Oveja Verde

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Chile Culture Education Environment Culture Education +1 Permanent

About the project

Oveja Verde

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

To contribute to the development of ecological awareness within the city of Victoria, creating a community space that develops activities of encounter and eco-cultural learning and that works as a demonstrative example of principles of sustainable living.
The main lines of action of the project are:

1. Participatory Recycling Circuit

2. Workshops and activities aimed at the development of individual, community and ecological awareness.

3. Advance in the transformation of the community space "Ovejaus", in a demonstrative example of principles of sustainable life.

All this seeks to expand the ecological awareness network and its positive impact on the city, strengthen community ties and collective learning spaces, strengthen and create mutually beneficial ties with other organizations and give greater projection to this initiative

💼 What the programme involves

The work carried out by our NGO is divided into two types: permanent activities of
our NGO and activities in conjunction with other organizations.
Specific activities that are developed permanently within our ecological center:
● Collection of containers from the Pet bottle recycling circuit in the city of Victoria.
● Classification of the material collected in the Pet bottle recycling circuit.
● Transfer of the material collected in the recycling circuit of Pet bottles to a recycling plant.
● Making of glass bottles.
● Mosaic and art inside the Ong Oveja Verde center.
● Cultural activities carried out within the Ong Oveja Verde center.
● Ecological workshops.
● Orchard and organic food crop.
● Diffusion and advertising on social networks.
● Dissemination and advertising in local media.
● Order and cleaning.
● Coordination and work management meetings.
Activities in conjunction with other organizations: several organizations make use of our center on a monthly basis and we carry out collaborative work.
● Tasks of coordination and organization of Eco cultural activities (workshops, talks, etc)
● Manager of the Ong Oveja Verde center.
● Diffusion and advertising on social networks.
● Dissemination and advertising in local media.
Normal work day for volunteers is 3hrs (Monday to Friday)
9: 00 - 9:30 Self-service (The volunteer can make provision of food for breakfast)
9: 30 - 9: 50 Brief meeting to organize the day
10: 00 - 14: 00 Volunteer Work: (The volunteer can propose a project / choose between all the tasks of our ONG)
● Participatory recycling circuit of plastic bottles (collection, classification and transfer)
● Design and advertising ONG Oveja Verde
● Reuse work on recycled materials
● Carry out Workshops
● Etc
14:00 - 15:00 Lunch (rotating shifts to cook)
15:00 - 18:30 Various activities (of the ONG / other Organizations)
- Cultural (theater, dance, art, etc.)
- Educational (Workshops, talks, seminars, etc.)
- etc
18: 30 -19: 00 Order, cleaning and closing

🍲 Food

Food is provided for all 3 meals.

Breakfast is common (for people who work that day).

At each lunch, a duo or trio of volunteers (with members of the association) will be designated to cook a common dish.

Dinners are taken together or individually, according to the will of each.

During the week-end, everybody is free to do what he wants. The food is provided but, volonteers will be independents.

📍 About the location

Our associationproject, emerges and develops in the city of Victoria, a 1,256 km² commune located in the province of Malleco, Araucanía region. The city has 33 000 inhabitants and is a mainly commercial city. It has a University, library, bus terminal, train station, hospitals and shopping centers. In the city there is a Mapuche ethnic presence of 15% and according to official data, 20% of the inhabitants live in conditions of poverty. The school level is among the lowest in the country and good ecological practices are still scarce.

🎒 Leisure activities

ARAUCANIA REGION : Land of culture, ancestors and green nature
Araucanía, from the word "Araucanian". Land of the beautiful millenary araucarias. With Mapuche roots that are intact, beautiful lakes and lots of green. Culture and history are mixed in La Araucanía forming the identity of one of the most diverse regions of Chile.
Temuco, its capital (1 hour from Victoria ), is the third most important city in the country, where its surroundings delight those who know it. Pucón, Villarrica Lake, Conguillío National Park, Licán Ray Lake, Budi Lake, among other destinations, will enchant you.
In its coasts the quiet town of Puerto Saavedra stands out, where you can visit Maule beach, where the mouth of the Imperial River was before the earthquake and tsunami that affected it in 1960.

To the north you find the town of Nehuentue, known in the area for its good cuisine at convenient prices.

Victoria is less than one hour from the Andes Cordillera and two hours from the sea. Victoria is in the center of many natural parks where there are volcanoes, rivers, lakes, hot springs, ski center ... Nature lovers to indulge in many excursions.

Around Victoria, there are many Mapuches communities that volunteers can visit.

To finnish, the Oveja Verde center, allows many associations to organize workshops (dance, theater, art, permaculture ...) volunteers can participate as they like in these workshops.