🏢 About the local organisation
Casa de Juventud Aleste is a non-profit organization which, since its foundation in 1995, develops socio-educational
leisure and free-time programs and activities addressed to CHILDREN, YOUTH and ADULTS from the city of Valladolid,
especially to groups who are at risk of social exclusion. Our goals are:
-To carry out community development projects through sociocultural animation programs and socioeducational
intervention.
-To present services to the youth: information, resources, free-time and educational activities.
-To boost social and educational volunteering for the youth and its specific training.
-To ensure a comprehensive training for the youth through educational work during the free time.
-To facilitate social and professional inclusion of the youth.
-To promote health adn environmental education, road safety education, associationism and sport activity among young
people.
-To promote projects that allow to overcome the causes that create social exclusion: family breakdown, academic failure,
rejection of ethnical minorities and immigrants, discrimination against women, alienating free-time experiences such as
alcohol or drugs abuse, mistreatment, sexual abuse, intolerance and racism.
The different programs we carry out, briefly described, are the following:
-Social Intervention Program with minors and for the prevention of youth marginality: academic support activities for
socialization and prevention, for social abilities with minors referred by social service.
💼 What the programme involves
ESC in Casa de Juventud Aleste aims to give continuity to the previous project presented by our organization, in order to offer young Europeans, the possibility to live a volunteer experience.
Goals:
- To promote learning by means of volunteering and experiences had during the project, to improve professional skills for a future job.
- To develop the feeling of associationism at the local, regional, national and international levels in which our project is moving.
- To promote volunteering by means of national and international entities for the knowledge and improvement of the current social situation.
- To facilitate exchanges between different cultures.
- To collaborate in the European dimension of the partner entities and of the ones carrying out the project.
- To make the young people joining the project, both the young participant and the young volunteer, feel involved.
We are waiting for you!
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: - Ages between 18 and 30.
- Preferably with experience in volunteering / education or social field.
- To have experience with children and young people.
- To have knowledge of Spanish language (basic).
- To have the capacity of adaptation and teamwork.
Deadline: Application deadline: 12/01/2023
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.