Our work in Spain has continued to grow, this year exceeding €10m in project support, while meeting its objective of maintaining a job placement ratio of over 40 per cent of its participants and continuing to integrate the healthy living approach in all inclusion projects. This year, all the programmes financed by the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) were implemented and we continued to be one of the non-governmental organisations that receive the most funds from this institution.

We were also able to implement social innovation programmes for the insertion of employees and self-employed workers in rural environments through cooperation and social collaboration.

This work combined with the scaling up of our interventions in food security, and the progress made in monitoring food insecurity in Spain. This allowed us to adapt the measurement scales and increase the visibility of this problem in Spain, and enabled us to reach more than 8,000 people, both with the distribution of cards in our employability programmes and with the distribution of hot food rations and cards during the emergency in Valencia caused by the “Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos” (Isolated Depression at High Altitudes) weather phenomenon.

In addition, funding was obtained for three other social innovation projects: AI applied to integration pathways, #StopMalnutrition and the new European Social Innovation Network for Inclusion.

For the first time, we activated the emergency response mechanism to respond to the flooding in Valencia caused by the aftermath of the 29 October hurricane. We were one of the first organisations to respond, distributing basic necessities, hot food rations, hygiene kits and carrying out sanitation and debris removal activities with heavy machinery to clean the streets, helping more than 27,500 people indirectly.

In addition, more than €700,000 in multi-purpose cards were distributed to the families affected together with the social services of the municipalities in the area and with which we have been able to help more than 1,500 people.