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Argentine: Pilares NGO
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:
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.
Vision: "An inclusive society and equitable that prioritizes child care andpromote the development of free and subject citizens of rights"
Mission: "Promote the rights of childhood in context psychosocial vulnerability, promoting child well-being and family strengthening".
Main Activities:
- "Early Childhood Centers": Through this centers, they provide a space for care and stimulation for boys and girls from 1 to 3 years old, who attend from Monday to Friday receiving three of the daily meals there (breakfast, lunch, snack), which allows their parents to work or look for work while their sons and daughters are under the care of the teachers and the professional team. There are the "CPI Pilarcitos" in Barracas and the "CPI Floreciendo" in Bajo Flores.
- "Haciendo Lupa": In this program, they work with boys and girls from the age of 2 in forward, through different playful techniques that stimulate pre-literacy. As it is an itinerant program, it takes place in different spaces.
Volunteer tasks:
- In Early Childhood Centers (Flores and Pompeya neighborhoods). Activities: Recreation and games, preparing snacks/breakfast, administrative tasks (during the week)
- Within the "Haciendo Lupa" Program, with ages between 9 and 15 years (Barracas neighborhood). Activities: Literacy workshops and games, stories, writing, art (2 days a week in Caacupé Parish) / School support (Wednesdays, Santa Lucía center)
- Institutional work. Modality mainly virtual or in the office located in the neighborhood of Palermo (Buenos Aires).
In terms of time work, the proposed schedule consists of:
- Physical participation in the project for 3 days a week for 4 hours a day ( To be defined with the coordination of the project according to the profile and interest of the volunteer. The project is open monday and thursday from 9am to 1pm and wednesday from 4pm to 6pm)
- One day of planning, evaluation and reflection tasks that can be done in the office or at home -Finally, one day to receive training in thematic seminars that contribute to their contribution to the project.
Local accommodation
Staying at Subir al Sur volunteer's house.
About the project 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
Extra info about the project
Steps and MLTV (minimum 4 weeks)
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