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We are a self managed COMMUNITY, founded 30+ years ago, situated 10km from the center of Granada, that hosts and helps people coming from a situation of social exclusion, mainly mothers with children in emergency situations or young immigrants, people with disabilities without family, teenagers at risk situations or people needing a home. We are almost 130 people. There is no hired people as it is a voluntary based project.
The aim of the foundation is to provide our people with a feeling of family and a healthy environment and to give them the opportunity to learn through occupation in different fields, recovering themselves and look for a job or stay and improve the community according to which is their dream.
Our organization serves individuals facing significant challenges and urgent needs. As we work in environments where resources are scarce, it is important that we remain mindful of our belongings and surroundings to ensure the safety and well-being of everyone involved.
NB: in this period we are looking for volunteers that are available to stay 12 months in a specific volunteering program dedicated to European Solidarity Corps.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR MINIMUM ONE MONTH AND WITH A INTERMEDIATE LEVEL OF SPANISH (please don't write us if you can't commit yourself to stay at least one month and if your Spanish is not good enough to have conversation with the people of the community, to be independent working here and to feel yourself comfortable living daily in the middle of 130 people, this conditions are important to take care of the people with whom we work with and to take care of volunteers that we receive :) )
1) Most urgent needs of the period are :
*️️️ School Activities with children: every day is required some experience and Spanish speaking volunteers to help children with home works; In this moment we host more than 15 children and we organize for them different activities like games, circus activities, macramé, stilts.. This activity is held during the afternoons from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on Saturday mornings.
*️️️ Volunteers to stay in our social store in the center of Granada morning or afternoon working in sales and customer service, Managing donations and promoting the community's social and handcraft projects - sometimes accompanying people of the community in that activity. (Spanish language is required).
*️️️Literacy classes for adults: teaching Spanish language to adult migrants from different countries. the activity takes place in the morning or in the afternoon.
*️️️Day care for babies: day care activities with babies from 3 months to 3 years old. At the moment there are 4 babies in the community.
*️️️Artists who want to contribute to the creation of our theater space in the community: to organize workshops, to make performances, to work on social intervention through art. The process is in the creation phase and we are looking for people who can support our team for at least 3 months.
2)General and permanent needs related to the maintenance of the community:
*️️️ Communication and media development (both Spanish and English language): developing web site in different languages, create posts, articles, photo gallery, campaigns, advertisements, video... There is too much to tell about our community life, our activities and our projects.. we need someone that wants to help us to share all that emotions with the outside world! (Spanish language is required).
*️️️ Plumber: fixing washing machine, maintenance of hydraulic system and bathroom and improve hating systems;
*️️️ Maintenance and construction: plastering, paining, fixing furniture, constructing...
*️️️ Agriculture: we have a really nice garden in the community where we want to realize different activities connected with the education of the food waste, the medicinal herbs. We also have 4.000sqm to improve with ecological work.
*️ Kitchen: persons with experience in cooking for big groups of persons, with fantasy and creativity! The meals are communal, all 130 people eat together.
3) Profiles of medium/long term volunteers for management, coordination (at least 3 months and good level of Spanish):
*️️️ Fundraising and manager of projects (Spanish language): looking for members, create new projects, seeking for organizations that can provide sponsorship or work camp groups.
*️️️ Workshop Responsible: people with handcraft abilities mainly in: SEWING, MARMALADE, LITTLE CARPENTRY, that can run a workshop, teach hosted people and create new products to sell;
* Art in general: all kind of project involving performative art for social support. Theater, Music, Circus. we look for someone to lead our Stilt project with experience.
Volunteers will be involved in different ways also in:
*️️️️ MANDATORY: respect schedule and rules of the community, maintain your room and the house you live in very clean and organize cleaning time daily together with other volunteers in your spare time. Take care of the house is very important for us and for people that every day arrives to our place in order to help. The sense of the community starts with the respect of the place you live in and the people you live with.
*️️️️ General maintenance.
*️️️️ Agriculture and gardening.
*️️️️ Children daycare and afterschool activities with children.
*️️️️ Daily cooking for the community kitchen.
*️️️️ Cleaning common spaces.
*️️️️ Entertainment projects (e.g. theatre, movie club, reading club, kids library).
*️️️️ Social media: communication, advertisement, video, photography, graphic design.
*️️️️ Giving a hand in our handcraft workshops (candles, textile, natural soap, marmalade, flowers, pottery, sewing).
*️️️️ Helping with the preparation of seminars for the practice and dissemination of cultural activities, awareness.
*️️️️ Helping with the food / found raising
*️️️️ Teaching skills and passions you have (e.g. art, english, computer, yoga, swimming, etc.).
A GOOD LEVEL OF SPANISH IS REQUIRED because we only have a few English speakers in our community and they are not able to follow volunteers all the time.
We hope that volunteers take initiative at work and that they like working with people from different cultures, children and mental health users. It is reacquired a good level of leadership in order to manage small grup of people...
We are SITUATED in Sierra Elvira, less than 10 km from Granada (reachable in 30 minutes by bus).
NEARBY you can enjoy hot springs in the nature for free, explore Andalusian culture in Cordoba, Sevilla, Granada, do sport in the mountain, go on excursions, go to the Alhambra, go to Sierra Nevada.
NB: Some rules to be welcome in our Community:
Concerning the life in the Fundación there are some important things to know.
Firstly, the volunteers are supposed to cook for themselves the dinner, but we give you the food to do so.
