Fundacion Chacras de Buenos Aires. Voluntariado que nao existe. Uma mentira

Dear readers, I would write my experience here "volunteer with Fundacion Chacras of Buenos Aires, but I want to make clear that I have no intention to harm funadacao but tell my experience unsuccessful on this foundation that has been abusing the good faith of many people who leave their country in expectation of help and when he gets CHACRAS BUENOS AIRES faced with a reality that is totally difernete the site promoted by the foundation. I'm from Brazil and I am a scholarship program for Petrobras, which encourages sustainable development. In May of 2012 I was traveling on a mission as parents Mercosur implamntacao possible for a program of Sustainable petrobras. I had to "work" viajra Argentina in search of institutions that have already developed a project in the area of ​​sustainability. So began the search for foundations or Aregentina this search and found the FUNDACION CHACRAS BUENOS AIRES. Previously analyzed the foundation's website and contacted by email to learn more about the work of the Foundation, and it seemed it would be really a foundation and credibility. Here is a preview of the supposed role of the foundation: Our foundation, Chakras Buenos Aires, Located in the old quarter of San Telmo, traditional, has been working since 2005 for sustainable human development, based on three pillars: Organic Farming, Organic Construction and Tourism Fair We direct our focus to the virtuous impulse of vulnerable communities with commitment and participation, seeking to achieve a more just society. Text extracted from website: http://www.chacrasbue.com.ar/homeP.html But what happens and when I arrived at the office of the Foundation Chakras in Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Telmo was disappointed with the lack of the same organizations .... Well, first I need to explain how the program works Petrobras sustainable: The program funds a project in the amount of one million and a half of dollars that will be used by privileged foundation (the foundation will be selected by a volunteer petrobras that after the period of at least 4 months living in ONG, recognize that the foundation has really ability to develop the project and then authorizes the investment) The foundation beneficiary receives the value that will be applied in sustainability projects and volunteer petrobras will act together with the foundation for the period of 2 years or more. Remembering that after two years the ONG may request a new investment in the same amount (The invrestimento and done for free and the foundation has benefited only aa responsibility to implement the resource and accountability of this application every six months. Ie the foundation not have to pay anything for it. Some requirements for NGO that is privileged. 1 - You need to be a non-profit institution. 2 - Must be developing sustainable projects for at least 3 years. 3 - It can not collect any amount by volunteers who receive the foundation. 4 - The foundation must already have accommodation for volunteers. 5 - DO NOT HAVE any connection with organizations LOCAL, STATE and FEDERAL. Ie an autonomous organization. DUTIES OF STOCK of PETROBRAS SUSTAINABLE: 1 - To act anonymously (ie, the foundation ninehuma person can know that this is a volunteer PETROBRAS) 2 - analyze all aspects and all programs developed by NGOs impartially and without interest. 4 - Send your superiors one weekly report with pictures of all the activities Duranta week. 5-And if the NGO meets all requirements schedule a visit with those responsible for the program. 5 - Seeing temporary for parents who are acting as agent. __________________________ As I said earlier ... I contacted the foundation of Chakras buenos Aires with 3 months atecedencia and offered myself as a volunteer for the volunteer program of VILLA SAN LUIS (according NOTICES I got was a program developed together with the community site). Or is it just a volunteer like any other .. In mid-May came FUNDACAO CHACRAS located in San Telmo neighborhood and was greeted by someone's direction that does not give me any information about what to do during my stay of voluntary (that would be 6 months in san Luis Villa) After 2 two alone in the shop foundation (yes, to my surprise the foundation not had any other volunteer) got the husband of dirtetora chakra it took me until Villa san Luis. When I arrived at Villa San luis had only one volunteer from Brazil who was already turning why not why I like deprou up with a sad reality). What existed here was just to ruin a restaurant with no doors and no windows where I would have to stay 6 months (as was warned before arriving at the foundation). The place was terribly ugly, isolated and second information, a danger zone. It was midwinter and the Argentine city of buenos aires recorded the lowest temperatures, I would have to stay in this place that did not have no comfort and no security, imagine a temperature of 7 degrees in a place with no windows, no doors and no blanket (yes, fornecerm not even Sabenas or blankets or anything) luckily had brought a blanket of Brazil. I assutado and asked the man who had brought me to see if self relmente would have to stay there in that place and he told me yes. And that was the program of Villa San Luis. You must be wondering what they would do in this place. And this is an unanswered question. For this horrible place had nothing to do besides die of cold and feed two goats and a dog. Nothing beyond that. To make food that would