📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
De Amicitia is an Environmental non-profit, non-governmental organization that is located in a rural mountainous area, Sierra Norte, 80 km away from Madrid.De Amicitia is a member of The Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations is an International Non-Governmental Youth Organisation that represents national organisations which promote intercultural education, understanding and peace through voluntary service. The Alliance,founded in 1982, is presently made up of full, associate and candidate members in 29 countries worldwide. De Amicitia provides an opportunity for volunteers, both youngsters and adults, to take part in local and international volunteering activities, especially towards environmental protection and sustainable development. These mainly include international workcamps, but also activities in the local areas such as reforestations.In addition, De Amicitia takes part in International youth exchanges and seminars, both as a host and sending organizations. These are focused primarily on social activities and promoting development, peace and human rights.Due to our location in a rural area, one of De Amicitia priorities is to help improve local development.
💼 What the programme involves
"The Colour of Your Life is a youth exchange about art and culture which is based on art therapy with the content of drawing the music, street art and nature art. During this youth exchange the participants will learn how to visualize their feelings. They will learn to transfer their anger, happiness, anxiety to the paper, wall even to the bodies and various materials that we will use as a canvas. Every day we will have a workshops formed by two sessions. In the first session we will try to explain how we will work, some theories and the works that are done before as an example. And the next session they will create their own art work with the help of the techniques that we have explained. It will be possible to work one murals of the town.In the end we will organize an exhibition with their works during the exchange. This Project will based on the artistical workshops such as, nature art, street art, abstracion, drawing the music, body painting which will be influenced by the participants inner inquietudes. Every session will be directed by the art educated monitors. Methods used during the project will contribute to the process of informal and non-formal learning, social and personal development of the participants and exchange of experiences and competences among their peers.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation is in an old school renovated as a hostel (antiguas Escuelas de CagEilla) in PiloE eta, close to Nava. There are two main dormitory, one for boys and one for girls, there are also a big fully equipped kitchen and a common room. During the project, everyone is expected to take part in daily life. Food will be prepared by the participants under control of the monitors with the products provided by the coordinators.
📍 About the location
Project will take place in Nava, in province of Asturias in the northern Spain. The region of the cider (sidra in Spanish) is joint of six Asturian municipalities: Villaviciosa, Colunga, Nava, Bimenes, Cabranes and Sariego, in all of them there is great tradition in the production and consumption of natural cider. Nava has the population of around 5000 inhabitants and lies at the altitude of 480 m above sea level. Its a paradise for mountain hiking with the backdrop of the imposing PeE amayor mountains. There will be also some excursions to Spanish city Gijon and some trekking trips.