Vuelta

The cultural exchange organisation VUELTA was founded in 2011 based in the vision to promote social justice and guarantee peace.

The organization’s mission is to:
- include people at risk of social exclusion in cultural learning and mobility programs.
- practice an education free of prejudices.
- foment confidence and understanding between socially and culturally diverse people.

Our organization is divided into 5 areas:

Awareness-rising: To carry out discussions, workshops, events and actions to sensitize about issues related to interculturality and social justice.

Information: To act like a link between existing mobility programs and possible participants.

Mobility: Short- and long-term exchanges
Short-term exchanges: To plan, organize, carry out and evaluate intercultural learning exchanges between people of two or more cultures.
Long-term exchanges: To plan, organize, carry out and evaluate exchanges focused in living the reality of a different culture.

Networking: To build up a network of confidence and collaboration with organizations and people with similar values.

Training: To give and receive training courses related to our field of work.

Our activities are:
1) To inform people at risk of social exclusion about mobility programs and support them before, during and after their intercultural learning experience.
Experience in this activity:
2016-now: Receiving EVS volunteers at risk of social exclusion in collaboration with the Fair-Trade organization Asociación Cultural La Trastienda.

2) To give workshops, discussions, meetings and training courses in the field of formal and non-formal education.
Experience in this activity:
- 2012: Youth-in-action project giving environmental education workshops
- 2014-now: Giving workshops to youth between 12 and 30 in the substance abuse prevention program of the city of Oviedo.

3) Organizar encuentros con participantes de diversidad social y cultural.
Experience in this activity:
We are in the process of designing a youth Exchange aimed at youth aged 18 through 30 at risk of social exclusion (unemployment, migration background, economic obstacles, psychosocial obstacles). The project is called HOME. We are looking for partners for this activity. Please find attached a summary of the project.

4) To create a network with organizations with similar values.
Experience in this activity: Collaboration with the Fair-Trade organization Asociación Cultural La Trastienda. And maybe your organization?