For the second year the Intercultural project “Enjoy Europe” aimed at youth associations and designed by the FPSC, starts with the arrival of European volunteers Renske van Dalen, from Holland, and Anaelle Dézsy, from Austria. The young girls applied to the European Voluntary Service, a program within the framework of the Erasmus Programme where the FPSC is involved with this project of multiculturalism.
Enjoy Europe is aimed at children and adolescents and is holding workshops in English to convey, in a playful way, the values of multiculturalism. Around 500 schoolchildren of numerous youth organizations in Madrid will participate this year in Enjoy Europe and they will know customs, countries and other forms of life different from their own.
Young Renske and Anaelle will perform volunteering for 9 months at the headquarters of the Foundation where they will prepare workshops, write blogs of experiencies and conduct daily monitoring of the workshops as well as an assessment of each of the participants.
The intercultural workshops are held in the evenings in youth associations, after the study led program “Intelligo” launched also by the FPSC, to improve the academic performance of students with a proper planning and monitoring of homework.
Enjoy Europe is an ambitious program which emphasizes that children open their minds to other ways of life and perform well in English, taking the language away from the study of grammar and bringing it closer to what it should be: a communication tool and ultimately, promotes awareness of European citizenship among participants in a world that tends to break down barriers.