Pilares
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About the project
Pilares
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our partner, founded in 2006, is an Argentinian NGO, promoting peace and intercultural education through voluntary service. Our partner organises work camps as well as mid and long-term individual volunteering projects (including EVS), and is a member of CCIVS, the Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations, and a former member of Youth Action for Peace. In summer 2012, merged with the Fundación SES, a NGO founded in 1998, promoting and developing different strategies that strive for the inclusion of teenager and youngsters with fewer opportunities. The four main focus areas are: Education, Employment, Youth-Centred Activities, and Networking and Alliances. Our partner became a member of our partner in 2017.
💼 What the programme involves
Brief description and main aims:
Pilares is a foundation that works together with children and families who live in shantytowns in the City of Buenos Aires, providing opportunities to promote their integral development. They accompany 500 families in Villa 21-24 (Barracas) and Villa 1-11-14 (Bajo Flores), Nueva Pompeya and surroundings through several programs.
Tasks:
- In Early Childhood Centers (Flores and Pompeya neighborhoods).
Activities: Recreation and games, preparing snacks/breakfast,
administrative tasks
- Within the "Haciendo Lupa" Program, with ages between 9 and 15
years (Barracas neighborhood). The activities are: Literacy workshops
and games, stories, writing, art. School support
🏠 Accommodation on site
Staying at Subir al Sur volunteer's house.
📍 About the location
The surface of the City of Buenos Aires is approximately 200 km2 and its perimeter is 60 km. It borders to the south, west and north with the province of Buenos Aires, and to the east, with the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires has a population of 2 890 151 habitantes people, of which 54% are women. The population density is more than 15,000 inhabitants per square kilometer. The complex infrastructure of Buenos Aires makes it one of the most important metropolises in the Americas. Although its per capita income is one of the highest in the region, it is estimated that 5.7% of the city's inhabitants live in shantytowns, where more than half of the population does not have a legal title. land ownership, nor does it have regular access to at least two of the basic services.
⚠️ Requirements
- It is important to note that the volunteers are not authorized to perform any technical task, for which the hospital already has staff
-Predisposition to work with sick people, elderly people
ℹ️ Additional information
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📅 Available sessions
ICYE/ARG-31AUTO-EXT
01/01/2024 at 00:00 → 30/12/2024 at 00:00
ICYE/ARG-31
01/01/2023 at 00:00 → 31/12/2023 at 00:00
ARICYE625
31/12/2024 at 00:00 → 30/12/2028 at 00:00
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
450.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Nueva Pompeya, C1437 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Argentina
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Argentina Peso (ARS / $)
Exchange rate
1 ARS = 0.000579 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
Timezone
Argentina Standard Time
Local time: 20:57 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken