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Rural reception programme

To ensure proper reception, information, training and guidance, as well as advice for immigrants taking part in farm work and facilitate their social integration by means of activities favouring integration and non-discrimination in the rural areas they live in.

Activities:

  • Individual interviews
  • Advice on reception and integration
  • Workshop on administrative procedures and filing personal documentation
  • Workshop on document renewal
  • Workshop on personal finance management and self-funded communities
  • Beginners’ courses in Spanish for immigrants
  • Courses in digital literacy
  • Awareness raising and diversity management activities
FOTO BONES PRÀCTIQUES EN LA RECOLECCIÓ DE FRUITA IPI 2016

Personal itineraries for integration in the farming sector

This project is intended to help put into effect the principle of equality between potentially vulnerable migrants and the receiving society, by means of personalised integration itineraries that fit the characteristics and specific needs of the programme’s users and improve employability in the farming sector.

Activities:

  • Interview and CV
  • Tutorials
  • Job hunting
  • Individual social and occupational counselling

Training:

  • Workshop on online job hunting (Active Job-Hunting Resources)
  • Workshop on Work in the farming sector
  • Workshop on communication skills (farming vocabulary: types of farm work, types of fruit, tools, etc.)
  • DAFO workshop
  • Workshop on immigration law
  • Course in forklifts
  • Course in pruning
  • Course in food handling
  • Course in animal welfare
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Personal itineraries for integration for people aged over 45: Farming mentor

This project has allowed us to concentrate on people who on account of their age find it more and more difficult to work in farming. It has also allowed us to develop a new worker profile, the ‘Farming mentor’, who helps manage the human side of labour relations. The project spotlights age as an added value in the individual rather than as a handicap.

The process begins when users over the age of 45 applying for work are referred to the FPS by specialists in social and integration bodies in Lleida to take part in the programme. The FPS holds an introductory interview for everyone referred to the programme to explain what it consists of.

Socio-occupational diagnoses are performed. On the basis of the interview, personalised itineraries have been established that consider different types of guidance, workshops and occupational training. The integration process is completed with work on content and monitoring of labour relations.

The specific training included in this programme is as follows:

  • Best practices in fruit and vegetable harvesting
  • Phytosanitary applier
  • Agricultural machinery operator and maintenance
  • Unit in charge of work team (farming mentor). A new occupational category aimed at guidance and leadership in work teams (communication, problem solving, group leadership, guidance tools and teaching methods). A period of work experience is included as part of the training.
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Immigration awareness project for schools in rural areas

The Fundació Agricultors Solidaris began running the ‘Immigration Awareness Project for Schools in Rural Areas’ in 2014. The project comprises the following elements:

  • School as an integrating educational tool
  • Integration as a two-way element
  • Ignorance of the cultures, traditions or religions of other countries on the part of the receiving population.

In this project, the school is conceived as an integrating tool with the object of raising awareness of the sociocultural facts of immigration among pupils of primary schools in rural areas and eliminating the associated prejudices and stereotypes.

The specific aims of the project are as follows:

  • To favour educational activities that raise multicultural awareness.
  • To eliminate prejudices and stereotypes associated with migration, through the direct knowledge of the life histories of immigrants living in our society.
  • To favour multicultural awareness-raising activities through games.
  • To promote intercultural vocabulary free of stereotypes and prejudices.
  • To promote creative activities that transmit the values of multicultural awareness.
  • To involve immigrants in explaining the sociocultural facts of their countries of origin and in taking part as judges in the mural competition.
  • To favour a single, unique training, using created teaching materials that underscore the values of tolerance and equality among pupils.

This project sets out to work with the migratory background of pupils using a multidisciplinary focus through the following educational activities:

  • The creation of INTERCULTURAL TEACHING MATERIAL, available for schools or teaching staff on request.
  • Real stories told first hand by immigrants (LIFE STORIES).
  • Enjoying and taking part in games from different countries (MULTICULTURAL GAMES).
  • Stories about fictional characters that involve children and get close to them in acquiring values (STORIES).
  • And, one last activity, for reflection and analysis, artistic expression of the feelings and emotions evoked (MURAL COMPETITION).
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Life stories of new catalans

To promote a knowledge of different cultures, we designed teaching material by compiling some 20 life stories of people using the Fundació Agricultors Solidaris who live in Lleida, are part of Catalan society and have children who go to the schools in this province. We think the best way to raise awareness among pupils is through a knowledge of the immediate facts of the life story of your classmate’s father or mother, your neighbour or the local shopkeeper, etc. in short, of the new Catalan.

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Connect with the countryside

Intercultural encounter held in the Camps Elisis in Lleida. With this proposal, the Fundació Agricultors Solidaris set out to let everyone visiting the event discover the great cultural wealth of the newcomers who take part in harvesting in Catalonia. During the encounter various activities were held:

  • Round table with entrepreneurial initiatives of experiences in Catalonia, Colombia, Ecuador, Morocco and Senegal (photo).
  • Codevelopment prize-giving, with the Agents’ most outstanding initiatives.
  • Rhythms of the world, with dances and songs from different regions.
  • Fotoconnecta’t awards, with the most representative images of life in the rural world, seen through the eyes of newcomers (3 photo awards).
  • Meals of the world. During the event, various associations offered typical dishes from the Maghreb, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe and the Països Catalans.
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Codevelopment Encounters

Since 2001, the FPS has organised various activities in the field of awareness raising and educating for development. The most memorable were the codevelopment encounters, which ran to 12 editions, held on an annual basis, making them the longest-running encounters in Spain on the theme of codevelopment. These encounters showed up the positive relation there is between migration and development, both for the communities of origin and those of arrival, at the same time as they provided an opportunity to promote the human rights of immigrants, especially as regards employment, and to debate and try to influence the public policies affecting migratory processes.

In 2008, the FPS organised the Congrés Internacional de Codesenvolupament (International Codevelopment Congress) and since then other bodies have played a part in organising these encounters, among them Lleida City Council, through its Department of Civil Rights, Cooperation and Equality, the Coordinating Body for NGOs for Development and Other Solidarity Movements in Lleida and Lleida University’s Development and Cooperation Office. Thanks to this joint organisation, the encounters made a great splash and got extensive coverage. (photo encounter)

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Cooperation projects

The Fundació Agricultors Solidaris began its work of cooperation with development, in 2001, with the object of lending support to projects emerging from the needs of workers hired in their country of origin. Over the years, we have funded cooperation projects in different countries such as Morocco, Bolivia and Colombia. The last of these is where most projects have been carried out, due to the large number of people hired.

The methodology used as a basis for these projects was Codevelopment, because of its contribution to development in origin and at destination.

The projects were headed by codevelopment agents (who detected the needs in the communities of origin and drove the project). These agents took part in the FAS codevelopment model, which consisted of the following phases:

  1. Training of codevelopment agents to present a viable initiative: in matters of codevelopment, project management, marketing, human rights, gender perspective…
  2. Validation of the initiative in the country of origin by experts, counterparts or local partners.
  3. Implementation of the Accompanying Plan to fit the project to the facts and make it fully viable (individualised tuition in each project).
  4. Implementation of the project: the FAS sought resources from public and private bodies to fund these initiatives.
  5. Monitoring and assessment of implemented projects by the beneficiaries, the experts involved, the counterparts and the local partners. 

For 15 years (from 2010 to 2016), the FAS, thanks to its Codevelopment model, funded more than 200 projects, both family and community projects and projects of a productive and social type.