have to light a fire with some twigs babum because there was no cooker and how it was winter all branches of bamboo were wet and it would have to walk two kilometers up to a tienda to buy something to eat that in netse place so havoa folder and leche. Although I had been told that the "program would be voluntary VILLA SAN LUIS pensao complete. Pensao The bed was a complete damp smelly and dirty construction destroyed, no doors and no windows where I live I would have six months in a supposed volunteer program. Five studios after finally met the director of the foundation chakras buenos aires that apreceu and my only welcomed and as one would expect not give me any information on battery what to do (not even that was nothing to do besides feed a perro and two goats). Now remember she told me to do something: dig two holes which she said would be to build a shelter for volunteers made into bio construction. That said was gone and once again I was alone with a perro in a secluded dirty cold, without knowing anyone and not even speak Spanish. Past few days I no longer bear to that situation. Finally the director returned to say "Good morning" and then talked to her that she could not stay longer there and had to go to San Telmo in alojamiento with the condition to come back during the day to feed the goats and arrest perro (and conocordou although she has not pleased you my decision). I went pro housing Peru Street, and once again not got no information about the actual role of the foundation and on draft volunatriado. Simply mandarm me go to the garden Neuro Psychiatric Hospital Jose Tiburcio edge. So I did, I went to the garden edge and people asked me what I was doing there, and when he said that the foundation was voluntary CHACRAS BUENOS AIRES, were looked surprised that they did not know was that this foundation. At the border I met many interesting people, and enjoyed going to garden, but nobody's foundation CHACRAS BUENOS AIRES, orintesse me on what to do in the garden. Then I would have to do a report chronicling everything I did in the garden, by adinatva not say I was the garden that always thought I was lying. In this place you always see as a liar and never believe in his word. So I went to the garden and to HOSPITAL SAN LUIS VILLA. took a collective and after 1 hour and a half came aa villa san luis which fed the dog let out the goats and later in the day and was returned to office alone. Later goats villa san luis began to disappear. Or escaped or were stolen overnight. So far I do not know what happened to the goats that desapreciam one by one. I believe that one month has already passed, and foundation volunteers came from all over the world, mostly French, who stay one night and then went away why was faced with a totally different reality from the one shown on the site. Many came and paid $ 25 (yes, it costs $ 25 when arriving at the foundation) and then returned disappointed. One night an American who came not only slept in the cold for it provided one of my dresses that had brought from Brazil, for which informed her that the foundation provided savannahs, blankets, food (which is a lie, why we bought our own food). And when she arrived not supplied him with nothing but inform him that she was not sleeping hood. On this foundation realized that the volunteer does not have any value, quite the contarrio, it appears that the EC received the volunteer and not the foundation. Do not look at you as someone who is there to help but as someone who is busacndo roof and food. Another day day told me I should be more sympathetic because they were offering me ceiling. And I asked if they were offering me a favor, since I was donating as a volunteer. You must be wondering what I kept doing in this place: I also asked myself the same: But there was still believed that I could do something for Villa San luis with the value of one million and a half that could be invested in the construction of fair trade store in place of the ruin of the former restaurant. Ate it in one day told me that if I wanted to stay in the foundation would have to pay $ 250 per mese or would have to go back to VILLA SAN LUIS. So at this point I realized that would not help at all possible until that foundation so that would be doing a breach of contract with PETROBRAS SUSTENTAVELquando says that benefited the foundation should be a non-profit foundation. And a foundation that charges $ 250 a volunteer, is very far from being a non-profit foundation. So I grabbed my bag and went on my mission in search of the truth by the NGO that had only five months to implement the project or the value could be invested in another country. And I found another foundation in the province of Buenos Aires and we're finally making primeirosm Required documents for the implantation of projects in Arera sustainability. For security reasons I can not give the name of the foundation is authorized until the announcement of the projects by the competent organs. Conclusion: FUNDACAO CHACRAS BUENOS AIRES use the volunteer as a front to get investments from private companies, because during the period I was there, I was forced to go to conferences and seminars to network and distribute business cards to entrepreneurs in order to ask for aid financial. NOTE: I do not remember that I have no intention to harm FUNDACAO CHACRAS BUENOS AIRES, I'm just pointing out that people outars not go through this situation I went through. And if you doubt you can draw your own conclusions from knowing the pertro aFUNDACAO CHACRAS BUENOS AIRES