🏢 About the local organisation
This project is a YOUTH EXCHANGE organized and hosted by De Amicitia. De Amicitia is an environmental non governmental organisation that is funded in 1998 and actively working in the youth field and volunteering for 12 years. The main activity of the organisations is organising workcamps and local/ international youth projects in collaboration with the town halls and local associations.
💼 What the programme involves
“Spider´s Home“ is an environmental project that is based on increasing awareness of environmental protection by creating mosaics from broken ceramics on the walls of the town using environmental themes such as global warming, water waste and recycling.
Creating mosaics to decorate and add color is an art technique that consists of joining pieces of a material to create an image. They can be made from pieces of glass, tile, tiles, ceramics, marble, slate, tiles, tiles, pebbles. The material on which you can make the mosaic can be cement, wood, metal, glass, etc. First, according to the material on which you make the mosaic, draw the design you want to create, extend the adhesive and place the pieces to finally cover the spaces with the grout.
The aim of the project is to work on the environmental problems and increase awareness of the participants and also the locals of the town with the help of a creative tool. Participants will use this decoration technique to give some messages to that small town.
The activities will be based on the non-formal and informal educational working methods: workshops, courses, excursions, team activities, energizers, discussions, presentations and interviews of participants in the project.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation will be done in the primary school in the town. There will be several bunk beds in the rooms and separate bathrooms for boys and girls. Also, there will be a camping kitchen inside the school. The participants are expected to help to the cooking and cleaning by teams.
📍 About the location
Cangas del Narcea is the largest council in the autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias and one of the largest in Spain. It is located in the southwest of the Principality, in the heart of the so-called Puerta de Asturias.
It has a population of 12,947 inhabitants with capital in the town of Cangas del Narcea. Its capital is at a distance of 84 kilometers from Oviedo.