Hello everyone,
1. Participatory Bugeting
Solidarity
Walk is a charity event with a purspose. For each walk we work with different
local charity organization. In order
to participate in the walk, every person has to bring something to donate (for
example we collected baby clothes for the babies, animal food for the pets and
so on). The choosen organizations work closely with the poorest families from
the neighbourhood. There are always some suprises during the event. For
the first one we prepared some props that were used to make funny photos.
It’s a revitalization project of the old part of
the biggest social housing district on the Iberian Peninsula (and second in
Europe). The old part is partially abandoned as the cozy little houses are very
old and sometimes in a bad sshape. There are going to be demolished in a few
years, but right now there are still home to the oldest inhabitants of the
district. The local city hall wants them to fill included and looked-after.
That is why they plan to clean front yards and reprint the house that are
already abandonned. The empty yards will be offered to the inhabitants so that
they could have their own vegetable patches.
Thank you, Marysia, for sharing and wishing you good luck in your project!
Mr. Hedgehog is alive again and would like to share EVS experience of our volunteer Marysia in Lisbon.
Marysia:
…is 105% positive (disclaimer: that doesn’t mean all of the situations are
easy, far from that!). As a volunteer I was engaged in many different tasks so
far – from bending 1500 paper sheets with Christmas wishes, to making video
interviews with local associations from scratch and being responsible for
social media channels of the Sport & Youth Department, which is my daily
task (you can watch one of my first productions here: http://bit.ly/2nrGeNI). Some of the tasks are individual but very often I
work also as a team with fellow volunteers from Italy (Paola & Roberta).
Here you have a quick review of some of the
initiative that we participated in while working in the local ciy hall (Junta
de Freguesia de Carnide).
1. Participatory Bugeting
Two of our projects wins the prize and
will be financed by participatory budgeting founded by Lisbon City Hall. We
were responsible for communicating the projects to the community (by
facebook, and in person – delivering leaflets & posters).
3.
Nossa Rua (Our Street)
It’s a revitalization project of the old part of
the biggest social housing district on the Iberian Peninsula (and second in
Europe). The old part is partially abandoned as the cozy little houses are very
old and sometimes in a bad sshape. There are going to be demolished in a few
years, but right now there are still home to the oldest inhabitants of the
district. The local city hall wants them to fill included and looked-after.
That is why they plan to clean front yards and reprint the house that are
already abandonned. The empty yards will be offered to the inhabitants so that
they could have their own vegetable patches.
4. The same quarter (Bairro Padre Cruz) is now the
biggest street art gallery in Europe (there are almost 100 graffities on a
quite concentreted area). We were lucky to participate in a course for the
local guide organized by the Urban Art Gallery (cultural department of Lisbon
City Hall).
5. Sometimes we have also time to actually
sightsee. On the very begining we went for the On-Arrival Training to
Braga.
6. On the 6th of January (and in June as well) the local
city hall organizes a big dinner party for the eldest inhabitants of the
district. This year we served meals to 550 people. Every volunteer had at least
one table to serve.
Have a nice weekend,
Marysia
Thank you, Marysia, for sharing and wishing you good luck in your project!
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