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Argentine: Tierra Salud (former Pecohue)
About the local hosting organization
Subir al Sur, founded in 2006, is an Argentinian NGO, promoting peace and intercultural education through voluntary service. Subir al Sur 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. Subir al Sur became a member of ICYE in 2017.
Presentation of the programme
Brief description and main aims:
Tierra Salud promotes socialization and integration of people in a situation of vulnerability with psychiatric problems, facilitating the acquisition of work habits. As well, develops their skills, responsibility and autonomy.
Main Activities:
Participants produce vegetables and compost. The final production is sold and the benefits are shared among the project beneficiaries.The project is located on the campus of the University of Agronomy. They work with people who have gone through psychiatric treatments as a form of social and labor inclusion.
Volunteer tasks:
- Work together with the project beneficiaries maintaining the garden, cultivating the plants and helping in activities related to the agricultural process
- Cooperate in the production of products for sale
- Volunteers will have meetings every week to discuss some topics and better understand their social interventions as volunteers, as well as to better understand the social, historical, political and economic aspects of Argentina
- There are activities organized by volunteers to have exchanges, such as festivals, workshops at school, etc.
Local accommodation
Volunteers are received in a hostel, located in Buenos Aires.
About the project location
The project is located in the area of the University of Agronomy, Buenos Aires.
Requirements
- Intermediate level of Spanish
- Initiative to propose independent activities
- Sensitivity to social and economic problems
- Flexibility to adapt to the structure and the way of working in Latin America
- Teamwork
- Creative and motivated person
Extra info about the project
Participation fees:
2.100 EUR/6months
3.4000 EUR/12 months
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