ASOCIACIÓN DIANOVA ESPAÑA

Currently we are developing in Europe Aid Programme UY-2009-BPP- focus on "Violence Prevention on Secondary Schools” in Uruguay along with Dianova Uruguay. We are training teachers to develop a particular tool we have developed to implement emotional and relational learning on education. This programme main objective is to train youngsters on soft skills for Prevention of Violence so that they can create their own workshops at schools and spread this awareness to their environment and avoid social exclusion. We are on year 2 out of 3. We are also active on prevention of school dropout. Actually, we have created a partnership with an NGO in Costa Rica to develop programs with this objective, working on trainings to transfer skills for employability and empowerment. Moreover, gender equality and opportunities is one issue we are working in Spain with youngsters, teachers and adults. Besides, we have applied for an Europe Aid Programme in Argentina, to work on gender equality in secondary schools. Dianova has presence in four Spanish autonomous communities (Madrid, Andalucía, and Navarra & Cataluña) with centres to shelter and foster young and adult people suffering from addictions. It also participates in different networks at national and international level. Our main office is in Madrid. Dianova has extensive experience in the promotion of initiatives and projects that improve the lives and future prospects of young people. Among the activities that we carry out are the following: - For more than five years we implemented an outpatient care program for youth who have difficulty living with their families; - We organized tours of the Camino de Santiago for youth from vulnerable groups to improve their interaction with other people that agree on the route (pilgrims, tourists, catering, services and employees from different offices) and know the culture and art from some of the places where the journey took place; - For two years we managed the education program of Street Youth in social difficulty of Arganda del Rey (Spain). The program was focused on orientation activities, promoting multiculturalism, prevention of addictive behavior, improving coexistence and creative use of leisure time. - For more than 5 years we are developing programmes for social inclusion, based on different issues: -Empowerment and employability; -Development of soft skills for job seeking; - Workshops to increase awareness of the importance of an automous life; - Workshops to facilitate immigrants the acquisition of the necessary knowledge and skills to develop a career; - Social awareness of social incluion and equal opportunies. Moreover, Asociación Dianova España have been granted since the year 2014 by the Spanish Goverment to create a shelter house for immigrants coming from Africa. At this stage we are fostering 120 people in need that will have legal assistance workshops for their personal development an specific training for job seeking. We managed also an Erasmus+ Training Course project in 2015 titled Equality for a better future in Madrid and participated in several other projects organized by other organizations.