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Inequality

In Europe, the risk of poverty and social exclusion affects 122 million people. Even though friends and family have acted as a social shock absorber for unemployment, especially in Southern countries, there are lots of people who do not have a support network. This leads to situations where people end up living on the margins of society, dragging behind their problems accessing basic necessities or a decent housing, among others. This fact, together with the reduced influence of work as a mechanism of social inclusion (rise of short term contracts, poor salaries…), draws a perfect map for the continued increase of inequality and the perpetuation of the poverty spiral.

Our Response

Inequality is multidimensional and so is our response. We act to defend people’s rights.

Right to accessing basic needs

We provide food and clothes. We process social benefits. We prevent energy poverty.

Right to housing

Social housing for families in precarious situations. We manage financial support for rent and basic supplies. We offer psychological, legal, and educational help to evicted families.

Right to work

We elaborate insertion plans and manage job offers with companies in Spain. We work to achieve community-based job placements.

Right to citizenship

We host and support migrant people. We encourage coexistence, give value to diversity and respect minorities. We boost and facilitate community empowerment.

“Before the crisis I thought I could do everything I wanted, but that wasn’t the case. I lost my job and I’ve been unemployed for years. I hardly leave the house. Now, at least, I feel I’m part of the neighborhood, I feel useful.”

José
58 years old

“Things took a turn to the worse at home, we couldn’t pay the bills and we ended up getting evicted. We’ve finally regained hope.”

Yolanda
68 years old

Active women

Social and labor inclusion for women in poverty and social exclusion.

CAMS

A shelter for people living with HIV and in a situation of social exclusion.

Comunidad Activa

Community project of social inclusion that combines labor insertion, social support and community participation.

COPE and HOPE

COPE and HOPE. Good practical approaches fostering social integration of migrant women victims of violence and human trafficking

EU3 Digital

Digital competences for adult education organisations. The main goal of the EU3Digital is to empower Third Social Sector (TSS) organisations through digitalization.

Fenix project

Fènix Project, an urban agriculture initiative to improve the employability of people in drug addiction treatment The initiative, which also aims to break the stigma that often surrounds this group,…

Food Relations

European initiative aimed at fostering intercultural dialogue through food.

Intercultural services

Services and resources for counseling, training and support in direct intervention for professionals involved with migrant population.

Intercultural Translation and Mediation Service

of the Barcelona City Council.

Just Energy

Network of volunteers for the defense of access to basic supplies and the fight against energy poverty, carried out together with the Ecoserveis Association.

Mamalyona

Socialist and feminist entrepreneurship program for young mothers with children from 0 to 3 years old in a situation of social vulnerability.

[email protected]

European project that seeks to promote economic and social integration of migrant mothers between 25 and 45 years old, enhancing their present and future employability.

Municipal Point Service

of the Regional Observatory of gender violence in Arroyomolinos.

PAE – Energy Advisory Points of Barcelona

Coordination of the 11 Energy Advisory Points of Barcelona: Service for the detection and reduction of energy poverty and defense of the rights to supplies of the Barcelona City Council.

PAE Nou Barris District

Energy Advisory Point of the Nou Barris District owned by the Barcelona City Council.

Psychological and socio-educational service

for the social inclusion of adults in the Salamanca District of the city of Madrid, of the Madrid City Council.

SAIER

Service of first reception, management of the programs of voluntary return, service of interpretation and translation, psychological orientation and specialized service in international protection of the Service of Immigrant, Foreign and Refugee Attention of the City council of Barcelona.

SAVA

Support Service for Autonomous Life for people living with HIV and who are in a process of social integration.

Service for the detection and reduction of energy poverty

in Santa Coloma de Gramenet owned by the City Council of Santa Coloma de Gramenet.

Social inclusion housing

For groups with a situation of greatest social vulnerability located in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area.

SOVA

Flat for autonomous life support for people living with HIV and are in the process of social integration.

Training and job placement program

for vulnerable people and in the process of regularization as community energy efficiency agents.

ABD serves 156,882 people during 2021, 25% more than in the previous year

The Welfare and Development Association has become one of the first third-sector social entities to receive the international certification of achievement of the United Nations SDGs The 2021 Anual Report…

[email protected] meet in The Hague to celebrate International Mother’s Day

On the 17th of May, the women from the project [email protected] will join the International Mother’s Day public event in The Hague, organized by the project partner Vital Aid Foundation.…

The incompatibility of the working hours and the school timetables, the main barrier to access to the labor market for migrant mothers

The European project [email protected], in which ABD participates, is launched to improve the employability of at least 90 mothers from diverse backgrounds The European project [email protected] was launched this May…

ABD have attended more than 125,000 people during 2020

During 2020, the ABD Group served 125,841 people, 7% more than in 2019. This task has been possible thanks to the work of 1,551 professionals and 467 volunteers and collaborators.…

Food Relations 2021 lands in Barcelona and is open for enrollment

It seeks to include women who are migrating in the social and work field through the kitchen and matches the year in which Barcelona is the World Capital of Sustainable…

Do You Know the Project Food Relations?

The Food Relations (FR) project is a European initiative that aims to create spaces for social, intercultural participation and the inclusion of migrants through food. The project is being developed…

ABD has coordinated the Erasmus + MYth WORK Project for the integration of young migrants

Action Welfare and Development (ABD in Spanish) has led the project consortium MYth WORK of Erasmus+ together with other organizations working in the field of health: SSF (Spain); Consorzio SIS (Italy);…

The call to produce a documentary about the European project Food Relations has just been opened

Do you like audiovisual communication? Are you a professional in the production, design and management of audiovisual works? Would you like to work on a project for the integration and…

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