Through the Erasmus + Capacity Building YOUNIC project, of which we are coordinators, we will send three volunteers from Spain to organizations in India, Mexico and Colombia for 6 months (from June 1 to November 28).

As in any other EVS project, those selected will have financed travel, accommodation, meals and pocket money.

1. EVS in COLOMBIA

Host Entity: GAL (Grupo de Acción Local) Valletenzano and University of Bogotá

Place: Guayatá, Boyacá

Target group: preteens who are in the last years of compulsory secondary education and unemployed youth, without activity or prospects in having it in the short term.

Description of the local project:

Two lines of work:

- The first, one in educational intervention about preteens in school, and with long-term objectives. The purpose of this first line is the consolidation in the target group, of the feeling of belonging to the territory. The focus of this action is that mere training in leadership or entrepreneurship skills on a young sector that is not interested in reversing that training in the territory or whose greatest ambition in the short term is to migrate to Bogotá is not enough.

-The second line has as its target group young people who have finished school, inhabitants of the territory in small towns with concerns and willingness to develop projects at the local level. This second line would also have intersection points in the first. After some time working with this group of young people, some of them would participate in the pre-adolescent school sensitization project from their experience in YOUNIC, sharing the work and concerns that are being developed.

TASKS of the volunteer:

Participate in the two lines of intervention according to their competences. Supporting local technicians.

Document all the experience and writing a manual.

2. EVS in MEXICO

Host Entity: GAL (Grupo de Acción Local) Mam´Kach 

Place: Motozintla, Mexico

Target group: young people from rural Chiapas (in the towns of Motozintla, El Porvenir and Siltepec) at risk of social exclusion who have had episodes of alcoholism and contact with other types of drugs and who have now initiated self-employment processes . These young people do not have the necessary skills or social skills to guarantee a certain level of success in the social entrepreneurship actions they wish to undertake.

Description of the local project:

Project focused on local development initiatives and rural tourism in the towns of El Porvernir, Motozintla and Siltepec. In Motozintla and El Porvenir with ecotourism, interpretive trails and the enhancement of agricultural activities. In Silpetec through initiatives that value the tourism of grottos and the coffee path. The strategy and ultimate purpose is to make the young population aware of these locations in which they see in this territory a space of opportunity in which they can be protagonists with the support of the LAG and the actions provided for in YOUNIC.

TASKS of the volunteer:

Participate in the local project according to their competencies. Supporting local technicians.

Document all the experience and writing a manual.

3. EVS in INDIA

Host: New Beginnings Charitable Trust

Place: Vijayawada, India

Description of the local project:

Project 1: Currently they offer girls in a situation of social exclusion for different reasons, skills training in bakery, clothing and sewing.

Project 2: Fishing Communities. Most of them are dedicated to fishing and live in a group of "island villages". The main towns of the island are called Edurumondi and Yesupuram. There are seven such villages located as a group at the place where the Krishna River joins the Bay of Bengal. It is about two hours away from Vijayawada. His principal here is with the government school, teaching children English, math, science and sports. The centers lack even fundamental requirements such as bathrooms for children.

TASKS of the volunteer:

Participate in the local project according to their competencies. Supporting local technicians.

Document all the experience and writing a manual.

If you are interested in participating, send an email introducing yourself and your CV to sveyounic@asociacionmundus.com.​