This year’s programme has a budget of around 80,000 € and is being carried out in five municipalities on the Islands.
10 young people from the Balearic Islands will participate in volunteer camps abroad this summer and 15 will do so in other autonomous communities.
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72 young people between the ages of 16 and 30 are participating this year in the volunteer camps organised by the Balearic Youth Institute (IBJOVE) on the Islands. The councillor for Families and Social Affairs, Catalina Cirer, the director general of Families, Children, Youth, Equality and Diversity, Farners Saneiro, and the director of IBJOVE, Tomàs Amer, visited this Tuesday the one taking place from 10 to 24 July in Cases de Son Llaüt (Santa Maria) together with the councillor for Youth of Santa Maria, Rosa Canyelles. Co-organised by Espiral, this camp involves young people aged 16 and 17. It promotes environmental education and sustainability by signposting paths and mountain routes, restoring green spaces or through awareness-raising days with children from summer schools.
72 young people are taking part in the IBJOVE volunteer camps this summer
The volunteer camp programme has a budget of almost €80,000 provided by IBJOVE and with the collaboration of the town councils of Santa Maria, Alaró, Calvià, Inca and Sóller. The aim is to bring together young people from different backgrounds to develop a work project of social projection and complementary activities. This promotes, among other things, the values of coexistence, tolerance, solidarity, participation and intercultural learning.
In addition to the one in Santa Maria, the following volunteer camps are taking place this year:
Alaró (12-26 July). ‘Archaeology in the Castle of Alaró’. 18 to 30 years old.
Calvià (4-18 August). ‘Equality in action: building a fair future’. Young people aged 16 and 17.
Inca (19 August-2 September). ‘Educating by example’. 18 to 30-year-olds.
Sóller (24th August-7th September). ‘Promoting culture with deeds’. 18 to 30 years old.
‘The volunteer camps are an activity that should be continued by the IBJOVE’, said Catalina Cirer, “because these 80,000 euros are not an expense but an investment for the Conselleria, as these activities make young people happy, but also help them grow and train as responsible adults”. The 16 and 17-year-olds from the Santa Maria camp ‘return to their autonomous communities having acquired a commitment to the environment, aware of nature and convinced that it is an asset to be preserved’, said Cirer.
25 young people participate in camps in the rest of Spain and abroad.
This year, seven young people from the Islands are taking part in the camps in Mallorca, while the rest (65) come from other autonomous communities. Likewise, a total of 15 young people from the Islands will travel to other autonomous communities (four in Galicia, four in Navarre, two in Madrid, two in Catalonia and one each in Aragon, the Basque Country and La Rioja).
There are also 10 young people from the Islands participating in international camps: three in Cambodia, three in Portugal, two in Germany, and one each in France and Sweden.