It had been brewing for a few years and, finally, the Generalitat has approved the Strategy for the Recognition of Associative, Voluntary and Community-Based Educational Leisure. In the liquid and associative fragility times we live in, having a new framework long claimed by scout groups and youth centers is, without a doubt, a step in the right direction.I was thinking of the late Carles Capdevila, just nine years after his death, poetic things in life… His mythical article "Entusiasme sospitós" humorously portrays who is behind this leisure: “Some strange beings between 18 and 25 years old who call themselves leisure leaders, or group heads. You will recognize them because they get dirty every Saturday afternoon in the dens setting up gymkhanas, they lose their weekends on excursions and they waste fifteen days in July going camping. They are not a sect and their will is totally constructive (oh dear, what an outdated concept). They are a complete anomaly in defeatist environments and decadent societies. Someone should stop them before they think of truly changing the world”.

Every year around this time, many children ask about summer: "Will I be able to go to summer camp or summer camp with my friends?" Four out of 10 households, struggling to make ends meet, are told they can't. More than 300,000 Catalan children and adolescents swallow it in silence, and the summer drags on without summer camp activities, campuses, summer camps, or summer vacations, between the heat of the apartment, screens on, and many hours—too many—alone, with almost nothing to do, with sedentary leisure time.