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合作夥伴 / PARTNER

The organization in charge of the workcamp is "FundaciE Catalana de l Esplai" well-known in the volunteering field of Catalonia, as it has been educating children and youth, strengthening leisure organizations and the third sector, improving the environment, and promoting social inclusion and citizenship, with a desire for change since over 30 years ago. The organization organizes a wide range of leisure time and education activities, such as school camps, training camps, or training for trainers. In 2024, Fundesplai projects reached 417.664 people, and every year more than 500 took part in workcamps.

工作 / WORK

Beyond the vineyard: the dry stone heritage workcamp is a camp based on dry stone works, which were declared cultural heritage by UNESCO.Participants are going to recover a huge stone wall in a vineyard area and also a shepherd s stone hut. They are also going to work in a Civil War trench area in order to make them more accessible to visitors. Subirats is a rural area with little towns and villages, so the impact is quite big. Participants will have the support of experts from CESUB Subirat s historical study group, and will meet local people to collaborate in the conservation of the historical and cultural heritage of the area. The working hours will be in the mornings from 8:00 to 13:00 from Monday to Friday. There would be a break in the middle of the morning to rest and have a snack. However, depending on weather conditions, the schedule can be modified. Weekends and off-work hours are organized for visits and self-managed activities.The technical tasks will be: - Restoration and maintenance of the dry stone margins between the cores of Ordal and Saint Paul of Ordal. -Restoration and maintenance of the remnants of trenches from the Civil War that are in the same area.- Restoration of a shepherd s hut located near the Archaeological area of Subirats.- Location of dry stone constructions using the Wikipedra portal.-Maintenance Tasks in Saint Paul s Ordal (maintenance of public banks and children s park)- Build and place nest boxes.The rest of the time will be for leisure, swimming pool, and other activities, and weekends will be organized for visits and other activities.

住宿和食物 / ACCOMODATION AND FOOD

The participants of the workcamp will be installed in ZER Montcau, a multifunctional space of a school in the center of LOrdal.There is a large patio, toilets, indoor showers, a kitchen, and a large room where they will sleep. Volunteers will sleep indoors in bunk beds, all together with no gender separation. Volunteers need to bring a thin sleeping bag, pillow, and bed linen.Volunteers will also have the pool near the school, and because the area has high temperatures in summer, bring cotton and fresh clothes. The hosting organization highly recommends long-sleeve shirts and t-shirts for working hours and a hat to protect themselves from the sun, and the volunteers will have the chance to go to the pool near the accommodation.There will be catering providing the food for the volunteers, and snacks and fruit will be provided during breaks. There are vegetarian/vegan options, also other cultural reasons, and any allergy options.

位置與休閒活動 / LOCATION & LEISURE ACTIVITY

The privileged geographical situation, a plain protected by mountains by the sea, the mild climate of the Mediterranean coast, and a permeable land, rich in phosphorus, make the region of El PenedEs the main producer of wines and cavas in Catalonia. This wine history gs back to at least the 4th century B.C.The vineyard structures are thus a distinctive cultural feature of the area, and they have been refined over time. The Subirats area, halfway between the Vilafranca plain and the Ordal mountains, has steeper terrain than the rest of the region. That is why, in this area, the structure of dry stone walls and constructions, which are necessary for leveling the ground and plotting the vineyards, is quite important.Free time and leisure activities will include group games, workshops, and cultural activities to learn more about Catalan culture and the vineyard tradition in the area. Participants will visit cultural and historical areas and museums in Subirats, a wine and champagne factory, and also Vilafranca del PenedEs, the Catalans wine capital. They will also visit the city of Barcelona, which is only 45km away from the accommodation area, and will participate in the rehearsals of a group of castellers, learning how Catalan human towers are made.

要求 / REQUIREMENTS

This workcamp is not accessible for volunteers with high reduced mobility or wheelchairs.

主辦單位 / Host organization

COCAT CATALUNYA

COCAT (Coordinadora d’Organitzadors de Camps de Treball de Catalunya ) is a network of workamp organizers/youth organizations of Catalonia. COCAT has 7 full members organisations: CRUC, Fundació Catalana de l’Esplai, Fundació Escolta Josep Carol, Obre’t Ebre, Grup d’Esplai Vidrerenc, Balmes Blancs and Associació Terra Roia, and collaborate with other during the year with the aim of coordinating workcamps in Catalonia, as a tool for personal development among the youth and local development for the communities where workcamps take place. » The members and partners of COCAT, as entities with a participative and social working base as we are, want to foster workcamps as a tool of international voluntary service to potentiate cultural exchange. We work for the spreading of the awareness of Catalonia among youngsters from all over the world, from the singularity which represents it and knowing the social and cultural reality of Catalonia. » COCAT wants to promote that every workcamp has the principles of transversality, autonomy and reciprocity, in order to potentiate the active and decisive participation of beneficiaries during all the process of development of the projects. » COCAT also wants to potentiate a direct relationship of youngsters from different social, cultural and geographical realities and entities. Always working from the values of interculturality, conflict transformation and peace culture, sustainable development, and finally having activism and creative expression as a tool of participation and transformation.