LLEURE ACTIU

Lleure Actiu is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to promote actively a healthy managing of the teenagers' leisure time. The body was founded in 2006 and it was constituted lawful in 2009. Its founders are trained in the formal education sphere -most of them being teachers- and at the same time they also possess an extensive experience in the non-formal education field. Lleure Actiu is the culmination of the hard work in the non-formal education field. It seeks to create an organization with self-legal capacity to put into effect intervention programs in socio-educational, socio-cultural, sport and all the areas related to teenagers. We follow a methodology is based on educational values. Lleure Actiu works cooperatively with the Council of Pollença or on its own. At the moment, we are running activities collaborating with the Youth and the Education Area of the Council. Lleure Actiu carries out its projects in the Youth Area of the Council of Pollença. A volunteering program which offers the youngsters the opportunity to participate in Different cooperation projects have been started. The activities of the project are aimed to be covered both in regional and the European spheres. This project is part of a wider programme in which several actions such as intergenerational cooperation, protection of the environment, promotion of a healthy and active life and raising awareness of a global and united world have been taken. Our concern is to encourage a European awareness among the youngsters. Pollença as a village and Majorca as an island are the settlement of international holidays destinations. The population of Pollença was 16,200 in 2013. This project leads to offer a European vision to the young population in order to change first-hand the way they see the world."