📝 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
Work camp to improve and develop O Pico Sacro (Sacred Peak) in Saint James's Way, as well as identify potential improvements and signal the route of the Way to Santiago de Compostela passing through the municipality of Boqueixón.Field study about the route of Saint James's Way Miñoto-Ribeiro through the municipality of Boqueixón.Preparation of wooden billboards to signal this section of Saint James's Way.Promotion activities: making of a map and informative brochure in several languages. Activities addressed to local people and organization of a march-pilgrimage.Walk the Way from the pilgrims hostel of Vedra, in San Pedro de Vilanova, up to the end of the Way in the municipality of Boqueixón and continue the route into the Pico Sacro.Participatory process to set out an action plan to revitalize the Way passing through Boqueixón and actions to showcase the Pico Sacro within the Way.Implementation of specific and plausible actions for the duration of the work camp.Develop a survey to know the perception of the Pico Sacro within the Way among the pilgrims.Visit to the various outstanding heritage resources in the municipality and to prominent people linked to those resources.Revitalization of the youth with specific activities around the Pico Sacro and other heritage sites.Production of promotional videos (in Galicia, Spanish and English) regarding those heritage resources.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers are staying in the facilities of the School of Agrarian Training in the parish of Sergude. The bedrooms are double and triple. There will be round trips every day up to the site of the activity.As for the meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner will be held in the same facilities.
📍 About the location
Kayak in the Ulla river.Traditional games (tug of war, the frog, Celtic bowling, horseshoe game,..)Visits to interesting sites in the areaSwimming poolInternational cuisine workshopVisit to Santiago de CompostelaTrip to Costa da Morte (seaside)SoireesDay off