C/Getafe, nº14 Bajo
28021 Madrid Madrid
Spain
- Youth and education
Our organization was stablished in 2019 in order to continue with the activities already done by an informal in the area of youth engagement in social and political life. Our staff is composed by more than 15 volunteers. We work in teams focusing in different areas: communication, public relationships, research and trainings, with a special department that coordinates the different teams. Our main source of financial aid is the contribution of the members of our organization and of some other donors. Recently we have get european funding for a youth exchange focusing on racial justice. Due to pandemic, our main activities have been online, in the format of webinars and also of the use of some tools in social media to promote topics related to gender and inclusion.
Mission : Contribute to the personal and professional growth of the most vulnerable young people in society, from an approach that puts them at the center and driven by other young people who have experienced similar situations
Objectives:
-Promote the socio-educational inclusion of young people belonging to groups in social exclusion
-Favor alternative meeting spaces that represent the diversity existing in society
-Contribute to the fight against racial, ethnic, religious, sexual and functional diversity discrimination, among others.
-Educate in values of equality, sustainability and respect for human rights
-Promote an active and committed citizenship through the political and social participation of young people
-Foster alliances with different organizations and institutions
Before stablishing as a youth organization, our work as an informal group focused on creating safe spaces for youth to talk about sexist and racist experiences. As well, we provide programs of mentorship to help students with their insecurities about educational options and we offer workshops on how to improve competences such as active listening and public speaking. Due to Covid-19 situation, we could not implement physically any projects, but we manage to offer webinars about our workshops on interpersonal skills as well as design a digital mentorship program for the new academic course. Some of our main activities can be found in our webpage.
We want to contribute with our inclusive and creative approach to social challenges. We are young and motivated people with great capacities to mobilize other youth around important topics that affects us all. We have different ways to contribute. First, the members of our organization have a huge experience on migration field. Some members of the group have experience in the field of working with refugees, collaborating with CEAR (Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado) and in volunteering programs in refugee camps in Turkey and Lebanon. As well, some of them work as social educators with unaccompanied minors who migrated from Morocco to Spain. Other part of the staff, works with migrant children in the field of education and leisure, providing particular classes and activities focused on emotional literacy. As well, people with experience in the research field, especially on ethnic and racial discrimination, help us to provide solid arguments and evidences that helps us to improve our activities and projects, as well as sharing reliable knowledge about important social topics. We think that his amount of knowledge and skills can be valuable contribution of the Network. Second, other interesting thing about us is that most of the team who are organizing are also coming from historically unprivileged groups. This gives them a unique and critic perspective about how social challenges and how to approach to them. Finally, we have access to groups that are not generally represented in positions of power and decision making, and our participation in the network can be a way to include also those groups.
Because we think is an opportunity to engage in real conversations and dialogue concerning to topics that affects us as a society.Also, we believe that having the support of an important network such as the Anna Lindh foundation can help us improving our work, increasing the quality of it and grow little by little in order to achieve our objectives. We believe that the results of our efforts can be multiplied when sharing them in a large network, getting the feedback and support we need for our work contributing to social change. Moreover, we see the connection with different organizations around the world as an enriching experience, sharing best practices and collaborating in future projects together.