Mikel Ayestaran: "In Gaza, aid workers are like a caste and volunteering is dead!”
The journalist helps us to discover and understand Middle East, a region that is often talked about, but which is largely unknown to many.
Elena Velasco: "We would like to show that an organisation can be managed by people affected by Autism or Asperger syndrome"
Specialisterne is a company with a social purpose that collaborates with third sector entities to work with talented people with ASD.
Manon Levrey: "I wanted to put into practice the skills I had gained during my master programme while supporting and contributing to the European project"
The IVY's (Interreg Volunteer Youth) first volunteer explains her experience as an Interreg Reporter.
Xavier Costa: “The existence of so many NGOs means that there are too many things that are not working”
The NGO Vols is a volunteering association for cooperation and solidarity with children and youth in developing countries. Their working scope is mainly education.
David Franquesa: “eReuse aims to promote reusing and avoid premature recycling”
Electronic Reuse emerged to promote the circular economy. Through this digital community many electronic devices can be repaired to extend their useful life.
Pascale Coissard: “Only 7.5% of those who were meant to be relocated and resettled have arrived in Spain”
The spokesperson of the Catalan Refugee Aid Commission, Pascale Coissard, tells us about the situation experienced by many refugees and the task carried out by her organisation to defend their rights.
Maria Lucuy: “The concept of violence has expanded in the minds of Bolivian youths”
We engage in a conversation with the woman in charge of the educational programmes at CEMSE, a Bolivian organization that, together with other organizations, has set up a pioneering project to prevent violence in classrooms.
“The biggest risk that scouting faces is to believe that what we do is what we are”, Eduard Vallory
Do scout groups educate? Do they indoctrinate? Are scout groups a space for the upper and middle classes and are they unable to accommodate families living in less favourable social and economic situations? The expert in education Eduard Vallory goes through the current challenges of scouting.
Isabel Baixeras: “We are the first European nonprofit organisation to denounce the failure to comply with the commitment to receive refugees”
Stop Mare Mortum, and Isabel Baixeras at the helm, demands that the Spanish Government adopts precautionary measures to guarantee the relocations imposed from Brussels before the month of September.
Jose Peñín: “The rise in populist and xenophobic speeches is instigating discriminatory attitudes”
SOS Racisme Catalunya takes care of the people who experience racism and helps them to report those situations with campaigns aimed at generating awareness.
Jelen Amador: “You end up believing that going to university will make you less Roma”
Jelen Amador, a 27-year-old PhD student, is a member of the Drom association, aiming to promote access to university for the Roma community by giving informative sessions in high schools.
Alejandro San Rafael: “Society makes invisible dependent people in the LGBTI community”
The Administration Officer from the Fundació Enllaç tells us about the organisation’s task in raising awareness among the population of the situation lived by elderly people or those facing the risk of exclusion in the LGBTI community.