What’s ES.PABILA program?It’s a very good alternative to enjoy weekends at night. It is sponsored by Mayor of León, and a lot of young people from 16 to 31 participate in this program.
The main objective is to take young people away from drugs and alcohol. And they have other alternatives to enjoy the night.
It consists on sports like football, climbing, paintball, skating, swimming and hockey; and activities like dance, cooking, making-up, belly dance, graffiti, art, Dj-room, role playing, table games, jewellery making… The best of this, it is activities change every months.
History of ES. PABILA
ES. PABILA was created in 2006 by the Mayor of León. It organized about 112 activities: 31 for teenagers, 42 for young people and 24 for adults; these have duration of 920 hours annual. It is usually open Thursday-Saturday and there are 80 young workers. During the last year, this program tripled the assistance in their activities. Last year, 33.165 people participated.
This was a pioneer program and now more and more cities are adopting this project, like Villaquilambre, a village near León, it has bat funny program.
How do you participate in ES. PABILA?
If you want to participate to the ES. PABILA, you can do the two different ways:
How do you participate in ES. PABILA?
If you want to participate to the ES. PABILA, you can do the two different ways:
Bracelet: you can buy it when you go to the activities and it costs 1€.
Carnet: you have to buy it at beginning of the course and it costs 10 € and you don’t have to pay anymore.
Where are the acitivities?
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e-mail: espabila@espabila.org
Website: http://www.espabila.org/
Timetable: de 9:00 a 15:00 h.
Adress: Joaquina Vedruna, 12 CP 24002
Adress of activity place : Dámaso Merino 6 CP 24003
Adress: Joaquina Vedruna, 12 CP 24002
Adress of activity place : Dámaso Merino 6 CP 24003
These activities take place in the following neighbourhoods: Armunia, La Lastra, Ventas and Asunción and El Crucero.
The workers will go to the Húmedo district in the weekends when the police will do breath test to volunteers younger. The teenagers who haven’t drunk something, they could go around with the “ segway” which the police use to patrol this part of the city.
In addition, there are a some activities which are realized in “ La Candamia Park” such as paintball.
Personal opinion
We’ve been in Es.pabila three times. First we visited belly dance class, where about ten or fifteen girls were dancing for an hour. It was very amazing because we and our friends knew culture and dancing from other country.
Second we were in art class, this time we learnt to make a purse with a page of a comic. Tania chose her favourite super hero comic, and now she has got a Spider-purse, Axterix and Obelix comic was chosen by Lorena who made a cracy-purse, and Camino chose a zipi-zape comic and she has a naugty purse.
Third day we were playing with our friends to The legend of The five rings, a role paying. It’s a interesting game based in China and Japan ancient culture. Raquel wanted to be a beautiful courtier, Elsa was a prietest who had a dragon tatoo in her back and Sara chose to be a too strong and taller samurai; we were in a very dangerous adventure, we had to rescue a princess Dogi- Hitomi.
These activities are a little part of Es.pabila offer. In our opinion, it’s an excellent project but is unknown for a lot of people. The first objective is moving away drugs and alcohol to young’s parties, but it isn’t real, because, during the activities they can’t have alcohol or take drugs but after midnight when these activities finish teenagers go to Húmedo district to get drunk.
We think that the education is very important, because they need to understand that they don’t need alcohol to have a party or fun.
Finally we wise you visit Es.pabila and enjoy the night party and discover other form to have healthy fun.
These activities are a little part of Es.pabila offer. In our opinion, it’s an excellent project but is unknown for a lot of people. The first objective is moving away drugs and alcohol to young’s parties, but it isn’t real, because, during the activities they can’t have alcohol or take drugs but after midnight when these activities finish teenagers go to Húmedo district to get drunk.
We think that the education is very important, because they need to understand that they don’t need alcohol to have a party or fun.
Finally we wise you visit Es.pabila and enjoy the night party and discover other form to have healthy fun.
This sounds like so much fun! I volunteer at a student group at MIT that runs similar programs, but for middle school and high school students near Boston. The classes are taught by MIT students.
ResponderEliminarOne quick comment - You said: "The places where take place these activities are situated in the following neighbourhoods:" You can simplify this sentence a lot by saying "These activities take place in the following neighborhoods."
Es.pabila sounds like an amazing program with a lot of interesting activities in which young people can take part. I think that it is sad that the program isn't as effective as it was meant to be and that the same people who participate in the program are the same ones that still use drugs and alcohol outside of the program. I think in order for a program like this to be more effective it might have to offer activities at the same times that people are usually going out to parties so that if they are participating in the program's activities, they can't also go to a party where there may be drugs or alcohol.
ResponderEliminarA quick comment: the word "funny" is an adjective, it describes something. For example "The comedian is funny." However, in the sentence "We think is important the young people education, they should understand that they don’t need alcohol to have a party or funny," it would have been better to write "fun" in place of "funny" as it is the noun form of the word. For example, you can say "They had fun at the party," but you can't say "They had funny at the party."
I hope this helps some and I look forward to reading more of your blog!
That's a very interesting program, especially because it's city-wide! I especially like how the activities can be more diverse and culturally-oriented. MIT has a similar program too, where students put on fun events that don't involve alcohol - they often have bowling, waffle-making, pizza and movies (basically, lots of food).
ResponderEliminarI really enjoyed reading this article, because you talk about some very neat activities. There were only some slight grammatical errors - for example, you could say "we danced for an hour" instead of "during an hour," and in the last paragraph you could say "We think that education is very important, because they need to understand..." Overall, however, it was easy to read and fun!
Who choses the activities you are going to do? Is it you? You decide it with the students...
ResponderEliminarMIT actually chooses a group of students to plan these events, and the students get paid a small stipend. They have meetings every week. There are other events at MIT too - but the events put on by this group are especially to keep students motivated and away from alcohol.
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