Aid NGOs fear negative fallout from Oxfam Haiti scandal
► Widening scandal threatens to undermine humanitarian work of all NGOs ► Spain’s umbrella federation of overseas development aid and humanitarian relief…
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NGOFILE :: Cáritas Española ~ Spanish Caritas
Cáritas Española is the Spanish affiliate of the Catholic church’s international charity and humanitarian relief agency Cáritas Inernational, working within Spain as…
UN calls on Spain to spend more to protect children
► UN committee also calls for ban on under-18 minors witnessing bullfights ► A United Nations committee has issued a report critical…
Unicef Spain says cyber-bullies target minority children
? Report says connectivity costs put many children at risk of social exclusion ? Unicef Comité Español, the Spanish National Committee for…
NGOs enlist ADIF to educate about humanitarian relief
► ‘Behind the emergency’ exhibit tours Spanish train station lobbies ’til April ► Acción contra el Hambre (Action Against Hunger), the Spanish…
Save the Children urges law on violence against children
► Children’s rights NGO says Rajoy gov’t has reneged on agreed legislation ► Save the Children España has launched a signature-gathering campaign…
‘Gitanas avanzando’ website gives voice to Roma women
► Website created through EDYTA training program for vulnerable women ► Spain’s community of gitanas (‘gypsy’ or Roma women) has been given…
Growing energy poverty impacts millions across Spain
► 8 percent of all households have trouble making monthly energy payments ► Faced with record cold temperatures in many parts of…
#VIDEO: PAH files legislative proposal on housing rights
► Proposal seeks to ensure affordable housing, cap runaway rental prices ► Spain’s anti-evictions activist organization PAH (Plataforma de Afectados por la…
Gere urges Spain’s Senate to help country’s homeless
► Spain has more than 31,000 homeless, 8,000 permanently living on streets ► Actor Richard Gere urged Spain’s Senate on Wednesday to…
NGOs launch holiday toy drives with social conscience
► Groups seek toys that shun violence and sexism, improve lives of children ► Non-governmental organizations in Spain have launched toy drives…
Andalucía tops local gov’t spending on social services
► Study ranks 25 best and 41 worst municipalities on social-services spending ► A newly released study on the provision of social…
Spain releases millions in funding for Catalan NGOs
• Central gov’t says NGOs to receive 10.2 mn in frozen social services funding • Funds part of Catalan gov’t budget said…
Annual Caixa drive nets 1.2 mn litres of milk for needy
• Annual drive ensures 25,014 families get basic milk supply through year-end • Caixa says 350,000 children in Spain regularly go without…
Gov’t recognizes child poverty still a problem in Spain
• Rajoy gov’t tells Congress that 29.7pct of Spain’s children at risk of poverty • NGO say nearly 600,000 children of working…
Caixa rewards innovative approaches to social problems
• Projects tackle gender violence, poverty, social exclusion, hate speech & more • Social Innovation awards carry 15K euros prize money for…
‘Rebels with a cause’ theme of 13th May fair-trade day
• NGOs call on Spanish consumers to support fair and sustainable commerce • CECJ, CONGDE urge swapping ‘slacktivism’ for active support of…
NGOs caution children, families still at risk of poverty
• Despite uptick in household income, child poverty rate remains at 29.7 percent • Nearly 1/4 of Spaniards at risk of poverty,…
Socialists call on PP to begin funding homeless program
• PSOE says 2017 budget lacks funds to implement plan to combat homelessness • Rajoy govt agreed to national strategy in 2015,…
Health issues, aggression confront Sevilla’s homeless
• Nearly half of all homeless experience aggression while living on city’s streets • Nearly 70 pct have health problems, two-thirds admit…
Oxfam event funds clean water, fight against hunger
• More than 2,100 walkers raise 730,000 euros in 100-km trek through Catalonia • Additional Oxfam Intermón Trailwalker events planned for Vitoria,…
Spain overseas development aid falls to pre-2000 levels
• Spain now ranked 26th of 28 European countries providing overseas aid • Development aid slashed 73 pct since 2008, despite return…
Spain gets mixed review in 2016 UN development report
• Spain’s ranking on annual development survey slides one position to 1990 level • Women’s lot improves in areas of education, participation…
Podemos to demand ‘rights for all’ in marches Saturday
• Party to launch series of marches to push for full access to basic services • Podemos say politico-economic-media cabal denies to…
#VIDEO: MdM awards Luis Valtueña photo prize
• Médicos del Mundo awards Luis Valtueña prize to Russian Sergei Stroitelev • 270 photographers from 45 counties in 2017 humanitarian photo…
Just three Spaniards own more than 30% poorest
• Zara chain’s Ortega, his daughter and Mercadona’s Roig top wealth pyramid • Oxfam Intermón says three own more than 14.2 million…
Cold temps put Spain’s homeless at greater risk
• NGOs say some 40,000 people living on streets across Spain exposed to cold • Energy poverty, social exclusion from affordable housing…
Spanish Volunteer Platform issues 2017 calendar
• 12 images by leading photographers present ’12 Views of Solidarity’ for 2017 • Umbrella organization represents 78 national, regional NGOs throughout…
Oxfam Intermón to open new charity shops in Spain
• Spanish affiliate of global NGO to open shops in Madrid, Barcelona this week • NGO drive to increase funding sees 50…
‘Robin Hood’ restaurant feeds Madrid homeless
• Normal restaurant by day, serves 100 Madrid homeless in two shifts each night • ‘Social restaurants’ concept to open in Toledo, Ciudad…
More Spaniards leaving legacy gifts to NGOs
• Number of those leaving funds to NGOs, charities triples over past decade •’Legado Solidario’ sees boom in legacy gifts to social-justice…