Community Service a Viaró (1ª part)

We all need help. We the first ones. That is why we must live close to people and be willing to give ourselves. Improving society means helping people, and in order to do so, we cannot wait to finish school and having a job. This social dimension has permeated Viaró in a series of activities that have been carried out for many years. All students participate. Some of them explain their experiences.

Volunteers at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital

Thirty students of the 1st year of Bachillerato collaborate in the care of children who are hospitalized. Lucas and Casimiro explain it to us.

“We go six or seven times in the whole course. It is important that its not only once a year because we can be friends with the boys and girls, which is what counts. Being welcomed is what they and their families are most grateful for. Little by little, you discover that sick people deserve a lot of esteem, first because they are people and then because they have a special capacity to help you look at others towards the bottom of the person.

 We spend the morning playing with them, helping them to do homework or just talking to them for a while, because there are some of them who are our age. We can not do much more for them, but I think – says Lucas– that we always have to do everything in our hands to help others. We must not wait to be older or have more possibilities: what we have now we must give it.

 They are very grateful people and transmit illusion for the simple things. They don’t need much to be happy. I wish we knew how to value the many things we have become used to.”

We learn to cooperate with the friends of Hear Us Children Choir

The NGO Petits Músics del Mon, carries out the project “Aprenem a Cooperar”. This is the framework of the visit of the choir Hear Us of Malawi, who spent a whole day in Viaró with the students of 3rd of ESO. Jorge, Hugo and Toni explain it to us.

“A few days before the visit we had some sessions about Malawi and we realized the circumstances in which the children who would come were living. The goal was for us to continue studying a little and to propose to them some things that they could do to improve there. Talking with them the day they came and listening to the difficulties they had, the final idea was different from the initial one because, being close to people makes you understand them and you understand their problems, their objectives, their illusions…

 They left us with some ideas about the operation of the school, so that the older students help the younger ones. They explained to us that there are many students and few professors there and the material conditions are much more worse. Sometimes they do their homework on the floor. All this did not come out the first time. We spend the whole day with them. We sang songs in their language, which we learned, and we danced. Rather we tried, because they have a lot of rhythm. They sing and dance and laugh a lot. They are very happy.”