Work

Most of the tasks are manual and try to support the inhabitants of the shelter; so be prepared for cleaning, feeding, and especially loving the shelter's animals. Some construction or modification of the infrastructure might be needed. It will depend on the daily needs of the shelter and therefore you might need to support an event, support a presentation or simply participate in a festival. Flexibility and open-mindedness is a MUST. Working hours are from 8.00 am to 12.00 plus 2 hours in the afternoon. Volunteers SHOULD BE READY to work actively and realize that the group dynamics and the necessities of the animals need mature and responsible volunteers. If you feel more as a tourist THIS IS NOT YOUR PLACE. Remember that the island is dry and that you will get dirty every day working with animals Please click this video to see a normal routine day for volunteers https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5N4Z0jqsSS/?igsh=ajJjejM2bTV3emx4

Partner

The Animal Academy is a shelter for animals considered farm animals abused and abandoned on the island of Fuerteventura. We take care of giving them a second chance: here they become superheroes and give a voice to all those who, like them, have suffered at the hands of human beings! These rescued animals have developmental diseases, psychological problems, and all kinds of ailments, but in the shelter, they find a place where they can live the life they deserve without fear. The project is located in a REMOTE area of the island. Fuerteventura is ARID, DESERTED, AND HOT!!! Learn more about the project by clicking here https://www.instagram.com/theanimalacademy.refugio?igsh=MWtkMGpmdjg0OGY0OQ%3D%3D

Location

TAARAF is located in a remote area. No tourist resorts close. Temperature is very high (we are very close to the Sahara Desert). Dust is everywhere. Be ready to live a rural experience. Still, we recommend you to stay some days after. Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands, offers many alternative and lesser-known places to visit beyond the typical tourist hotspots. Here are some suggestions like Cofete Beach, Betancuria, Ajuy Caves, El Cotillo, La Oliva and Las Salinas del Carmen as alternative places that can provide a deeper understanding of Fuerteventura’s culture, history, and natural beauty, offering a more enriching experience beyond the usual tourist trail.

Accomodation

Volunteers will sleep at the shelter which is located way out wub-wub in a remote area. The place is a studio that will be shared with other volunteers, not necessarily coming for a work camp. Therefore, there might be some transit with the group. The accommodation has single beds, a bathroom, a kitchen and common areas within the refuge facilities. Volunteers will have the option to stay at the refuge facilities during the volunteer camp participation period. Volunteers work at least 6 hours a day for 5 days a week

Requirements

50% of the extra fee will be donated to the shelter. BASIC SPANISH KNOWLEDGE IS REQUIRED.

Meeting point

Members and coordinators of The Animal Academy will pick you up from Fuerteventura's airport by car.

Notes:

Volunteers will be required to have a previous VIDEO INTERVIEW with the host in order to guarantee a mutual understanding of the project and the volunteering spirit behind the project. Remember it is not a project for everyone but mostly hardworking motivated volunteers. BASIC SPANISH KNOWLEDGE IS REQUIRED.

Work

The volunteer camp will combine circus activities in the natural environment. We will develop workshops related to the circus world: • Initiation workshops to circus disciplines. • There will be workshops and group dynamics to learn and develop the different techniques that belong to the world of the New Circus: juggling, balancing, acrobatics, dance, body expression, stilts, aerial techniques, etc. • Workshops and Tent Activities: Circus techniques will be put into practice and techniques of expression that are used in the circus will be developed: clowning, pantomime, dramatization, percussion, staging, choreography, etc. • Environmental activities. • Complementary workshops. • Evening activities: designed by the team in charge and the participants.

Partner

The Institute for Youth of Extremadura is the regional governement department responsible for youth policies. We work to provide young people with information about different programmes aimed at youth which are coordinated by other government departments. In this volunteer camp, we cooperate with El Quinto Pino, an organisation spcialising in New Circus and leisure activities for children and youth.

Location

El Quinto Pino is located in the Boyal dehesa of Talayuela (Cáceres), on the Navalmoral-Jarandilla road (EX119), just 12 km from the N-V (Extremadura Highway), where we turn off at Km 178 (Navalmoral de la Mata).

Accomodation

Youth Hostel "El Quinto Pino".10310 Talayuela. Tlf 692204428 El Quinto Pino is a natural space full of magical corners, with a thousand and one walks through the forest, a multitude of birds and dreamlike sunsets. • First service on arrival – dinner Last service on departure – breakfast It is a village surrounded by pine trees with six huts, a house with a multi-purpose room, kitchen, office, a large dining porch, a circus tent with a capacity for 500 people, laundry rooms and a house for the bathrooms (equipped for the disabled) with hot water. It also has a lush natural lawn (ideal for lying down

Requirements

English/Spanish

Meeting point

Date: 19th of August Time: 18:00 hours Place: Bus Station of Navalmoral de la Mata. Ctra de Jarandilla, nº 1. Postal Code: 10300 Navalmoral de Mata (Cáceres).

