Confed Don Bosco

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Street + nr Avda. Primado Reig, 6	Telephone +34 96 36 56 69 88
Postal code 46009	Mobile +34 671 787 329
Town Valencia	Fax
Country Spain	Website Confed Don Bosco [3]

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Employees: 

89

Volunteers: 

3484

Young people: 

34815

Contact Person: 

Ana Espáriz González

Member of the National Youth Council: 

yes

Legal status: 

Youth Association

Geograph. focus: 

Spain

Publications: 

On national level we have:

• An Information Letter (monthly).
• International Area Newsflash (twice a month)
• Campaigns (yearly projects)
• Postcards (Don Bosco, Mary Help of Christians, International Day of Volunteering, International Day of Childhood...)
• Studies (identity, health....)

On federation and local level we have:

• Informative bulletins
• Newspapers and magazines
• Formative manuals (health education, eduaction in leisure time and values...)

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Mission: 

• to offer qualified services of prevention and education during leisure time, youth animation and social-cultural development
• to offer the educational system of Don Bosco to the present society in the field of promotion and formation of volunteership and social-cultural animation
• to promote necessary devices to respond to young people’s demands and needs essential for complex development of their personality
• to pay special attention to marginalized children and youth and to those who are in danger of social exclusion
• to support youth participation and association
• to support the ideal of European integration by means of  cooperation with other entities and organizations

Example activities: 

As you can see from the previous description of the background and mission of our organization, it’s clear that it is the representative entity of Salesian Youth Centres (federations) on the national level. That’s why our own activities have got a wider scope and are of a general character.   We organize activities within the following programmes:  

• Programmes of Social Inclusion
• Programmes for Health Education
• Programmes of ChildLife Quality
• Programmes of Formation of volunteers
• Programmes of Education in Leisure time and values
• Programmes of Training and Advice for Employability for Young People
• Programmes of Training and Advice for Employability for Women
• Programmes of Promotion of Volunteership

  Majority of classical Salesian activities like animator’s courses, oratorio, summer camps, cultural and sport activities are done in federations or specific youth centers. We are the body, which finds and provides the resources for these activities, coordinates all the programs and represents interests of youth centers on the national level. The specific regular initiatives we organize are:

• Summer school/ Training School of Confederación (from 1999, we have realized 13 summer schools).
• National Congress of Youth Centers (we have realized 16 congresses).
• International youth activities within DBYN

Background: 

Four independent Federations of Salesian Youth Centers existing at that time (Andalucia, Cataluña, Madrid and Comunidad Valenciana) decided to constitute a common structure on the national level-CONFEDERACIÓN DE CENTROS JUVENILES DON BOSCO DE ESPAÑA on 12th May 1991, during the 8th State meeting of Youth Centers celebrated in Pamplona city. (This happened a few months before the 150th anniversary commemorating the well-known meeting between Don Bosco and Bartolomé Garelli  in the Turin’s sacristy, the majority of the Salesian Youth Centers in Spain were creating their own Confederation.) This was the start how Salesian Youth Centers (inspired by the educative experience of Don Bosco and his preventive system) incorporated themselves into the actual society as authentical youth centers, open for all young people, based on the educative project for leisure time.   From this moment on, the Youth Centre is not perceived only as premises where young people just come and spend their leisure time. Conceptions which spread ideas that the youth centre is only place for entertainment where different activities are developed, are nowadays old-fashioned. Step by step, occupation of leisure has turned to real social compromise.   At the beginning of the 1990s, other federations were founded and soon incorporated themselves into the Confederation. (Murcia, Aragón, Galicia, Castilla y León, Euskadi and finally Canarias).   Nowadays the Confederación consists of 9 federations which don’t correspond to state organization of Autonome Communities (Not each Autonome Community has got its own federation) and associates about 135 Salesian Youth Centers. The Confederación takes responsibility for legal cover and promotion of Youth Centers in those Autonome Communities where, due to different circumstances, Federations cannot develop. Actually all Salesian Youth Centers can receive benefits from opportunities which the Confederación provides by means of Federations offering formative courses, technical and economical resources, support and counselling and many other initiatives which contribute to the development of Youth Centers as entities of education, prevention and youth participation.   Although there are many different kinds of understanding of the Salesian Youth Centre in Spain, all of them are united in the fundamental lines and are rooted in the educative system of Don Bosco.   There are many young volunteers who understood the compromise to be “descendents of a dream”, the one in which Don Bosco started to create the “World of options for young people”.

History

Member for

3 years 35 weeks