📝 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
Refurbishment of the Route of river Grañal and revitalization of the Monastery of San Pedro de Rocas.
- Cleaning and maintenance of the Route of river Grañal (signalling, weeding, revitalization of the route).
- Establish a website and a virtual route (mapping, location plan and road profile of the route, QR codes with a geolocation with information about flora and fauna, and interesting points).
- Production of a documentary using drones to take aerial views of the municipality: its title will be Esgos: A Doorstep to the Ribeira Sacra, to exhibit heritage and ethnographic evidences to help its development and enhacemnt.
- Revitalization of the Monastery of San Pedro de Rocas through the dramatization of its history over the course of centuries.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Young people staying in the hostel Vilar de Ordelles, consisting of 35 beds, a living room and kitchen, toilets and showers and outdoor recreation area. We have a sport pitch five meters away from the hostel and social premises for conducting activities in the case of rain. Breakfast and dinner will be performed by hostel staff and the lunch by an outside company
📍 About the location
Swimming pool, archery, orienteering race, sports and traditional games, visit to the hot springs of Outariz, workshop on the traditional wood oven.