Calle Manuel Fernández Caballero, 4, Local.
28039 Madrid Madrid
Spain
- Democracy and community development
Our goals are to promote, develop and manage resources aimed at people or specific groups at risk of social exclusion. We work with prevention, integration, reintegration and self-management projects through direct psycho-social intervention with individuals and groups. Our field of action is developed in the following áreas: education, immigration, employment, social inclusión and drug addiction.
We are experts in delivering trainings related to facilitation diversity, inclusion, empowerment, gender and anti-discrimination.
Progestion manages a budget of 600000 with 45 staff paid staff members and a community of volunteers and learners of 20 people.
During the last year, more than 800 people were attended reaching satisfactory results on the field of labour insertion, psychological recovery and building social network.
More than 7,000 people attended one of our awareness rising activities related to cultural diversity, gender, environment, volunteering and community projects. We provided shelter for 45 individuals.
Our funds are from the National Fund for Asylum, from the Social Services and Migration Ministry, Cooperation and Foreign Affairs Ministry and European funds such as Erasmus Plus.
Our partners nationally are Social services Bureau of different municipalities of Madrid, local associations. We are part of the board of the European Anti-Poverty Network, we have a vaste european network who act as our partners: Kista (Sweden), VIA Bayern (Germany), Eurocicle (France), EuroMed (Belgium), New Horizon (Italy), Consorzio Arcolaio, (Italy), and many others
The Progestión Association is working towards a society of collaboration and participation, where all human beings enjoy respect and equality.
We believe in the effective inclusion of the most disadvantaged groups. To the most vulnerable and at risk of exclusion, we offer different services to help them resolve serious situations, such as: migrants’ legal situation, socio-occupational insertion for vulnerable persons, psychological care for migrant women, social and legal support for homeless persons, and supervision and management of apartments for homeless persons.
WARMI: Warmi means Woman, in Quechua language.
The project is aimed at non-EU migrant women, with a residence permit and/or in the process of obtaining a community membership. Awareness actions are carried out in educational centres, equality spaces, libraries, cultural centres, etc. for groups.
What do we offer?
Individual psychological support
Leadership group: breakfasts and snacks among women
Awareness actions
We offer you a space to take care of yourself, to be heard and to listen, to have fun and to promote a change in the attitude of the Spanish population towards migration.
Can Do Refugees (ErasmusPlus):The aim of the project "Can Do Refugees 2.0." is to professionalize and to empower people working with refugees on a professional and voluntary basis. Therefore the project combines the experience of practitioners in NGO (VIA Bayern (Germany), Progestión (Spain), Euro Circle (France)) and the knowledge of universities (University of Thessaly (Greece), American University of Cairo (Egypt)). This consortium also reflects the route of refugees coming to Europe, often coming from Arabic speaking countries, using Egypt as a transit country and then coming through the Balkan route (Greece) or the Mediterranean route (Spain) to the destination countries France and Germany. The project will be present itself on a website and it's actual milestones on face book.
MoveEurope: Moveurope! is a KA2 project co-funded by Erasmus Plus that aims to promote and facilitate young refugees’ access to European and national mobility programs through a strengthened youth work framework. To do so, the partner organizations shall assume strong multiplier roles and shall inform youth workers on the existence and train them in the functioning of these tools to enable them to guide young refugees in their mobilities. To that scope, appropriate material for youth workers to inform themselves and in a second step for them to inform young refugees on the existing opportunities shall be developed and spread EU-wide.
At the same time the project wants to raise awareness for refugees’ inner-European mobility desire and the need for easily accessible channels on a political level, too, to trigger structural change and facilitated access of refugees to these channels.
Direct beneficiaries are youth workers, which include educators, social workers, mediators, refugee community leaders, youth facilitators who work with the target group of young refugees or who are active in the mobility area and want to open their activities to young refugees.
Increcendo Project: Through this project we offer people with addiction problems the social and relational support necessary to promote their full social integration.
What do we want to achieve?
With this goal in mind, we intend to achieve the job training of people with addiction disorder to improve their positioning in the job market. And we do this by attending to a series of phases
specific:
1. Dissemination in the resources of the Assistance Network of the Institute of Addictions and/or other resources of the municipal network.
2. Reception of referral reports.
3. Selection of the people who will participate in the project.
4. Training workshops in transversal competences.
5. Follow-up.
6. Evaluation.
Due to our experience, we would like to share our knowledge and best practices amongst the Network in order to build new bridges and ways of collaboration with other organizations that shares our philosophy and goals.
We are looking forward to strengthen our network on a national and international basis. We would like to wider our network to the MENA region, specially because a huge percentage of our users are originally from this area.