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SVE - EARTH AND LIFE

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About the project

SVE - EARTH AND LIFE

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The aims of the Al Hamam Association are:
a) Development and personal growth, through yoga, meditation and techniques that enhance physical, mental and emotional well-being.
b) Enhance cultural biodiversity, art and social development.
c) Help rural and environmental development with awareness and sustainability.
d) Promote volunteering and cooperation at European and international level.
e) Experiencing a sustainable life learning in the different dimensions of the human being, through the design of a permanent culture over time.
f) Recovery of traditions and giving value to natural resources.
g) Educate, and sensitize through art, creativity and in relation to nature as fundamental elements in the development in freedom.
h) Share activities and experiences of parents, mothers and children through natural parenting and alternative education.

💼 What the programme involves

A. To provide volunteers with the opportunity to acquire skills and learn basic skills to reforest and be active participants in environmental care and combat climate change; to learn to lead a conscious coexistence and a sustainable life, by including and participating in spaces of emotional management and evolution of consciousness; as well as acquiring knowledge of permaculture design, and agroecology, while living and working in the community.
B. Regeneration of soils through reforestation and water management techniques to curb desertification of the land.
C. To help rural and environmental development with the involvement of residents and volunteers in the process.
D. To promote volunteering and cooperation at European and international level.
E. To experience sustainable life in the different dimensions of the human being, through the design of a long lasting culture in a learning process.
F. To recover agricultural traditions and give value to the natural resources existing in the area, increasing local biodiversity.
G. To educate and to sensitize through the relation with the nature like fundamental elements in the development of freedom and personal self-development.
H. To raise awareness among young people in other countries of the reality of the problem of desertification and climate change, of their globality and on the fact of having to coexist with their consequences in the coming decades throughout Europe.
I. To disseminate efficient small-scale reforestation techniques that can be replicated by participants in other communities.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The accommodation for short-term volunteers (group of 12 volunteers) is a wooden cabin with three spaces, two rooms with six seats each, and a living room, on the outside there is a bathroom module, with toilets and showers (4 bathrooms, 4 bathrooms and 4 showers). For long-term volunteers, accommodation is a shared room with bathroom and living room included, there is a common space for residents with butane kitchen, and dining room with fireplace, and a yurt makes of multiactivities room.
Electricity will be covered by the host organization, while making rational use, provide personal electricity meters for such accounting. And the
Internet connection, firewood, water and gas will be covered by the host organization in its entirety. A document will be provided with information on basic rules and agreements for coexistence.

🍲 Food

The volunteers will participate on a rotating basis in the preparation of the meal.
The diet is ovo-lacto-vegetarian, mainly local and seasonal. They will receive 35 euros each month to supplement their diet.

📍 About the location

The desert of Tabernas (Almería) is one of the largest deserts in Europe in which the effects of climate change, the rapid desertification in an area that is already very sensitive, the depopulation of rural areas due to lack of opportunities for young people, lack of an economic structure that supports life in the countryside and a large number of reasons is demanding effective action by agents interested in maintaining life in this disadvantaged environment.

🎒 Leisure activities

The host organization will facilitate learning activities throughout the activity.
The long-term participant will conduct an online assessment of language skills Spanish ,before and at the end of the mobility period, with the exception of native speakers Spanish.
In case of having native Spanish, we will proceed to offer linguistic support through the OLS language course, in other language.
The participant must follow the online language course, in order to prepare for the mobility activity abroad.
The participant will immediately inform the organization if they can not carry out the online course.

⚠️ Requirements

Belgian volunteer required


The project is open to the participation of all young people, without discrimination of origin, color or gender, interested in collaborating in environmental actions, and against climate change, but we are especially excited about the possibility of extending these opportunities to young people disadvantaged, who have mobility difficulties, whether due to social, economic and / or geographical obstacles. So this is one of our main criteria: we would like to make the greatest possible positive impact in their lives, and select the young people who can one day also expand that positive impact on the lives of others. Participants will be selected for this project based on their CV, questionnaire and motivation letter, followed by Skype interviews to confirm their attitude and commitment to the objectives set, the ability to live in a rural environment, as well as the likelihood of be able to share the home and work with other people during an intense period of time.

ℹ️ Additional information

More info or further steps? contact the SVI at [email protected]


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📅 Available sessions

SVI_SVE_ALHAMAM_Spain

18/02/2019 → 17/03/2019

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 4
♂ 0/2 ♀ 0/2

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Almería, Spain

Spain

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Spanish