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WE HAVE ALREADY SUBMIT OUR APPLICATION - We submit once again in order to add two more documents as good examples of our work. (available in 6 languages)

SSF has specialized activities in serving disadvantaged populations such as:
o Group workshops around the social and political participation of immigrant women.
o Legal counselling services, workshops and awareness sessions and legal issues specialist care in Aliens, welcome and integration process, combating racism, discrimination, prevention and combat gender violence, inside schools, hosting units, refugee centres, public administration, companies and others.
o Supports lifelong learning and career paths for migrants by tailored counselling and recognition of prior learning to improve skills, employability and mobility.
o Design and implementation of different professional tools for unemployed people, companies and social actors.
• Training of trainers in several areas and for different groups.
• Research in different social, political and industrial areas for population at risk of social exclusion (disadvantaged people).
• Design and implementation of different professional tools. The organization has three professional social researches developed in Spain and America Latin released in many countries.
We are experts in the prior assessment and all the integration process of special situation of our direct beneficiaries, developing custom itineraries and with measurable objectives.
The beneficiaries of these projects:
 Children and young people (students) inside refugees welcome centres and hosting units.
 Women and men (people in risk of social exclusion).
 Immigrant population and their network partner family
 Population at risk of social exclusion inside and outside refugees welcome centres and hosting units.
 Colleges and Institutes of secondary education (Schools) and vocational training
 Hosting Units and refugee centres staff
 Heads of orientation, psychologists, teachers, tutors, directors of the centres, principals, social workers, counsellors, etc.
 Associations of immigrants
 Associations of women victims of gender violence
 Neighbourhoods associations
 Social Services and charity organizations
 Public social care services to women with problems of violence of gender
 European institutions and bodies active in the field of education
 European institutions and bodies active in the field of migration.
 Companies
Within its International Projects Department, since 2014, SSF shows experience of cooperation and implementation European projects as coordinator (LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT – ERASMUS + - KA2 - 2014-1-ES01-KA204-004980) A consortium of seven partners from Spain, Norway, Greece, France, Cyprus and Austria, with relevant know-how and expertise.
Since 2010 develop different professional projects of support and accompaniment of social and labour insertion/integration in Spain to people with social, legal, and professional integration difficulties (people is risk of social exclusion). We have developed this service for the welcome and assistance to a big number of people and with good results (qualitative and quantitative).
Among these:
 INTEGRATION EN RED project (funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs of the community of Madrid, years 2011,2012 and 2013) the objective the shelter, social, legal and labour integration of young immigrants living in peri-urban areas of the community of Madrid and develop an effective intervention which reinforces the women’s equality rights.
 SAEX project (funded by the City Council of the city of Leganés years 2013, 2014 and 2015) target the shelter, social, legal and labour integration of young immigrants and women victims of domestic violence who live in the suburbs (especially young people from Africa and Latin America)
 MADRID SUR EN RED project (funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs of the community of Madrid, year 2014 and 2015) project of shelter, social, legal and labour integration of unemployed and in a situation of legal irregularity (immigrants) of Madrid and develop an effective intervention which reinforces the women’s equality rights.
• INTEGRAL SERVICE TO MINORS AND FAMILAS OF IMMIGRANT ORIGIN project (funded by the City Council of the city of Leganés years 2013, 2014 and 2015) To attend, by means of a professional service, the situations of special vulnerability and social exclusion of the FAMILIES AND MINORS of immigrant origin in the municipality of Leganés (as CEMU Host Unit), by means of actions of integral reception, orientation and legal advice on the subject of status of foreigners and actions of sociolabour orientation.
Our Organization has worked for two years (2010 and 2011) in a project financed with European funds (European Social Fund) of the Ministry of Education and the Immigration Department of the Community of Madrid of Spain developing STUDENTS SUCCESSFUL for the network of schools and colleges of the educational system and whose aim was to:
 Support teachers schools, head of studies departments, guidance departments, social workers, external staff of schools, improving school performance and student learning, the implementation of activities of motivation students for the improvement of learning, prevent early school leaving, prevent conflicts between teachers and students, prevent conflicts between students of different nationalities and social groups (ethnic), prevent of further violent incidences caused by gender violence and between families of the school, and develop an effective intervention which reinforces the women’s equality rights.
• Also we implemented a support service after school outside of lesson time of study (in the afternoons) for students with school performance difficulties.
• Another objective was to support and direct work to the families of the students in the process of learning improvement, family conflicts, effective intervention which reinforces the women’s equality rights, integration and social cohesion support prevention and prevention of early school leaving (worked in network with different organizations and other hosting centers of study including referrals and work network)
The project was implemented on 2010 and 2011
 On the other hand, actually, and from 2012 (part of another project of SSF), we are developing a cross SUPPORT SERVICE TO HOSTING UNITS - schools and families of students the schools on the outskirts of cities in processes of welcome and family mediation and develop an effective intervention which reinforces the women’s equality rights.
We have also worked in the implementation of projects and new tools that accompany and support this prevention and training activities working in the areas - peri-urban cities on the outskirts of big cities and with use of information and communications technologies.
Our work also on board the psychological and emotional part in search of social integrations and coexistent habits, the teaching of individual self-esteem, self-help and motivation groups sessions.
SSF shows experience of cooperation and implementation European projects as coordinator (LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT – ERASMUS + - KA2 - 2014-1-ES01-KA204-004980) A consortium of seven partners from Spain, Norway, Greece, France, Cyprus and Austria, with relevant know-how and expertise

Awareness campaings, pedagogical documentaries, photo exhibitions, talks and educational material.

