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.

NEW DRAFT FOR THE AD!

Here's another draft for the ad we are making this term!

CLICK HERE

HERE'S THE IDEA OF OUR POSTER!

As you might have realised, this term we are woking on a project to enter a competition and if we are lucky we might go to Brussels! To start with, we are working in little groups and then we have to chose the best projects. Andoitz, Ainhoa, June and I are working together and we have made an idea of how our poster is going to look like. Here's a photo of the draft:

FEEL, THINK, ACT!

FIRST IDEAS FOR OUR AD!

Lately, Ainhoa, Andoitz, June  and I have been thinking of different ways to manage to get people involved in the project of the crisis we're doing this term. Our idea for the advertisement is simple but yet complicated to organize and put it into a draft as a video and in fact, we need a slogan. Our ad is based on a UEFA's new one because we think it's a good and an adequate method to achieve what we want. To explain our intention, it's better to watch the UEFA ad to see what we mean:

NEWS ABOUT THE CRISIS IN SPAIN

Mariano Rajoy the president of Spain believes his country has turned the corner and can hope for better things in 2014.  He said in an interview with the british newspaper ,the guardian, that the number of unemployed people  in October last year was less than a year ago. And in November, the figures got even better with around 2,500 fewer people registered as unemployed.

However, not everyone is as hopeful as the prime minister. Some people say that Spain's economy will not recover for two decades, and will continue to experience high levels of unemployment throughout that time.

What do you think about this?

Click here to read the article.

PAGES USED FOR OUR BRIEF PRESENTATION ABOUT CRISIS

These are the links in case more information is wanted:

Eurostat

By clicking here you'll have direct acces to our presentation.

PLANNING SUMMER!

June and I found a website which offers different kind of jobs you can do abroad to mostly help with the water animals conservation. The offer we really liked the look of was one in Madagascar. You go there for three weeks and you have two choices, you either work with water animals in the see or with land animals in the forest. It looks great but it's quite expensive as Madagascar is far from here. Well, we'll try to convince our parents as impossible is nothing! Click here if you are interested.