Social services
More than 1,500 homeless people sleep on the street every day in the Basque Country, twice as many as in 2016
7 out of 10 of them live in the three capitals. In addition, another 2,700 are homeless, but they sleep in night shelters or shelters. The majority are men and 8 out of 10 foreigners. Half say they have stolen money or property, 4 out of 10 have been insulted or threatened, and 3 out of 10 have been physically assaulted.
Arrested in Bilbao for abandoning two minor children
According to the National Police, the parents travelled from Morocco to Spain with their youngest daughter and left her alone on a bus that took her from Granada to Bilbao, where her older brother lived, and had been abandoned in similar ways years earlier, when she was a minor.
Social exclusion is decreasing in the Basque Country, but the number of people living in a "thread" is increasing
According to the latest report of the Foessa Foundation (Caritas), social exclusion in the Basque Country has been reduced to 11.8%, although the segment of the population in precarious integration has increased significantly, reaching 34.7%, and the percentage of households with total integration has decreased.
A OPE of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia has been cancelled for claiming the Basque language in most places
A judge cancels the call by declaring disproportionate the linguistic profile of the Basque language required in 18 out of 20 of the posts of Superior Technician in Social Integration, when the majority of users of the service are in Spanish.
Arana Center will have a maximum of 200 places and will share facilities with neighbors
The Mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Maider Etxebarria, has announced that the Ministry has approved a series of improvement measures proposed by the City Council, which "will make it possible to adapt the Arana Centre to the reality and needs of the city, while ensuring better care for refugees".
The Bizkaia Council has installed security buttons on the floors of the elderly
X-ray of poverty in the Basque Country: The number of people sleeping in care centres is increasing
About 15% of the population of the Basque Country is at risk of poverty or social exclusion, as concluded by the latest survey of the Spanish Institute of Statistics. Eustat, for its part, has ensured that more than 4,000 people sleep daily in social centres throughout the Basque Country, a figure for 2024, an increase of 24% compared to the survey carried out in 2022.
"With these supportive meals, we want to feed the body and soul."
The Bisubi Foundation, composed of 250 Biscayan cooks, has launched the Silent Utopia initiative. Once a month, a group of vulnerable people will be invited to a gastronomic experience with the aim of feeding the "body and soul" of these diners.
"Silence killed my father; we need to normalize suicide, we need to talk more about it."
Today, September 10, marks International Day for the Prevention of Suicide. Maitane Ruiz's father committed suicide two years ago. The young man from Mungia has told his story and defended the importance of making suicide visible, normalizing and talking about it.
Changing the narrative and listening to young people: keys to preventing suicide and saving lives
The suicide prevention campaign "Wait, I'm here" is a direct call to active listening and has been awarded at ThinkXSocial Navarra.