of Madrid (Comunidad de Madrid). Gargantilla is part of several municipalities of the Valley of Lozoya, bigger settlements are Buitrago del Lozoya and Rascafrya. The distance to Madrid is approximately 80 km, and you can reach the capital by public transport in cca. 2 hours.
ℹ️ Additional information
Minimum stay in the project: 2 weeks. Extra fee 50 EUR, every next two weeks 25 EUR. Skype interview during the selection process. We search for volunteers with driving license and willingness to drive a car. Mature, motivated, self-sufficient and a solution-oriented volunteers.