URBAN GARDENS, GREEN LIGHT FOR INTERCULTURALITY AND INTERCONGREGATIONAL, wants to get together the ecological horticulture training with the relationship and coexistence between people of different cultures and ages.
Through this practice, young migrants without a job or residence permit, which are hosted in Fundació Benallar, participate in this workshop to get a specific training in ecological gardening, to develop strategies and habits that will help them to be included in this society and to keep active while they are waiting for the labour market to change.
At the same time, the Foundation volunteers aged between 50 and 70 years old, have participated in this workshop for one or two days a week to be trained in organic gardening and enjoy the values transmitted while working in the countryside and while promoting sustainable consumption.
The workshop has been carried on throughout the 2011-2012 academic year by quarters, four days a week, three hours a day. Given the characteristics of our garden, 5 people have simultaneously participated.
A trainer, specialized in the techniques of ecological gardening, all of them have performed the tasks entrusted to them daily, consisting of putting manure on the land, planting seasonal products, maintenance, irrigation, and harvesting.
The fact that the tasks are performed together and as equals, has led to the relationship between people of different cultures and ages, mutual transmission of knowledge and reach an important state of friendship between all the people doing the workshop. This has been also aided by the break moments, in each of these days that have greatly favoured communication.
Obiettivi
INNOVATION: it’s a novelty that in the same garden, people of different cultures and ages work together.
COHERENCE with the aims of the organizer, which devotes their activities to hosting immigrants and to intercultural coexistence.
Promotes INTERCULTURALITY between immigrants and local people.
Promotes INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE between young immigrants and middle-aged or retired.
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Implementazione
Valutazione
Very positive for all the involved actors: volunteers, coordinators, migrant youngsters.
Suggerimenti
AIMS:
- Being trained in the main ecological and sustainable gardening techniques.
- Promote intercultural and intergenerational dialogue.
- Enjoy physical work values in the middle of nature, outdoors.
- Betting on a healthy nutrition, based on social and solidar economy.
- Encouraging openness to new and different things, opening up to other knowledge.
