The Foundation houses in its facilities disadvantaged people from Spain and immigrants from Africa, Eastern Europe and South America of all genders and ages, in an attempt to support them in their personal and professional development. We look back at many years of experience in working with this target group.
In addition, we carry out training activities on methods and tools for social intervention and the dynamics of community life with associations and public institutions.
The concept of the Fundación de Solidaridad is supported by specific programs through which we intervene with the people living here, enabling them for their future (re)integration. Those programs are:
BETTER WITH MOM
The Foundation welcomes mothers with their children, providing a warm and familiar environment, where they are not only provided with food, accommodation and all the basic needs, but also find the love and support they need to (re)gain their independence.
Most of the cases we are confronted with are single mothers who have immigrated to Spain and have no or only little support from their family back home. Our aim is to foster the well-being of the women as well as of the children by providing them with a stable, safe and supportive environment, relieving the women by helping taking care of the children collectively. We have a self-managed day care center, where the children have a place of recreation and care while the women have time to engage in other activities. There is no time restriction for the people living in our community - they are welcome to stay as long as they need it.
BETTER OCCUPIED
This program is aimed at the reintegration into the labour market. Most of the people living with us have great difficulties in entering the world of work (immigrants, adults with little training, people with special needs, single mothers etc.)
We have several occupational workshops such as hairdressing, candle and soap making, working with copper, wood, glass or ceramics, forging, sewing and dressmaking. These workshops are fundamental for the people to feel useful and to recover their self-esteem lost due to their circumstances. We also aim at providing the opportunity to try out and train different kinds of work which the people could exercise in the future for their social reinsertion. As we are committed to working as environmental sustainable as possible, all our workshops focus of reusing and recycling materials.
BETTER TRAINED
With this program the Foundation aimes above all at young people at risk and with a high level of school failure by giving them support classes. Also, we offer language classes to immigrants with little or no skills in Spanish.
These classes are not only given to people from the Foundation, but for some time now young people from Sierra Elvira, Atarfe and Pinos Puente have also been attending and have become part of our FES family. This has also had repercussions on our bond and integration with the neighbours of our village.The great support of our network of organizations and volunteers helps us to carry out this program. This way we could already offer various courses in English, French, Computing, Maternal Training, Work Orientation, Gender Equality and so on.
BETTER ACCOMPANIED
The Foundation makes sure that, once the people leave our community, we continue to stay in touch with them until they succeed in their social (re)integration. Our aim is that FES stays a place where they feel at home, a second home, and that their children can continue to participate in all the leisure and weekend activities organized by the Foundation.
BETTER IN THE OPEN AIR
This program is aimed at promoting healthy leisure activities in nature among young people. We organize trips and activities like hiking in the surrounding mountains, kayaking, biking and so on.
We want to motivate the young people to exercise, to give them the opportunity to let off some steam, to get in touch with nature and to bond over the joint activities.