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olunteering and social participation
In 2016 the FPSC has reinforced projects initiated in the past. This has helped to create a charitable and effective voluntary service. The diversity of FPSC’s initiatives for voluntary service and its search of more diverse activities has allowed us to attend a higher number of social needs.
Volunteer training programs
Voluntary service is one of the most important assets of society to the FPSC. Therefore, the adequate training of volunteers is essential for the correct development of its activity. In accordance to this, the FPSC organizes volunteering training programs, paying special attention to young people, habilitating them as social development agents. To this aim, the FPSC has counted with the funding of the Instituto de la Mujer (Woman Institute).
Familiar Voluntary Service
The voluntary service program with families of Las Tablas-Valverde School, at the Residence of Nuestra Señora del Camino Foundation in Madrid, has continued throughout the year in order to take in intellectually challenged people. This activity shows great results thanks to the participation of both parents and children, and provides a perfect atmosphere for sharing and communal living between families and residents.
Voluntary service of young people from Madrid in Occupational Centers (AMAS)
According to the frame established by the cooperative agreement of the FPSC with the Office of Social Affairs of the Regional Government of Madrid, and the Madrid Agency for Social Action (AMAS), and thanks to the contribution of the Community of Madrid, two projects have kept on offering voluntary service to provide leisure and company to the intellectually challenged and the elderly. The first of them was developed by young professionals, near to the 30 years of age, at the Occupational Center of Barajas. The other project is developed at the Ciudad Lineal Occupational Center in Madrid by female volunteers from different young women associations in possession of a collaborative agreement with the FPSC.