Recreation

The area of recreation execute the follow projects

• Holiday Activities
• Teenager Zone
• Other Activities

Holiday Activities
The children from the community often have little to do during the summer holidays. In the absence of institutions offering adapted activities, they are left to themselves. Therefore the foundation Minadores de Sueños organise every year holiday camps that last for several weeks. Within which the kids can enjoy a place with games, participation joy, friendship, freedom and much more. The idea is to bond together all of the children from the area. The teenagers that have received a previous workshop and manage these activities.
For the good processing of the holiday camps we fixed these goals:

• Bringing to the children and teenagers a recreational, integrative and participative space with mindful activities to generate adequate and active use of their free time.
• Reinforcing the global learning process of the participating children and teenagers.

We wish every year to introduce new elements to our program. Beside the creative activities like the manual activities, music, drawing, marzipan, we also organise sport events such as sport days, marathons and cultural events like drama, music, puppetry, clowns, magic, but also excursions and day trip. This is really rewarding for the children. Often it is their trip of the year! To better meet with the wishes and the needs of our children we undertake satisfaction surveys at the end of the program to offer the most suitable and appealing holiday’s camps in the next edition.

Teenager Zone
Since 2005 we have organised a series of gatherings and workshops in the direction of the teenagers of the community. The idea is to encourage teenagers to make themselves responsible to organise their free time at the service of the community.
The aim is:

• To empower a group of teenagers to become independent, critical and with a set of social values in a protective space to generate and fuel an organisation that prevents taking into gangs, the use of legal and illegal drugs and early pregnancies

In the first phase, our objective was to form a constant group of teenagers, in that sense we organised several encounters to which responded very positively the adolescents. The second phase gathered the active participation of 25 teenagers, started in December 2007 under their own initiative, they propose themselves to organise particular activities. Following their suggestions, we arranged several workshops and excursions on the themes of sexuality, drugs, social skills and leadership.

Other Activities
During the year we organise transversal activities:

• Camping
• Hikes
• Educational visits
• Outdoor trips

We organise them during the holiday camps, learning support and the teenager zone. They are a crucial part of the recreational and learning processes as while playing they learn and motivate themselves.