ESC VOLUNTEERING PROJECTS IN PLASENCIA (SPAIN). 10 months

EUEXIA IS A MULTISPORTS ASSOCIATION,THAT PROMOTE SPORT PRACTICE IN EVERY SECTOR OF THE POPULATION.WE ALSO WORK WITH PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.
Euexia is a no-profit association, founded in 2007 by a group of friends who loved sport. From that time the association has been involved in more and more projects, becoming a multidisplicinary entity, especially thanks to the human group working in the organization: young and qualified people highly motivated.
Some of our activities and projects :
- We deal with many municipal sport schools ( skating, volleyball, football….), among them one of adapted sports for people with disabilities.
- Also we carry out a program of "family respite" during the weekends, for children and youngsters with disabilities, where we organize leisure time activities and sports with them.
- Coordination and management of extracurricular activities in different schools in our area
- We organize summer camps for children and sport events.
Furthermore we collaborate with differents organizations at local level:
- we collaborate with the association Placeat (association for people with intellectual disability) in many of our projects: activities about social inclusion with schools and institutes, sport activities with the patients of the association, a work camp in summertime with national and international volunteers together with the users of the association, and since many years ago we are partners in our european voluntary projects.
- We also cooperate with the Psychiatric Center of Plasencia (Cáceres) for sport activities with the patients and european voluntary projects.
- With Caritas, organization who take care of people in needs ( refugees, homeless people, migrants…..), we coordinate european volunteering actvities in their association.
We coordinate European Solidarity Corps projects in agreement with all these organization, and we are also hosting and sending organization.
Another of our main objectives is to offer young people in our region, mobility opportunities at European level : european programs of mobility ( european solidarity corps), youth exchanges, training courses, job offers, scholarships, etc…
. That`s why and in agreement with the Youth Department of our City Council, we offer a Youth Information Service in our office, and also we carry out events and disemination talks among the youth of our region.
In short, The organization works mainly in three different fields : sport, youth and disability, so the majority of our projects and activities are focused on it.