Fundación Escuela de Solidaridad

Foundation Escuela de Solidaridad (FES) is a non-profit organization that began its activity in 1995 and was established as a social entity in 1997. Since then, the foundation has focused on working with groups that they experience uprooting, social disadvantage, mistreatment or exclusion. Especially: - Mothers with children in an emergency situation - Young people in social exclusion - homeless immigrants - People with disabilities - vulnerable adults In general, FES deal with any homeless/vulnerable sort person who needs and wants a family. Our mission is to provide residents with training and education tools in values that allow them adequate social integration and improve their chances in the labor market. Our ordinary activities in the community involve administrative work, school support, nursery, workshops, cooking, baking, general maintenance, cleaning, gardening, language classes, computer classes and the organization of dissemination and leisure activities, among others. The staff consists of six permanent members and volunteers collaborate with us in our regular activities. Volunteers can also carry out their own personal projects according to the needs and objectives of the foundation. FES is sustained through self-management and thanks to the daily and voluntary activity of the residents of the community and its volunteers. In FES people of different ages, countries, cultures, religions coexist. A great HOUSE based on SOLIDARITY is then created as a tool for coexistence, responsibility, the execution of tasks and communication. It is about being a FAMILY for these people, where beyond covering the needs of their materials, they are given affection, emotional support and a reference for the rest of their lives. The ultimate meaning of FES is to recover the family sense of people who, due to various circumstances, have not been able to and cannot experience it. It starts from a concept of universal family where any creed, idea, religion or conviction is accepted and fully integrated, with respect as a method of intervention and personal development. With these premises, FES welcomes people in a home based on a philosophy of openness, of not putting conditions on those who are welcomed in the community, except in the case of people with addiction or violence problems, who are referred to specialized centers. The FES welcomes people who, for various reasons, are socially disadvantaged. This disadvantage has the consequence that basic rights and freedoms are vulnerable, which makes it difficult for them to participate actively in society, triggering a exclusion process. This situation triggers job insecurity, lack of training, difficult access to decent housing, fragile health conditions and networks social and family, economic precariousness, among others. People who reside in FES they are mostly adults between 18 and 30 years old, within this group we find: mothers with children in an emergency situation, migrants (today the largest group present), people with disabilities, young people in social exclusion, sick adults, etc. Training is also provided to professionals in the social, educational, health and artistic, about interventions with the aforementioned groups and the development of community devices. This philosophy based on welcoming and unconditional acceptance produces an educational phenomenon, feedback of the foundation's basic values over time: the testimony of overcoming, learning and integration of people with more years and experience in the home becomes role model for newcomers. It would be about providing financial and material support as well as, above all, emotional and community support to the people who are part of FES in order to help them design their vital project as members of society, moving them away from exclusion and bringing them closer to experiences and experiences that increase their self-esteem, their sense of belonging to the community and showing them their intrinsic value as peopl