Why might your organization be interested in adding volunteers?
- Because by receiving volunteers in your organization you are part of a local network of organizations that participate and receive people who want to give and receive.
- Because you can incorporate another look in the way of doing and projecting.
- Because it can enrich your institutional mission.
- Because you can add new work spaces.
- Because our volunteers have a high commitment to the projects in which they are involved and a lot of energy to contribute to your organization.
- Because cultural exchange can be a learning space for the young people and children of your project to create a world without borders and without discrimination with more tolerance.
- Because volunteers want to learn from what your organization develops.
What type of activities can they develop?
Volunteers can develop accompaniment activities for organizations/institutions to strengthen their institutional mission and promote the realization of the rights of boys, girls, adolescents and young people and other groups for which social organizations are working to promote a better world. fair and equal.
We leave you some ideas:
- art workshops
- Foreign language teaching
- School support
- Sport activities
- cooking workshops
- Cooking in dining rooms
- Recreation
- Games
- Event organization
- Among many other activities that can emerge according to the knowledge and expectations of the volunteers and the needs of the organizations.
How long do volunteers participate?
The volunteers come to Argentina with the main motivation of participating in a social project, which is why they have a very committed dedication and dedicate between 20 and 35 hours per week to the organizations in which they participate. Generally they are in Argentina between 3 months and a year.
Why do we say our volunteers are committed?
Because we have a work methodology that achieves real commitment. Before arriving in Argentina, volunteers have training in their country of origin that focuses on training in volunteering prior to the trip.
Once they arrive in Buenos Aires, they undergo training lasting between 3 and 5 days that attempts to focus on the central problems that the different territories face, concepts linked to volunteering, forms of participation, in-depth knowledge of each volunteer, among others.
We also organized a Spanish course with the help of our local volunteers to help volunteers with their language barriers.
Once participation in the projects begins, we have one day a week that we dedicate to systematic training to understand the context in which social practices are developed and thus be able to give more meaning to social participation. On the other hand, in this weekly meeting space we can closely monitor the things that are happening and thus collaborate with all the parties involved to have an enriching experience.