The Paideia Galiza foundation is a private not for profit entity established in 1986. This institution is a as an open space to training, research and, in general, to a pluri-dimensional and inter-disciplinary intervention in the field of Human and Social Sciences.
The Paideia Galiza foundation Works in cooperation and development projects in rural areas of Galicia, giving priority to attention to women, in subjects like education, qualifications and training for employment, family planning and sexual education, strengthening of personal skills and resources and gender equality. We also work in projects for employment aimed at people in risk of social exclusion, disabled people, institutionalised minors and people with problems of substance abuse.
The PIDEIA Foundation tries to work always in conjunction with public entities through different agreements.
Two of the permanent objectives of our institution are:
3. Promoting projects and actions aimed at facilitating working and social inclusion of vulnerable groups of people.
4. Actions aimed at local, economic, cultural and environmental development of areas with less access to resources.
There are two geographic areas for the organisation:
" The main headquarters are in the city of A Coruña, the capital of the province, which occupies a surface of 36,8 km² and has 243.349 habitants (2005), (396.015 metropolitan area). It has the heist population density of the region (6.600 Hab/km².). The lack of building land makes has resulted in it reaching a very high value, and the land dedicated to agriculture and industry has now moved to the outskirts of La Coruña. La Coruña nevertheless still grants fishing a big importance. The service sector is the predominant in the city as it has become the economic and cultural centre of the surrounding metropolitan area.
" The Paideia Foundation has another regional office in Padron. This a semi-urban town located in the south of the region of Coruña, at only 20 km from Santigo de Compostela. It comprises 48,4 km 2 distributed into smaller population nuclei. The total population is off 9.500 inhabitants, with half of them living in Padron.
Projects aimed at facilitating working and social inclusion of vulnerable groups of people.
The Paideia Foundation has been carrying out since 1995 employment projects aimed at groups of people in risk of social exclusion. In these projects there are 3 alternatives depending on the profile of the beneficiaries: there is the possibility of finding employment in the normal work market, or joining special work centres or social economy companies, or starting a pre-employment training process.
The activities in which the volunteers will take part in these projects will be of support to the technicians and professionals of the project. They will take part in interviews presenting the project to beneficiaries, families and institutions; they will assist the technicians in assessing disabilities, and in designing individual employment insertion projects, in the search for companies, project presentation, and follow up of the people that have taken up jobs. In the special work centres, they will support the technicians in the different fields (gardening, nursery, computer graphic design, up keeping of premises). They will take part in the team , coordinating and planning meetings. They will also take part in the design and development of specific programmes. The activities undertaken by the volunteer will never substitute paid work , nor will they be exclusively administrative tasks, or ones with profitable aims.
Rural development projects. In the year 2001 the local development group DELOA, was established. Composed of 7 Councils from the region of Sar y Barbanza, private not for profit entities (Foundation Paideia) and companies of the area. The objective of the group was to promote the territory in economic, social and cultural aspects, focusing specially vulnerable groups of people, women, children and young people. Training activities for women between 30-40 with family obligations and risk of social exclusion were started to try to insert them in the labour market, workshops for children to help conciliate work and family life for their parents were created, camps with young beneficiaries of the social services were organised, and centres for minors to prevent risk situations and to educate in values, we work in primary and secondary schools on environmental issues, sexual education, theatre plays, and give out information on projects like EVS…
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Activities: Hosting EVS project, Sending EVS volunteers, Coordinating EVS projects, Youth initiative, Youth exchange, Seminar, Training, Other