📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Association, non-profit, is primarily intended to promote, preserve and protect the historical, natural and cultural heritage in the vicinity of Os Ancares (Biosphere Reserve), in the “Quinta de Cancelada” zone in municipalities of Becerreá, Navia, and others of Galicia, in northwestern Spain, through the recovery of historical paths and hiking trails, the blanketing of the fifth-Rio Donsal route and organize this Workcamp / Labor Camp Environmental international.
💼 What the programme involves
Type of works
Maintenance and cleaning tasks traditional path (approved) along the banks of rivers and Navia Donsal working about 5 hours a day for 5 days a week.
Tasks include cleaning, preserving and discovering natural and cultural heritage along the path, cutting weeds, grass, small wooden bridges repair, paint signs indicating the route and rasterization.
Work is medium and low intensity.
Work clothes and protection will be provided to them on arrival.
Objectives Workcamp
1. environmental conservation work and cleaning of the hiking trail Quinta-Rio Donsal.
2. Energize and publicize this rural area, forest and native vegetation, wealth, environment silence and lifestyle and traditional culture of the area.
3. Raise awareness and awareness in favor of landscape, actions fire prevention and enhancement of natural and cultural heritage.
Complementary activities
Meetings with local families and visits to respective homes explaining the way of life in rural areas of the province of Lugo.
Artisan workshops typical food preparation area Cancelada.
Excursions and visits to sites of ethnographic, heritage, cultural and natural attractions of the area and Galicia, as Navia, Becerreá, Piornedo, Piedrafita do Cebreiro and cities of Lugo and A Coruña. Other events organized in honor of volunteers and dono
🏠 Accommodation on site
accommodation
Three bedroom detached house with 14 bunk beds, a kitchen, an office, two bathrooms, a meeting room and alpendre. Rooms can be shared by both sexes.
Volunteers must cook and clean for themselves rotatably.
Languages
English and Spanish. All volunteers must speak and understand, at least some Spanish.