Agrupament Escolta i Guia Itaca

Scouting and community service in Eixample

Agrupament Escolta i Guia Itaca is a scout and guide group based in Barcelona's Esquerra de l'Eixample neighborhood. It organizes age-based educational activities for children and young people and takes part in community service projects.

Community activities

In March 2012, the group joined “Desmarca't. Som servei. Fem recapte!” (“Get involved. We serve. Let's collect!”), a food drive for the Fundació Banc d'Aliments, alongside other scout groups from Barcelona, Badalona, and Sant Adrià. Members staffed four supermarkets in Esquerra de l'Eixample and Mercat del Ninot, collecting items such as broth, milk, rice, and dried beans and lentils. The campaign collected 15,031 kilograms of food with help from 29 scout groups, 90 collection sites, and more than 1,800 people.

The group has also organized cultural and recreational activities, including a neighborhood Carnival parade in February 2012 that ended with dancing and hot chocolate.

The group maintains a blog to share information about its activities.