Work

The Festival da Luz (festival promoted by the well-known singer Luz Casal, a native of the town of Boimorto), which has been held in Boimorto since 2012 for solidarity purposes. The main activity of this workcamp will consist of collaborating in the organization and launch of the charity music festival through different volunteer actions such as: • Help in the organization in the days leading up to the festival. • Collaborate in the assembly and distribution of the different areas of the venue where it is held. • Participate in the various tasks carried out during the festival, including distribution of wristbands, accommodation, attention to the public at the information stands, collaboration in the children's area.... • Carry out different information and stimulation activities designed and proposed by the volunteers themselves.

Partner

The General Directorate of Youth (www.xuventude.xunta.es) is a department of the Xunta de Galicia (www.xunta.gal) whose priority is to meet the needs and concerns of the young population living in Galicia, firmly believing that youth has much to contribute to society as a whole. We work to improve the quality of life of young people in our autonomous community, developing actions and programs that benefit them, increase their well-being and allow them to improve their skill.

Location

Boimorto Municipality is located in the southeast of the province of A Coruña. It is located in the center of the imaginary triangle formed by the three great cities of northern Galicia: Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña and Lugo. It is also a crossing point for the Camino Norte de Santiago. Leisure activities: • Visit Santiago de Compostela and A Coruña cities. • Battle of archers: Game in which two teams of archers will face each other, putting their aim to the test. • Cultivation of shiitake in chestnut and oak wood, and we will make a small trunk so that each person can easily obtain mushrooms based on humidity and sun. • Ponte do Castro Recreational Area, river beach. • Galician traditional music (Foliada). • Astronomical Observation. • We will visit the Cistercian Mosteiro of Santa María de Sobrado and the Lagoa. We will do the Ruta da Carballeira, filming location for the movie El Bosque Animated, by film director José Luis Cuerda. • Route of Megalitos de Toques. • Workshops.

Accomodation

Albergue Xuvenil Garatuxa. https://avada.gal/Albergue-Xuvenil-Garatuxa/gl/

Meeting point

The incorporation to the work camp is in the afternoon of the first day and the departure the last day after breakfast. Meeting point: Curtis-Teixeiro train station. From Santiago de Compostela to Curtis-Teixeiro: www.arriva.gal and www.monbus.es From A Coruña to Curtis-Teixeiro, the best option is in train www.renfe.es. The Teixeiro-Curtis station connects daily with medium-distance trains to A Coruña and Lugo as well as long-distance trains to Madrid and Barcelona. RENFE (www.renfe.es). The bus line that connects the airports of Alvedro (A Coruña) and Lavacolla (Santiago de Compostela) with their bus and train stations are www.autoscalpita.com and www.tussa.org respectively.

Notes:

The incorporation to the work camp is in the afternoon of the first day and the departure the last day after breakfast. RECOMMENDED EQUIPMENT: • Cleaning supplies (complete toiletry bag) and shower towel. • Sleeping bag, mat and backpack for routes. • Comfortable shoes for mountain and sports shoes. • Clothes: sportswear (sweatshirts...), swimwear (swimsuit, towel, flip-flops...), warm clothing (suitable clothing to be able to do the job in case of rain or cold), work clothes (gloves, hat)

Work

- Work on the improvement and enhancement of the Castro Friulio, and help in the restoration and consolidation of various structures (roofs of the pallozas, kilns ...). - Active participation in the organization and execution of the "IV Malla" in Castro Friulio, an event that took place for the first time in 2021, coinciding with the first edition of this Work Camp. It is about recovering the tradition of the wheat mesh, which was much more than the sifting of cereals. LA MALLA, what is?: Before the harvesting machines did everything: mowing, extracting the grain, packing the straw,... it was done manually. One of the most important cooperative works in rural agriculture was LA MALLA. This communion between all the neighbours, uniting effort and sweat,... takes the step of becoming an almost extinct secular tradition in a good part of our Galicia. - Planting of a forest of native trees and fruit trees along the Narla river promenade to the town. Video 2022 edition: https://vimeo.com/751785439 Video 2023 edition: https://vimeo.com/856027217

Partner

The General Directorate of Youth (www.xuventude.xunta.es) is a department of the Xunta de Galicia (www.xunta.gal) whose priority is to meet the needs and concerns of the young population living in Galicia, firmly believing that youth has much to contribute to society as a whole. We work to improve the quality of life of young people in our autonomous community, developing actions and programs that benefit them, increase their well-being and allow them to improve their skill.

