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In the context of the start of the 2024-2025 school year, Ayuda en Acción wants to draw attention to the failures of the education system that perpetuate inequalities among youth. A recent report prepared by the organization, focused on educational and labor transitions, highlights the shortcomings of a system that has proven to be insufficient to respond to the diverse needs of students, limiting the development and potential of millions of young people. The report states that the figures for early school leaving and school failure are related to the “problems of a rigid structure of the e...
August 12 is World Youth Day, a date on which Ayuda en Acción wants to draw attention to the major problems of emancipation that this group is currently facing. From the economic crisis of 2008 to the present, young people have been the group most affected by each crisis, seeing their opportunities cut short and their future compromised. In Spain, the situation is particularly complex as the precariousness and cost of housing severely impact their living conditions. The latest youth unemployment figures are positive. With this month of August, there have been 39 consecutive months of year-o...
Impulsa Empleo Joven is a project of Ayuda en Acción framed within the actions co-financed by the European Union through the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy that starts as an instrument to fight youth unemployment by providing opportunities for the future and contributing to the life project of young people, offering guidance, training and non-working practices in companies allowing their integration into the labor market with more tools and skills. The Spanish labor market For decades, the Spanish labor market has been dragging along important inequalities that hinder the incorporation...
Contribute to the exercise of rights and socioeconomic and cultural integration among the migrant and/or refugee population and the host community in areas receiving migrants in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. This is the main objective of the project Fair and inclusive socioeconomic recovery of the Venezuelan and host population in these countries, funded with three million euros by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and implemented by Ayuda en Acción with the collaboration of local partners WWB Foundation, Banco Codesarrollo and Perspektiva, with a duration of f...
In view of the upcoming European elections, which will be held in Spain on June 9, Ayuda en Acción joins the proposals made by La Coordinadora. The organization, which brings together 75 NGDOs, six associated organizations and 17 regional coordinators, has launched the campaign “¿Dónde está tu sombrilla?” (“Where is your umbrella?”), which focuses on the need to promote political measures and decisions that contribute to social justice, the reduction of inequalities, the protection of human rights and the promotion of spaces for citizen participation within the European Union. For Ayuda ...
In a year with Olympic Games in Paris, in which not only sports records will be broken, but also climate records, the Fundación Ayuda en Acción presents the campaign “People who break records. Records...
The European Youth Week 2024 (EYW) will take place from April 12 to 19. It is a biennial event organized by the European Commission to promote the commitment and active participation of young people i...
Some 25.5% of Spanish youth between the ages of 16 and 29 claim to have felt unwanted loneliness and 69% of young people have felt lonely at some point in their lives. This is confirmed by the first r...
The EU SDG indicators show a trend of improvement in achieving quality education in Spain. However, they warn that greater efforts are needed to achieve the 2030 goals, especially in terms of school d...
At Ayuda en Acción, we support the proposal of the State School Council in its annual report to reduce school dropout rates, proposing to reflect on the extension of compulsory education until the age...
The year 2023 ends as one more episode in the series of struggles faced by young people in this world of uncertainty caused by precariousness. For most of them, time is already stretched too far. As i...