SOS Racismo develops the following activities:
1.- Information and denounce office: We offer a legal counseling and accompaniment service to migrant people about legal questions related to migrant law. Moreover we also denounce situation of violation of human rights and of discrimination.
2.- Mugak research center: We realize different researches and reports about migrants population needs and diagnosis. Moreover we have a documentation centre about migration. We have a review, Mugak.
3.- Media Observatory: We realize electronic daily press revue, we have a press information database and we realize press analyses reports.
4.- Working group about underage migrant people: Counseling and accompaniment to young people in the legal, justice, social, psychological field; realization of denouncing reports; professional formation through seminars. We also realize different
5.- Awareness and consciousness activities.

RIDE : Rollsports for Inclusive Design and Empowerment: Youth exchange with Germany, Spain and Morocco.
SEED: Social Entrepreneurship for Education and Develpment: activites and mentoring for youth starting their own social enterprises.
REMEDY: Intercultural Mediation for youth with the University of Seville.

Our main activities focus on supporting youth to self-organize and engage in intercultural
learning while preparing for a viable future. The goal is to connect local youth to the EU
programs, resources and information that will empower them to create pathways to a positive
future for themselves and their community.

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School, Seminars, cycles, festivals

Training and Heritage: International Workshops for intercultural dialogue.
The architectural heritage restoration works involve the collaboration of local masters with wide experience in traditional construction; of young local apprentices, who learn their craft from them; and of participants coming from all over the world to learn from them. Local materials and construction techniques are used and promoted. This allows a small budget to be invested in the purchase of building materials and to allocate a larger proportion of the budget to qualified artisanal labour, what not only favours local development, but also contributes to preserving local crafts.
The works to be carried out reinforce and valorize the cultural identity of both the local population and the international participants from multiple aspects, all of them living and working together during their development. Through these workshops participants from different nationalities and the local community coexist, work together, share their knowledge, experiences, views... Collaborating and sharing experiences with people from other backgrounds and cultures is the best scenario to eliminate prejudice and promote a culture of peace and mutual understanding, a precious goal at a time when it is so necessary to create new channels of cooperation and exchange between cultures.
The working model makes local populations sensitive to the relevance of protecting their traditional knowledge, their architectural and landscape heritage and highlights some of the development opportunities the preservation of this richness entails.
Results:
15 historic buildings have been restored within the framework of the aforementioned programs, mostly fortified gates of its walled towns and their surrounding spaces, as well as some of their mosques and main public spaces.
• More than 400 people from over 25 different nationalities have, to date, participated in the traditional architecture and construction programs of Terrachidia in M’hamid.
• More than 50 construction masters have been hired as trainers for our workshops, participating in the restoration works carried out. With them, they have had the opportunity to train a similar number of young apprentices in the work itself, also hired for this purpose.
• More than 400 local families have benefited from the project. Much of Terrachidia's resources have been invested in them (around 70%). Of these, over 100 families have increased their income thanks directly to having hired some of their family members for the project.
• Two women's cooperatives dedicated to local crafts have been created in the same Oasis, one of which has opened a shop to sell their products after undergoing a training program with international participants in the context of Terrachidia’s workshops.
Heritage and development projects:
The intervention model is always made with the involvement of local community, including decisions such as the works to be undertaken, the solutions to be implemented and the team to develop them, selecting always the most experienced local masters who participate in both training and restoration works and the young apprentices to be learning and collaborating with them. Before implementing its works, Terrachidia carries out a study of the community where the element to be restored is located, meeting with its representatives and main associations and reaching a previous consensus on the mentioned aspects. In addition, a preliminary work of documentation, survey, analysis and inventory of the existing heritage is always undertaken.
Main projects:
• Project Management of the restoration works in the historic libraries in Chinguetti, Mauritania, listed as World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
• Technical Project of the water supply and sewage network for the Ouled Youssef ksar, Morocco.
• Project Management of the construction of the water supply and sewage network for the Mhamid el Ghizlane ksar, Morocco
• Consultancy for the enhancement of the traditional architectural heritage of the Oasis of Siwa, Egypt.
Dissemination
The dissemination of heritage preservation values is an important point of terrachidia´s work. Many of us we work and collaborate as university teachers and support international courses and participate in many conferences or seminaries.
Several exhibitions have been held on the same in Spain, Morocco and the United Kingdom and a website has been developed to promote its heritage preservation.
Also Terrachidia has published many books
• Ouled Youssef, an old ksar in the m´hamid Oasis. Coedition: Terrachidia - University of Liverpool. 2021
• "Landscape and Cultural Heritage Guide of Chinguetti: Chinguetti, el legado del desierto". Coedition: Terrachidia - AECID (Spanish AID). 2019
• Landscape and Cultural Heritage Guide of Mhamid Oasis. The last oasis of the Draa River. link: http://www.mhamid-oasis.com 2016