📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Town hall of Villanueva de Algaidas, De Amicitia has collaborated with them in the previous years.
💼 What the programme involves
The work deals about environment but in three completely different aspects or tasks.Mainly volunteers will organize a summer camp for local children. The idea is to teach them environmental and other principles in English so that they practice the basic English they learn at school. Volunteers will also be asked to help in the irrigation and maintenance of the local parks, as there is a deficit of keepers and the Town Hall needs support.
🏠 Accommodation on site
At a hostel to be occasionally shared with pilgrims on the way to Santiago. The hostel is simple. It has a single room, a kitchen a nice living room and two showers. Volunteers will have free entrance to the swimming pool so they can also use these facilities as well. Volunteers will cook themselves.
📍 About the location
Villanueva de Algaidas is located in the Famous Costa del Sol, 60 km away from Malaga, where you can enjoy the greenery of the olive groves and the brilliant white of the farmhouses, or go for a bike ride in the country; these are just some of the options waiting for you in Villanueva de Algaidas. This district, in the northwest of the Malaga region, and offers multiple options for combining activities, flavors and experiences as you wish. Villanueva de Algaidas is reach in archaeological and patrimonial sites such as a complex of tombs, almost 3500 years old, the los Alcaides Necropolis. The archaeological remains are evidence of the presence of man in the area since the Copper Age. Two 9th century cave chapels move us forward through the centuries until 1566, date on which the Franciscan convent was founded, marking the birth of what is today known as Villanueva de Algaidas known as the Convent of Nuestra Senora de la Consolacion. There are two Mozarabic chapels lie very close to the ruins of the convent and will transport you even further back in time and other old sites.
Volunteers might like to stay a bit longer in the town to enjoy the fiestas the following weekend to the end of the project