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Volunteering and social participation
The Foundation is investing on volunteering, one of the most important assets of society. For that reason, we keep working on the inclusion of new volunteering and social participation projects, such as leisure and accompaniment in occupational centers (residences for people with intellectual disabilities), and the consolidation of the projects initiated in former years (familiar and cooperation volunteering, European voluntary service, etc.), that offers a greater heterogeneity to the social participation of the Foundation, and provides more strength and wealth to this activity.
of the coordinators who will work with each group were made. The first project is performed by young professional volunteers, who are approximately 30 years old, in the Barajas Occupational Centre; The second project is carried out in the Ciudad Lineal Occupational Centre in Madrid and is held by volunteers coming from young women associations with which the FPSC has a collaboration agreement.
Cooperation volunteering
During summer of 2015, three volunteers coming from the University of Navarra have performed a cooperation volunteering in Lebanon and Jerusalem where, together with our expatriate staff, they were able to help the Foundation to develop its cooperation and humanitarian aid projects in these countries. This experience also provides to the volunteers a deeper knowledge about the reality of the country where they are working and allows them to directly contact and work with the local population.
Volunteers training programs
During the course of 2015, the FPSC has sought to improve the coordination of the volunteering and social participation activities that are carried out along with youth organizations. Since 1996, the FPSC provides institutional support to these organizations by offering training programmes for volunteers, with special attention to young people in order to enable them as social development actors. To accomplish this task, the FPSC was economically supported by he Institute of Women.
de Madrid and the Agencia Madrileña de Acción Social (AMAS) aimed to promote volunteering among young residents of Madrid in its centers for the elderly and for disabled people. In the frameworik of this agreement, and thanks to the funding of CAM, two volunteering projects of leisure and accompaniment in occupational centers for persons with intellectual disabilities have been launched after an initial transformation and a selection
Madrid Youth Volunteering in CAM Occupational Centres (AMAS)
In 2015, a noteworthy milestone was the signature of the cooperation agreement between the FPSC and the Consejería de Asuntos Sociales of the Comunidad
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