Location

Friol is a municipality in the province of Lugo, in Galicia. Located just 30km from the capital of Lugo. In Friol, important megalithic and castreño vestiges are preserved, among others, the best known being the fortress of San Paio de Narla. This land was also occupied by Romans and Visigoths. Leisure activities: - Basketry, Bread and Cheese workshops in the town of Castrejo, with dyed T-shirts. - Construction of a palloza (It is a traditional construction of the Lugo mountain, of pre-Roman origin. Circular or oval, between ten and twenty meters in diameter. With low stone walls and covered by a conical vegetable roof). - Domestic percussion: traditional music and dance. - Excursions: to the Fortress of Narla (Friol), to Lugo (Roman wall, cathedral and Domus do Mitreo), to Sobrado dos Monxes (monastery, lagoon and route of A Carballeira and Roman Camp of A Ciadella), Catedrais beach (Ribadeo). - Castrexas and Roman evenings. - Visit to an organic farm.

Accomodation

The participants in the work camp will stay in the Old Municipal School, located next to the municipal house.

Requirements

RECOMMENDED EQUIPMENT: • Cleaning supplies and shower towel. • Sleeping bag, mat and backpack for routes. • Comfortable shoes for mountain and sports shoes. • Clothing: sportswear (sweatshirts...), swimwear (swimsuit, towel, flip-flops...), warm clothing (suitable clothing to be able to do the job in case of rain or cold), water (rain jacket), work (gloves hat)

Meeting point

The meeting point is at the municipal house of Friol: Praza de España, 4. CP 27220 Friol. From Santiago to Lugo: www.monbus.es. From A Coruña to Lugo: www.arriva.gal or www.alsa.es or by train www.renfe.es. From Lugo to Friol: www.arriva.gal. The bus lines that connect the airports of Alvedro (A Coruña) and Lavacolla (Santiago de Compostela) with their bus and train stations are www.autoscalpita.com, and www.tussa.org respectively.

Notes:

The incorporation to the work camp is in the afternoon of the first day and the departure the last day after breakfast. It is necessary to bring: • Cleaning supplies. • Sleeping bag and small backpack. • Mountain shoes, footwear and sportswear: swimsuit, bathing shoes, warm clothes, work clothes (gloves, cap / hat, ...).

Work

In this work camp located in the Xurés Natural Park, work will be done on environmental conservation and the promotion of biodiversity, as well as the fusion of culture and nature through the following tasks that we will carry out: - Cleaning and rehabilitation of the Muiños da Torrente hiking trail. - Renovation of the forest park Outeiro de Cela where the letters MUIÑOS NATUREZA VIVA will be painted and revision of the signage throughout the park (arboretum, duck pond signage...) - Intervention at the Touristic-Sports Complex O Corgo to signal the itineraries that depart from there. - Environmental awareness talks. - Construction of shelters and feeders for birds and placement in areas affected by forest fires to recover birdlife. - Construction of shelters for pollinating insects with old pallets and natural and waste materials with the intention of improving biodiversity around the burned areas.

Partner

The General Directorate of Youth, Participation and Volunteering (www.xuventude.xunta.es) is a department of the Xunta de Galicia (www.xunta.gal) whose priority is to meet the needs and concerns of the young population living in Galicia, firmly believing that youth has much to contribute to society as a whole. We work to improve the quality of life of young people in our autonomous community, developing actions and programs that benefit them, increase their well-being and allow them to improve their skill.

Location

Muíños is a municipality in the south of the province of Ourense located in the Baixa Limia region, right on the border with Portugal. The Baixa Limia-Serra do Xurés natural park begins in Ourense and when it crosses the line that separates it from Portugal it becomes the Peneda-Gerés Park. A world of large trees, wolves, roe deer and wild horses that 2,000 years ago was crossed from north to south by the Via Nova built by the Romans to link Astorga and Braga. Wonders such as the Fervenza (waterfall) da Data or surprising villages such as Casolas, built on land with a twenty percent slope. And also, unexpected findings such as the cachenas cows, a small breed with enormous horns. Leisure: • Nautical activities. • Sighting of nocturnal fauna • Geocaching through the Nature Reserve • Recognition of mountain fauna and flora. • Observation of forest ecosystems and landscape interpretation. • Activities to identify fauna tracks and signs. • Environmental, ethnographic and interpretive routes through the natural park and the surrounding towns. • Environmental and recycling workshops. • Video-forum. • Role playing games • Baths in the Maus de Baños hot springs. • Visit to Allariz (ANDREA association donkeys, leather museum, O Rexo environmental center, biosphere reserve market, leisure and bathing in Allariz) • Cultural and leisure visit to the city of Ourense and its hot springs.

