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Valencia 30.10.25

A year after the DANA, the emergency facing children remains

Following the storm that struck Valencia in October 2024, many children were left in a situation of severe vulnerability. Through its CaixaProinfancia programme, the "la Caixa" Foundation has been helping to address their emotional, material and ...

Catarroja 30.10.25

A year after the DANA: from emergency to rebuilding the social and economic fabric

A year after the most devastating DANA (torrential storm) in Spain’s history, we return to ground zero in Valencia to meet Mamadou, a young man from Guinea-Conakry who had been living in Torrent for less than a year when the torrential rains flooded ...

Notas de prensa
24.03.17

”la Caixa” Foundation extends the Incorpora programme to Tunis to promote the employment of people in situations of vulnerability

Disembarking in the Tunisian capital, the Foundation will launch this employment integration programme, which is aimed at helping to find jobs for members of groups with particular difficulties in integrating into employment. These groups include ...
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Madrid 10.07.15

”la Caixa” Foundation seals alliance with ERSTE Foundation to promote social welfare projects in Central and Eastern Europe

Within the framework of a broader cooperation agreement, as result of acquiring a stake in the Erste Group Bank AG by CaixaBank, "la Caixa" Foundation will export its programme for integration into employment to Hungary with the goal of promoting ...
- Social Programmes
- Employment
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Barcelona 08.05.15

Isidro Fainé supports a programme to improve education for children living in rural areas in China

The "la Caixa" Foundation will be implementing the Firefly project, the purpose of which is to offer additional educational opportunities to schoolchildren in rural areas by facilitating access to material already enjoyed by pupils in more developed ...
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Barcelona 25.09.13

Art Fiction. Comisart: new perspectives on the ”la Caixa” Collection

Contemporary art, seen through an unconventional prism: that of science fiction. The new exhibition project at CaixaForum Barcelona, entitled Art Fiction. Comisart: new perspectives on the "la Caixa" Collection, is an investigation of unexplored ...
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- Welfare Programmes
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Notas de prensa
Barcelona 20.02.12

”la Caixa” appoints Xavi as ambassador for its Social Work programmes

This morning Isidro Fainé, president of “la Caixa" and the “la Caixa" Foundation, and Jaume Giró, executive officer of “la Caixa" and deputy general manager of the “la Caixa" Foundation, presided the ceremony to present the football player, Xavi ...
- Social Programmes
- Employment
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Madrid 16.11.10

”la Caixa” stimulates child vaccination with a new contribution of 3 million euros

In 2008, ”la Caixa” became, through its Welfare Projects, a strategic collaborator and the main private partner of GAVI, an alliance formed to promote child vaccination in low-income countries.
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Barcelona 25.04.08

»la Caixa» leads a business alliance to collaborate with the GAVI Alliance in child vaccination

Today ''la Caixa'' has presented a collaboration agreement with the GAVI Global Alliance to lead a business alliance in Spain for child vaccination. The entity chaired by Isidro Fainé will support the first world coalition between the public and ...
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- International Aid
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Madrid 15.12.04

Exhibition: Remains and Traces of Our Ancestors

How did a swarm of flying insects and arachnids become trapped in the viscous resin of a tree from the Pleistocene? What prompted the indigestion that led one of the most voracious bony fishes, the Xiphactinus audax of the Upper Cretaceous period, ...
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Madrid 29.06.04

Exhibition: Microcars

The Spanish Civil War was over, and the Second World War was looming. 80% of Spain's motor-vehicle fleet had been destroyed in the fighting, the roads were in an awful state, and materials and fuel were scarce. To make matters worse, the few ...
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