Learn about sustanbility and decarbonisation with Fundació Roser de Maig
Description: Fundació Roser de Maig is a social, educational and leisure ENL. It was founded to help those who need it through socio-cultural work. Promoting spaces for socio-educational and musical activities as they are key to their reason for being. They suppors projects with other entities in the city and have other projects around Catalunya and on an international level. Since 1994 the foundation has been organizing activities for citizens of Cerdanyola including summer, christmas, educational camps, excursions, etc.Their existence is a way to support the community regardless of nationality or status and is largely based on collaborative and networked work. This approach allows not only to join efforts, but also to take advantage of these opportunities to build a transformative society.
Type of Work: The type of work to expect during the workcamp is mainly focused on sustainability and decarbonization, this camp will have a big study part at the same time that it will be combined with phisical more workcamp likely activities, the sessions in project will be tackling sustainability and the work done in site will directly benefit Can Xammar (The local space that will host the volunteers of this camp) The type of work will MAINLY be focusing in the study theme but at the same time there will be some physical activities related to the restoring and maintenance of the house (Repairing, painting etc) We will also have contact with the local community of Ametlla del Vallés.
Study Theme: The study theme will be nurished from discussions and talks between the participants and their points of view on topics like global justice and peace education. generating daily spaces for talks, reflections and debates around it.The main activity for the study part will be reflecting the values and trainings, data extraction that the organization has been analyzing in recent years as a result of local cooperation meetings where they value awareness in aspects of global justice and education for peace. (The talks and reflections will be itroduced with non formal education)
Accommodation: The accomodation will be in tents, but if the weather changes drastically we will try to manage the accomodation to be indoors in a shared space inside the house of Can Xammar. The house hosts groups of children in open activities and recreational and study activities for youngsters so if there are not many groups of them staying we could manage to change the accomodation indoors.
To be noted, Can Xammar house hosts groups of kids (esplais) during the year as well as activities from other local organizations and asotiations so there will be shared spaces with the hosts.
Language: The camp language is in English, but nevertheless knowledge of the local language (Catalan) might be of help for better communication with the locals.
Requirements: Mottivation letter
Approximate Location: Can Xammar (casa de colònies)
C/ Mare de Déu de Puiggraciós nº 4, 08480 l’Ametlla del Vallès
Notes: IMPORTANT Additional Fee: In 2025 many SCI workcamps will have an additional fee of €50.00 (ONLY FOR PARTNERS AND CONTACTS) If you apply through an SCI branch the fee will be included in the fee you pay to your sending branch. If you apply through a partner organisation you will have to pay the fee on arrival at the project; direct to the hosting branch or through different payment platforms. When accepted on the project we will give you more details of the various payment options.
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