For days we have been living with this sticky heat. That puts us in a bad mood. That makes our children (and teachers, and monitors, and people who work in educational centers) finish the course inside boiling classrooms. The platform has denounced it Classrooms on Fire, and by moving its map of Catalonia you can see high school classrooms that reached 39 degrees. Also a chilling string of classes that have surpassed the legal limit, which states that “The temperature of the premises where sedentary work typical of offices or similar is carried out shall be between 17 and 27 degrees”. And the course has already ended and we seem to forget about it, but it shouldn't be like that.

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 They are not a sect and their will is totally constructive (oh dear, what an outdated concept).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”.

When we talk about health, we often think about habits related to diet or physical activity. However, we know well that health is a much broader concept that includes physical, emotional, social, and community dimensions. Today, in a context where data continues to alert us that children and adolescents are spending more hours in front of screens, doing less physical activity, having less healthy diets, and experiencing an increase in emotional distress, it is necessary to reinforce those spaces that contribute to their integral well-being.Summer camps and colonies are one of these privileged spaces. And precisely now, when school holidays are about to begin and the time for dolce far niente increases considerably, it is important to highlight the role they play in the health and development of children and adolescents. Because beyond being a leisure alternative when school ends, they offer educational experiences that have a direct impact on their present and future well-being.