📝 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
This workcamp has been running for the last 6 years and last year we managed to keep it alive despite the conditions created by COVID-19. Usually the task in the traditional workcamp of ours is to creating English workshops with the the kids. However that task had to be changed do to the conditions and now volunteers will be doing manual work that means painting, trying to keep the streets and environment tidy, gardening in the parks of the municipality and helping in the irrigation and maintenance of the local parks, as there is a deficit of keepers and the Town Hall needs support, as well as helping in other tasks that may be required. We will still may have some space for creating workshops for the local kids from 3 to 12 years old as we did previous years creating games and to be the first contact in English comunication for those kids that they donIt have opportunity to learn and practice English language. Still social distance measures oblige us to prepare working activitis with low risk and therefore manual work to support this lovely town in Andalucia is a way to keep alive a workcamp that has been running for years.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation will be in a youth hostel belongs to the town hall which is occasionally used by pilgrims on the way to Santiago.The hostel is simple but provides everything that the volunteers need. Has a kitchen a nice living room and two showers. However volunteers will have free entrance to the swimming pool so they can also use these facilities. ( Unfortunately the pool wasn t open to public due to COVID-19 last year but we hope that this year it will be possible to have access)
📍 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.Even there are lots of places to visit, the local transtportataion in the area is not very good connected.