SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 5 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife has reissued the ‘Cuenta Contigo’ volunteer search campaign that aims to reach 42 educational centers on the island and a total of 7,500 students ranging from the third year of Primary to Baccalaureate through 41 associations.
The details have been exposed in a press conference by the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, the CEO of the Citizen Participation and Diversity area, Nauzet Gugliotta and the general director of Centers, Infrastructures and Educational Promotion of the Government of the Canary Islands, Laly González.
This initiative will reach 114% more students this year – last year was affected by the pandemic – and since 2020 ‘I’m counting on you’ has reached more than 17,400 students, almost 500 actions and 95 educational centers.
Martín has commented that the Cabildo works to support volunteer associations so that they also “get to know each other” and collaborate together “without overlapping functions”, underlining their work in a “generous way” to help meet the needs of society .
He has indicated that these groups are not “known enough” and work must be done to ensure that there are “motivated young people” to take over the generation or even create their own association.
The president has highlighted that “a modern society is not measured by GDP or car registrations” but by having a “powerful” network of volunteers and associations and with this campaign the attempt is being made to “raise awareness” about social problems .
Gugliotta has highlighted the “accompaniment” that the Cabildo carries out with the third sector to solve “everyday problems” and there they have discovered the “difficulty” of generational change and the need to involve young people “in solidarity”.
He has indicated that this campaign gives young people “tools to help and change the world” and has recounted, by way of example, the experience of a victim of gender-based violence in an educational center in the past year.
“I perceived the connection, that it flowed, this comforts, listening to the experiences lived and noticing that it goes ‘clack’ and everything fits”, he explained.
The counselor has also pointed out that there are entities “that need a quarry and others are overflowing”, noting that social action “has regained a new vigor” as a result of the pandemic, especially in environmental or animal issues and increasingly in equality or attention to migrants.
The Cabildo currently has a bag of more than 4,000 volunteers that it makes available to the entities.
González, for his part, commented that this campaign is in line with the “objectives” of the Ministry of Education, given that the Canary Islands are a “pioneer” community in the teaching of emotional education, while a representative of Acufade (Association of Caregivers/s , Relatives and Friends of People with Dependence, Alzheimer’s and other Dementias) has valued the ‘Isla Solidaria’ program and the “fluidity” of the work with public institutions throughout this mandate.
