Volunteering to build an intercultural citizenship 2020

(Voluntariado para construir una ciudadanía intercultural 2020)

C. Description of Service
Sevilla Acoge intervenes in a multicultural environment. Therefore, the presence of volunteers from other
nationalities of ESC is in tune with the objectives of the Foundation, as it provides a greater intercultural
dimensionto our project. Furthermore:
- It is an opportunity to joint work between volunteers Spanish and European ones.
- It strengthens the European dimension of the project to make contact with similar organizations in Europe.
- The europeans volunteers will serve as positive referent to young migrants living in Sevilla.
- Volunteers have the opportunity to work in Sevilla Acoge, a highly experienced organization as far as
intervention among people of different cultures is concerned. Learn to live in a multicultural working environment
and meet people from other customs, values, etc..

Actions that executes Foundation Sevilla Acoge daily seeks achieve social change:
 Welcoming immigrants.
 While respecting cultural identity.
 By promoting equal rights.
 Raising awareness in society about the new and complex multicultural reality.
 Creating integration links, neighborliness between migrants and spanish

Volunteer roles
□ Support and collaboration with educators, mediators, technicians and volunteers of each center in their daily
work, conducting planned activities and contributing to the socio-cultural and employment integration of migrants
that participate in our intervention.
□ Participation in the planning and evaluation of activities.
□ In all tasks the intercultural dimension is present, as much among members of the work teams at each
center, as between the beneficiaries of the activities.
□ Diversity and balance tasks will be foreseen.
□ All tasks for volunteers provide gradual responsibility. Will always have guidance and support in the case of
specialized or delicate tasks, as is the case acting with families and single women.
□ Volunteers will always be able to share their personal concerns, their knowledge, their skills, their own
initiatives.

Timetable
It consists of 35 hours per week, which includes the hours of cultural and language training, mentoring, team
meetings or regional meetings of ESC. Volunteers will have two consecutive days of rest, although depending
on the workplace these days of rest won´t always be Saturday and Sunday (some weekends there are activities
of various kinds, especially leisure time activities with youth). They will have 22 days of vacation that will be
placed in accordance with the tutor, when not interfere with the proper functioning of the centers.

Devices and activities that volunteers may join are:

1) Community Action Center (CAC):

It plans to add three volunteers. The CAC works preferentially with children and youth at social risk. This action
is deployed with families, in order to facilitate their integration. On the other hand, are developed intervention
strategies in primary and secondary schools where young people are studying.

Work in the community awareness about the importance of their role as a preventive agent. The actions are
aimed directly at children and young migrants and natives, as well as their families, residing in the
neighborhoods of districts Macarena and Macarena-Norte of Sevilla.

The activities that volunteers can perform include:

a. In the field of formal education.

Coordination with the schools of the area, in order to establish a common methodology for working with youth
and children of immigrant origin who access the school. This work provides a possibility to make the school a
place of integration and where intercultural relationship and understanding are promoted.

 Support activities in the tutorials in schools.

 Activities playground during recess time (dynamization of recess).
 Actions with intercultural mediation methodology (prevention and / or resolution of conflicts).
 Activities with student mediators in schools.
 Educational reinforcement activities with students.

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b. In education and leisure and free time of young people and children.

This is an educational project of leisure and free time managed from the Community Action Center, based in the
neighborhood of El Cerezo. This center is intended as a meeting place for young people, children and their
families.
 Sensitization activities and community involvement: educational workshops, lectures on multiculturalism,
sexuality, drug addiction, film club, etc.
 Leisure activities and free time to promote social skills and habits that favor the socialization process of
young people. It allows young people to discorver different forms of entertainment and leisure. It
promotes awareness of social, religious and cultural diversity in their immediate environment. They have
meeting spaces and coexistence based on respect for difference and cultural identity of young people.
 Youth Information Point: young people find a place to go for some counseling or accompanied by an
adult. It is also a space where youth can propose activities, express their views, have information on
trainings of interest or employment itineraries.
 “Pre-monitores” Workshop "Roots": young people between 16 and 20 years old, engaged in intercultural
activities related to autonomy, social engagement, progress and self-knowledge. Thus, these young
people as social actors are responsible for others, native and migrants, younger than them, guiding their
process to manage in a complex and intercultural environment.
 Workshop monitors : programming, monitoring and evaluation of activities with youth and children.
Executing a plan for lifelong learning educators to acquire skills and techniques adapted to youth and
children with whom they work.

Persons assigned ESC:

Two volunteers will work at this center.

Schedules of volunteers

TIME MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

9.00- Course of Incorporation to Course of Various
11:00 Spanish the workcenter Spanish activities: Leisure and
language and and planning with language and street work, Free Time
culture of the educators and culture of the visits to Activities
RECESS TIME volunteers mediators volunteers families and related to
11:00- TO Meeting of the Various activities: Meeting with the schools Nature,
12:00 VOLUNTEERS work team of street work, visits tutor or Sport and
Community to families and supervisor Environment
Action Center schools .
12:00- Various
14:00 activities (Trekking,
16:30- biking,
Various Educational Various Educational Leisure and skating,
18.00 workshops with Reinforcement workshops with Reinforcement free time etc.)
youth / children youth / children activities
18:00- Leisure and Various Leisure and free Various
20:00 free time workshops time activities workshops
activities

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2) Reception and Orientation Center "El Puente" and Service of Codevelopment

It plans to add two volunteers. This center is the gateway for beneficiaries to the Foundation. “El Puente” (the
Bridge) Center develops two basic activities: counseling, advocacy, training and guidance of people for
employment, social, educational, health, cultural needs, etc., also hosts Codevelopment Service, specializing in
identifying, formulation, monitoring and evaluation of international cooperation and co-development projects in
the countries of origin of migrants residing in our society (have developed or developing actions in Bolivia,
Senegal and Morocco).

The front desk of the Reception Centre and Orientation is an area of particular importance, as it is the first
contact that benefiaciaries receive when they come to the organization with different problems and needs.
People working in this space, as much employees as volunteers, have an extensive experience in the reception
and orientation of migrants, know all the services provided by the Foundation and other community resources
that may provide the city of Seville.

From the Codevelopment Service we consider a cornerstone the idea that migrants themselves are actors of
development in their countries of origin. For this reason, contacts and visits are permanently made to
communities and social organizations of these countries, from a perspective of codevelopment (not cooperation
of economic development, but joint growth of the two communities, the origin and the receiver).

The activities that volunteers can perform include:

 Support persons performing primary attention in Front Desk.
 Assist in implementing group activities of information.
 Accompaniment of beneficiaries in different managements and resources.
 Participation in workshops of legal advice, integration, job search, self-orientation or other training
activities that are scheduled (own initiative or beneficiaries demand).
 Identification and diagnosis of co-development projects.
 Project formulation, presentation to calls for helps, fundraising.

Persons assigned ESC:

Two volunteers will work at this center.

Schedules of volunteers

TIME MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

9:00- Primary Course of Codevelopment Course of
11:00 attention, advice spanish Service: Spanish Primary
to beneficiaries, language and formulation and language and attention, advice
group activities culture of the monitoring of culture of the to beneficiaries,
volunteers projects volunteers group activities
11:00- Meeting with the Codevelopment
12:00 tutor or Service:
supervisor formulation and
12:00- Codevelopment monitoring of
13:00 Service: projects
13:00- Workshops formulation and Workshops
14:00 (planned or on monitoring of (planned or on
14:00- request of projects request of
15:00 beneficiaries) beneficiaries)
17:00- Various Various
19:30 activities: activities:
reception and reception and
codevelopment codevelopment