Build a new home
Start date: Sep 1, 2016,
End date: Nov 30, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
For more than 12 years has developed a number of Youth Social Volunteering programs in Aragon and La Rioja, and in several countries in Europe, Africa and Asia, always during holiday periods for students. Adding to these experiences, in January 2016 has started developing EVS projects. It is recognized by the European Union as an organization able to send, receive and coordinate these projects.After two projects run as a host organization, with BANH (Building A New Home), Canfranc Foundation starts to work as a sending organization. It is a long lasting European Volunteering Service in which, for 12 months, a volunteer form the Foundation will cooperate with Wonder Foundation in the U.K. Her activity will be developed at Baytree Center, a social entity, associated with Wonder Foundation and located at Brixton, a district in the outskirts of London, with a high percentage of inmigrants from all over the world.The aim of this project is to increase in our volunteer the technical skills required for managing social integration for immigrants. It also intends to develop other abilities as dominion of a foreign language, effective communication in multicultural contexts, conflict resolution and the values of solidarity, European citizenship, tolerance and equality.The main focus of the volunteer activity will be an “Into School” program, developed through a number of activities that enable newcomer immigrant teens to access to formal studies in the U.K., mainly High School or University. She will contribute to improve the quality system in the centre, and be available to accomplish every task the Centre Management may consider beneficial for her training. At every moment she will receive advice from two mentors, one from the sending organization and another in the host organization. She herself will contribute with her experience to the improvement of tutoring actions among volunteers and beneficiaries of the projects in which she will be involved.As a result of this interchange, our volunteer will deepen her knowledge about the European Union, and about the opportunities it offers for young people. At her return, she will be a good promoter of this kind of initiatives among many other youngers of her local community, who may be interested in finding new prospectives in other European countries.For the two organizations involved in this project, it is also intended to increase the capacity for networking work, as so as to reach common goals in order to optimize the effectiveness of their social projects.The project may have a positive impact in both collaborating organizations and, as a consequence, in their young volunteers, who may feel encouraged to enrol in similar programs in the future. The collaborative work developed between Canfranc Foundation and Wonder Foundation will offer youngers the possibility of benefitting from interchange programs that make them develop new activities in new countries. This experience will help them to develop new skills or foster and increase those ones they already have, and thus will have an impact in their daily work in Spain.Each participant foundation have agreements with other organizations for youngers in their countries. As they make known the project in which they have been involved, and also the results of that experience, they will convey that information to many other institutions that may be interested in projects such as this, both in Spain and the United Kingdom.Canfranc Foundation runs well established social volunteering projects that help minorities in situation of social exclusion. It is also well related to other European partners. Both conditions offer their volunteers an opportunity to know, learn how to manage and actively participate in attention to excluded minorities, such as immigrant childhood.