Terre et Vie (CES/SVE)

Name: Terre et Vie (CES/SVE)
Start: 2022-01-20
End: 2022-03-30
Location: Almería, Spain

Code: 6025262e-0c4d-11ea-a873-00505603f1ab Copied

Spain Farming Culture Education European Voluntary Service Farming Culture +2 Permanent

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

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The Al Hamam Association (Spain), along with other local and European entities, are developing volunteer programs to prevent depopulation of rural areas and to reduce the effects of anthropization on land and the environment, as well as to regenerate this area of degraded land, while promoting economic, social and human development. By 2020 this project will have the participation of organizations from France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and Poland.

💼 What the programme involves

Agroecology:

Reforest forest and wadi
Expand and take care of the edible forest
Participate in the care of orchards and farm animals native and endangered
To take care of the nursery, and to recover seeds of old varieties

Environmental Management:

Maintain and improve the drip irrigation systems
Prepare corks, diversion channels, infiltration ditches, and irrigation ditches
Improve the landscape of degraded areas
Prepare and apply ecological fertilizers and phytosanitary products
Quilt and crush branches to create quilting
Makeiorollos and terracing to stop erosion on slopes.

Sustainable Life:

Obtaining physical and emotional well-being
Facilitating adaptation to volacto-vegetary food
Elaborating and manufacturing food
Cleaning and organizing common spaces

Communication:

Establish connections with other local, national and international organizations
Have daily organizational meetings, weekly coexistence meetings, and on-demand tutorials
Disseminate, document and manage information internally and externally

Learning:

Developing systemic thinking and a holistic vision
Acquire basic scientific knowledge to support actions
Improve Spanish skills
Adaptation and integration to the rural environment
Improve internal and external listening
Develop self-responsibility and empathy.
The project involves one activitie of short duration (about 1 month), in the spring with the attendance of 12 young people. The activitie will be carried out in the municipality of Lucainena de las Torres (Almería). Planned activities include the reforestation on different types of degraded soils, with trees and shrubs, the soil adaptation for reforestation and the water resources management; with the theoretical and practical training necessary for its development. All this will be accompanied by cohesion group dynamics, celebration and reflective learning, as well as adaptation to life in rural surroundings

🏠 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).

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 attend the community lunch, and they can cook their breakfasts and dinners alone in the community kitchen.

Always maintaining the principle of order and cleanliness. 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

⚠️ Requirements

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. The final selection will be carried out by the coordinating team of the Tierra y Vida project, with shipping organizations making a preelection. An understanding of biology and ecology, desires to work the land, as well as having some previous experience in sustainability and reforestation projects will be valuable, although it is not essential for participation. Also a basic capacity to work with computers that we find useful, to keep track
of and disseminate the acquired learning and the development of the program. A basic knowledge of Spanish and the desire to acquire fluency in the language will also be valued as positive. An ethical commitment to social and environmental justice, flexibility, emotional maturity, ability to assume responsibilities and systemic thinking, teamwork, motivation tolearn and practice the skills necessary to develop their life and work in community in a rural environment will be values that will be taken into account. Skype periodic meetings will be held in order to clarify any doubts, start planning the activities in which they will participate according to their interest, skills and initial abilities, confirm their commitment, etc

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