GIVE ME YOUR HAND: SOCIAL INTEGRATION AS A SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.2163182331071

• Palavras-chave: Service-Learning; People; Dignity; Integration; Immigration; Socio-labour reinsertion.

• Keywords: Service-Learning; People; Dignity; Integration; Immigration; Socio-labour reinsertion.

• Abstract:

  Sixth grade Primary students are involved in a service-learning project, where they learn about immigration, diseases, animals, plants and social integration. In collaboration with Cáritas, the Ministry of the Environment, Mutua de Levante, the San Roque Market and the Rotary, it provides a comprehensive service to seventeen women and children of families at risk of social exclusion through the gift of a mobile application, a job recommendation letter, cultural routes through the city, round tables, workshops, literary gatherings, academic support sessions, they improve the Cáritas classroom and invite them on weekends. And together hand in hand, they participate in the recovery of endangered animals; they collect medicinal plants; they organize a Master-chef for the whole city with the San Roque Market; they are preparing two literary holidays for the elderly at the Emilio Sala residence and for the Gormaget occupational center; they hold social gatherings and a day of fraternity with people with addiction disorders from AEPA; with AECC and Solc they fight against cancer; with the Unión Musical Contestana, they offer a benefit concert; and they hold a final party at the nursing home. A project that manages to raise 7,310 euros in solidarity.