Accomodation

The participants will eat and stay at the O Corgo Complex in Muíños (Ourense). http://www.concellomuinos.com/o-corgo

Meeting point

Throughout the first day from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the O Corgo complex in Muíños (http://www.concellomuinos.com/o-corgo). The bus line that connects the airports of Peinador (Vigo) and Lavacolla (Santiago de Compostela) with their bus and train stations are www.vitrasa.es and www.tussa.org respectively. From Santiago de Compostela or from Vigo to Ourense: www.monbus.com or www.renfe.es From Ourense to Muiños you can do it by road on the buses of www.anpian.com Another way to get to Muiños is by Xinzo da Limia. To get to Xinzo de Limia you can go by road with www.avanzabus.com. By train (www.renfe.es) to A Gudiña and from there to Xinzo with the company www.monbus.es From Xinzo da Limia to Muiños, by bus with www.anpian.com.

Notes:

Notes: The incorporation to the work camp is in the afternoon of the first day and the departure the last day after breakfast. It is advisable to bring: • Sleeping bag and mat. • Swimsuit, slippers and bath and shower towel. • Sun hat and sunscreen. • Small backpack for routes. • Comfortable and waterproof footwear. • Warm clothing. • Rain gear. • Work clothing and footwear.

Work

The work camp will try to enhance O Grove through the following centers of interest: - Cleaning the extraction of invasive species. - Recovery of various structures in the Contorna dos Burros Fariñeiros, the Grovit Village and for ornithological observation in addition to maintenance tasks in the bird observatories and the infrastructures dedicated to the enhancement and protection of the heritage of these places. Deteriorated timbers will be replaced. - Improvements will be made to a viewpoint on Toxa Island as well as the sanding and varnishing of surfaces to conserve resources. - Parallel to these works, awareness and information tasks will be carried out "on the beach" or in the transit areas about the work that the volunteers are doing, trying to raise awareness among the local population and visitors about the importance of their tasks and to disseminate other existing environmental projects in the area (eg: Pío Project) and fauna and flora recovery programs (eg: Píllara das dunas recovery project).

Partner

The General Directorate of Youth, Participation and Volunteering (www.xuventude.xunta.es) is a department of the Xunta de Galicia (www.xunta.gal) whose priority is to meet the needs and concerns of the young population living in Galicia, firmly believing that youth has much to contribute to society as a whole. We work to improve the quality of life of young people in our autonomous community, developing actions and programs that benefit them, increase their well-being and allow them to improve their skill.

Location

This work camp`is located in O Grove, a municipality in the province of Pontevedra. O Grove is considered the jewel of O Salnés. This municipality is located in the influenza zone of the National Park of the Atlantic Islands of Galicia and within the Umia-O Grove Intertidal Complex, in addition to having several points recognized as ZEPA and RAMSAR zones of special protection for birds because it is a stopover zone in European and Euro-African migrations. As an area with special tourist demand, for several decades it has been threatened by a large number of invasive species that, in many cases, arrived as ornaments and that now threaten the marine, fish, avian and forest ecosystems. COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES: • Discover O Grove. • Snorkel, Canoe and bodyboard. • Construction of bivouacs. • Hiking. • Intercultural Day. • Visit to Portonovo and the National Maritime-Terrestrial Park of the Atlantic Islands of Galicia: Ons Island. • Evenings

Accomodation

Accommodation (in bungalows) and food will be at Camping Os Fieitás: https://bit.ly/2TJlB0d / https://www.fieitas.com/

Meeting point

The first day at the Pontevedra train station (www.renfe.es). From Santiago de Compostela by road, to Pontevedra: www.autocaresriasbaixas.com or www.monbus.com. By train: www.renfe.es. From Vigo to Pontevedra by road: www.monbus.com. You can also travel by train. The bus line that connects the airports of Peinador (Vigo) and Lavacolla (Santiago de Compostela) with their bus and train stations are www.vitrasa.es and www.tussa.org respectively.

Notes:

The incorporation to the work camp is in the afternoon of the first day and the departure the last day after breakfast. RECOMMENDED EQUIPMENT: • Toiletry bag and shower towel. • Sleeping bag and small backpack. • Mountain shoes and sports shoes. • Clothing: sportswear (sweatshirts...), warm clothing (suitable for working in the rain or cold weather), waterproof coat, work clothes (gloves, cap/hat, comfortable shoes,...).