VOLUNTEER IN FSM
Fundación Sierra Minera
COFINANCED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION UNDER THE EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY CORPS PROGRAMME
Start date: 11.09.2023
End date: 09.08.2024
European Solidarity Corps Programme (ESC)
As a volunteer, the European Solidarity Corps allows you to learn through non-formal experiences, improve existing skills or acquire new ones for your personal, educational or professional development.
The volunteer service offers you:
- Free accommodation: single room in a shared apartment with other volunteers.
- Allowance for living and personal expenses (370€ per month).
- Local transportation to get to your volunteer activities.
- Arrival and intermediate training (mid-term evaluation).
- Private medical insurance that will cover all expenses not covered by the public health system (health, accident and liability insurance).
- Your travel expenses from where you live to Cartagena at the beginning of the project and from Cartagena to your place of residence at the end of the project.
- Visa and residence permit fees (if applicable).
- Spanish course.
The volunteer project
Start date: 11.09.2023
End date: 09.08.2024
The schedule of volunteer activities will be between 30 and 35 hours per week.
The situation of the Sierra Minera de Cartagena - La Union is characterized by a serious deterioration resulting from the mining crisis and the deep socio-economic depression that had its peak in the early nineties. These circumstances have turned our territory into one of the areas of the Region of Murcia in which factors that push part of its population to social exclusion are concentrated: such as high unemployment or school failure and school dropout. Minors are the most vulnerable sector of the population and therefore we propose a socio-educational intervention so that, through group workshops, they can improve their social and academic skills, providing them with the basic skills necessary for their reincorporation into the educational-formative system. and also develop their social skills and learn to self-organize to participate in leisure activities, relating in a healthy and respectful way both with their peers and with the environment in which they live.
Among other activities, the following are foreseen:
- Design of individualized itineraries
- Workshops on linguistic competence
- Compensation and educational reinforcement workshops
- Workshops to improve socio-educational, social and personal skills.
- Activation, leisure and social participation workshops.
- Support for school visits to the "Huerto Pío" Environmental Education Park.
- Support in the organization of routes to learn about and raise awareness of the cultural and natural heritage of the area.
- Environmental awareness workshops
- Support in visits to the facilities of the Interpretation Center "Mina Las Matildes".
All these activities are inspired by the objectives and principles of CES, with the purpose of building a more inclusive society for the most vulnerable people, emphasizing non-discrimination, tolerance and mutual help. We consider the inclusion of the ESC in this activity an opportunity because it will allow us to give a European vision to our action, to raise awareness of the "European Child Guarantee" and the principles related to the European Pillar of Social Rights.
We want our projects to foster the development of solidarity in young people and generate a greater awareness of what it means to be citizens who actively participate in society. We also want our projects to provide young people with a unique learning experience through which they can grow not only professionally but also on a personal and human level.
Our volunteering project seeks to promote the values promoted by the EU and the ECS Program, such as solidarity, equality, justice, respect, the fight against exclusion and xenophobia, etc.
Accommodation and maintenance
Volunteers participating in our project will live in an apartment located in the center of the city of Cartagena together with other volunteers (2 of them will be part of this project).
The apartment will be rented by the Euroacción Association, the coordinating entity of this project. Each volunteer will have their own room to guarantee privacy and space. The coordinating organization will pay monthly the rent of the apartment and the bills, in order to free the volunteers from these tasks.
This project is funded by the European Commission and covers, in addition to accommodation, food, pocket money and local transportation. This money will be managed by the volunteer freely and independently.
About Fundación Sierra Minera
Fundación Sierra Minera is a non-profit organization that brings together the associative network and works for the development of the Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Union. We are a non-profit organization that brings together the associative fabric of the villages of the Sierra Minera de Cartagena - La Union.
Our objectives are:
- To promote the development of the Sierra Minera de Cartagena - La Union, at an economic, labor, social, environmental, educational and cultural level.
- To promote, articulate, manage and execute all the projects that contribute to this development.
- To bind the social fabric of the region before the Public Administrations and private interests, discovering a dynamic process of social participation around the proposals for the development of the Sierra Minera.
- To encourage and support associations.
The MISSION of the Sierra Minera Foundation is to promote the sustainable development of the Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión through the recovery of its cultural and environmental heritage, the training and social and labor insertion of the population at risk of exclusion and the strengthening of its associative fabric.
Volunteer profile
This project is aimed at young people between 18 and 30 years old who have not previously participated in any European volunteer project (EVS or ESC).
Our volunteers will be selected based on their attitude and willingness to participate in the project. We will positively evaluate young people who show a genuine motivation for our project, as well as a strong commitment to the values of the project. We will also value candidates who demonstrate a sense of responsibility. Some knowledge of Spanish would be an asset.
The volunteer's ability to adapt to new cultures and traditions will be valued positively, without being a reason for exclusion, as the work environment will be multicultural.
We consider it important that volunteers possess a spirit of initiative, patience and the ability to distance themselves from interpersonal conflicts in order to deal with them more effectively.
Other aspects that will be taken into account are the maturity of the candidates, decision-making capacity, enthusiasm and willingness to participate in the different activities offered and the level of commitment to the project framework.
The selection process is based on the motivations and interests of each interested young person, as well as on an open and intercultural attitude and commitment to the objectives of our volunteer project. In any case, we will never consider discriminatory factors such as ethnicity, sex and gender identity, political beliefs, age, etc.
No young person wishing to participate in our project will be excluded for any reason (economic difficulties, social or geographical obstacles, cultural or ideological differences, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, gender and gender identity, etc.).