Volunteering at FELIS Curacao

The overall long-term objectives of the Volunteering at Felis- project are:

• To improve the overall quality of life in Otrobanda.
• To integrate Curaçoan people, culture, and identity into the European Union.
• To generate a flow of people ideas and cooperations between Curaçao and the rest of the ​EU.
• To enrich the toolkit of Volunteers. Volunteers will gain experience in a multicultural environment, and improve international communications skills by achieving a basic level of at least 3 different languages.
• Increase our partners’ experience in multicultural projects and link with a European country which is not geographically situated in the European zone.
• Consolidate FELIS’ position as an authoritative educational agency in the neighborhood
• To increase the number and improve the activities that FELIS delivers to the local community.
•  Reduce self-discrimination, and school drop- out in the target group
• Increase alphabetization associationism, employability and entrepreneurship of the youths.
• Increase the Otrobanda neighborhood’s social cohesion, safety and reduce poverty and crime in the long run.
• Generate a growing bilateral flow of volunteers, youth and youth workers between Curçao and the rest of Europe.
• Raise awareness about the history of Curaçao, and make it part of EU folks identity narration.