The Federation Batean is an organisation which works with children in an urban district of Pamplona, Navarra. The project of Batean deals with the education of children, the support in their development and the protection of their rights. As in Rochapea live many families with migration background, the project of Batean also advocates the integration of children in the local society.

 

Batean offers a lot of free time activities in which the children and young people of the Rochapea can participate. These activities are supported by volunteers, who spend a part of their own free time working with the children. Many of these volunteers have participated in the activities themselves in their childhood, so they know very well the project of Batean and this creates a very personal and friendly atmosphere. There are activities like the play center, handicraft workshops, a guitare workshop, theatre, homework support, Basque dances and takes part on the festivities and cultural life of the community.

 

Furthermore there are groups of teenagers who want to become monitors. They are supported by other monitors, learn how to coordinate groups and how to work in a team. In this way Batean builds a bridge for the young people who are too old to participate in the activities, so that they can use the experiences they gained as children to become a monitor and to support children themselves.

 

Pamplona and its urban surrounded contains half of the population of Navarra, and the most of its services and industry. Pamplona is at the same time, a city of services. Public and private healthcare system is concentred around the Hospital of Navarra, Virgen del Camino Hospital and University Clinic. The education is an important protagonist in the city’s life. Three universities give a youth spirit to the city, stimulate the cultural life and create wealth. Pamplona is considerate one of the cities with most green areas per habitant, which makes Pamplona a very open and hosting city. It makes also its “Fiestas de San Fermin”, internationally known.

Rotxapea is the neighbourhood of Pamplona where the volunteers will develop their project. Rotxapea counts with a 26.000 habitants, and is the biggest neighbourhood of Pamplona. The rapid grown that has suffered comes from two main factors: on one hand, the important quantity of building that has been built on the last years, leading on an important movement of people coming to live to these new flats. On the other hand, the migration movements affecting not only Rotxapea, but the entire city. Mainly, it is young couples with children or on the age of having family the people coming.