SCHOOL CALENDAR 2030 AND SOCIAL OMMITMENT
Our social commitment is based on raising awareness and engaging the educational community in our social and environmental initiatives.
Our core principles are:
We develop different projects in which every stage: infant, primary, secondary and sixth form, we encourage and promote the values of solidarity, caring for our environment and sustainability within the educational community
These are some of the projects that we regularly work with and have previously worked on in the classroom:
Bottle tops for life is the Seur Foundation’s flagship initiative which consists of collecting plastic bottle tops to allow seriously ill children to access medical or orthopaedic treatments not covered by the health service.
Second-hand toys are donated to the school to be cleaned, classified and sorted for sale at the jumble sale that is held by Barakaldo Town Council. The association or NGO for which the money is collected changes every year.
Food collected in the school in conjunction with the Bizkaia Food Bank, to support people who are in need in the province.
“We all learn, we all teach” intergenerational project. Thanks to the collaboration of the Barakaldo Social Integration Centre (CIS), our sixth form students spend a morning together with the team at this day centre which works with elderly people from the town.
This activity allows them to leave the classroom and have an educational experience that will help them to grow as social people, be better prepared to face the challenges of modern life and to improve the welfare of the elderly.
We cooperate with the NGO Aunar’s Tupperware donation project. Food that has been prepared is collected from the school and returned to the food cycle so that it can fulfil its primary function, namely to serve as food. Therefore, the excess food that is cooked and produced in industrial and professional kitchens is given a second opportunity, thus preventing it from being squandered as waste. We use it to meet the nutritional needs of people who are socially vulnerable.
We are working together with Barakaldo Town Council on the Agenda 30 programme to perform an environmental assessment of the area and make proposals to the Town Council.
Sampling is performed on a local beach and we analyse the quality of the water while exploring the different areas of the coastline and Basque beaches. We cooperate with Azterkosta and Ibaialde, the Basque government’s environmental agencies.
This is a new project which was launched this year, in which our organisation is taking part to protect 1,000 species of animals and plants that are in danger of extinction, some of which are native to our country. The project consists of carrying out a number of public-spirited activities in the classroom, consisting of preparing 1,000 info sheets, one for each of the animals and plants being presented that are in danger of extinction, to closely examine and find out more information about these species, which will be used to obtain a token donation from students and their families.