Also, we provide you with sheets and towels, but if you want to bring towels yourself, you're welcome to.
The volunteers who come to the Fundación will live together in the house(s) which are meant for them and you will share the room with someone else during your stay. All in all, it is like living in a big family; you'll be able to do things together, cook together and just generally spend time together.
On to the working timetable. Like already mentioned before, the community work each day is approximately 5 hours (morning/afternoon depending on the activities in which they are involved- Monday to Saturday) but mandatory community time is different:
Every morning from Monday to Friday we have community breakfast at 8 a.m. At 8:30 a.m. there is a meeting of the whole community and at 9/9:30 a.m. the community work begins. We finish at 2:00 pm and at 2:30 pm there is a community lunch.
Once a week each person participates in the cleaning group.
On Saturday breakfast and the meeting start half an hour later (8:30AM).
Volunteering in our community presupposes that the volunteer is committed to respect these schedules and community moments that are essential to generate a family atmosphere and cohesion.
When living in a community like this, it is obviously important that there are some rules to maintain an organized co-living.
This means no alcohol and no drugs for anyone. In addition to that, you will have to establish rules in the house you live in, like cleaning, washing the dishes, respecting when someone wants to sleep and so on. We really ask to clean the house whee you live during your spare time. Everyday we receive visits and new volunteers, and we like them to feel comfortable when they arrive.
Last but not least, it might be interesting to know that there is good-working Wifi in the houses of the Fundación;) and that you can use our bikes to move.
If you have questions of any type, you're more than welcome to ask me whatever's on your mind. In order to make the procedure easy, please send us a message with the EXACT date and time of arrival and departure you are proposing us.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Elderly Companionship
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
In our community, more than 15 nationalities are represented. We host people in social exclusion and volunteers from all over the world. All volunteers could know a lot of people form different country and through the experience to live together, learn a lot about different cultures. We always suggest to volunteers to profit of this great possibility and make an immersion in the community in order to have the best experience they can have!
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We offer volunteers the opportunity of living a solidary experience, learning useful skills and sharing with people from different cultures.
We receive a lot of volunteers from all over the world.
At the moment we have 20 nationalities hosted in the Foundation.
The volunteers are also free to find their own way to cooperate with us and lead their personal project in the Foundation.
Languages spoken
Arabic: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Accommodation
The volunteers have the chance to stay in 2 special houses dedicated only to them. In both houses they can keep privacy and a certain distance from the hosted people if they want.
The houses have their own kitchen, living room, internet, washing machine.
What else ...
In your spare time you can enjoy Andalusia and Spain thanks to our wide contact network all around Spain!
Transportation by bus in Spain is very cheap and in a few hours you can reach Sevilla, Cordoba, Málaga, Alpujarras, Madrid. In some of these cities we can help you with accommodation.
Granada has a National Airport reachable from Madrid, Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca. If you arrive at Málaga you can come to Granada by bus directly from the Airport as well as from Madrid and we could pick you up.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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It is a beautiful project near Granada (you need a 20 min bus to get in the city) with people from all around the globe.
If you stay there longer, you will get to know people better and make… read more
Puedes contribuir de muchas formas, tal como organizar las donaciones de ropa, de muebles y de comida, vender en la tienda, trabajar en el huerto,… read more
Muchísimas gracias a todos para el tiempo, un mes no… read more
una impresión que se acercaría de la mitad de lo que senti allí durante esos dos meses.
Allí vais a amar, vais a celebrar, vais a recordar que la felicidad se encuentra en las cosas simples pero tan preciosas, vais a encontrar gente que cambiaran su vida… read more
I was mainly working in the office but also did some more practical work renovating one of the houses and doing a bit… read more
Dora and Ignacio… read more
Was a nice time, even if not everything is clean/ perfekt.
Llegue a estar poco mas de 4 meses viviendo en esta hermosa comunidad,… read more
Casa 10 es increíble, uno no quiere irse nunca y quiere regresar siempre.
Myself, my wife, and my four daughters became part of the foundation's… read more
The community is very interesting with many different layers to it. The longer I stayed the more I learned about the Foundation, how it worked, and the residents who lived there. I really enjoyed working with people and getting to know them little by little -… read more
It was a great experience for us to spent 10 days learning, sharing and helping what ever we could. We will never forget this experience.
We wish the best for all of you!
Agustina & Damian from Argentina
Thank you again for everything ! :D
I stayed in a volunteer house in the foundation and it is just a magnet for awesome people. Almost every week someone new with new cool stories to share came.… read more
And I wanna thank for Dora and Ignacio, who gave me an opportunity to work there, during two weeks of my staying I felt really conformable, I had a lot to… read more
We found amazing people there, the residents, the volunteers and the directors: Dora and Ignacio. Everyone has a very interesting life story to share with you and it gives you the opportunity to give love and help in many ways.
If you are considering joining this… read more
There were over 10 volunteers at the same time. The volunteers live in a house outside the gated community. Most bedrooms were 4 bunks of single-sex. Wifi was usable but often slow due to being shared by so many people.
Breakfast and lunch were communal meals taken with about 50… read more
I have been there only for 11 days, but I really want to come back.
When I arrived, I didn't speak a lot of English, and nothing of Spanish. Nevertheless, the volunteers helped me a lot, and I consider them as brothers and sisters in this experience… read more
We miss you guys! I hope to see you again!
A big big big hug
The crew!
We miss you!!!
There is tons of room to contribute is you have an idea! They have an amazing variety of workshops and public spaces to pass your time. I… read more
