Student representatives from all the schools met in the Departament d'Ensenyament in the second year of this project. Two of our school leaders, Paula Duran and Oriol Tomàs, explained our plans for a vegetable garden that we wanted to grow in our school with the collaboration of some elderly people from our community. Unfortunatelly, we didn't carry it out as the group decided to focus on something else.
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| Irene Piqueras was chosen to travel to Glasgow |
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| Teachers from different schools |
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| Every school presented their project |
Our
secondary school Valerià Pujol i Bosch has done two solidarity
activities so far. The first one we organised was a solidarity market
that took place in our gym. The whole community, teachers, janitors,
secretaries and students brought things from home to sell. Parents,
teachers as well as other people from the village bought things.
Apart from being funny-just like a car boot sale-, we raised funds to
send to Mans Unides, a Non-Governmental Organisation. We also sent
some money to Save the Children, another NGO, after the Physical
Education department had organised a race to raise funds. We had to
look for private sponsorships and we were paid for every lap of the
track.
Our
project deals with creating an allotment in our school’s garden,
with elderly people’s help. We want to make them collaborate in
this project to make them feel useful and integrated in our society.
We know it’s ambitious but we’ll try. We also want to repeat the
solidarity market. The important thing is to arouse people’s
consciousness and this is only the beginning.
Oriol Tomàs Paula Duran Irene Piqueras
