AFSAI

Young Intercultural Dialogue between Eu and Latin America is a European Voluntary Service Project, coordinated by AFSAI in 2010  and  co-fundend by the European Commissin in the framework of the Youth in Action Programme.  

Young Intercultural Dialogue between Eu and Latin America was a Group EVS project arming at promoting the importance of Intercultural Dialogue as way to fight discriminations and prejudices not only towards people that belong to other cultures but also towards all those disadvantaged target groups that coexist in our societies. We tried to pursuit this goal by involving our volunteers in experiences dealing with social Inclusion of youngsters and children with fewer opportunities, disabled people, refugees or elderly people.

This EVS project brought together a total number of 12 volunteers, 7 Italian and 5 from Latin America. While the Latin American volunteers were  engaged into 5 hosting projects based in Italy  for 6 months, the Italian volunteers were invited to go to Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru and Brazil, for 3 months. All of them did  their activities in hosting organizations involved in the social field where they can together have an active role within our society which nowadays is relating itself with immigration issues and the concept of intercultural or multicultural societies.
All tasks in which European and Non European volunteers were invited in, were based on informal and non formal learning techniques The innovative and entertaining elements brought about by new volunteers enhanced the power of informal learning process of young hosts that positively benefited from the presence of foreigners.