We’ve had an online meeting today to provide updates, share our achievements and future activities and so forth. As we can not meet personally, online meetings will do! We are in the middle of a terrible pandemic that doesn’t allow us to travel abroad –almost anywhere, actually. Wishing that things at the end of this […]
Biciclistas de Corella News
Visiting a workshop for second-hand bikes
By Layla Samhi Yesterday, February 2nd, we went to our high school to carry loads of second-hand bikes in Biciclistas’ van. The bike room was a complete mess with bikes all around, used and punctured tires, pedals… Besides, there were in-line skates and big rolls of colourful paper. We took all the bikes out, tidied […]
Restarting CWA after the pandemic
We had an online conference on Saturday, January 30th, to discuss and debate about how to restart CWA after, or even during, the pandemic. The psychologist Vibeke Koushede gave us a lot of tips and information about our elders in pandemic times, how they are coping with lockdowns, social distance, and lack of hugs and […]
Coming back to Corella and making it nicer
By Nanny Sender When I left Corella two and a half years ago, after having spent 8 months here as a language assistant at IES Alhama High School, I promised myself and all the friends I’d made here, that I would be back. And so I am. A little sooner than planned due to Brexit […]
Final step: watering!
By Layla Sahmi Today we had three different tasks in «el Villar», a recreational area just 1 km from Corella: to finish setting up the the watering system, covering with earth the ditches the excavator made to plant more than 300 trees and, last but not least, WATERING! Michelle, Manal and me, Layla Sahmi, have […]
Setting up watering system
We’ve celebrated today International Volunteer Day precisely… volunteering! We’ve started setting up the watering system for the 328 trees that we planted the previous days. It’s been 3 long hours in cold weather (around 5 degrees today) but it’s been definitely worth it. Thanks Víctor, Layla, Néstor and Michelle for pitching in in such a […]
El Villar esplanade, full of trees
Just a bunch of pics to ilustrate what’s the esplanade like currently after three days planting trees. Congrats everybody!
Planting trees is so fun!
By Elaine Acosta and Luis Andía Riccobene Today, Thursday, December 3 (and Navarra’s Day) we have resumed planting trees in Villar esplanade, this time in another area. At 10:00 in the morning we started working! Before we arrived Biciclistas de Corella, the organizers of the workshop, were making the measures to place the trees well […]
My first planting workshop
By Aitana Ayuso Torres I went with my friends to plant lots of trees in El Villar’s esplanade on Saturday, November 28th. We went to the Villiar at 10 a.m. biking or walking and we started to work. We worked hard to plant 151 trees: ashes, maple trees, acacias… 30 people collaborated to plant, 15 […]
New case for our Yayacletas
As we are not allowed, and we must not, use our Yayacletas to give rides to elderly people due to the terrible pandemic we are enduring, we’ve just bought two black cases for our trishaws so that they keep clean and safe. We hope we can resume our rides early in 2021. We are looking […]
