Background

As Religious of the Sacred Heart, the search for justice, peace and the integrity of creation cuts across all dimensions of our life. We want it to be a benchmark for discernment in the choice of our relationships, projects and commitments. We want to continue to walk with young people. Many of them are engaged in justice and are concerned about the future of our common home. We need to be with all of them in their search for God, for the meaning and value of life.

We are convinced that our spirituality has something important to say to the world today and we want to share it with young people in a creative and life-giving way.

The young people are aware that the Love that God has to translate into SERVICE to others, beyond the borders that governments defend, as Pope Francis says: go to those physical and existential borders. That is why they are committed to building common places (symbolic and physical) at the global and local levels. In this sense, volunteering is a means that allows for greater global citizenship where one experiences that we are one interconnected and interdependent "One Body”.

Objective

Direct objective: To offer young volunteers a process of personal growth, human formation and insertion by participating in the co-responsible experience of social transformation as an expression of their Christian commitment.

Indirect objective: To promote the transformation of reality of vulnerable and marginalised collectivities through volunteer service.

Activities

Coordination:

  • Elaboration, animation and evaluation of the Volunteer Programme in the province.
  • Liaison with the International Volunteer Programme.
  • Link between the International Volunteer Programme (of the future volunteer) and the receiving project.

Identification of projects for the future volunteers

  • Projects committed to the transformation of society with children, young people and adults in vulnerable situations.
  • Projects that provide spaces for service in places of insertion, through formal education (schools), popular education (toy libraries) and parish life.

Possible options for volunteering

  • Community of Jaén: 1) Secondary education for students ages 12 to 17; 2) Alternative Basic Education Centre (CEBA) for young people and adults enrolling in professional formation
  • Community of Bambamarca: 1) CEBA; 2) parish groups
  • Community of Layo: 1) toy libraries for children aged 3 to 10; 2) health centre (outing to the countryside with the nurses); 3) CEBA (English, religion, maths, communication); 4) parish
  • Community of El Agustino: 1) Special Education Centre for children and youth aged 8 to 20; 2) Mother Admirable School (English and sports classes)

 

Extra comments : 

Volunteer service minimum 1 month. 

People being served

People being served : Agents of transformation (Educators)

Age group : Adults 26-60, Young people 18-25

Number of participants : mai-50

Schedule

Project status : Ongoing

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Overview

Society presence : Peru

Focus of the project : People

JPIC Imperative : Transforming and Being Transformed

UN Sustainable Development Goals : 17 Partnerships for the Goals