An associative youth club is the basic entity in which an educative action is developed. It acts within its community and constitutes an important reference element for the youngsters leisure time.
Youth Clubs have three basic pillars for their work: participation, self-management and democracy.
All Youth Clubs share some ideals and characteristics:
- To educate freethinker people, who are aware of their cultural scene, caring and socially responsible, with a critical spirit, tolerant and curious about the world that surround them.
- To be a youth associative platform that claims a social change and facilitates the transformation of their environment.
- To work in the integration of young people with any kind of disability or social handicap.
- To be a public and community service that aims to be an useful and reference tool for the community where it works, without any kind of economic interest.
- To offer a way to create a fairer society, without any social discriminations, where human rights are respected.
Therefore, we define Youth Club as a place:
- Associative and educational
- To learn about self-organized, critical, diverse, caring, cooperative, creative and committed citizenship
- Of meeting, exchange and communication
- That offers services to cover the necessities of the youngsters
