The school canteen is of paramount importance in children’s nutrition, as it covers one of their most important nutritional inputs of the day. Fundesplai’s school menus are prepared by dieticians and nutritionists following the Mediterranean diet model: they favor the consumption of fresh fruit, legumes, vegetables…

This year, 2021, an analysis of the meals was carried out to adapt them to the new healthy eating guide for school-age children within the framework of the Catalan Government’s Program for the revision of school menus.

The Department of Education incorporated educational support for inclusion in the midday slot for the 2021-2022 school year, a first step towards universalizing attention to special educational needs in school.

The impact of the pandemic favored an increase in school day trips to nearby natural environments (urban parks, beaches, etc.), a trend that has continued in 2021 with the participation of 16,134 children.

In 2021 Fundesplai started the management of the children’s space and municipal centers in Cerdanyola, with very good reception of the programmed activities. A total of 561 children participated.

Programs to accompany and guide mothers and fathers were increased, such as coordination with the pediatrics service of the San Cosme neighborhood (El Prat). Thirty families took part.

677 young people participated in orientation and training programs in hospitality, educational leisure and social and health care to promote and achieve their social and occupational inclusion or return to school. These actions respond to labor and social demands in which, through personalized accompaniment by a team of professionals, are consolidated as successful proposals for young people.

Innovation and diversification of training was promoted, especially training related to leisure with the design of MOOCs (free online courses), courses for monitors specialized in ICT…

An internal analysis was carried out to raise awareness about the inclusion of people with functional diversity among Fundesplai employees, in which 143 people from 21 departments participated.

The covid prevention protocols still marked the operation of leisure. The Federació Catalana del Esplai reinforced the accompaniment to the educational teams of the entities.

We continued with the internationalization of social and labor insertion and entrepreneurship promotion programs, with the collaboration of European and Latin American entities, such as Renapsi (Brazil).

The “Follow you!” family service of DipSalut (Diputació de Girona) was launched, which incorporates the family environment in education for a healthy life. Forty-five school groups participated.

The Federació Catalana del Esplai celebrated the 25 years The anniversary of its creation in 2021, an event that served to strengthen the common project woven with a network of entities throughout the territory and to highlight the educational and social importance of educational leisure, which has suffered so much in times of pandemic.

2021 was the year of the implementation of the application for schools as a tool for enrollment management and communication with families, from which 64 centers benefited.

From Fundesplai we will offer an extensive training and orientation program exclusively for people affected by ERTE, due to the economic consequences of the pandemic.

The 2021 summer activity campaign was a great success: 1,678 activity sessions over 83 days with 70,373 participants. In addition, 5,912 scholarships and grants were offered.

We have designed a global project of consulting, training and advice to accompany our clients.
in digital transformation that has helped 17 entities to improve in this field.

José Antonio Ruiz, representing Fundesplai, was elected coordinator of the Catalan Children’s Platform (Pincat), which brings together organizations committed to children.

In 2021, having continued working to promote relevant regulatory changes with regulations such as the Third Social Sector Law, the Concerted Action Law and the Social Economy Law.

We will design and help implement equality plans in 35 non-profit organizations, to continue with our goal of promoting gender equality and zero violence.

Last year was very intense in terms of participation in networks, 51 in total, and in the number of relationships with administrations, companies and organizations linked to our projects.

In the Club Apoyo, more than 1,000 non-profit organizations work in a network and share software and advisory, management and consulting services.

Fundesplai participated in the Gastronomic Forum of Barcelona (World Food Capital) and other events, proposing reflection and participation on healthy and sustainable food.

The expansion of the Esplai Center has been made with sustainability as a fundamental construction criterion: reuse of materials, optimization of transport, energy efficiency measures…

A publication of the Generalitat de Catalunya, prepared by Fundesplai, which addresses the educational potential of citizen science projects to discover the nature that surrounds us.

Internal measures such as improved waste management, team training, participation in the European Week for Waste Prevention and exhibitions against climate change have been promoted.

We organized the marine biology work camp at the Marine Animal Recovery Center (CRAM), located on the beach of El Prat de Llobregat, where a total of 49 young people took part.