From the central motivation of the project- to guarantee food to those people who suffer food vulnerability to Prat del Llobregat-, strategies for the improvement of the occupation of people with more difficulty in accessing the labor market are promoted and labor insertion circuits are generated towards the productive fabric of the food sector in the area. At the same time, this local economic fabric (primary sector, agri-food and services – wholesale, retail or catering) is, on the one hand, the supplier of local products and offers healthy and proximity products that have a direct impact on improving the health of the population of El Prat; and on the other hand, it is a supplier of solidarity products and opens circuits with La Botiga to reduce food waste through the reuse of surpluses generated in each of its three sectors, actions that directly impact the environmental health of our surroundings.

But La Botiga is also a community device and, therefore, also directs its main purpose – to ensure healthy food – to develop social inclusion policies based on empowerment.

Therefore, the project is designed, from the beginning, as a universal service open to all citizens. A project based on a governance model based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. Values that govern the formulas of the Social and Solidarity Economy and that place respect for people, the environment and the territories at the center of its management model. This governance proposal places the beneficiary of the food guarantee service as co-responsible for the device, mobilizing interests and skills, enriching knowledge and competencies, and increasing their scope of personal relationships; all factors that have a direct impact on people’s health and that at the same time are transferable to the labor market.

Promoting more autonomous life trajectories and resilient communities, capable of providing themselves with the answers to major social challenges, are objectives that mobilize the space reserved for community actions at La Botiga. They can be focused on the various areas of interest that drive the service: sustainability and the environment, food sovereignty, cuisine, alternative economy, etc., and can be the impetus for situations as diverse as the beginning of new employment and training reorientations, the design of the first steps of entrepreneurial projects, being the embryonic space for groups around the defense of rights, participating in the program of activities of the city, etc.

At the operational level, La Botiga is built on a central food guarantee program. It will be possible to obtain food, hygiene and cleaning goods or other types, with a governance model based on self-management, from which different complementary programs arise, actions aimed at learning and socio-labor inclusion, community empowerment, promotion of health and social cohesion, promotion of the local economy and in the fight against waste through circular economy systems.