Gorka Espiau advocates for a different way of tackling development challenges: through genuine innovation, local participation and collective learning. A doctor in social sciences and scientific director of Work4Progress, we spoke to him in Barcelona, where he moderated a round table on digital social innovation.
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Every fortnight, Adrián and Daniel, two young men with learning disabilities, volunteer at a care home in Ávila, spending the afternoon with Luisa and Luciano, two older residents who are single and without close family. They do so thanks to the support of Respirávila and its programme “I volunteer too”.
More than two million children in Spain are living in poverty, a figure that places the country as having the highest child-poverty rate in the European Union. In Bilbao, we meet some of the more than 40,000 vulnerable families supported by the CaixaProinfancia programme across Spain.
