📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
SVI (International Volunteering Service), is part of the Spanish Institute for Youth (Instituto de la Juventud-Injuve), a Public Institution dependent on the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, whose main purpose is to promote international volunteering projects and activities among youth people. The SVI coordinates the international work camps organized by the Autonomous Communities and Autonomous Cities in Spain, and is responsible for managing the exchange of available places between the Work Camps in Spain and the International Organizations.
💼 What the programme involves
Recovery of the heritage in the area of Saint James's Way Miñoto-Ribeiro through the municipality of Vedra, and activities of social intervention.a) Activities of heritage intervention:- Field study about the route of Saint James's Way Miñoto-Ribeiro through the municipality of Vedra.- Preparation of wooden billboards to signal this section of Saint James's Way.- Promotion activities: making of a map and informative brochure in several languages. Awareness day about Saint James's Way Miñoto-Ribeiroaddressed to local people and organization of a march-pilgrimage.b) Activities of social intervention:- Development of sociocultural activities with children (playroom)- Development of sociocultural activities with old people.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers are staying at the primary school of Vedra (located next to the municipal sport pavilion) The breakfast will be made by themselves at the same facility. The lunch and dinner will be served by a catering. We will have available transport at all times to bring us to the sites of work or to go to planned excursions.
📍 About the location
- Sociocultural and ethnographic activities aiming at getting to know the surroundings (traditional feasts...)- Specific activities: entertainment, leisure and recreation (games, canoes, excursions, beach...)- Visits to sites with an important historic and artistic heritage (getting to know Saint James's Way)