Iniciativa Periferia

Iniciativa Periferia is a project of independent people who came together in 2017 to promote social equality. Diversity, commitment, horizontality and social justice are the backbone of our project. Initiative Periphery is constituted as a non-profit, nonpartisan and independent association, and which has no link with any political, academic, business or union organization. The purposes that structure our activity are: the awareness of the reality of the groups at risk of social exclusion, through their visualization; the empowerment of these people, encouraging participation in associations and their own initiatives; and social inclusion, understood in a positive way and in a constant and bidirectional experience. Our target group is any person who, due to their sociocultural characteristics, can be included as a member of a group that is structurally in a disadvantageous position in the distribution of vital opportunities. In particular, due mainly to the specialization of the members of the organization and the current situation, our work is focusing on the group of migrated people residing in Spain. In order to fulfill our purposes, we carry out a series of activities. We pursue the visualization of the situation of migrants through workshops in institutes, vocational training centers and cultural centers; the activities are carried out with non-formal methods of education, in which migrated people have an active role and are the protagonists. To show these realities, we focused the workshops on two: "country of origin + migratory route" and "experience in the host society". In addition, to fulfill this purpose, we also organize events in the Human Library format, programmed together with other larger events such as local festivals, several thematic days, etc. (For more information about the Human Library: http://humanlibrary.org/) We have weaved networks with other local associations. In addition to the neighborhood association of La Nueva Elipa, a neighborhood in which we carry out part of our activity, we are carrying out specific activities with the Scout groups of the area. We are also developing a guide of available resources for migrants with the intention that they can easily acquire information about educational options, leisure and free time, social work and any other need they may have. In this line, we also carry out personal consultation tasks, especially when it comes to people who do not speak the Spanish language, as well as accompaniments. In addition, we offer free legal advice to people with a lack of financial resources provided by one of our founding partners; it is a pilot project that we are implementing, mainly, to defend the rights of migrants and the housing rights of all citizens, as set forth in Article 47 of the Spanish Constitution. Finally, we would like to highlight the intention to include migrants of origin in our project, since they are the ones who can contribute most to our mission. The final objective is to create participatory dynamics that encourage associationism among the people of this group. Iniciativa Periferia es un proyecto de personas independientes que se unieron en 2017 a fin de promover la igualdad social. La diversidad, el compromiso, la horizontalidad y la justicia social constituyen los ejes vertebradores de nuestro proyecto. Iniciativa Periferia está constituida como asociación sin ánimo de lucro apartidista e independiente, y que no tiene ningún vínculo con ninguna organización política, académica, empresarial ni sindical. Los propósitos que vertebran nuestra actividad son: la concienciación de la realidad de los colectivos en riesgo de exclusión social, a través de su visualización; el empoderamiento de estas personas, fomentando la participación en asociaciones y sus iniciativas propias; y la inclusión social, entendida de una forma positiva y en una experiencia constante y bidireccional. Nuestro grupo objetivo es cualquier persona que, por sus particularidades soci