volontariato internazionale, antirazzismo, pace, diritti
Code:ESDA-0724
Where:Prioro, León
Number of volunteers:10
Language:English
Extra-Fee:50 EUR
Age:17-40
Oro de Prioro is an English teaching workcamp. The task of the volunteers will be help to co-create the workshops in English for local children and teenagers. Volunteers will be creating games, workshops and activities for the kids in English so they can practice and learn the language in an informal way instead of school teaching. Activating kids and teenagers, providing cross-cultural learning experience for them as well as English language environment. It will be done through the games, workshops, sport activities, excursions, discussions, etc. It would be a bonus if volunteers could speak a little Spanish but it’s is not essential. The volunteers will work approximately 6 hours a day from Monday to Friday. In the morning from 09:00 to 13:00 aprox. the volunteers will be spending time with kids and in the afternoon hours, they will be preparing the activities all together in group. The weekends will be free.
Town hall of Prioro
Prioro is a municipality located in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. The municipality has a population of 369 inhabitants. Even though the village is very small there is a circulation with the other villages around. It is 86 km to the Léon city. The characteristics of the terrain have made this area a suitable place to practice hiking and enjoy nature; The source of the Cea River, La Cañada Real Leonesa Oriental, Las Grandes Rutas or GR I, Routes through the different ports such as the port of Mental, the Puerto de la Muela, or the Alto del Puerto del Pando where you can get exceptional views of the Picos de Europa Regional Park. There are samples of the passage of this civilization through this area. In this way, in Villaescusa (a disappeared town between Morgovejo and Prioro) we find a Roman bridge, through which the Roman road continues passing through the bridge of Las Conjas and ascending to Puerto del Pando. Also, there are other important places of interest like churches, small hermitages, the horreos - they are an important part of popular architecture, declared Historical Monuments in 1979, traditional mountain architecture. The extensive natural, the artistic, ethnographic and industrial heritage of the Montañas de Riaño region is preserved in a wide museum network of incalculable tourist and educational value. Prioro Ethnographic Museum located behind the Prioro Consistory building has an extensive ethnographic collection where you can see hundreds of traditional pieces donated by neighbors and classified according to their usefulness, the building that houses the newly built museum houses different exhibition spaces. Also, there are other museums nearby: Riaño Ethnographic Museum Peculiar collection of elements that illustrate the life that was submerged under the waters of the Riaño reservoir, Sabero Steel and Mining Museum, Valdehuesa Wild Fauna Museum.
The accomodation will be done in a local school. There will bel bathrooms with showers and also a kitchen where the volunteers can cook in teams. The accommodation will be very basic. Please bring sleeping bags.
Criminal Record is required and knowledge of Spanish will be valuable.
Meeting Point: León Train Station (Estación de León-ADIF) at 16:00 Please arrive to the meeting point on time, in the later hours it's not possible to find a public transportation to Prioro and you may have to spend the night in León. The closest airport is Oviedo (OVD) Airport. Volunteers have to take a train from Oviedo to León. OVD airport is not well connected. There is also options to arrive to Madrid Barajas Airport and take a train or bus to León or arrive to Bilbao airport and again take a bus to Léon.
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