Campaigns: Social Activities

The campaigns provide a magnificent opportunity for civic participation.  We seek out ways to collaborate with City Hall so that the participants can serve as volunteers to address specific social needs, as an outside contribution to the host city, which also serves as a training experience.

We organize a blood drive in collaboration with the Brotherhood of Blood Donors or the Red Cross, where the campaign participants take part by donating and/or by encouraging the whole city to participate.  In addition, in 2004, we prepared a Youth Health Project "Breath", in which we encouraged youth to quit smoking by offering to exchange a cigarette for a candy, while at the same time providing information about healthy lifestyle habits.

As examples of civic participation, when we did the campaign in Palencia, City Hall entrusted us with recuperating the floodplain of the river, cleaning various areas of papers and cans.  In Osuna (Seville), City Hall solicited volunteers to paint the municipal cottage, which was full of graffiti, and others to visit two municipal nursing homes to spend time with the elderly.