ESC: Placeat, Volunteering in Social NGO in Spain from June 2025 for 10 months

Euexia is a non-profit association founded in 2007 by a group of friends who love sport. Since then, the association has become involved in more and more projects, becoming a multidisciplinary entity, especially thanks to the human group that works in the organization: highly motivated, qualified and young people.

What have we done so far?

We have coordinated various municipal sports schools (skating, volleyball, football), including one for adapted sports for people with disabilities.
We run a weekend "family respite" program for children and young people with disabilities, where we organize leisure and sports activities with them.
Coordination and management of extracurricular activities in different schools in our area.
We organize summer camps for children and sporting events.
We also collaborate with different organizations at a local level:

Placeat Association ( association for people with intellectual disabilities) - sports activities with the association's patients, a summer work camp (with national and international volunteers and users);
Plasencia Social Health Centre - sports activities with patients and European volunteering projects of the European Solidarity Corps;
Caritas Plasencia (an organisation that cares for people in need: refugees, homeless people, migrants) - European volunteering activities in its association;
Proyecto Hombre (an entity dedicated to the rehabilitation and reintegration of people with addictive behaviour) - partners in European volunteering activities.
We coordinate European Solidarity Corps projects in conjunction with all these organisations, and we are also accredited as a host and sending organisation. Another of our main objectives is to offer young people from our region mobility opportunities at European level: European mobility programmes (European Solidarity Corps), Erasmus+ (youth exchanges, training courses, job offers, scholarships, etc.).

For this reason, and in agreement with the Youth Department of our City Council, we offer a Youth Information Service at the Youth Centre of Plasencia, and we also hold events and talks to disseminate information among young people in our region. In short, the organisation works mainly in three different fields: sport, youth and disability, which is why most of our projects and activities focus on this.