GANTALCALÁ ASSOCIATION
Initiative 1
Our Project team
for the Project "Entrepreneurship and Youth: Sharing creativity and social Initiatives”, developed a really cool social initiative last weekend.
The group developed
a special simulation around the city of Alcalá de Guadaíra, Sevilla, Spain. It
was special simulation because they were in a tour, simulating different
physical disabilities (disable, blind, and deaf) with the aim of identify urban
obstacles. After this identification, they will produce a video which it will
be delivered to the municipality.
More information about this social initiative will be given at the end of our project. It will be include it in the document "Catalogue of Good Practices"
Initiative 2
Our Project team for
the Project "Entrepreneurship and Youth: Sharing creativity and social
Initiatives”, developed a laugher therapy workshop last Friday 7th March.
The group developed a
special workshop about laugher therapy with old people. The workshop, that was
executed by a team of students of Social Work Degree, was developed in a Public
center for retiered people in the city of Seville, Spain.
Laughter
therapy, also called humor therapy, is the use of humor to promote overall
health and wellness. It aims to use the natural physiological process of
laughter to help relieve physical or emotional stresses or discomfort.
Initiative 3
Last
14th March, the Scout Group Hienipa 185 and our Project team for the Project
"Entrepreneurship and Youth: Sharing creativity and social Initiatives”,
developed a training course focused on environmental awareness and camping
technics.
The
training beneficiaries were kids from
one of the most disadvantage áreas from Alcalá de Guadaíra, a town located to
15km from Sevilla, Spain.
Different
workshops were developed related with Cartography, compass use,fire management;
and the importance and usefulness of the different types of knots commonly used
in camping.
Initiative 4
Last
12th June, the Scout Group Hienipa 185 with the cooperation of Group Hispalis
136 and our Project team for the Project "Entrepreneurship and Youth:
Sharing creativity and social Initiatives”, developed a information session
focused on scouting values and social awareness.
The
information session beneficiaries were youngsters
with aged between 15 and 17 years old
from one of the high-school from Alcalá de Guadaíra, a town located to
15km from Sevilla, Spain. Members of both groups went to the IES Tierno Galvan
morning and made an oral and visual presentation prepared before by the clans.
Initiative 5
A
new social Initiative has been developed in the framework of
"Entrepreneurship and Youth: Sharing creativity and social Initiatives”
project. Last 19th June, the Scout Group Hienipa 185 with the cooperation of
Group Hispalis 136 and our Project team for the Project, developed different
workshops with intelectual disable people.
The
Initiative aimed to increase new ways of cooperation with members of the disable people center and to
share leisure activities prepared by members of both scouts groups.
Between the activities developed we could find: games for know
each other; motor interaction games where they had to perform various physical
games and reflexes perception; and several games related with guidance,
teamwork and dexterity activities.
Added to that center members showed and taught young visitors
scouts the regular activities of the center.
Initiative 6
The Project "Entrepreneurship and youth: sharing creativity
and social initiatives" of Gantalcalá Association continues. This time the
young people of the Walhalla´s Clan (Hienipa 185 Scout group) organized a tour
of the high bank of the Guadaira river for collect and illustrate the
environmental situation of the river ecosystem.
The tour took place on June 27 and was carried out by a group of
four young in a small rowing boat. They tried to find signs of contamination. This
initiative aims to collect audiovisual material and to illustrate the pollution
suffered by the Guadaira river and the consequences it has on the ecosystem.
The next step will forward this information to a competent body and to use it
as a tool for environmental education in the town of Alcalá de Guadaíra.
PASSAGGI ONLUS
Initiative 1
The Project team of Trebisacce for the Project has prepared a very complex
project that was proposed to the Municipaity of Trebisacce. It is the offer
that the young trainers made to the City Council for the organization of a n
Information Point, for Summer time, it is called PITT , the Italian for Punto
Informativo Turistico Trebisacce. We spent February to the middle of March to
prepare the proposal, the group had contact with administration, for formal
decision the team of the project was accepted to deliver this social service
that is related for the development of tourism and other activities. The group
has many commitments to accomplish, the job to do is projected until the end of
August 2015. Those is the sea view where the information point should be set.
Initiative 2
This
is the initiative is going to happen on the 21st March that is the
Poetry world day, the team is collecting poems and critics for a day organized
with students and poets, this event is innovative because it evolves both the
presence of people and the connection through social media by digital means and
tools. Furthermore, they will offer tea and pastries to visitors. The action
tries to make people participate to cultural events not only as listeners and
public, but also as authors and protagonist.
Initiative 3
The Project team of Trebisacce for the Project
"Entrepreneurship and Youth: Sharing creativity and social Initiatives”, developed
a workshop on how communication is a cardinal point to raises awareness on some
social question. A journalist met the young trainers explaining them different
techniques and strategies. They sorted an illustrated poster and developed a
press release to send to media. Other moments of the workshop were the
analysis of a web page and of some magazines and a phone call where the
journalist was asking for information. That happened on the 14th
March 2015.
Initiative 4
The Project team of Trebisacce for the Project "Entrepreneurship
and Youth: Sharing creativity and social Initiatives”develops a project that is a
service for the community concerning the Census of Monumental Trees, a low that
the Italian Government issued in order to evaluate and save the big and
monumental trees that are in all Region. For the law every city, town and
village has to report about this sort of trees. The project team decided to
offer to the municipality as a volunteering service to help offices to get
citizens collaboration in order to identify the Units items to be considered as
important for their beauty, biological interest, dimension, historical and
cultural value. Neighbor municipalities asked for collaboration. The job is to
be done by the 31st July 2015.
