Elena Bodegas and Pablo Reclusa, Tantaka volunteers.
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Tantaka is looking for volunteers to collaborate with Philosophy and students from the fields of Arts and Economics to collaborate with project Hombre. The purpose is to give support classes in Social Sciences, Mathematics and Syntax to students between 13 and 19 years old with school failure problems. Most of the boys and girls come from dysfunctional families or have started to "fool around" with drugs. 

Pablo Reclusa is the delegate of the School of Sciences of the University of Navarra. For the last few months he has been collaborating as a volunteer in Tantaka. He is a third year student of Biochemistry and in his free time he also likes to practice sports. Pablo teaches Chemistry, Mathematics and French to a student third year of ESO two days a week at project Hombre. "What project Hombre wants is for them to see another model of youth and life in which drugs are not necessary," he explains. And he adds, "If you get there in time, you can pull them out of the pit they've started to climb into."

As a result of an informative session about Tantaka, held at the beginning of the year, he decided to join project. He contacted Elena Bodegas, professor of department of Histology and Anatomy Pathology of the School of Medicine and team member engine of this project in Sciences. There they met with D. Ramiro Pellitero, chaplain of the School of Sciences, and ten other student collaborators.

Elena doesn't give tutoring. "The kids would see me as a second mother lecturing them," she says. Her work consists of "caring for the chronically ill caregiver," training, supporting and encouraging these volunteers. 

Both Elena and Pablo will continue to collaborate with project Hombre in the summer.