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Origins and ideological line
Asteroid B-612 Association, our original entity, was born in
March 1983 and is registered in the Registro de Asociaciones de
la Dir. Gral. de Dret i Entitats Jurídiques del Dep. de Justicia
de la Generalitat de Catalunya with the number 6.080 of the
First Section, with the intention of providing an organized
legal frame to the several professions in the field of education
and social work that were carried out in an individual,
vocational and volunteer way till then.
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The basis on which the goals and activities of our association
were built at that time and with slight changes still continues
nowadays is to ensure the children’s rights, managing the needs
for shelter of certain children at social risk, and providing
them with the opportunity for integration, which is often denied
to them only because of their origins or their reality. This
aware ideological approach led us to adopt the name of Asteroid
B-612, which is the name of the asteroid where “The Little
Prince”, protagonist of the book of the same name written by
Antoine Saint-Exupery, is supposed to live, because in this book
one can find, explained in a clear, simple and understandable
way, the values on which we consider that we have to build our
social and pedagogical task: Solidarity, affective bonds, the
responsibility for what one has loved ... To sum up: The defense
and protection of the most vulnerable, the forgotten ones, of
those who rarely have a voice, CHILDREN, and if they are
marginalized, even more.
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This ideological line, defended to the last extreme, and despite
everything and everyone in our daily work, has brought us
problems, misunderstandings and some dialectic fight, both with
those responsible in the Administration and with other
professionals of our field, but now, with the more objective
view that the experience of more than 25 years in the same line
has given to us, and seeing the results of our work (we can be
proud that 76% of children who we have taken care of are now
integrated into society on equal terms), we can say that what
began as an attempt to give small solutions to specific problems
is now an institution in which many people believe and continues
to struggle, day by day, for its highest aspiration:
THE DEFENSE OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
Our task is structured around these values mentioned before
which we believe our hard, unfeeling, competitive and extremely
selective society is losing right now. Our dedication, which
continues honestly tied to our origins, affective bonding,
vocation, voluntary work and to make a way of life from our
work, has led us to defend ideas that have been finally adopted
as solutions, has allowed us to create different care resources
as well-adapted as possible, and has led us, finally, to believe
and to defend before everybody that our children have rights,
and these must be defended and respected.
Actions and programs carried out.
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Easter, Christmas and Summer Camps
organization for children and young people under the
Administration tutelage:
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From 1984 to1994. Receiving more
than 5,000 boys and girls.
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Creation of new Care Resources:
Functional Family Homes.
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From 1986 to 2005. 10 Homes
created. Taking care of 136 children..
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Creation and Implementation of
Diagnostic and Reception Centres.
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From 1990 to the present. Helping
more than 1,000 children.
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Creation and implementation of
Residential Centres.
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From 1988 to the present.
Establishment of three Foster Homes. Over 300 children profited.
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Launch of Foster Care Program.
Catalunya..
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From 1997 to 2005. 98 families.
Taking care of 195 children.
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Launch of Foster Care Program.
Valencia.
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From 1998 to 2001. 18 families.
Taking care of 45 children.
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Economic, human and material
collaboration in the development of the “Global March Against
Child Labour”, both at a preparation level (February-May 1998),
while the March was in our country ( 3-17 May 1998) and at the
presentation of the conclusions in the general headquarters of
the ILO (International Labour Office) in Geneva, Switzerland
(from 30th of May to 2nd of June 1998)
with the participation of volunteers, national and international
walkers and children aware of their reality and supportive with
the reality of other children anywhere in the world.
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Several years collaboration with
different reconstruction projects after the damage caused by
Hurricane Mitch, notably Casa Alianza de Honduras, and other
organizations in Colombia and Chile.
Current Situation.
Nowadays our institution has evolved so that we have different
channels of action:
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Caring aspect. At this moment we
are taking direct care of a total of 67 children through the
following resources:
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42 children treated at foster and
diagnosis centres.
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25 children living in a residential
centre of educational action. |