📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Subir al Sur is an argentine NGO promoting education for the peace through international volunteering: Subir al Sur organizes workcamps and intercultural meetings in Argentina (as a hosting organization). Its main aim is contributing in the creation of peace by promoting cooperation and a sound understanding of the differences.
💼 What the programme involves
Project Description:
EL tren’ is a project that works for helping people that have faced problems with drugs to start again. This beginning is follow up by a communitarian centre that cooperates in all the needs of the people (housing, documents, doctors, etc). In this communitarian centre we are developing a project that is focused in the employment area.
We promote the social inclusion of people who are in situation of extreme poverty. For that we have started a cooperative.
For helping them we have two different steps:
• Participation in the cooperative. This is the first step for those who haven’t had a job for a long period. We have created a cooperative that makes furniture with pallets donated by the companies of the neighborhood.
• Employment inclusion: when participants are ready they go to the second step. We offer them some opportunities in companies and we help them to keep the job as much as they can.
The aim of the project is to provide support to people to have faced problem with drugs to access and maintain a job.
Volunteer’s Tasks:
We are looking for volunteers interested in cooperating in projects for helping people to have a new job.
Volunteers should be flexible to a really flexible project, we are working with people that have face different social and economic problems. It is not easy to fulfill the expectations of the volunteers and trainers but it is really motivating when you generate a change in the life of the participants.
We have a carpentry and we recycle pallets to make furniture. So you can learn or you can share your knowledge. Some experience is useful and some motivation in learning is helpful too.
We need someone interested in helping to make sustainable the cooperative.
We need to develop a marketing campaign to sell the products to generate incomes and distribute them among the participants. Besides the volunteer will be asked to help in the communication area and in the follow up process of the participants that are working.
We need to write reports every months and the opinion of the volunteers are really welcome.
🏠 Accommodation on site
According to the capacity of the volunteer´s house, volunteers could be hosted there with a capacity of up to 14 volunteers, kitchen, shared bathrooms, wi fi, shared rooms.
🍲 Food
Volunteers should be flexible to eat local food. Besides, we will provide them with ingredients for cooking in the house.
⚠️ Requirements
• Advance Spanish level
• Initiative to propose independent activities
• Interest in learning about NGOs and social programs in Argentina
• Sensitivity to social and economic problems
• Flexibility to adapt to the NGO structure and way of working in South America
• Teamwork
• Creative character and motivation
• Interest in recycling, fair trade, employment, carpentry.
• Interest in working with people that have faced problems with drugs and are in situation of poverty.
Moreover, on each project, the volunteer is resquiered to stay at least 3 months, without interruption. Subir Al Sur really insists on this point : the volunteering period can't last less time than this.
ℹ️ Additional information
Participation fees: USD320; It covers accommodation, food, and coordination and administration costs.