Restoration and environmental awareness activities in fire devastated areas of Central Catalonia
                    Pinos, Lleida          August 12 - August 31, 2008

Volunteer project: After the devastating fire in Central Catalonia and Solsonès in 1998, a great damage was caused. This educational environmental project was born in order to restore the area affected by the fire and spread awareness on care of the local environment.

Volunteers' tasks are:
• Renovation of an antique path used to carry salt from the mine
• Making discovery trips around El Solsonès.
• Participation in informative meetings.
• To do research of the actual and future perspectives of the rural dimension.

Language: English

Free time activities: Village festivals, cycling, walking, rappelling. We will play traditional games, and make excursions and discovery trips around the region.

Accommodation: In a building in the municipality of Orius situated 7 km from Solsona.

Location: Orius, a little village in the area of Osona, heart of Catalunya (Lleida).

Nearest airport: Barcelona

Age range: 18 - 30 years old
 

View of Barcelona

 

Restoration of The Three Hills historic site in Barcelona
       Barcelona          August 16 - August 29, 2008

Volunteer project: In the 1930s, Barcelona was one of the scenes of the Spanish Civil War. The fact that the city was under attack turned it into a city with anti-aircraft batteries and anti-aircraft bunkers. Most of these batteries and shelters were buried underneath buildings and forgotten. Fundació Escoltes Josep Carol is one among other associations that are doing an effort to find and rehabilitate the bunkers in order to recover the historical memory of the city. Some of these bunkers are placed in the “Parc dels Tres Turons” (The Park of the Three Hills), a strategic elevated location from where you can get a good view over the city.

The volunteers will be involved in cleaning and renovating the area with the aim that in few years time the installation of a museum can begin. The museum is going to tell the story of the Spanish civil war with the bunkers at The Three Hills as a point of departure.

Special requirements: Motivation letter required. Please, make sure you send your application with a motivation letter, specific for this project.

Language: English

Free time activities: Activities related to the history and the historical memories of the civil war: visits to museums, film projections and visiting important sites of Barcelona linked to its recent history, etc.

Accommodation: At the Pirineus School. The school has dorms, kitchen and dining room, and showers.

Location: Barcelona, in the quarter of Can Baró

Nearest airport: El Prat, Barcelona

Age range: 18 - 30 years old
 

Sights of Madrid
 

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