Campi di volontariato. Speciale Messico

Tra le destinazioni extra europee, una fra le preferite dai nostri volontari è il Messico.
I progetti di volontariato organizzati dalle nostre associazioni partner sono in questo momento oltre cento. Tutti i campi in Messico che noi offriamo sono per volontari maggiorenni.
In questa breve sintesi ve ne presentiamo tre, ricordandovi che nel database online trovate migliaia di progetti in tutto il mondo.

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VIVE16.02 SEA TURTLES Conservation I Guayabitos Nayarit Mexico 06/07-18/07 ENVI 20vols +18 
 
PROJECT: Since 2014 Vive Mexico has organized this project in Rincon de Guayabitos, Nayarit with extraordinary results, the aim of these projects is to protect sea turtles with a team of biologists working in Guayabitos, Nayarit. Volunteers, biologists and locals create a team to perform various activities to ensure sea turtles survival for future generations. If you love nature, want to have a great time in beautiful beaches near the village, with all the amenities of a hotel and witness the magic spectacle of nature happenings since millions of years... then this project is for you! A team of biologists who are working with volunteers want to show you the charm of turtle’s life.
 
ACTIVITIES: The main job is to patrol the beach at night, working hours are around from 20:00 to 8:00, four days per week, this depends on the number of turtles that come ashore, it is recommended that volunteers come prepared to work these hours, depending on the number of volunteers involved in the project, two teams will be split allowing each group to have a day of work, a day off for recovery and two days off in weekends. Some of the activities to be performed are:

• to find adult turtles and collect their eggs
• to move the eggs to a protected place called Vivero
• o release newborn baby turtles into the sea
• to patrol the beaches at night
• to make some reconstruction in the most important turtle camps from the region.

 Together with a team of biologists from La Penita de Jaltemba, volunteers will seek turtles and will be in charge of taking care of their eggs, the team of biologists and local people are very friendly and working with them is always fun. We need motivated volunteers who really want to get involved in a project with sea turtles; the workplace depends on the beach where more turtles arrive, every day biologists will define which beach will be patrolled by volunteers.
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VIVE16.08 Art for Everybody Zitacuaro, Michoacan Mexico 03/08-16/08 FEST/ART 6vols +18 FEE: 155€
 
PROJECT: During the FESTIVAL CULTURAL DE ZITACUARO "ARTE PARA TODOS", 2016 EDITION, an “Art for Everybody Cultural Festival, 2016” we are looking for volunteers to collaborate as staff and support in carrying out a program of cultural and artistic activities in Zitacuaro Town, to encourage the use of public space and involve local residents in such activities through workshops and artistic exchanges to attract new and larger audiences for culture and arts. At the same time promote the production, assembly and distribution of different expositions, languages ​​and artistic techniques to strengthen communication and cultural reunion of local inhabitants; raising the values of the community, promoting human development, making a stronger cultural identity of the unity in the diversity.
 
ACTIVITIES: Volunteers will help as staff in the development of the festival, which will take place during the months of May to October 2016; during the days of the project, volunteers will carry out activities such as:

• to participate in logistics, assembly, distribution and exhibition of expositions, concerts, dance and theater shows where artists, children, youth and adults, as well as the general public will take part
• to collaborate in the production of urban art workshops and create workshops for children, youth and adults
• to collaborate in the mediation of roundtables with topics such as the importance of the recovery of public space, cultural policies, the right to culture, expressions of urban art, the benefits of culture and art as social development
• to assist in the achievement of taking 1,000 artistic photographs as acquisition for the municipality of Zitacuaro, inspired by the tangible and intangible belongings of the region for the massive exhibition "Foto Mural, Zitacuaro en 1000 imagenes".

  
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VIVE16.15 Art Therapy for Children Morelia Michoacan Mexico 07/09-20/09 KIDS 6vols +18 FEE: 155€

PROJECT: Cancer patients suffer not only physical discomfort, but also various psychological alters: depression and anxiety. In Mexico, cancer is the second leading cause of death, it is estimated that each year 7,000 new cancer cases occur in women under 20 years. Plastic art and music therapy can help cancer patients, this will help to have a better quality of life, to cope with their disease and get a better life. Volunteers will develop art therapy workshops helped by music and visual art, through various art techniques that brings benefits such as reflection, expression and relaxation. This activity is a process of self-expression, which helps patients to organize their internal reaction product of the events happening in their lives. These art therapy workshops, developed by volunteers and artists who work on a voluntary basis, will be an outlet to channel and express the point of view from patients without pressure, just being guided by artistic techniques. It is important that volunteers notice that we do not necessarily work with psychologists, since these therapies are occupational made by artists. No courses are given to volunteers by  any psychologist or psychiatrist.
 
ACTIVITIES: The activities are driven to benefit both patients and volunteers:

• to conduct art therapy workshops in an organization who assists children with cancer disease; led by volunteers and professional artists on a voluntary basis for children and teenagers with cancer aged under 20 years old, where the subject is music
• to create plastic works of sculpture and collage, inspired by specific musical pieces
• to raise public awareness through the pieces of art produced by children and tenagers with cancer
• to raise awareness through activities that involve the visual arts, so that volunteers contribute and help these fragile groups
• to ensure that volunteers and artists will contribute with their knowledge, time and effort to this vulnerable group.

 
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NAT-WC-16-15  JAGUAR DE MADERA BICIMAQUINAS 07/10-21/10  +18 FEE 145 

The project:  Jaguar de Madera (the Wooden Jaguar) is an educational center of ecotechnologies established in 2007 in order to promote the bio-construction, permaculture, carpentry and cultural exchange. After a process of rescue and cleanup of a vacant lot and the support and collaboration of other organizations, it was carried out the rehabilitation and construction of what would become a training center for use and application of various alternative technologies for recycling materials and natural resources. The mission of Jaguar de Madera is to aim the use of efficient natural resources, the sustainable self-sufficiency and improvement of life quality with a positive impact in the environment. Some of the bio-construction techniques applied are; superblock, construction with bottle, cob and adobe. It also develops organic agricultural projects and renewable energies such as bicimaquinas (bike-machines), solar panels and wood stove. Likewise, members of the center, follow the alternative philosophy of energetic Kung Fu, with the slogan : Learn to fight for not to fight. The warrior s battles are with himself . So this way they give a spiritual sense to their work (optional practice for volunteers).f

Work:  Volunteers will be able to learn and practice different techniques of bio-construction, using low cost local recycled materials and natural resources. The tasks will depend on climate conditions and needs of the center, but hard physical work as to be considered, each workcamp will have as principal aim to achieve the following activities according to the next calendar. *October; Making of bici-maquinas (bike-machines)

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