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EMAÚS
In 1979 Francisco Nadal founded the first EMAÚS Association in Spain at Altea, having been inspired by the work of Abbé Piérre in France. Abbé Piérre started the EMMAUS Association after the Second World War to care for the homeless and it is now an international movement established in 36 countries world-wide.
Francisco Nadal came back to Altea from France with a group of homeless teenagers and renovated his Family’s old Finca for them to live in. From a small workshop, helping problematic teenage children, EMAÚS has grown into a large Registered Charitable Organisation. An Organisation that now has seven branches across the Costa Blanca area dealing with, and co-ordinating, problems concerning families, their children and their elderly relatives.
At present EMAÚS are running 9 Children’s Shelters, occupational workshops for the teenage children, a counselling service for families with problematic children, and a Shelter for Battered Wives. In November 2008 EMAÚS opened a new ‘baby’ shelter for new born up to six years which specialises in working with the Generalitat’s adoption scheme.
One of the Shelters in Relleu is for disabled children, where there are 24 children. As well as the Children’s Shelters they run two Residencias for the Third Age, and an emergency help-line in Altea for the elderly living on their own.
The Children’s Shelters have nearly 90 children living in them at the moment with an age group ranging from 2 to 18. The Association is very protective of the children’s privacy, as they are children given them to look after by the Social Services. The Shelters are run as Family Units enabling the children to live in a Family atmosphere. They have at least five people working at each house, who are qualified Social Workers specialising in various fields such as, Sociology or teaching special needs.
Whilst EMAÚS, as a charity association, is funded with grants from the Generalitat of Valencia this, unfortunately, is never enough. Each year they need to find over 30% more on top of this sum in the form of donations.
KILO OF FOOD CAMPAIGN
A KILO OF FOOD CAMPAIGN IS TO BE HELD AT CARREFOUR FINESTRAT AND SAN JUAN IN AID OF THE ALICANTE FOOD BANK ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 7TH AND 8TH MAY.
The Food Bank of Alicante is empty at the moment due to Caritas asking for a lot more help because of the number of people out of work (20% in Spain as a whole) who require assistance. EMAÚS has relied heavily on the Food Bank in the past for dried food stuffs.
CARREFOUR has agreed to a Kilo of Food Campaign for next Friday and Saturday 7th and 8th of May, and they will double the amount of food collected. A campaign was held last year and was very successful.
EMAÚS is looking for volunteers for this campaign, we need people who can spare a bit of their time between 10am and 10pm on Friday and Saturday, 7th and 8th May.
So if you feel you can help for a couple of hours please call Carole on 639 637 520.
