🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 🌊 Post-Disaster Recovery, Community Solidarity & Social Reconstruction After DANA 🤝

In late 2024, the DANA storm devastated communities across the Valencia region and La Marina area of Spain. The recovery is ongoing — and it needs people who are genuinely committed to showing up and doing the work. This ESC team volunteering project is built around exactly that.

De Amicitia is coordinating DANA HH 05 — a group ESC volunteering project that supports associations, schools, municipalities, and community stakeholders in the areas affected by the 2024 DANA disaster. The work is varied, hands-on, and directly connected to the social and physical reconstruction of communities that are still rebuilding.

What Is This Role About?

This project operates across multiple areas of community recovery — from agricultural work and physical reconstruction to educational activities with children and visits to senior centres. Volunteers contribute 6 to 7 working hours per day across a wide range of activities, with 2 days per week free. Flexibility and a genuine commitment to volunteering are not optional here — they are the baseline.

Activities

🌾 Agricultural work — part of the vegetables produced will be distributed directly to DANA-affected neighbourhoods

🎨 Artistic and creative activities supporting community recovery and expression

📚 Educational activities with children in the affected areas

🏗️ Reconstruction activities contributing to physical recovery efforts

🏥 Visits to senior centres and participation in social events to support community organisations

🤝 Supporting associations, schools, and municipalities in the La Marina area and surrounding DANA-affected regions

Who Should Apply?

This project has a specific and honest profile — and the organisation is clear about what they need.

🔹 Very committed and active young people — this is not a passive experience

🔹 Genuinely motivated to work in a post-disaster recovery context with vulnerable people

🔹 Basic English and Spanish required — the higher the level of Spanish, the better

🔹 A driving licence is valued

🔹 Flexibility is essential — activities and locations may shift depending on where support is needed

⚠️ Only volunteers who submit a Motivation Statement will be accepted. Your statement must include information about your Spanish language skills, driving licence status, and any other skills that make you particularly suited to this project.

Training & Support

🎓 The project provides opportunities to increase key competences through non-formal and informal learning

🌍 Volunteers acquire a wide range of personal, professional, and intercultural skills through planned activities

🤝 The experience involves committed, special, and sometimes vulnerable people — volunteers are supported to understand this context and engage with it responsibly

💬 Not sure how ESC group volunteering works or what to expect? This complete guide to ESC covers everything from eligibility to what life on a project actually looks like: https://youthworkshub.org/15101/

Accommodation & Practical Details

🏠 Volunteers stay at Casa Jazmín — a volunteer house in Sanet, Alicante, with three rooms containing bunk beds and shared bathrooms

🍳 A small kitchen is included — volunteers cook for themselves with guidance from camp leaders

🛏️ The organisation provides pillows, sheets, and covers upon request

🔨 Casa Jazmín is recently renovated but may have pending tasks — volunteers may occasionally be asked to help with these

📍 Relocation to areas close to Valencia is possible depending on where work is needed

⏱️ Working hours: 6 to 7 hours per day — 2 days per week free

Activity Details

📅 Activity Period: 05 June 2026 – 28 June 2026

📍 Location: Pintor Sorolla 14, Spain

👤 Activity Type: Volunteering Teams

🏷️ Project Code: 2025-1-EACEA-VTHPA-101239553

Deadline

⏰ 27 June 2026

Eligible Countries

🇧🇪 Belgium 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy 🇵🇱 Poland 🇪🇸 Spain 🇺🇦 Ukraine

Apply

🔗 https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/51275_en

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