📝 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
The workcamp is on the edge of the Font Roja Natural Park, and borders on the South with the San Pascual area, in the foothills of the Sierra de los Barracones. The work′s program will be from Monday until Friday, during 4 or 5 daily hours, generally in the mornings.
The work will consist in:
- Recuperating traditions like threshing and cereal picking.
- Cultivation of aromatic plants.
- Improving strips of land, repairing stairs, signposting and roads.
- Cleaning and conditioning the vegetation and trees.
- Restoring and improving the habitats.
The work will be carried out in small groups which will shift place and type of work, so that all participants will be able to work in all places and share the work to be carried out.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation and meals for the group will be provided at the Colegio Público Teixereta, C/ Maestro Chapí, nº 11, IBI.The centre has all the necessary facilities, such as kitchen, dining hall, bunk beds, hot-water showers, leisure areas, etc. Food is prepared on site, by professional cooks.
📍 About the location
Excursions and visitsWorkshops and training and leisure activities, etc.Evening activities, group dynamics, sports activities, games. These activities will be coordinated by a team of entertainment professionals.It will present a plan of cultural and leisure, to be developed by volunteers during evenings and weekends which will complement the voluntary work.