📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our partner is a local town hall of Orihuela. Orihuela is a city and municipality located at the feet of the Sierra de Orihuela mountains in the province of Alicante, Spain. The city of Orihuela has a population of 32,472 inhabitants. The famouse poet Miguel Hernandez is one of the compatriots of Orihuela. Our local partner, the Town Hall is starting a real policy to support environmental iniciatives and needs the help of volunteers to show the locals youngsters that there is international support for such actions.
💼 What the programme involves
The work of the volunteers will be done in El Palmeral. El Palmeral is the second biggest palm park in whole Europe (the first one in is Elche, just 35 km far away from Orihuela). It lies on the north of the town, on the south of the Sierra de Orihuela mountains. El Palmeral of Orihuela belongs to Site of Community Importance (SCI) of European Union, Natura 2000. It is also a part of Spanish national and historic heritage.
The work to be done consist on rebuilding and renovating a stone wall, the old system of the wall of mortar that sourround it and that is nearly destruted. We will also keep the area tidy in order to restore a degradate area. Please, bring some old clothes and working gloves! But far more the project will ask the volunteers to try to be very active with the locals, show the value of voluntarism and try to give an international air to the town. One of the activities how to reach this, will be to make an 'ezinternational party'eoe, where you will cook your traditional dishes, show your national music, dances, games, photos from your country and so on to locals. For this reason, please, bring with you typical sweets, drinks and recipies from your country, small presents, brochures, postcards, photoes or music
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accomodation will be provided directly inside of El Palmeral. It contains from two big rooms: living-room with kitchen, sof , TV, big table and games like table-tennis and wonderfull view on el Palmeral. In the other room, there will be place for sleeping. Sleeping itself will be very simple on the floor, so please, bring your insolating mats, sleeping bags and pillow! Air-conditioning, shower and toilet area is available (separately for girls and boys). You will also cook your own food, so you can bring some good recipies from your grandmothers
📍 About the location
Orihuela is a very close to the Sierra de Orihuela mountains, where are wonderfull possibilities of hiking! There are some interesting monuments to see in Orihuela and arround, like Church of St. Justa and Rufina or Diocesan Museum (pictures down).
Also, it is not far from the beach, so it possible go to have a bath on weekend. You can see more leisure time activities on:
http://www.enorihuela.com/senderos.html
http://www.spain.info/en/que-quieres/ciudades-pueblos/otros-destinos/orihuela.html
http://en.comunitatvalenciana.com/town/costa-blanca-orihuela-2