As foreigners, students often have difficulty
breaking through cultural barriers and having true cross-cultural
experiences. We have formed partnerships with groups that will help
students participate in volunteer placements, and experience Argentina
as Argentines do. The partnership provides students with the opportunity
to volunteer and help at-risk populations, which entails helping
children, adolescents and adults continue their education. Other
volunteer placements include working in Human Rights Associations,
helping preventing depopulation in rural areas, and many other opportunities.
While contributing to aid vulnerable populations
through childcare, , helping to cook at comedores (soup kitchens),
or teaching English, students gain a kind of knowledge they would
never have had access to if they had only stayed inside a classroom.
We can coordinate volunteer placement for the students in many
foundations and private Institutions.
We are also working together with the University of Buenos
Aires – School of Social Work in order to coordinate
volunteer placements for the students in “official government
programs”
Some of the Foundations and Private Institutions we are working
with:
1) AIMA – (International Association of
Argentinean Women)
2) CARITAS Argentina
3) Hogar de Ancianos “San José de la Montaña”
(Shelter for elderly people)
4) Fundación Ananké (Hogar de niños)
(Shelter for homeless children)
5) Comunidad de Aborígenes de “El Soberbio”,
Provincia de Misiones
(Indian Community)
Some of the Official Government Institutions we are working with
in coordination with UBA:
1) Gobierno de la Ciudad -Secretaría de Promoción
Social –
Programa de subsidios habitacionales a familias en situación
de calle
(Assistance for homeless people )
2) MOI - Movimiento ocupantes e inquilinos Hábitat
popular - Autogestión vivienda
(Assistance for homeless people )
3) Ministerio de Salud y Acción Social de la Nación
Hospital Nacional Alejandro Posadas
Programas de Salud (oncología, tuberculosis)
(National Public Hospital)
4) Comedor P.A..S.O. (Iglesia Anglicana)
Comedor adultos en situación de calle
(Soup-Kitchen for adults)
5) Gobierno de la Ciudad - Programa prevención comunidades
vulnerables
Prevención delito- jóvenes en conflicto con
la ley
(Program for young people in conflict with the law)
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