📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The local partner of this project is FundaciEn Vital.The "Vital" Foundation is an altruistic, humble and private organization that emerged in the School Community of the "Virgen del Fresno" school in Grado, in the mid-nineties, as an evolutionary result of a spontaneous movement within the Community. School, to satisfy certain educational needs of schoolchildren not attended by the ordinary educational system.Its statutory purposes are to promote, encourage or carry out educational, cultural or scientific activities, related to education in Nature, alternative energies, water, the environment, the outdoor classroom and leisure education, mainly aimed at schoolchildren. .
💼 What the programme involves
This project is a special collaboration with Fundacion Vital which will also include educational activities. In the first days the volunteers will receive a training on renewable energy, water consumption, recycling and survival. The work will vary from day to day. In the first days, the volunteers will be working on the tasks like maintenance of the wooden house. Depending on the working speed of the volunteers there can be also tasks like, planting of trees, repairing the hydraulic mill, cleaning the area, paths and rivers. The project itself will be about learning the sustainable living in the countryside. There will be also workshops about environmental facts and sustainablility.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In the first week, the accommodation will be done in the wooden house of the FundaciEn Vital, which has very basic living conditions.The second week the volunteers will be accommodate in the basic municipal school with bunk beds. There is a equipped kitchen for the use of the volunteers and also bathrooms and showers. The food will be prepared by the volunteers with the guidance of the campleaders, the ingredients will be provided.Sleeping bag is required.
📍 About the location
Yernes is a village in the council of Yernes and Tameza, located at an altitude of 690 m, in the foothills of the Sierra de Pando. It is located in the northern area of the council, and limits to the south with the parish of Villabre; limiting in the other directions with the council of Grade. It preserves good examples of traditional architecture, such as hErreos and paneras, some succinctly decorated, and a church dedicated to the Holy Cross. It is the starting point for mountain routes, such as Cuevallagar. Yernes and Tameza is a municipality that offers unique mountain landscapes as well as small urban centers of great charm.In the free times, the volunteers can enjoy the hiking paths and the river and also organise trip to Oviedo which is the closest city.
ℹ️ Additional information
Please note that this project is about the sustainable living and the survival in the nature. If you do not feel comfortable with rural living, this project may not be suitable for you.ESC volunteering Teams ProjectThis is an ESC project, supported by the European Solidarity Corps program of the European Commission. This means that this project has a special travel grant and an economical support for the volunteers. This project is open to 18-30 year old participants from EU countries. In order to receive the travel reimbursement and the pocket money, you must join to the whole activity, collect and send us all the travel invoices and fill the report that we will send just after the project.The volunteers must be register to EU PASS and accept the offer sent by us, once they are accepted to the project.