DO YOU WANT TO HELP?

As you know this term we have been working about volunteering work. Before the holidays a man from Hezkide came to talk to us about how we could be volunteers and what we could do in our city. Today, some people came from different associatons to explain how they work and to make us interested. I'm going to talk to you about Atzegi as I thought it was the most interesting.

Atzegi works with people whose intelectual coefficient is under the average. They´ve got two groups under 16 and over 16. They started in 1960 when some families got together as they saw that these people needed some kind of support in our society. They've got three main aims:

•  To avoid these people feeling lonely.
• To help them develop their autonomy.
• To make the society have sensibility towards them.

Atzegi organizes different activities during the week, weekends and they go on holiday. All of these are done by volunteers starting from the age of 17. During the week they have cultural or sport activities, at the weekend they sometimes go on a trip for the day or just meet to go to cinema and on holiday they go to different places three times a year to places like Mallorca, Salou, Logroño, Salamanca... (it depends on their autonomy).

They also do a campaign every year, here´s the poster of this years and click here to watch videos of different experiences of the volunteers.

It looks very interesting and It´s a big opportunity to meet new people. If you´re interested, here´s the website for further information.