When an elderly person learns to send their first photo via WhatsApp, to request a doctor’s appointment online or to make a video call with their granddaughter, something more than technical learning happens: a door is opened. Fundación Cibervoluntarios, which has worked on various social projects on the island, now returns to Ibiza to continue pushing that door with its project “Yo Conecto”, and does so with an urgent call for trainers, because next week the preparation of the team will already begin.
In an area where administrations are strengthening their attention to the elderly, digital literacy has become a daily necessity.
Silent work: accompanying, explaining, waiting
The “Yo Conecto” program offers workshops from November 24 to 27. Volunteers are offered a fixed-term contract and paid training during the week of the 17th.
Each session focuses on the essentials: practical learning, calm, listening and patience, an approach that has made this NGO a reference in digital inclusion in Spain. On the island, that path has been strengthened with local initiatives such as municipal digital identification courses and new training actions in other municipalities.
Fundación Cibervoluntarios was born with a simple yet profoundly transformative mission: to use technology as a tool for social inclusion. Its network of volunteers and trainers works throughout Spain to ensure that no one is left behind in an increasingly digital world.
The organization promotes free programs for vulnerable groups -the elderly, women in rural areas, young people at risk of exclusion or migrants-and does so from an approach that combines social innovation, close accompaniment and a very clear idea: technology only makes sense if it serves to improve people’s daily lives. This spirit, present in more than twenty years of activity, is what now brings the NGO back to Ibiza with new workshops.
When Cibervolunteers worked with young people in Sant Josep
This is not the first time that the organization has landed on the island: this year it collaborated with the Campament Digital de Sant Josep, a project that brought technological skills to young people in the municipality. That experience, promoted in winter, showed that the organization’s workshops generate real and sustained impact, creating a learning community that is now active again with the elderly.
Training actions such as those of Santa Eulària, which offered free courses for people over 55 years old, see here, consolidate an ecosystem in which the NGO fits naturally.
A kindly urgency: time is running out and hands are needed
The call for applications was published this week and the training starts in a few days, a short period that underlines the need for people who want to teach seniors how to manage their daily digital lives.
If you would like to join us, please send your CV to catherin.vacas@cibervoluntarios.org.
The learning island
The search for trainers connects with a growing movement in Ibiza: neighbors teaching neighbors, professionals transmitting basic digital skills and small gestures that reduce the gap between generations.
In a job market where community networks such as the 40,000-user Telegram group have become an effective way to find employment on the island more information, initiatives such as “Yo Conecto” are a reminder that learning technology is also learning to participate in daily life.
