This document outlines the activities of several short-term EVS volunteers in Bezerra and Porto de Mos, Portugal from May to October 2016. The volunteers helped on an ecological farm by feeding animals, restoring shelters, and collecting local products to sell. They also worked with bees, helped local farmers with goats, collected herbs and goods, and gathered pine cones. In Porto de Mos, they cleaned an invasive plants from the River Lena. Additional activities included cleaning hiking trails, painting a local school, learning ceramics, breadmaking, and cheese production. Cultural experiences involved harvesting grapes, visiting a winery, and participating in a camp for volunteers.

1. Eco-Young-Inclusion
Vertigem- Associação para a
Promoção do Património
Bezerra and Porto de Mos, Portugal

2. SHORT TERM EVS VOLUNTEERS
05/05/2016-02/07/2016
Piotr Szmyt and Inga Matusik
04/07/2016-29/08/2016
Marta Ulbrych and Ewa Piesta
05./09/2016 – 31/10/2016
Katarzyna Berkowicz and Marcin Pikosz

3. BEZERRA – first part of the
project spent in the village on
the ecological farm in Parque
Natural das Serras de Aire e
Candeeiros

4. Bezerra's Ecological Residence – the old
Elementary School
Is a place where the short-term
volunteers lived together.

5. This is the dining house where we eat food prepared by the
Portuguese woman Carminda, who is also working with us
on the farm. The house was renovated by us (painting,
cleaning, restorative works).

6. The restorative works done by us in the
first part of the project together with
other volunteers:

7. • On the eco farm we help to feed animals,
restore their places to live and collect
products needed to produce local food.

8. • We was working also with bees

9. • We also helpe local farmers to take
care of the goats (feeding,
cleaning, taking out)

10. • Marcin is grazed goats

11. • We spend time collecting
local herbs and other goods
(snails, pines, fruits, honey)
that we will sell after as local
eco products.

12. • Another task was collecting pine cones, which
are used to set the fire in the bread oven and
heating homes during the winter.

13. • Porto de Mos – the town where we spent the
second part of the project. We focused mainly
on few activities, one of them was claning the
local river Lena from the invasive plants.

15. • River after cleaning

16. • We hike in the mountains of the
National Park to clean the area and
take the rubbish, especially in the
time of big fires that happened during
our stay.

18. We help to clan and paint the local school in the village of Serro Ventoso, near Porto
de Mos

19. We participate in the workshop of ceramics,
by Ana i Carlos from
'Casa da Olaria‘

21. We learn how to make bread with the Bezerra’s farmer – Augusto.

22. Also Carmina teaches us how
to make it.

23. We learn how to
produce local
speciality – very
good goat’s chees

24. Our responsibility was also to organize an
exhibition of natural products from our
ecological farm.

25. …and cooperation under realization different
type of festivals and cultural events

26. Vintage - grape harvest

27. Our first harvest

28. During this work we cooperated with local community

29. We have visited local winery
and take an active part in the
production of wine

30. During our project we had the
opportunity to participate in
'20 Years Camp in Amarante', organized
for volunteers from all over the
Portugal. It was an interesting
experience during which we could learn
more about EVS and make new
international friends.