The basis of our action is the welcome and accompaniment of vulnerable and excluded people. We welcome, listen, guide and accompany people in their suffering, their needs, their hope. We recognize the capacities and potentialities that people have and therefore, we promote their participation and activation in their process of social inclusion. We are also called to the task of raising awareness and transforming society to make it possible for all people to have a dignified life. Raise awareness of the need for involvement of young people and raise awareness of the realities that are not so visible.

You will be able to participate in the following programs. We are working on two activities, but it is still undefined, we are looking at the possibility of doing two of these three actions: 

• Aterpe day and night - Day Care Center. It is a day care center for people in a situation of social and residential exclusion, where social services of information, orientation, socio-educational intervention, and accompaniment in processes of social inclusion are offered. It offers a living and meeting room and provides coverage for food, hygiene, laundry, emergency clothing, nursing and hairdressing needs. Its work would be of accompaniment and assistance in the social dining room.

• Orchard Program - Occupational Center. Occupational center The mission of the zonal educational-occupational programs is to deploy actions and initiatives in occupational key, seeking employment throughout the territory of Gipuzkoa, through the support with human and material resources to the parish charities. Support in the occupational program, accompanying the users. 

• Trintxer Emeki - Residential Care Center. It is a residential shelter for people at risk of exclusion. The Center aims to improve the quality of life of the people it takes in through a process of socio-educational support that enhances their personal and social skills and, in this way, they can achieve greater opportunities for social inclusion. 

Schedule: About 6 or 7 hours. 

• Activity in the assigned project: 4 hours. 

• Lunch at Aterpe (soup kitchen): eating and helping to pick up at the soup kitchen: 1 hour. 

• Afternoon activity with the people in the Aterpe day care center. 2 hours. 

People at risk of social exclusion. 

All students selected for the VUELA program will receive common training for participation in volunteer activities. 

Consult YOUR UNIVERSITY in the following links for training dates, location and conditions.  Don't forget to mark them in your calendar. This training is mandatory and is part of the project. 

On-site support will be provided by the organization itself throughout the project. 

The welcome to San Sebastian and the follow-up of any incident will be supported by the reference person of the University of Deusto Campus San Sebastian.

Shared accommodation in San Sebastian with the volunteers of the Vuela projects in the city. Meals from Monday to Friday will be taken at the Caritas Aterpe with the rest of the volunteers and the people living there. The rest of the meals will take place in the shared accommodation. 

The University of Deusto will help in the search of the accommodation and will facilitate the entrance. Each volunteer will have to contribute individually an equal amount to the common bag to cover the costs of accommodation and meals (dinner and breakfast). The amounts will be communicated prior to arrival, as well as the method of payment. 

Information on the possibility and conditions of financial support for these concepts can be found below, by consulting YOUR UNIVERSITY:

The student is responsible for arranging and paying for transportation to the intervention site, and must inform the project's reference university of the date and time of arrival at least 15 days in advance.

Deusto University (Yajaira Kortabitarte Jauregi)