📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
La Segona Volta is a non-profit association dedicated to the recovery and sale of second-hand items with the aim of creating jobs and avoiding the generation of waste.
We collaborate with local administrations, entities and companies and with the citizens. In 2019 we became a social enterprise as a cooperative.
wants:
1 BOOST THE LOCAL SOCIAL ECONOMY
a) Marketing channel of reusable items (second-hand store) at affordable prices
b) Jobs and internships for the labor insertion of the unemployed, especially vulnerable groups (young people, women, over 50 years of age, long-term unemployed, disabled, etc.)
2. SAVE RESOURCES AND PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT
a) Extend the useful life of reusable products and thus reduce the amount of waste that reaches the landfill
b) Organize activities to raise awareness, train, and energize the general public (workshops, courses, markets, etc.)
The project started in October 2013 and is located in a rural area in southern Catalonia.
All the material that enters is donated by individuals, companies or entities, or recovered from collection centers.
La Segona Volta is a non-profit organization that recovers and sells second-hand goods to prevent waste and create jobs.
It aims to:
1. IMPROVE LOCAL SOCIAL ECONOMY
a) Creating a selling point for reusable goods (second-hand shop) with affordable prices
b) Creating jobs and training opportunities for the unemployed, especially vulnerable groups like young people, women, people over 50, the long-term unemployed and the disabled.
2. SAVE RESOURCES AND PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT
a) Extend the useful life of reusable products and thus reduce the amount of waste that arrives at the landfills
b) Organize activities to raise awareness and give training to the general public (workshops, courses, markets, etc.)
The project started in October 2013 and is located in a rural area in the south of Catalonia.
All the incoming material is donated by individuals, companies or entities, or recovered from the waste collection centers.
💼 What the programme involves
La Segona Volta is a non-profit organisation that recovers and sells second-hand goods to prevent waste and create jobs. It aims to:IMPROVE LOCAL SOCIAL ECONOMY :Creating a selling point for reusable goods (second-hand shop) with affordable prices, Creating jobs, training opportunities for the unemployed, especially vulnerable groups like young people, women, people over 50, the long-term unemployed and the disabled. SAVE RESOURCES AND PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT: Extend the useful life of reusable products and thus reduce the amount of waste that arrives at the landfills, Organise activities to raise awareness and give training to the general public (workshops, courses, markets).All the incoming material is donated by individuals, companies or entities, or recovered from the waste collection centers.Activities: attend the second-hand shop, help to organize, social network to promote our organization, helping to repair good, maintenance tasks. INFOPACK: https://bit.ly/3OPJmQt
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be living in a house in the countryside and sharing a room (4-6 persons per room) Common spaces (dining room, kitchen, bathroom, open areas) have to be shared. Pocket money: The volunteers will receive pocket money each month: 5 euros per day. Food: the volunteer will be cooking in groups, the food will be supplied by the coordinating organization + a basket of ecological and seasonal vegetables from our insertion company. Transport: if necessary, the volunteer will be offered a second-hand bike. Volunteers can go walking to the project or go by bike.
🎒 Leisure activities
- The first week the volunteers will have a "welcome week" - On arrival and mid-term training provided by the Spanish National Agency - Cultural presentation during the first months of volunteering. - Catalan language course - Activities of knowledge of the territory - Workshops on ecological agriculture and sustainable cooking - Complementary training and activities during the project will be organized.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: • Given the variety of tasks involved, we are looking for volunteers who are prepared to do “whatever is needed”. • A positive, open and collaborative attitude is much more important than a high educational level. • The public that visits La Segona Volta is very diverse so it is important that the volunteer knows (or wants to learn) how to interact with people from different cultures and social backgrounds. • A minimum level of Spanish and/or Catalan will be necessary and any additional languages very useful.
Deadline: Application deadline: 15/07/2022
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.