Asociación Castaño y Nogal

Spanish Version HERE

Country: Spain

Date: from 2015-08-15 to 2015-08-30

Number of volunteers: up to 8

Volunteers’ age: 22-35

Cost: 90 € fee and insurance

Additionally, the European Insurance Card or a Personal Medical Insurance will be required.

Description:

Castaño y Nogal Association aims to promote sustainable rural development, rural tourism included, and to preserve the natural and cultural richness of the Becerreá region (Galicia-Northwest of Spain).

Type of work:

The main aim is to restore a 15-km-long, traditional footpath along the banks of the river Donsal in order to prepare it as a trekking route. It would involve working about 5 hours a day, 5 days per week. A certain amount of physical outdoor work is to be expected.

It includes the following tasks:

• Reconstruction of old mini electrical stations and other old architectural elements existing along the footpath (for instance water mills, repairing wooden bridges…).
• Identification of local plant species.
• Signalization of the footpath according to international standards (for instance painting).
• Cleaning the footpath, moving stones, weeding, cutting wood.
• Work clothes will be provided upon arrival. Task work is of a low and medium intensity.

 Aims:

1)      Environmental tasks to clean and keep the trekking route along the Quinta-Donsalriver.

2)      To develop and makr known this quiet rural area surrounded by a genuine landscape with beautiful woods.

 Additional activities:

In order to get to know the living way and the traditional culture of the area, workshops and meetings will be organized together with the local community, some of which are listed below:

         Meeting the locals and visiting local houses to get to know the lifestyle in Galician rural area

         Taking part in workshops with the locals about handicraft and rural foodstuff in the area, like traditional bread, cheese, honey…

         Visiting the most interesting ethnographic places in the area: Navia de Suarnia, Becerreá, and Piornedo villages; Piedrafita do Cebreiro, hamlet placed in Camino de Santiago; Lugo and A Coruña cities

         Taking part in the music-poetic concert, on 30^th August, in honour to the volunteers and contributors

Language:

English and Spanish. All volunteers should speak and understand at least some Spanish.

Qualifications:

We are looking for motivated, mature and experienced volunteers, who enjoy outdoor working and have an interest in a simple rural lifestyle, nature, traditions and community development.

Registration:

Volunteers who want to apply to be selected and eventually participate in this International Workcamp are kindly asked to fill out the form attached in this announcement, clearly indicating their level of Spanish language.

This form is to be submitted either by e-mail to contacto@asociacioncastanoynogal.com or by post to the address written on the form.

Selection:

The standard rules for selecting volunteers by the organizing committee are the following:

         Personal motivation.

         Previous experience in voluntary works.

         Interest and social commitment with the rural lifestyle.

         Multicultural and sex-mixed group. It’s expected to be one volunteer from each country.

The selection process will take place as soon as inscriptions come in. Then the shortlist will be noticed by e-mail to the candidates.

The selected volunteers will have to confirm their involvement and pay the fee of 90€ within the following week. Otherwise we will proceed to contact next volunteers on the waiting list.

Web: www.asociacioncastanoynogal.com

Contact: contact@asociacioncastanoynogal.com

Talking about us: http://casaxeuropa.org/2015/04/23/campo-di-lavoro-in-spagna-gallizia-2/

Application form: Clik HERE (DOC) or HERE (PDF)

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