WORKCAMPS IN ARGENTINE
Oikos organises in 2010 international workcamps in Argentine in cooperation with the association Subir Al Sur. Subir Al Sur is a non-governmental organisation promoting volunteering experience, international solidarity especially between youngers.
GENERAL INFORMATION
- The participation fee that includes the annual adheration fee of OIKOS is 100,00 euros and has to be paid by a bank transfer destinated to the cultural association Oikos at the moment of the application.
- The workcamp fee that includes food and accomodation during your stay in Argentine is 200,00 euros and has to be paid to the camp-coordinator on arrival in Argentine.
For the description of the project, please, click the camp code:
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CAMP CODE |
PERIOD |
LOCATION |
PROJECT TYPE |
FEE |
| SCC IV | 26.06 - 11.07.2010 | Villa Ana | Construction / Social | 200,00 euros |
| LIGC I | 26.07 - 08.08.2010 | Quilmes | Social/Culture | CANCELLED |
Subir con Conciencia IV 26.06 - 11.07.2010 Construction / Social LOCATION: Villa Ana, a village of 3000 inhabitants in the North of the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
WORK: The youth group for community action “Quebrachito” are developing several actions which commemorate this important year. Argentina is going towards it’s bicentenary; the 25 May and will celebrate 200 years as a nation and Villa Ana is going to celebrate its centenary; on the 9 July it will celebrate 100 years as a village. For this reason together with Subir al Sur and the community of Villa Ana we will develop from the 26 June until the 11 of July a project which has the objective of working on activities related and forming part of the festivities on the route to the birthday of the village.
The history and the development of a small village such as Villa Ana goes back exactly 100 years and was in the hands of a British company which exploited the North East of Argentina for a tree called Quebracho from which they extracted a substance called tannin. The community of Villa Ana is characterized by its history and for the painful memories of usurpation and robbery.
The youth group Quebrachito, Subir al Sur and the people of the village are preparing and organizing to celebrate the birthday of their dear village through different activities, which are as follows:
Construction of a bus stop on the road 32 which gives access to the village of Villa Ana, its decoration will be related to the Centenary of the Village.
Cleaning, painting and other activities in the local museum.
Reforestation with different species of trees characteristic of the zone in the area of the ex factory.
Participation in different activities to be realized in the village organized by the Commission for the Centenary.
Dynamic activities with children in one of the most marginalized neighbourhoods
During the project the volunteers will also participate in different workshops and talks based around the theme of “Exploitation in Latin America and the Forestal Company in Villa Ana”. A recommended reading list will be sent out with the infosheet.
IMPORTANT: On arrival training: 26/27 June 2010** The volunteers must be ready to start the on arrival workshop at 10 am on the 26th.. More information will be sent out in the info sheet.
** The volunteers need to cover their accommodation and food costs during the on arrival training, the training starts at 10am. More information in the info sheet about hostels, transporot etc…ACCOMMODATION: Shared in basic conditions.
FEE: 200,00 euros.
Local Identity and Global Citizenship I 26.07 - 08.08.2010 Social / Culture CANCELLED
LOCATION: The city of Quilmes is a locality of around a million inhabitants of the conurbano bonaerense and as such has middle class residential areas, working class neighbourhoods, areas of poverty, and marginalized neighbourhoods. It is 20 minutes in train from the city of Buenos Aires.
WORK: The association Vientos del Sur proposes a first workcamp ‘Local Identiy and Global Citizenship’ in Quilmes, from the 26 July until the 8 August 2010, in the Arts Centre Identidad Sur.
In the year of the Bicentenary the start of the independence process of Argentina, we want to reflect about our identity from the perspective of global citizenship in the XXI Century.
We think that the best way to develop this initiative is to associate ourselves with Subir al Sur to organise together a workcamp which facilitates the development of one of our favourite methodologies of intercultural intervention, AccionArte*.
In this way, we call to those who want to make part of an intercultural encounter which includes different instances of training of the participants and collective production together with the local community.The program includes:
A training in Identity and Global Citizenship.
Theatre workshops (you don’t have to be an actor to participate).
Workshop painting a mural (you don’t have to have prior knowledge of painting).
Visits of the city of Buenos Aires and Quilmes (travel costs are at the volunteers charge).
Exchange with local organisations.
Organisation of intercultural nights where each participant can get to know the culture of the other participants and share their own.
Free nights.
As a product or result of these activities we hope to create together:
The painting of an intercultural mural in the Arts Centre Identidad Sur, in Quilmes.
The collective production of a performance on the bicentenary which reflects our vision and ideas from local identity which includes the perspective of global citizenship and which incorporates different elements of the diverse cultures of the participants.
A celebration for the local community where the mural will be inaugurated and the performance presented to the community.
The workcamp will also include free moments for the participants and will propose alternative activities for these moments.
IMPORTANT: On arrival training: 26July 2010. The volunteers need to meet with the workcamp facilitators in the capital city of Buenos Aires at 15h on the 26 of July and will travel together to Quilmes.
ACCOMMODATION: Shared in basic conditions.
FEE: 200,00 euros.
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