NOVEMBER 2020

Presentation of major volunteering activities in each country (foundations, associations, charity etc.)
 

Hilstad, Norway: 

We have had two major campaigns this autumn:

1. Operations Day`s Work

All of our students from 13-15 years worked for a whole day to collect money to different projects to the international campaign"Operation Day`s Work".

2.

Our whole school decided to participate in the campaign Forut-school race. 

This is an educational school action, which contains children’s rights, sustainable development and what makes a school good. The slogan of this campaign is “Learning gives energy”.

The aim for this fundraising campaign, is to collect money to support children in Nepal and other countries to be able to go at good schools.

We picked a track were the pupils would run and decided to have the fund race on Tuesday 27th of October.  

The pupils` parents were the sponsors of the race, they each sent an optional amount of money, to support the campaign. 

Birgit-Iren Strand

Institut Consell de Cent, Spain

After a meeting with the students where we talked about the main social issues in our area and how we could help people that are affected by them, we decided to take up two community volunteering initiatives:

1) Twenty of our students joined El Banc dels Aliments, a non-profit foundation that collects food at supermarkets,namely food that is about to expire or donations from people that are doing their shopping, and distibutes them among people in need.

We also discussed their philosophy in our Ethics lessons, and we appreciate a lot how they fight against unnecessary waste by recovering food surpluses suitable for human consumption and to fight poverty by bringing recovered food to people in a situation of food insecurity in our environment.

We decided to collaborate with them for five more years!

2) We created a Language Learning Group for our students' parents. Some of them cannot find good jobs because they don't speak Spanish or Catalan, and we decided to teach them, and to issue certificates of attendance for them to present at their job interviews.

Later on, the families told their acquaintances about us and we also invited other people in the neighbourhood to our lessons. More volunteers were required, so eight more students from our school, among them Phrencis, Victoria and Xena from our Erasmus team, joined the volunteers and the Foreign Language Department teachers who were initially teaching the parents.

We have decided to continue pursuing this initiative for years to come, and, on the participants' demand, to offer English lessons too. When the students learn enough of the language we do reading club tasks, exchanging impressions in English, Catalan and Spanish about the books they are reading. In the summer, the students can take books from our library on loan, to later discuss them with us in September. 

Liceul Tehnologic Octavian Goga Jibou, Romania:

Osnovna šola Litija, Litija, Slovenia