EVS in Santiago de Compostela

Fontiñas The socio-cultural centre, where our German volunteer Annika works, is located next to the shopping centre Area Central in the district Fontiñas. (According to Annika, the location is quite useful if you realize during work that the fridge is, once again, empty.) The centre Fontiñas covers in total an area of 2,7000 square meters and consists of various different institutions.

November. Here come the rain and the cold in the streets of Santiago…But, there is a reason to be happy : « Magosto ! Magosto … » we can hear everywhere in the city, and in all Galicia. All the villages, neighbourhoods, centres have their own Magosto. But, the question is : Where did this traditional « fiesta de castañas » come from ? Like for all traditions, there are a lot of theory about the roots…and they are all mixed to make the Magosto of nowadays.

What is the ludoteca Don Bosco?  If you look in a dictionary to translate this word in English, the best traduction you will find is “nursery’”, but the ludoteca in Don Bosco is more than that. Like a nursery, it’s a place welcoming children after school (in Don Bosco we have children from 4 to 16 years old) and where they can play and have fun. But a ludoteca has also an educational purpose. I mean that children are not just left by themselves to play, the team is there to help them with their homework and to organise activities through which they learn and understand such values as team working, cooperation or participation

How the adventure begins... Six girls, two guys, seven countries, six languages and eight very different personalities: Here is the new team of volunteers freshly arrived in Santiago de Compostela !  We will work, sleep, eat, sing, dance, laugh, cry, learn, discover, in short : live, together in this city during almost one year. During this year we will share with you everything interesting about our experiences as new volunteers in Spain ! If you want to know who's who, just click on our faces and discover our profiles :