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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 that break people”, with the aim of raising awareness of the consequences of climate change in vulnerable communities. According to all official international organizations, following the growing trend of recent years, in 2024 the climate will experience extreme events that will affect millions of people around the world causing hunger, poverty and forced migrations. “The climate crisis is und...
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 in Europe. Under the slogan “Give voice to your vision”, this year it focuses on the importance of democratic participation of young people in the context of the next elections to the European Parliament, to be held from 6 to 9 June 2024. At Ayuda en Acción, we work every day to promote youth as a catalyst for change in the face of the challenges of today's world. Ayuda en Acción at the European Y...
Xian, Nuria, Seydou and Sabela are the four young protagonists of Zeta, the new documentary by Ayuda en Acción that has been released at Golem cinemas in Madrid. With different stories, they share the desire to start an independent life project and they know that they will not have it easy. They have heard too many times that their generation does not try hard enough. Zeta aims to be that first-person portrait of a generation that, far from clichés, overcomes and is committed to a more sustainable and equal future where mental health is no longer a taboo. Zeta shows, in 45 minutes of footag...
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 report in Spain on unwanted loneliness in young people prepared by the State Observatory of Loneliness and promoted by Ayuda en Acción and Fundación ONCE. “This report not only provides us with a novel and relevant view of great impact on our youth. It also alerts us to the great importance of the impact of inequalities and poverty along with aspects such as gender, sexual orientation or origin,” ...
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...