IPSL’s Spanish language participants in Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA can now provide volunteer Service and/or Fieldwork with an organization that aims to make sports programs in Buenos Aires more inclusive of the LBGTQ+ community. Their focus is using sporting programs (soccer, volleyball, etc...) as a tool for social inclusion and, thus, help to build a more fair and integrated society both on and off the pitch. There are opportunities to help develop, market, and integrate these teams into the mainstream.

 

IPSL also partners with resource scare, marginalized communities (called "Villa Miserias" or "Villas") working with community based organizations providing a variety of social services, education, health care, youth programming and more.

 

Here are some of the ways IPSL participants have contributed to empowering communities through volunteering:

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• Supporting a sports organization (nonprofit) focused on empowering the LGBTQ community 

• Collaboration with the development of the Little Football School

• Education and advice on body care, healthy eating and habits

• Preparation of nutritional plans for the dining room for boys, girls, youth, adults and seniors

• Yoga, stretching, meditation and breathing practices for the volunteers who collaborate with a Foundation's tasks

• Organization of a community library

• Participation in the setting up of a Cultural Centre and collaboration with their steady- staff Orchestra

• Work in a Clothes-making workshop for poor Porteños

• Hydroponic garden

• Bakery    

       ...and more

 

Contribute to the education and empowerment of vulnerable and marginalized communities in Argentina. Use your power for good to serve others. This isn't charity; this is community-based-learning where you will reflect on your role as a guest, a listener, and a thoughtful partner in community-based learning settings. In the process, you can contribute to on-going work that locals have designed and implemented. You'll be stepping into a running stream where others have come before you. Trust us...you will learn a lot about yourself and gain perspectives that will help you throughout your life.