📝 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
Showcase and boost the natural resources of the municipality of Curtis throughout the volunteers in the work camp. Raise awareness among those volunteers of the importance of protecting the environment and of the effects of pollution and invasive species.- Getting to know the main rivers of the municipality with treks, basic knowledge to identify the different species that can be found and basic concepts of the various problems caused by the pollution of the waters and their surroundings.- Location and identification of illegal landfills and discharging of wastewaters in riversides and surroundings: the participants will make a list and a photographic report of the polluted sites that they may find in their trips.- Location of invasive species in riversides and surroundings of local rivers: the participants will make a list of the different species found, as well as identify them and state their main characteristics by analysing and studying them.- Analysis and study of waters in different sites in the rivers. They will collect various samples to a further analysis and quality checking, and also to detect and identify possible pollution and its source.- Production of a guide of flora and fauna and of the invasive species found. Depending on the achieved results in the treks the guide will identify both native and alien species, providing suitable solutions to remove them or to prevent their development.- Activities to analyse and study the waters and the collected species in the laboratory of the Ethnographic Centre of the Mandeo.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers are staying in the hostel of Centro Etnolóxico do Mandeo, in Teixeiro, municipality of Curtis.
📍 About the location
- Visits to the cities of A Coruña, Lugo and Santiago de Compostela.- Visit to an artificial lagoon and to the Monastery of Sobrado dos Monxes.- Visit to the Fragas do Eume (forest).