Vilar de Ordelles
Spain
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About the project
Vilar de Ordelles
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The General Direction for Youth, Participation and Volunteering has among its powers to promote work camps in the region of Galicia. This general direction belongs to the Ministry of Social Policy of the regional government of Galicia (www.xunta.gal)
💼 What the programme involves
- 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.
THING TO BRING:
European Health Card or other kind of sanitary or medical insurance
National Identity Card or Passport
Personal cleanliness items
Sleeping bag and a little backpack for routes.
Mountain Boots
Two towels
Warm clothes, waterproof clothes, working clothes, sport clothes, sport shoes and swimming costumes.
Work gloves and cap
Lantern and water bottle
Solar protection and a cap.
📍 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.
⚠️ Requirements
INTERNAL RULES: To be a volunteer involves:
Working selflessly the hours stipulated on the labour planning, during five days a week.
Cooperating with the leisure time activities planning´s development and take part in them.
Contributing towards the workcamp´s general operation (administration, cleaning, cooking...) Respecting the different believes, ideologies and personal differences among the work camps participants. Staying at the camp during the programmed period. Respecting the internal and life together rules: accepting the person in charge instructions, respecting the schedule.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point: Esgos Youth Hostel in Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/iJJeCHurmSS2
TRAVELLING INSTRUCTIONS:
Airport of Lavacolla in Santiago de Compostela (120 km from Esgos). To make the connection with the Santiago bus station ou train station: www.empresafreire.com. To move to Esgos you can do it by train (www.renfe.es) or bus (www.monbus.es) to Ourense and then from Ourense by bus (www.anpian.es) to Esgos.
Airport of Alvedro, in A Coruña (190 km from Esgos). To make the connectrion with A Coruña bus station or train station: www.autoscalpita.com ([email protected]). Then A Coruña to Ourense: By train (www.renfe.es) or by bus (www.arriva.gal). And then from Ourense by bus (www.anpian.es) to Esgos.
Airport of Peinador, in Vigo, (110 km from Esgos). To make the connectrion with Vigo bus station or train station: www.vitrasa.es. Then Vigo to Ourense: By train (www.renfe.es) or by bus (www.alsa.es). And then from Ourense by bus (www.anpian.es) to Esgos.
Monbus offers special discounts for European young card.
More information: www.aena.es
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SVIGA22-18
02/08/2018 → 13/08/2018
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ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–30 years old
Solidarity donation
0.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Esgos, 32720 Esgos, Province of Ourense, Spain
Spain
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Local currency
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🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken
English
Spanish